Purpose
- Yahoo Buys Mobile Analytics Firm Flurry For North Of $200M: http://bit.ly/1pxGvK0 {TechCrunch}
- Google funds million-dollar contest for better power electronics: http://cnet.co/1rL6hwF {CNET}
- Will People ‘Buy’ On Facebook: http://onforb.es/1nCyGWy
- U.S. Army Looks Into 3D Printing Food – Could Provide Extra Potent Nutrients to Soldiers in Battle: http://bit.ly/1nCzpa7 {3DPrint}
- Shapeways Teams with Google to Allow Girls to Design and 3D Print Bracelets for Free: http://bit.ly/1nCFjIv {3DPrint}
- Sprint and Google partner up to push Google Apps for enterprise: http://bit.ly/1nCJjc3 {The Verge}
- Google X project aims to describe a healthy human, to make disease prevention easier http://bit.ly/1rIdgJn {GigaOm}
Process
- Computer memory that can store about one terabyte of data on a device the size of a postage stamp: http://bit.ly/1k5ArLw {KurzweilAI}
- Why #AmazonCart is just a taste of where shopping is headed: http://bit.ly/1k5AIy3 {VentureBeat}
- WhatsApp, The Anti-Marketing Growth Phenomenon: http://bit.ly/1nCTvB2 {GrowthHackers}
- AWS in fight of its life as customers like Dropbox ponder hybrid clouds and Google pricing: http://bit.ly/1rIdf8a
People
- Lessons from Interviews of Pre-Eminent VCs in 2000: http://bit.ly/1rL3pQx
- A Dozen Things I’ve Learned from Andy Rachleff: http://bit.ly/1nCRAwB {25iq}
- Talking the Cloud Business With Amazon CTO Werner Vogels: http://on.recode.net/1nCVtS1 {Re/code}
Product
- Casper Generated $1 Million In First Month: http://read.bi/1pxFiT3
- Chomping at the (Fit)bit: Xiaomi releases a $13 fitness tracker: http://bit.ly/1rKJHEo {PandoDaily}
- The Foursquare Blog — A brand new Foursquare, with a brand new logo and look: http://bit.ly/1nCyPsW
- Facebook Messenger Payments Coming: http://read.bi/1rIbsjv {Business Insider}
Platform
- Out in the Open: Ex-Googlers Building Cloud Software That’s Almost Impossible to Take Down: http://wrd.cm/1rL5Wdy {WIRED}
- Amazon’s Cloud Is One of the Fastest-Growing Software Businesses in History: http://buswk.co/1wJQ2jI {Businessweek}
- Amazon Quietly Launches Its Consumer-Facing Mobile Wallet App, Amazon Wallet: http://bit.ly/1rL4WpA {TechCrunch}
- Bitcoin: the Stripe perspective http://bit.ly/1nCV0PZ
- Explaining Ethereum - the Block Chain for anything http://bit.ly/1rIb30mhttp://www.ethereum.org/ (http://www.ethereum.org/)
Venture Capital
- Funding The Right Stuff: http://bit.ly/1rL1ZFB {TechCrunch}
- Drone startup Airware raises $25M Series B to build out its staff: http://bit.ly/1nCBFym
- Venture Will Only Get Better: http://bit.ly/1nCHLPd {Artivest}
- Venture capital is changing – and not necessarily for the worse: http://bit.ly/1nCXFsO {Forbes}
- Google’s $1B purchase of Twitch confirmed – joins YouTube for new video empire: http://bit.ly/1rIbA2t {Venturebeat}
Miscellaneous
- Biologists discover electric bacteria that eat pure electrons rather than sugar, redefining the tenacity of life: http://bit.ly/1wJPNoU {ExtremeTech}
- For CEOs, Correlation Between Pay and Stock Performance Is Pretty Random: http://buswk.co/1rL4c3Y {Businessweek}