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By Kelly Faircloth 6/05 8:38am

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Booting Up: Now Bloomberg LP Has Its Own Venture Capital Fund, Too

Has Google Maps ruined travel? (Only if your idea of a fun holiday is wandering the wilderness with only a compass and water bottle.) [Skift]

Bloomberg LP (which owns Bloomberg News) is launching a $75 million venture capital fund, because apparently that sort of thing is NBD now. [New York Times]

Forget over-sharing on the News Feed–teens are on Facebook to chat. [BuzzFeed]

The latest malware campaign to keep security pros up at night: NetTraveler, which in eight years has hit 350 “high-profile” targets across 40 countries. [Ars Technica]

Is Larry Ellison, lover of the high seas, actually terrible for the America’s Cup? [New York Times]

 

By Kelly Faircloth 6/04 8:28am

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Plotting? (Photo: flickr.com/joi)

Booting Up: Add Another $2.5M to the Bill for Sean Parker’s Fairy Tale Wedding

After building that enormous $9 million set for his John William Waterhouse dream wedding in an “ecologically sensitive area” without the proper permits, Sean Parker has to cough up $2.5 million in fines. [San Jose Mercury News]

The Chicago Sun Times fired its entire photography department last week. But don’t you worry: They’re now training reporters to shoot using iPhones. Enjoy your grainy, poorly lit news coverage, Chicago! [The Verge]

Scenes from a layoff: “A tech recruiter named Trent Krupp from DeveloperAuction, chasing fresh — and perhaps raw — leads had dropped off business cards for the bartenders to hand out. He left an open bar: two free drinks for anyone from Zynga.” [BuzzFeed]

Speaking of, OMGPOP reportedly took a sword to the belly during Zynga’s Red Wedding. [The Verge]

A few tips on surviving the Series A crunch from a professed casualty. [Sean Percival]

Twitter’s 30-minute outage yesterday was due to “an error in a routine change.” Sounds like somebody goofed! [Reuters]

By Jordan Valinsky 6/03 8:50am

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The Boot is BACK.

Booting Up: Android Is Probably Going to Overtake iOS By October

Apple is ramping up signing labels for the upcoming launch of its iRadio streaming music service. [TechCrunch]

By October, Android is set to takeover Apple in becoming the world’s most popular app platform. [The Telegraph]

Mozilla and Foxconn are partnering to produce no more than fewer than five devices because that’s what we need. [TNW]

A New Zealand court ruled that Megaupload creator Kim Dotcom should get back some of his seized property because the police were overzealous in confiscating things before deciding if they were relevant to the case. [Naked Security]

Townsquare Media Group is relaunching three defunct Aol Music blogs if you missed reading whatever “The Boot” was. [AllThingsD]

By Kelly Faircloth 5/31 8:50am

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Mr. Musk, please take my money. (Photo via flickr.com/jurvetson)

Booting Up: Now Elon Musk Wants to Build a Futuristic Rapid Transit System, Go Figure

After a steady stream of complaints about hacking and spam, BT (a.k.a. British Telecom) is moving its six million customers off Yahoo! email. [Telegraph]

“What we have concluded is that illegal enterprises — commercial child pornography, human trafficking, drug trafficking, weapons trafficking and organized crime — has largely moved to an unregulated system that is not connected to any central bank or national authority.” Yikes. [New York Times]

The guy who runs Google Fiber says Google Fiber will make money for the company. [CNET]

Now Elon Musk wants to build something called a Hyperloop, a futuristic transit system that’ll get you from L.A. to San Francisco in 30 minutes. Guess Mars is just too mainstream these days. [Business Insider]

Soft Bank Capital has raised a $53 million fund to invest in early-stage startups based here in New York. [AllThingsD]

By Jordan Valinsky 5/30 8:40am

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Nudie. (Photo: Pinterest/TechCrunch)

Booting Up: Get Excited For More Nudes on Pinterest

Oh, GOOD: You’ll soon to be able to drive your Tesla from NY to LA using the company’s expanded “Supercharger” network by the end of this year. [Business Insider]

Now that the Waze-Facebook talks have fallen apart, rumors are swirling that Google might go in for the kill. [ZDNet]

