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Airbnb's argument against tax doesn't fly — Special pleading is “a form of spurious argumentation,” Wikipedia explains, by “someone attempting to cite something as an exemption to a generally accepted rule, principle, etc.” — For example, San Francisco's Airbnb, the online …Technology News - The New York Times
By MILT FREUDENHEIM In addition to tracking health symptoms, smartphone owners frequently downloaded apps to help manage their eating, drinking and exercise, and advertisers have noticed. By ALAN COWELL 2 minutes ago
The U.S. government's decision to block AT&T's takeover of Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile USA unit will result in higher prices to consumers, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson contended during a public interview. Amazon has become the latest technology company to catch the Hollywood bug, announcing that it is soliciting scripts to produce its own comedy and children's TV series. Microchip Technology agreed to buy Standard Microsystems for about $939 million, the latest sign of market forces pushing mid-sized semiconductor makers together.
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ReadWriteWeb - Web Apps, Web Technology Trends, Social Networking and Social Media
After the Associated Press published an article on March 20th about employers asking job candidates for Facebook and social media passwords, the response was, to say the least, overwhelming. In the month since, there have been thousands of tweets and social media status updates, more than 2,000 blog posts, and hundreds of news articles on the "trend."
Angry Birds publisher Rovio Entertainment has acquired its fellow Finnish game development house, Futuremark Games Studio, in order to get some new talent.
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San Francisco Bay Guardian
By Dick Meister Dick Meister, former labor editor of the SF Chronicle and KQED-TV Newsroom, has covered labor and politics for more than a half-century. Contact him through his website, www.dickmeister,com , which includes more than 350 of his columns.
My Highlight app barely blipped the whole time I was there, which means it was largely geek-free, there were very few starters among the thousands of people.
Silicon Valley Watcher - at the intersection of technology and media
Get ready for the first Twitter Olympics. Pegged to the 100-day countdown to this summer’s Olympics in London, the International Olympic Committee Wednesday rolled out a hub pulling in Facebook messages and Twitter posts of Olympic athletes. The Olympic Athletes’ Hub collects in a single directory the existing Facebook and Twitter profiles from athletes including tennis player Rafael Nadal and New Zealand rower Juliette Haigh, who posted a message Wednesday on Twitter and Facebook: “#100daystogo until London 2012.”
Digits - WSJ
SiliconANGLE | Computer Science meets Social Science
Have you ever bought something expensive, say a consumer electronics device, only to see it on sale at a significantly discounted price soon after?
It’s the rumor that refuses to die and the myth that keeps on giving…pageviews.
Monday Note
Is California actually proposing to create a “lost generation” denied access to the jobs and the opportunities of a knowledge economy?
Reset San Francisco | Phil Ting for San Francisco Mayor
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