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SeatGeek Ticket Platform Jumps 10% After Strangling Its Competition

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About three months after skewering a competitor on its acquisition-spear, ticket search firm SeatGeek is seeing a 10% jump in traffic and revenue. The company had acquired and shut down a chief rival...

Yahoo’s COO de Castro Hit Two Of The Three Main Causes Of Executive Onboarding Failure

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It’s not a surprise that Yahoo’s CEO Marissa Mayer has fired COO Henrique De Castro. Yes. He was her first big hire. Yes. It is going to cost Yahoo crazy amounts of money to pay him off. But he does...
    






Chrome Adds Welcome Relief To Noisy Tabs And Windows 8 Metro Interface

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The newest stable version of Chrome (version 32) now has a way of seeing tabs that are playing audio, whether it’s music or the sound track of a video. It’s a big help for those of us who hate...
    






The Target Data Breach Is Becoming A Nightmare

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Over the past month, details about the breadth of the Target data breach have continued to emerge.  It’s not a pretty story.  Bad enough when it appeared that through some means, hackers had gotten...
    






JCPenney Store Closings

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The ultimate motive behind anything is profit (of any kind). And J.C. Penney is no exception to the rule. Like many other retailers and business enterprises that have chosen lean thinking, the...
    






Trade BitCoins Through Your Social Graph… With A Little Bit Of Help From Your BitFriends

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BitCoin is the virtual currency world’s standard bearer, but it’s not for the faint of heart. From the cryptographic underpinnings of the financial system to building your own Bitcoin mining rig,...
    






Why 23andme Deserves A Second Chance

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When word came out that the FDA was shutting down the popular Silicon-valley based genetic testing service 23andme, public sentiment was on the side of the company. With that said, proponents of...
    






Fox Sports tests weather gadgets for Super Bowl

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Fox Sports testing out weather-related gadgets for use at Super Bowl PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Fox Sports has a few weather-related tricks up its sleeve for next month's Super Bowl...
    






Bangkok’s Shutdown Day Could Last Much Longer

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Monday,  January 13, is “Shutdown Day” for the anti-government, anti-election protesters that have been rallying around Bangkok for almost two months. Barring a coup, these rallies intended to...