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The Next Economic Megatrend Is the Shrinking Cost of Distance

Posted by blurpin on Friday August 26, 2016 @03:50PM
from the hyperloop-one.com dept.

https://hyperloop-one.com/blog/the-declining-cost-of-distance

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How and Why We Are Levitating the Hyperloop

Posted by blurpin on Thursday August 18, 2016 @02:24PM
from the hyperloop-one.com dept.

http://hyperloop-one.com/blog/a-wheel-revolution-in-transportation

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World's First Hyperloop Factory Opens for Business

Posted by blurpin on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @05:45PM
from the hyperloop-one.com dept.

https://hyperloop-one.com/blog/hyperloop-one-metal-works-now-open-for-business

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The Case for an Undersea Hyperloop

Posted by blurpin on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @10:05PM
from the hyperloop-one.com dept.

https://hyperloop-one.com/blog/safe-silent-supersonic-the-case-for-a-subsea-hyperloop

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Google to roll out ads for apps in Play Store

Posted by blurpin on Thursday February 26, 2015 @10:01AM
from the forbes.com dept.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/miguelhelft/2015/02/26/exclusive-sundar-pichais-plan-to-keep-google-almighty/

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Re:Hyperloop Is Real: Meet The Startups Selling Supersonic Travel on Wednesday February 11, 2015 @07:05AM (#9032395)

great read!

Hackers pen testing sex toys find worrisome vulnerabilities

Posted by blurpin on Friday January 30, 2015 @11:38AM
from the forbes.com dept.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/01/30/adult-and-kids-toys-get-penetration-tests/

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Is Dark Souls II The Worst Video Game Ever Made?

Posted by blurpin on Friday April 25, 2014 @06:07PM
from the forbes.com dept.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelthomsen/2014/04/25/is-dark-souls-ii-the-worst-game-ever-made/

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Re:Amazon's War On The House Of Otto, Germany's $18 Billion Family on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @02:34PM (#7387375)

I edited the story. We had to write it this way bc Otto reports a fiscal year that ends in February. Amazon's fiscal year is the calendar year. So it wasn't exact comparison and we had to fudge.

The pros and cons of the new Android RunTime(ART)

Posted by blurpin on Friday December 13, 2013 @11:16AM
from the forbes.com dept.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2013/12/13/how-to-make-your-android-phone-faster-and-its-battery-last-longer/

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F-Secure's new VPN could erase regional copyright borders

Posted by blurpin on Thursday November 14, 2013 @12:25PM
from the self-post dept.

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Healthcare.gov crashing because backend doomed in the requirements stage

Posted by blurpin on Monday October 21, 2013 @10:43AM
from the forbes.com dept.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2013/10/21/obamacares-website-is-crashing-because-backend-was-doomed-in-the-requirements-stage/

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Italian artist who scrapes porn sites for phone numbers

Posted by blurpin on Monday May 13, 2013 @08:57PM
from the forbes.com dept.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/adamtanner/2013/05/13/flirt-with-strippers-online-an-italian-artist-may-have-your-phone-number/

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John Doerr's Plan To Reclaim The Venture Capital Throne

Posted by blurpin on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @07:21AM
from the forbes.com dept.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/connieguglielmo/2013/05/07/john-doerrs-plan-to-reclaim-the-venture-capital-throne/

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Harvard Professor Re-Identifies Anonymous Volunteers In DNA Study

Posted by blurpin on Thursday April 25, 2013 @03:55PM
from the forbes.com dept.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/adamtanner/2013/04/25/harvard-professor-re-identifies-anonymous-volunteers-in-dna-study/

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A VC's proposal for greater VC transparency

Posted by blurpin on Sunday April 14, 2013 @11:39AM
from the forbes.com dept.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/bruceupbin/2013/04/14/vcs-adopting-unexpected-strategy-trust/

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The Surest Way To Build A Billion Dollar Consumer Web Company

Posted by blurpin on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @09:31AM
from the forbes.com dept.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/bruceupbin/2013/04/03/the-surest-way-to-build-a-billion-dollar-internet-company/

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Ticket To Ride and the success that comes from nailing game mechanics

Posted by blurpin on Monday March 18, 2013 @11:54AM
from the forbes.com dept.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/calebmelby/2013/03/18/days-of-wonder-how-the-internet-fueled-a-new-board-game-powerhouse/

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Inside GoPro: Silicon Valley's hottest hardware company

Posted by blurpin on Monday March 04, 2013 @08:15AM
from the forbes.com dept.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2013/03/04/the-mad-billionaire-behind-gopro-the-worlds-hottest-camera-company/

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Mark Zuckerberg is putting his best developers on Glass

Posted by blurpin on Thursday February 21, 2013 @10:44AM
from the forbes.com dept.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2013/02/21/no-one-is-more-excited-for-google-glass-than-facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg/

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Tokenization and the collapse of the credit card payment model

Posted by blurpin on Friday February 15, 2013 @03:34PM
from the forbes.com dept.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/bruceupbin/2013/02/15/tokenization-and-the-collapse-of-the-credit-card-payment-model/

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How the kids at Box are disrupting software's most lucrative game

Posted by blurpin on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @10:28AM
from the forbes.com dept.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/victoriabarret/2013/02/13/box-aaron-levie-mobile-enterprise-software/

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Fab.com's Five Theses For E-Commerce Success In Amazon Age

Posted by blurpin on Monday December 17, 2012 @01:51PM
from the forbes.com dept.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/bruceupbin/2012/12/17/fabs-five-rules-for-making-a-killing-in-e-commerce/

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Winners and Losers In The Last-Second Economy

Posted by blurpin on Friday December 14, 2012 @10:20AM
from the forbes.com dept.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/bruceupbin/2012/12/14/winners-and-losers-in-the-last-second-economy/

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How to deal with talented jerks, toxic throwbacks and burnouts

Posted by blurpin on Wednesday November 14, 2012 @03:06PM
from the forbes.com dept.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ciocentral/2012/11/14/how-to-deal-with-talent-problems-in-high-growth-startups/

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Can Hadoop Survive Its Weird Beginning?

Posted by blurpin on Tuesday November 13, 2012 @05:24PM
from the forbes.com dept.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/danwoods/2012/11/13/can-hadoop-survive-its-weird-beginning/

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What is Google's Niantic Labs Up To?

Posted by blurpin on Thursday November 08, 2012 @05:22PM
from the forbes.com dept.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/bruceupbin/2012/11/08/the-niantic-project-what-is-google-up-to/

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The hypocrisy of Silicon Valley

Posted by blurpin on Tuesday October 30, 2012 @10:07AM
from the forbes.com dept.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/joshlinkner/2012/10/30/the-hypocrisy-of-silicon-valley/

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LPs to the venture community: keep shrinking

Posted by blurpin on Thursday October 25, 2012 @02:17PM
from the forbes.com dept.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/bruceupbin/2012/10/25/investors-in-venture-capital-plea-for-sanity-restraint-in-2013/

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Memo to Congress: Think Twice Before Meddling With Silicon Valley

Posted by blurpin on Thursday October 18, 2012 @05:24PM
from the forbes.com dept.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrydownes/2012/10/16/what-does-silicon-valley-want-from-washington/

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