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Frameworks Round 6

TechEmpower

The results web site has been improved with test-type and hardware-type navigation, allowing you to share links to a specific results chart, such as Round 6, Fortunes on EC2. We caution all readers to review the source code of each test when interpreting the plaintext numbers. We are hiring.

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

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Clash of the Titans: Google joins Apple, Microsoft in announcing new tablets (and more). Google Plus. Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs was named one of Fortune’s 10 Brilliant Technology Visionaries for 2012 alongside the great and powerful Oz’s of Apple and Google. 20 hrs ago. Apple event rumor round-up: iPad Mini, iPad 3.5,

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 MySpace vowed not to create anymore big successes off of their backs that Google could then acquire. Third-party software companies will start to offer features to websites to actually drive social features. The Past (1985-2002).

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? Fox bought MySpace for $580 million and then did a deal with Google worth more than the purchase price to serve up ads. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 The Past (1985-2002). It was mostly timing.

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

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That is excluding a single line of code or paying any salaries. To this day I’m astounded that IBM, Google, Sun, Microsoft and others didn’t offer this service and Amazon did. At the time we viewed Amazon’s offering, EC2 as too nascent. In case you don’t know Applied Semantics it’s Google AdSense.

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