Meet the relaunched NewYork.com, another website dedicated to this city. [Crain's]

Pinterest is going to allow more tasteful nude pictures on the site following complaints by its users. [TechCrunch]

Apple quietly announced a new $229 16GB iPod Touch last night for people who still buy those things. [The Verge]

By Kelly Faircloth 5/29 8:07am

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WWDC. (Photo: flickr.com/deerkoski)

Booting Up: Promises, Promises from Tim Cook

In an interview yesterday at the D conference, Apple CEO Tim Cook promised, “We have some incredible plans that we have been working on for a while.” If you’re talking about that smartwatch, pal, we’ve already moved on to Google Glass. [AllThingsD]

Apple is stepping up the pace of its acquisitions, though. [AllThingsD]

Aviary is expanding to Tokyo in June, with 50 million monthly users in hand. [The Next Web]

Perhaps disappointed with the results of its no good, very bad commercials, Facebook now wants to invade your consciousness via television-show product placement. [Valleywag]

After a small advertiser revolt, Facebook is finally cracking down on groups dedicated to rape and violence against women. [Businessweek]

By Jordan Valinsky 5/28 8:59am

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`BuzzFeed's Jonah Peretti.

Booting Up: BuzzFeed Partners with CNN to Create Another YouTube Channel

BuzzFeed has partnered with CNN to access its archives to create a thrilling YouTube channel focusing on “serious news events.” [TechCrunch]

Two major Hollywood studios, Warner Bros. and NBC Universal, have reportedly asked Google to scrub the search results of Kim Dotcom’s Mega hosting website for containing copyrighted material. [TorrentFreak]

Here’s an in-depth look at #Hashtags: Are they Facebook’s missing link to the pop culture? [CNET]

Of course Google is exploring the idea of using blimps to deliver Wifi to parts of Africa and Asia. [Science Recorder]

Welp, don’t be too alarmed but Chinese hackers have reportedly gained access to very advanced designs for U.S. weapon systems. [The Verge]

By Kelly Faircloth 5/27 8:12am

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Booting Up: It Was All a Dream, I Used to Read Word Up Magazine

Is Vine going to run into the same legal headaches as early hip hop? [GigaOm]

Searching for a framework to explain the conflict between wearable tech pros and opponents, Nick Bilton went with Dr. Seuss. [New York Times]

“They want teenage kids posting up all the stupid duck face photos that they litter Instagram and Facebook with. Because those teen kids, are ad revenue.” [Infinite Hollywood]

Speaking of Yahoo: The company has bid somewhere between $600 and $800 million for Hulu, because Marissa Mayer’s apparently got money burning a hole in her pocket. [AllThingsD]

The Internship is weird. ”Google needs that now. This movie could help keep them out of the penalty box a little while longer.” [L.A. Times]

By Jordan Valinsky 5/24 8:27am

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Colin Hodge. (Photo: Valleywag)

Booting Up: Meet the CEBros Behind Bang With Friends

Meet Colin Hodge, the 28-year-old CEBro behind Bang with Friends, the “sex positive brogrammer in search of a viral loop.”  [Valleywag]

Digg’s CEO described its upcoming Google Reader replacement as “very clean, very simple, and very fast.” It’s expected to be released at the end of June. [Fast Company]

Nobody knows what’s going on with the acquisition of Waze. It’s now rumored that Google is interested in purchasing the Israeli company. Betabeat might buy it too, who knows. [TechCrunch]

Lyft, the on-demand ridesharing app for normals, raised $60 million in funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. [Business Insider]

A “bookless library” is set to open in Texas offering 100 e-readers for loan if you needed another reason not to move to San Antonio. [Salon]

By Kelly Faircloth 5/23 8:04am

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Ambitious!

Booting Up: Jeff Bezos Builds a Biodome

Amazon is planning a big biodome at the foot of its new HQ, because Jeff Bezos. [Gizmodo]

More people are using their tablets on planes. Someone actually paid to conduct this study. [USA Today]

Square has expanded to Japan. [The Next Web]

Kim Dotcom says he invented two-factor authentication and Google, Twitter and others are engaging in “massive IP infringement.” [The Verge]

Foursquare now offers more specific search and filter capabilities. [TechCrunch]