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Oxford shirt that cleans your phone

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This Is the Woman at the Heart of Everything Google Builds

Using RedMonk logic: companies tend to keep what they consider their competative advantage closed source; Google keeps their dev toolchain closed source; Google’s ability to more productive in development (the primary point of a dev toolchain) is a core differentiator for Google. QED.

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Amazon confirms CIA spook cloud contract

Looks like that $600m AWS contract with the CIA is real, if not closed. Also of note: Amazon is bidding for building a private cloud – I think…? – more or less.

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How’s VCE been doin’?

$1B annual run rate, 1,000+ vBlocks sold (cumulative?), with $1.3B investment, founded 2011.

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Yahoo! ‘won’t screw Tumblr’? Then Tumblr will screw its balance sheet

It’s all true, and yet it seems like a good idea still.

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Yahoo gives Flickr a new face, a new app, and a new business model | Ars Technica

I love it when companies let you pay to stop showing ads: it gives you a good sense for how much each customer (each pair of "eyeballs") is worth. Here, $50/year.

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Boss Power – More from Moral Mazes

This book is fantastic. I’ve been recommending it to everyone.

QLIK Rising: As DATA Soars, BMO Cheers New Analytics Approach

Watch over the next 2 years as the Big 4 of BI (IBM, Oracle, SAP, and Microstragy) battle distuption from well funded upstarts. Folks like SAS snd Terradata will have to pick sides.

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Tableau IPO’ing – Big DATA

It’s expected to have a valuation of $1.4B. I love it when pure play software company IPO’s because you get a peak at their financials and how they’re run for a specific type of software.

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