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TECHCRUNCH

YouLike Is A Dating Site That Thinks The Key To Finding Love Is Hate

Singapore's MediaCorp Invests $40M In Luxury Online Retailer Reebonz

Pinterest Launches Pins With More Info And A New Button For Mobile Apps

The New “Handmade”

BrandYourself Upgrades Its Online Reputation Tools With A Full-Service Concierge Feature

PANDODAILY

Dave McClure is no male chauvinist

PandoMonthly New York with Chris Dixon, the full interview

Stop bitching about Millennials

Bitcoin is legal, but mainstream adoption will mandate playing by the rules

For the Internet of things, will it be verticals or horizontals?

MASHABLE

YouTube: 100 Hours of Video Are Uploaded to the Site Every Minute

Pinterest Partners With Brands to Add Information to Pins

Is Lagos Home to an African Tech Movement?

Singer Miguel Jumps on Fans' Heads in Freak Accident

The 7 Habits of Serious Procrastinators

BUSINESS INSIDER

Everyone In Zephyrhills, Florida Is Anxiously Wondering Who Just Won Almost $600 Million In The Powerball

Steve Cohen Gets Subpoena To Testify Before A Grand Jury

Anyone Who Says That Bonds Are In A Bubble Needs To Answer Two Simple Questions

Silver Is Just About Finished

Japan Explodes Higher, While Gold And Silver Are Getting Smoked

WIRED

Wired Space Photo of the Day: Dunes of Titan

Autodesk Purchases, Revives 3-D Design App Tinkercad

The Schticky Is the Dark Knight Rises of Infomercials

Wired Space Photo of the Day: Galactic Wheels

Dropping Jaws (And Slowpokes) on Cervelo's $10,000 Racing Bike

FAST COMPANY

Tracking: Hulu's Next Act

A Furniture Collection Made Entirely By Wind Power

Watch: Rich Brilliant Willing Talk About Their Hands-On Design Process

It’s Time To Start Preparing For The Masses Of Climate Change Refugees

Infographic: A Beautiful Cheat Sheet For Two Dozen Espresso-Based Drinks

INC

Bill Gates: Good Feedback Is the Key to Improvement

6 Start-Ups Tackling the Student Loan Crisis

B-Reel Ad Company Wins CLIO Awards

What USC's Degree in Disruption Needs to Succeed

Reflecting on the Facebook IPO, One Year Later

READWRITEWEB

Buying Tumblr Will Leave Yahoo With The Same Old Identity Crisis

Please Don't 'Like' This Post (And I Really Mean It This Time)

Google's Flirtation With Being A Hardware Company Is Over

App Not Working? It Might Be Time To Check The 'Weather'

Google: Please Fix The Crippling Problem Plaguing Google+

NYTIMES

Car Bombs in Baghdad, South Iraq Kill at Least 34

Suicide Bomber Kills 14 at Afghan Province Council

Tornadoes Level Homes in Okla., Killing One Person

Larger Union Enforcing Immigration Opposes Overhaul

White House Told in April That Audit of I.R.S. Completed

WALLSTREET JOURNAL

Oil Is Isolated Bright Spot

Chesapeake Taps Lawler as CEO

Regulators Scrutinize Firms' Ties to Insurers

Dairy Giants in China Yogurt Venture

Gold Slump Hits Silver

ALLTHINGSD

Pinterest Makes Pins More Than Pretty Pictures

Tumblr Brand Will Remain -- With Mostly "Hands-Off" Product Approach by Yahoo's Mayer

How to Spend a Billion-Plus on User-Generated Content, Google Edition

Yahoo Tumblrs for Cool: Board Approves $1.1 Billion Deal as Expected

Netflix, "Breaking Bad" and an Energy Boost

GIZMODO

Bacteria Never Looked So Beautiful

Don't Upgrade to Hangouts If You Use Google Voice on Your Computer

A leaked memo suggests that Nook Simple Touch e-readers will be getting a software update next week

Bad Bad Hats: It Hurts

Pinhole Cameras That Are Actually Meant To Be Used

ENGADGET

Google's Field Trip app granting free admission to 13 museums

KDDI's HTC J One variant packs a microSD slot, additional camera features (video)

Sony Xperia UL announced for Japan: 5-inch 1080p display and 15-frame burst photography skills (video)

