America's California-based tech industry can be magnificent defending internet freedom. But profit too often trumps principle I have a longstanding attachment to Silicon Valley, a place of innovation that often represents the best of free-market system. The tech industry's rallying on behalf of free speech in January, as it joined the Stop Sopa campaign to block legislation that would have censored the internet and thwarted innovation, was a proud moment. Yet, the valley often undermines itself...  show all text

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Over at MarketBeat, a bunch of Deal Journal pals have been live-blogging away on the jobs report, and they have all the full details and a whole bunch of reaction to the blow-away report. But as an aside for Wall Streeters, the numbers for financial activities were down. The number of jobs in financial activities were down 5%. That includes a 7.5% drop in finance and insurance, a 2% drop in commercial banking and a 2.9% drop in securities, commodity contracts and investments activities. We have...  show all text

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Ready to create rich interactive experiences with your artwork, designs, or prototypes? This is the ideal place to start. With this hands-on guide, you’ll explore several themes in interactive art and design—including 3D graphics, sound, ...

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How would you go about finding out who really matters in your sector, who the people are you really need to read? Or for that matter what if you had to mine a totally new area? Here's a shortcut.

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TED Talks From deep in the TED archive, Danny Hillis outlines an intriguing theory of how and why technological change seems to be accelerating, by linking it to the very evolution of life itself. The presentation techniques he uses may look dated, but the ideas are as relevant as ever.

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Earlier this week, I was looking over the report that came out by Semiocast of Twitter activity per country. The headline was that Brazil has surged to number two after the US. Not a huge surprise. It’s a big country that loves social networks. It was also not a surprise that Indonesia ranked high, although I would have thought the uber-social country of 240 million people who actually still love Blackberries would have ranked a little higher. But the real surprise is how low the Twitter penetr...  show all text

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Reports that more than 150,000 jobs have been created can be seen as good news for President Obama's re-election prospects.

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With the government reporting that the jobless rate and the number of unemployed fell to their lowest levels since early 2009, the recovery seems to be reaching workers.

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I'm relieved to be out of my social media editor roles because I've been worrying about my future and the future of the social media role at news organizations, for lots of reasons. [...]

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In San Francisco cafes and bars, even on the street, I overhear people talking about their startup ideas, business plans, and goals. And there are tons of incubators, Angels, wannabe Angels, VC firms, making investments in startups. And there’s lots of money being made, especially among the Super Angels, the incubators such as Y Combinator, the micro-VCs, and people such as Jeff Clavier, Dave McClure who have made fortunes selling startups to larger companies. Sometimes startup teams can go from  show all text

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Here’s the press release that just dropped from the Komen Foundation We want to apologize to the American public for recent decisions that cast doubt upon our commitment to our mission of saving women’s lives. The events of this week have been deeply unsettling for our supporters, partners and friends and all of us at Susan G. Komen. We have been distressed at the presumption that the changes made to our funding criteria were done for political reasons or to specifically penalize Planned Parent...  show all text

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People are more likely to give in to urge to tweet or check email than other cravings, say US researchers Tweeting or checking emails may be harder to resist than cigarettes and alcohol, according to researchers who tried to measure how well people could resist their desires. They even claim that while sleep and sex may be stronger urges, people are more likely to give in to longings or cravings to use social and other media. A team headed by Wilhelm Hofmann of Chicago University's Booth Busine...  show all text

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A recording of a confidential conference call between the FBI and UK law enforcement officers at the Metropolitan Police has been released by Anonymous on the internet.

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The identity behind "Glenbrook LLC," which made a $250,000 donation to the pro-Romney "super PAC" last August, is still unknown. Can you help?

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UPDATE, 12:32 p.m.Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood, said during a Friday conference call that her understanding of Komen's announcement is that it's a complete reversal of the decision to bar funding to her group. "It's quite clear that Planned Parenthood and our health centers and our doctors are eligible now to work with Komen foundation again," Richards said, before adding that she hasn't actually talked to Komen leaders about the decision. "I certainly take them at their wor...  show all text

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Yammer grew like crazy last year. How crazy? Product VP Jim Patterson just tweeted out the Yammer 2011 Year in Review infographic below with the comment: “Pretty much everything tripled.” Paid seats went from 300,000 to 800,000, total users went from 1.6 million to 4 million (2.5X growth), and employees went from 80 to 250. Also, all told, 200,000 companies are using Yammer, including 85 percent of the Fortune 500 (and TechCrunch). We just can’t quit you (although we’ve tried). Some of these st...  show all text

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In San Francisco cafes and bars, even on the street, I overhear people talking about their startup ideas, business plans, and goals. And there are tons of incubators, Angels, wannabe Angels, VC firms, making investments in startups. And there's lots of money being made, especially among the Super Angels, the incubators such as Y Combinator, the micro-VCs, and people such as Jeff Clavier, Dave McClure, who have made fortunes selling startups to larger companies. Sometimes startup teams can go fr...  show all text

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NEW YORK—Shocked and saddened witnesses at the Huffington Post's news-aggregation facility have confirmed that employee Henry Evers, 25, died Wednesday ...

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