http://techcrunch.com – The Bitcoin correction we wrote about yesterday was not caused by a DDOS attack on one of the largest Bitcoin exchanges, Mt.Gox, but rather by a massive spike in interest in the crypto currency, according to Mt.Gox. During trading yesterday the value of Bitcoin plummet by 60%, dropping from a high of $265 to around $150 (at the time of writing it has climbed back up slightly, to around $180). (IT news)
Email this pagehttp://techcrunch.com – Leaders from Facebook, Google, and other tech giants today announced they’re banding together to form a political advocacy group called FWD.us, designed to promote policies that will keep the American workforce competitive. (IT news)
Email this pagehttp://techcrunch.com – Foursquare, the social, location-based check-in app that has been pivoting into becoming a more of platform for local search, has finally closed its Series D round of funding. (IT news)
Email this pagehttp://techcrunch.com – After adding former VMware CTO Steve Herrod as an investment partner, VC firm General Catalyst Partners is bringing more enterprise talent to the mix with the addition of Unica co-founder and former IBM executive, Yuchun Lee, as an Entrepreneur in Residence. Prior to General Catalyst, Lee served as vice president and general manager of IBM’s Enterprise Marketing Management Group. (IT news)
Email this pagehttp://forum.xda-developers.com – Hi everyone, at popular demand, here is the CM10.1 rom for E975. What is working Everything. What is not working You tell me. Here are the repo needed for our devices : http://goo.gl/eyrmI Using google URL short link because our organization name is not a safe word. (HowTos)
Email this pagehttp://forum.xda-developers.com – Hey Team I have looked all over and found lots of treads on changing what shows up on your phones Calendar but none are quite what im looking for, what I want is for the Android Calendar to show only the Facebook Events I have accected or not resonded to yet and my standard Google calandar. What I have tried: Syncing with all of Facebook: This brings the Events you have accepted and Not answere (HowTos)
Email this pagehttp://crunchbang.org – When I am in Puppy Linux, there is a drop dead simple GUI to manage Samba shares. I installed PyNeighborhood in #!. Not sure exactly what I can do with it. Are there any other Samba GUI tools I can use?When I go to my other computer, I can see the computer with the Printer share showing but not the Home share I set up. (HowTos)
Email this pagehttp://techcrunch.com – We’re very pleased to announce that Dwight Merriman, the co-founder and former CTO of DoubleClick and now the co-founder of hot New York startup 10gen, will be joining us onstage at Disrupt NY this month. (IT news)
Email this pagehttp://techcrunch.com – SmartAsset, a Y Combinator-incubated startup that built tools to help you answer tough financial questions, is expanding its offerings today with features for choosing the right neighborhood and the right mortgage. Founder and CEO Michael Carrvin said that there are four broad stages to the home-buying process. (IT news)
Email this pagehttp://techcrunch.com – Today, Google Ventures announced a partnership with two of the biggest technology venture capital firms in the world, Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins, on what they’re calling the “Glass Collective.” While this isn’t a fund, the three firms will be sharing seed investment dealflow for entrepreneurs and developers who are working on Google Glass software and hardware. (IT news)
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