Nook Simple Touch reportedly getting web browser, email client on June 1st

ASUS Transformer Book review: meet ASUS' first detachable Ultrabook

GIGAOM

What Tumblr’s sale means for New York startup ecosystem

Pinterest takes a “first step” toward working with big brands

What Nikola Tesla vs. VCs video says about the state of Silicon Valley

Report: Yahoo’s board agrees to pay $1.1 billion for Tumblr

For developers, the cloud means having to rethink everything they know about making software

ARSTECHNICA

iOS default despair: Where Ars staff turns for better app experiences

Financial Times’ Twitter, tech blog hijacked by the Syrian Electronic Army

“Julian and WikiLeaks, the very ideals of WikiLeaks, are not one and the same”

We Steal Secrets: the rise and fall of WikiLeaks in classic Hollywood terms

DDoS-for-hire service works with blessing of FBI, operator says

CEO

The Difference Between Google And Apple

How To Be A Great Mentor

CEO Says She Was Fired After Revealing Cancer

Bloomberg Hires Ex-IBM CEO After Scandal

Oprah Introduces Her Body Double…

LIFEHACKER

Invert Your Phone's Colors For Nighttime Navigation

Imgur Extension by Metronomik Rehosts Images Instantly

I have an idea for an Arduino project, but I don't have experience.

Get a Text When Your Sump Pump Fails

Create a Center-Pull Ball of Yarn By Hand

VENTUREBEAT

How burning sticks can boil water, recharge your phone, and save the world

3D printing poised on the edge of the mainstream (photo gallery)

HotelNinjas launches its ‘Salesforce.com for the hospitality industry’ (exclusive)

Startups and big corporations embrace the maker movement

‘World’s Toughest Fixes’ host: Learn a trade

BETABEAT

Report: Yahoo/Tumblr Deal Is a Go, For $1.1 Billion in Cash

Rumor Roundup: Betabeat Becomes a Bunch of Glassholes, Prince Harry Hails a Hailo and Zuck Celebrates a Bday

Gizmodo Pivots From Gadgets to Design

Whoops! Sean Parker Maybe Didn’t Get the Permits to Build That Lavish Wedding Set

Politician Is Really Sorry for Liking a Facebook Photo of a Teenager’s Balls

GUARDIAN

Xbox 720: five key points about Microsoft's new generation

Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson bawled out over Twitter baby jibe | Media Monkey

Press Start: EA has no Wii U games, Activision market share grows, and more

Apple joins BlackBerry and Samsung in getting Pentagon approval

Yahoo set to buy Tumblr for rumoured $1.1bn

CNET

Xbox Next: What to expect at Tuesday's Xbox Reveal event

CTIA 2013 preview: Spring show quietly fades away

The phones of CTIA: A look back

The changing face of mobile photography

Episode 18, Jaguar F-Type: Wide open on the back roads of England.

BBC TECHNOLOGY

Yahoo 'to buy Tumblr for $1.1bn'

Man lists 12,000 call menu options

Pupils 'need early porn warnings'

Ofcom plans simplified phone numbers

US questions Google on Glass privacy

GEEK

Create legendary robot battles from old electronics

What if the Starship Enterprise fought the Death Star over San Francisco?

Check out the finalists for the 2013 Red Bull Creation event

Review: Anomaly 2 is a worthy sequel in every way

Seawater cooling saves data center $1 million, but is susceptible to jellyfish

MAKEUSEOF

Cool Websites and Tools [May 19th 2013]

5 Interesting Calculator Alternatives For Mac OS X

Music is Global: 11 Free MP3 Album Downloads [Sound Sunday]

3 Gamification Plugins To Take Your WordPress Blog To The Next Level

What Is Your Favorite Google Product Announced This Week? [MakeUseOf Poll]

MAKE

That’s a Wrap!

Maker Faire: Day Two

Adam Savage Exhorts the Makers to “Work Hard and Work Smart”

A First Time Editor’s View of Maker Faire

Jeri Ellsworth Unveils Augmented Reality CastAR at Maker Faire

REUTERS TECHNOLOGY

Infosys to challenge latest tax demand of $105.3 million

Yahoo's board approves $1.1 billion Tumblr acquisition: WSJ

New Xbox more than a game console for Microsoft

Google's wearable Glass gadget: cool or creepy?

Exclusive: EU cites Chinese telecoms Huawei and ZTE for trade violations

MG SIEGLER

laughingsquid: Official Trailer For ‘Anchorman 2: The Legend...

