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- Claude Code 2.1.0 arrives with smoother workflows and smarter agents | VentureBeat
Huge set of improvements and updates.
- Gartner: Generative AI will be everywhere, so strategize now | VentureBeat
Go! Fast! 🧠
- Meta quietly releases Llama 2 Long AI model | VentureBeat
Get ready for it, I’m going to say something nice about Facebook (aka Meta). I appreciate what they are doing with Llama, and bringing an open-source solution to the AI battles…
- ChatGPT's killer enterprise use case will be managing knowledge | VentureBeat
This seems right to me. If you look at early results where ChatGPT has attempted to pass certifications or tests for certain professions the place it does well is when indexing…
- Cybereason: 80% of orgs that paid the ransom were hit again | VentureBeat
Paying doesn't make ransomware go away.
- How corporations have helped Minnesota's startup community grow | VentureBeat
Nice article from Chip Pearson describing how established companies in Minnesota have played a key role in the startup ecosystem. This feels a bit unique to our region.
- Big data: a retailers guide to likes, tweets, reviews, customer data, and basically everything else
Half of retailers cant aggregate all their data in one place to make detailed reports and conclusions. 45 percent dont use available data to personalize marketing communications,…
- Fred Wilson: We invested in DuckDuckGo for the Reddit, Hacker News anarchists
Consider this a hedge in the Union Square Ventures portfolio. Smart move. DuckDuckGo has seen incredible growth in the past few months, and it doubled traffic from 500,000…
- Brazil retailer using Facebook likes on its clothing hangers
The part missing from this is a QR code on the hangar that processes a Like action when you scan it. Surprising they didn't do that, not that hard to do. In general the idea of…
- New Action Links make third-party Facebook apps more interactive
These links will allow viewers to do specific tasks related to the post or app, and theyre not limited to Facebooks built-in action types Read, Listen, and Watch. For example, you…
- Gap, H&M, and others welcome Wrapps awesome social gift cards to the U.S.
Wrapps mobile and web service allows you to buy gift cards for friends through Facebook, which can be redeemed via the Wrapp mobile app in stores. The company offers a few unique…
- Press 3 for $15 million How Twilio got a touchtone term sheet
The Bessemer app allowed Lawson to dial a Twilio-connected number, which then played a touch-tone phone menu. According to Lawson, Deeter sent him a text message saying, We want…
- Computer platforms with the biggest buzz will be the biggest malware targets in 2011
There will be no shortage of computer security threats for 2011. Among the most prominent will be new threats to geolocation services, mobile devices, and Apple machines,…
- Intel supercomputer predicts the path of Gulf oil spill (video)
Everybody wants to know just where the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico will spread. Intel’s Encanto supercomputer in New Mexico has calculated that information, using a complex…
- Twilio adds SMS text support to its phone-to-Web API
Twilio is a company that offers an Internet API so companies can create Web applications that make or take phone calls. For website application developers, getting any sort of…
- 2009 venture investments lowest since 1997, cleantech fell 52 percent (MoneyTree report)
Now that 2009 is over, we can add up the numbers on how much venture firms invested in startups during all of 2009 — and, well, it was a lot less than in the past. Over the course…
- Salesforce.com announces Chatter, another social network for companies
Salesforce.com announced today that it’s going to join the hordes of companies offering a social networking for your business. With a new product called Salesforce Chatter,…
- Slowpokes to get penalized in Google search rankings?
WebProNews dug up a pretty interesting nugget in an interview with Google’s Matt Cutts over the weekend at PubCon — there’s a faction of Googlers who are lobbying for site speed…
- Google tries to speed up programming with a new language: Go
A team of Googlers just announced a project called Go — it’s a new, experimental programming language that Google is making available as open source at the Go website. The Go team…
- Hell returns as id Software’s John Carmack builds Doom Classic for the iPhone
John Carmack is the programming wiz at id Software, the Mesquite, Texas-based company that pioneered the first-person shooter game genre that has generated billions of dollars in…
- Virtual goods sales to hit $1 billion in 2009 as social games pay off big
Thanks to the astonishing growth of games on social networks such as Facebook and MySpace, the U.S. virtual goods market is poised to clear $1 billion in revenues in 2009, more…
- Technorati raises $2M more
Blog search engine Technorati has raised $2 million in new funding from existing investors Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Mobius Venture Capital, and others. The San Francisco company…
- Sorry, Sidekick users: it’s probably time to say a good-bye for good to all your contacts
After a serious server crash last week at Danger, the data services provider for the T-Mobile Sidekick smart phone, many users lost all their personal data. The Microsoft…
- Report: Google to acquire Brightcove for $500 to 700 million
Google may be in talks to acquire video company Brightcove for between $500 and 700 million, according to PBS’ Mark Glaser. Brightcove, which gives media outlets and other…
- Twitter reveals one more branch of its retention strategy
Despite its massive growth, Twitter has always had a big user retention problem: most people who sign-up don’t get it. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone revealed a bit more today about…
- Automattic acquires spellchecking company After the Deadline
Fairly or not, the Internet has earned a reputation as the home for typos, incorrect spelling, and bad grammar. I’ve certainly been responsible for my share of cringeworthy…
- EA’s chief creative officer describes game industry’s re-engineering
The world of video games is changing and the companies involved in it have to adapt to a broader and less hardcore market, said Rich Hilleman, the chief creative officer of…
- Apple’s $29 Snow Leopard OS forgoes wows in favor of customer retention
Apple’s latest operating system ships on Friday. Snow Leopard, as its name implies, is a massive upgrade to the current OS, Leopard. Strategically, Apple’s goal for Snow Leopard…
- Time says Twitter will change business
This week’s Time cover essay by Steven Johnson, “How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live,” doesn’t deliver on its title promise. Johnson recounts how he was at some important…