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Inside Y Combinator’s first hackathon

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by on August 4, 2014 at 4:39 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Design & Dev, Entrepreneur, Insider, Mobile

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Hackathons are a great way for companies like Facebook or Twitter to get their developers together to find the next great feature. For Y Combinator, it’s a way to find the next developers to add to its incubator. For the developers, it’s a place to build the future via apps and friendships. Y Combinator is in an unremarkable commercial park located in Mountain View. Nestled in the middle of buildings erected in the late 1970s to early 1980s, an orange Y and the meandering developers clutching notebooks (mostly MacBook Pros) are the only signs alerting you that behind the dark…

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Evan Blass explains why his @evleaks Twitter account will stop reporting phone scoops

Aug03
by on August 3, 2014 at 8:32 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, evleaks, Insider

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Sunday is the quietest news day of the week for the tech industry, but Evan Blass — the man behind @evleaks, a Twitter account that regularly breaks news of upcoming phones and announcements — picked today to announce his “retirement” from reporting phone scoops. That’s great news for Samsung, HTC, LG, Microsoft and the host of other companies who, at some point or another, have had word of a new product get out early, and without permission, via @evleaks. All good things must come to an end. Thank you for an amazing two years. [RETIREMENT] — Evan Blass (@evleaks) August…

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Google helped police arrest a man after finding explicit images of a child in his Gmail account

Aug03
by on August 3, 2014 at 6:26 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google

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Google helped US police arrest a man in Houston, after the internet giant tipped the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) off about explicit images of a child in his email account, Business Insider reports. The man, who was formerly convicted of sexually assaulting a child 20 years ago, was caught after police were alerted to the fact that he had emailed images to a friend. Google hasn’t commented on the report, but police told TV news station KHOU Channel 11 that they weren’t given access to the images in question, but did use them to issue an arrest warrant that subsequently found further images for…

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Best of both worlds: How to create a long-tail SEO strategy for social media micro-content

Aug03
by on August 3, 2014 at 5:45 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, How-To's, Social Media

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Ever find it difficult to rank for relevant keywords in search or gain traction on social? Most marketers have faced the challenge of getting their business to stand out amongst the chatter. It’s a marketer’s job to really understand how each advertising channel can benefit their organization in better reaching their audience on a regular basis.  Optimizing for the search engines has long been a way of driving qualified traffic to a company’s website, in many cases it is often the number one source. With the increasing domination of social media in the marketing industry, there’s been a growing change…

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Prolific smartphone leaker @evleaks has retired

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by on August 3, 2014 at 3:17 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

Tech companies worldwide will be breathing sighs of relief today after Evan Blass — the man behind the @evleaks Twitter account that is famous for revealing future products and insider information — announced his retirement in a surprise move. All good things must come to an end. Thank you for an amazing two years. [RETIREMENT] — Evan Blass (@evleaks) August 3, 2014 Formerly a writer for tech blog Engadget, Blass rose to notoriety by consistently leaking images and information of future products from an array of companies that include Nokia, HTC, Samsung, Motorola, LG and more. @Evleaks began anonymously, but Blass outed himself last…

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