Tim Green: To me, there is a distinct movement towards a...

jstn: Seeing this in IMAX 3D was the best thing I’ve done...

Photo

Matt Novak: It’s easy to forget — even for a Disney...

JOHN GRUBER

All Things D: Yahoo Board Approves $1.1 Billion Acquisition of Tumblr

EA Sports Developer Calls Wii U ‘Crap’ and Nintendo ‘Walking Dead’

Bloomberg’s Lazy Apple Bias

‘Blinking or Winking, as They Relieved Themselves’

Everything Apple Needs to Introduce at WWDC to Appease the Internet

MARCO ARMENT

→ Welcome to Google Island

→ Accidental Tech Podcast: Animated Kale

→ The Great Google Goat Rodeo

→ The Android Detour

→ “Google Versus”

DON DODGE

Leaders in Indoor Location Positioning technology

Why Indoor Location will be bigger than GPS or Maps, and how it works

How Facebook maximized the IPO proceeds, but botched the process

Bill Gross IdeaLabs a different kind of incubator

Three reasons Microsoft will not buy Nokia at any price

FRED WILSON

You Can Do Too Much Due Diligence

Great Entrepreneurs Will Listen To You But Will Follow Their Own Instincts

Because It's Standard

You Are Working Too Hard And Not Getting Anywhere

Tenacity And Persistence Pays Off

MARK SUSTER

Why We Need to Elect @EricGarcetti on Tues as Next Mayor of Los Angeles

Should You Consider Replacing Yourself as CEO?

The One Word That Shouldn’t Exist in an Entrepreneur’s Vocabulary

The Corrosive Downside of Acquihires

Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy

BRAD FELD

It’s Your Job To Improve Your Team

Sources of Depression

TechStars Austin – The Newest TechStars Location

My Day1 Talk For Endeavor

CU Deming Center of Entrepreneurship Is Hiring A New Director

MARC ANDREESEN

Google Glass and the Glass Collective

Unshackle the Middle Class

Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering

Chris Dixon

The CEO’s Weekly Checklist

BEN HOROWITZ

Through the Looking Glass: Hiring Sales People

Ken Coleman

Staying Great

Programming Your Culture

Old People

GUY KAWASAKI

One day only: Save 80% on APE to learn how to publish a book

APE: Author, Publisher Entrepreneur--How to Publish a Book now available in softcover

How to calculate your royalty

APE: How to Publish a Book

10 Things You Can Learn From the Apple Store

PAUL GRAHAM

How to Get Startup Ideas

The Hardware Renaissance

Startup = Growth

Black Swan Farming

The Top of My Todo List

BILL GURLEY

A Rake Too Far: Optimal Platform Pricing Strategy

Favorite Longreads of 2012

All Markets Are Not Created Equal: 10 Factors To Consider When Evaluating Digital Marketplaces

Our Most Recent Marketplace Investment, DogVacay from Los Angeles

The Dangerous Seduction of the Lifetime Value (LTV) Formula

DAVID LEE

Our Next Megatrend

Welcome Back, Coach

Ten Things I Think I Think

Listening

Cheap Data

DAVE MCCLURE

Fear of Flying.

Why Menus Suck + Other Deep Thoughts on the Food Tech Revolution.

What Hasn't Changed: The Internet Keeps Getting Bigger.

Screw the Black Swans: Ichiro is our role model, not Barry Bonds.

VC Evolution: Physician, Scale Thyself.

JOSH KOPELMAN

Six months in Philly

First Round Capital is Hiring: Platform Experience and Operations Manager

Hiring Female Engineers

On Civilized Discourse...

Looking back at 2012

BIJAN SABET

Explorers.

One size doesn't fit all

Ellie

James teaching Sam a secret handshake

Mansard Roof — Ryan Adams shared from exfm

JEREMY LIEW

How to build trust in the Bitcoin ecosystem

Got Pernix’d?

Lightspeed is anchoring a Bitcoin focused fund

The role of startups in the SDN networking revolution

More regulation of Bitcoin is a good thing

CHRIS DIXON

Airware: An operating system for drones

Hardware startups

Shapeways: Manufacturing in the Cloud

Technology predictions

What the smartest people do on the weekend is what everyone else will do during the week in ten years

CHARLIE O'DONNELL

Get Your Money for Nothing and Your Bitcoins for Free

Why Communication with Investors is Important

The Best Leftovers Ever

Taking Responsibility for the No

No more "I" in NYC: How the city is changing whether you like it or not