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Start-Up News: Disrupt, the Rapture and a Few Good Launches
This week in New York tech news and associated items: DISRUPT APPROACHETH. The TechCrunch mega-conference starts with a hackathon at Pier 94 on May 21, which anyone who has walked through Times Square...
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Oprah and Eric Schmidt Back Cory Booker’s New Startup #waywire, a Media Site...
(Photo: waywire.com) While you were clinging to your A/C unit over the weekend, Newark mayor and Twitter addict Cory Booker was ushering his new startup out of stealth mode. The company, called...
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How Facebook Execs Managed Mark Zuckerberg’s Philanthropy to Make Him Feel...
Facebook chief executive officer Sheryl Sandberg is often thought of as the grown-up around the social media giant, attending to such mundane details as growing revenue and selling the company's IPO to...
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Mark Zuckerberg Will Host a Fundraiser for Republican Gov. Chris Christie in...
(Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images North America via Zimbio) If you've ever wanted to check out the "music alcove" in Mark Zuckerberg's Palo Alto pad or dip a toe in his salt water pool, next month...
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Booting Up: Netflix Is Finally Going to Ditch Microsoft Silverlight
Bye bye. (Photo: Microsoft) If you were hoping to get rich off of being one of the first to build apps for Google Glass, think again: Google has prohibited developers from using ads or charging for...
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Booting Up: Facebook Continues to Noodle With Its News Feed Algorithm
LOL. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Facebook is futzing with the News Feed once again, making it so you'll be more likely to see older items that're more popular. Sure, great. [The Verge]...
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15-Year-Old Son of CNN Head Quits Waywire Board After Press Finds Out...
Mr. Booker (Photo: Wikipedia) Any seasoned Valley-ite knows that the quickest way to startup success is to stock your board with influential, moneyed yes-men: that'll at least guarantee you a seamless...
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Cory Booker’s Video Curation Startup Waywire Reportedly Close to Shuttering
(Photo: Wikipedia) It looks like Andrew Zucker, the 15-year-old son of CNN president Jeff Zucker, bailed on Waywire just in time. The New York Post reports that according to "well-placed" sources,...
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Booting Up: Cory Booker Dumps Waywire on Magnify
RIP. (Photo: waywire.com) Cory Booker's disaster of a Web startup Waywire was sold to Magnify, a video distribution service. [AllThingsD] Facebook picked up mobile data analytics company Onavo for...
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