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Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht found guilty for all 7 conspiracy charges

Feb04
by on February 4, 2015 at 9:24 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Today, Ross Ulbricht, known by his online alias “Dread Pirate Roberts,”was convicted for running the illegal Silk Road drug marketplace. Ulbricht faces life in prison. The Manhattan jury took three hours to find him guilty of all seven charges. When arrested, Ulbricht’s computer was found to have evidence connecting him with Silk Road and even attempts to hire a hitman for the murder of five people who threatened the anonymity of his service. Silk Road ran on the anonymous Tor network to maintain its operations, but was shut down in 2013. A “Silk Road 2.0″ website was shuttered in November after it was…

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Under Armour acquires MyFitnessPal for $475M and Endomondo for $85M

Feb04
by on February 4, 2015 at 9:19 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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Under Armour just announced it has acquired both Endomondo and MyFitnessPal today. The company said the acquisition establishes ownership of the “largest digital health and fitness community” now reaching more than 120 million users along with MapMyFitness, which the company already owns. MyFitnessPal was acquired for $475 million and Endomondo for $85 million, according to the company’s quarterly result. MyFitnessPal touts 80 million users and Endomondo has 20 million. Mike Lee, co-founder and CEO of MyFitnessPal said that “Under Armour will bring vast health and fitness expertise and resources to our 80 million users to help guide them as they work to achieve…

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How to build your growth machine: Part 1

Feb04
by on February 4, 2015 at 8:58 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Entrepreneur, Insider

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Samir Patel is the President & CEO of GrowthMachines, TheGrowth.Academy and Mentor at 500Startups. After driving growth for the world’s largest companies, producing millions of dollars of revenue, building automated trading systems like SearchForce and managing over $1B+ in online advertising spend, I’ve consolidated my experience into a single, strategic framework called the 3 P’s: A comprehensive guide to building high performance growth organizations. Every organization is unique; each with different customers, markets, products, and business models. What is universal, however, is the opportunity for any business to build effective and personalized 3 P’s using a highly scientific approach. Therefore,…

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Android Lollipop 5.1 will arrive first on Android One devices for emerging markets

Feb04
by on February 4, 2015 at 8:11 pm
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Nexus devices are normally the first to receive Android updates, but this time it seems Google’s budget Android One devices for emerging markets might beat the company’s flagships to the punch. Google today updated its Android One website for India to indicate the devices will soon be receiving Android Lollipop 5.1. Until now, the newest version of the OS was Android 5.0.2. Android One users are coming from KitKat, so Google claims a longer battery life and doubled performance overall, but there’s no official word on what benefits users already on a previous version of Lollipop might see. Android Pit, however, reports various improvements over…

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The new Steve Jobs movie is coming to theaters on Oct 9, 2015

Feb04
by on February 4, 2015 at 7:47 pm
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There’s a whole new movie about Steve Jobs on the way and now we’ve got a release date; October 9, 2015. The new movie features Michael Fassbender as Steve Jobs and Seth Rogen as Steve Wozniak and is directed by Aaron Sorkin. If you’re confused, because you already saw a Steve Jobs movie last year with Ashton Kutcher, this a separate film that’s being filmed by Universal Pictures. JUST IN: Universal Pictures says the Steve Jobs movie will be released on Friday, October 9, 2015. • $CMCSA — CNBC Now (@CNBCnow) February 4, 2015 Image via @motro68

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