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Five movies leaked from Sony Pictures following hack attack

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by on December 1, 2014 at 4:50 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Fury, Insider, piracy, Sony Pictures

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In the week that has followed since Sony Pictures was hacked, possibly with insider help, five of the company’s films have been leaked and downloaded online, reports Variety. DVD Screener versions of new titles “Fury”, “Annie”, “Mr. Turner”, “Still Alice” and “To Write Love on Her Arms” have been doing the rounds on file-sharing networks, and a source familiar with the details of this case says the leak is possibly related to last week’s hacking of Sony Pictures’ corporate systems by a group that calls itself GOP. As of 30 Nov, “Fury”, which isn’t in theaters yet, has been downloaded over…

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The anti-social network

Nov30
by on November 30, 2014 at 6:45 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Shareables, Videos

Think about this next time to you feel ‘SO connected’ as you Instagram your lunch… Vooza – a video comic strip about the tech world regularly shares a new video with you lovely TNW readers. Sign up for Vooza’s email list to get exclusive access to more funny videos like this one. Click here to support Vooza (and receive cool rewards). Don’t miss: Meet the conference Q&A jerk

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All the tech news you shouldn’t miss from November in Eastern Europe

Nov30
by on November 30, 2014 at 3:44 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Roundups

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Eastern European funds, investors and entrepreneurs seem to be trying to squeeze as many stories as possible into 2014 — or at least so it seems from reading all the news coming from that side of Europe. As usual, we’ve put together a neat roundup of what’s been going on in the CEE region in November so that you won’t miss anything important. If you think that something is missing, or would like to draw our attention to an important story, feel free to ping the author on Twitter (@shlema) or by e-mail at shlema@gmail.com. Startups, investors and accelerators Russia’s DST Global…

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The marketer’s guide to the benefits of Vimeo over YouTube

Nov30
by on November 30, 2014 at 2:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Entrepreneur, Social Media

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Brian Honigman is a marketing consultant, speaker and freelance writer. This post originally appeared on the SumAll blog. Online video has very quickly become one of the most engaging and ubiquitous forms of content marketing. ComScore reports that in 2013 more than half of all Americans watched a combined 52 billion online videos. According to that same report one platform netted more hours of viewing than all others combined. It’s fairly obvious to anyone who has spent even a little bit of time online that the name of that platform is YouTube. It’s very hard to argue against YouTube’s dominance in terms…

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8 ways to evaluate technical employees

Nov30
by on November 30, 2014 at 12:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Insider, startup, yec.co, Young Entrepreneur Council

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At many startups, technical hires are the backbone of the business. Their role is critical. But if you don’t have a foundation in tech yourself, how do you measure their success beyond just delivering a successful product? What factors should influence how you evaluate their performance? To learn what founders should look for — or systems they should set up — I asked eight entrepreneurs from YEC the following: What specific metric does your company use to evaluate the success of your technical employees? Their best answers are below: 1. Cross-Team Deadlines You have to move fast in startups. If you can’t meet deadlines, you won’t…

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