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Nine jurors delivered a sweeping victory to Apple Inc. AAPL in a high-stakes court battle against Samsung Electronics Co., awarding the Silicon Valley company $1.05 billion in damages and providing ammunition for more legal attacks on its mobile-device rivals.

Jurors Friday found that Samsung infringed all but one of the seven patents at issue in the case—a patent covering the...

A growing number of new businesses are following in the footsteps of successful companies such as Dropbox Inc., LinkedIn Corp., and Skype Inc., by giving away their products and services free to build a customer base.

Yet for some, the "freemium" strategy is turning out to be a costly trap, leaving them with higher operating costs and thousands of freeloaders.

That's...

On August 25th, 2012, some of the best cyclists in the world will be racing into Boulder, Colorado in Stage 6 of the USA Pro Cycling Challenge. Join us in helping to make this an epic event.

Boulder Beta is a quarterly get-together for founders, hackers, students, investors, designers, visionaries, media professionals, and more.

Join more than 300 people for a stimulating evening of conversation, cocktails, and interactive demos. Meet cool people, support awesome startups, and have a fun and engaging evening out in your community!

We have investments in a lot of companies that are growing very quickly. They end up on the calling (now emailing) lists for a bunch of VC firms who have an outbound deal flow program. These emails ofter appear immediately after a large financing is announced.

Recently, I’ve been forwarded a few of these emails from CEOs of companies I’m an investor in with the question “how do I deal with...

Today represents another important milestone for Typesafe, as we announce our $14M Series B financing round, led by Shasta Ventures with participation from Juniper Networks and existing investors including Greylock Partners and Francois Stieger. Along with this announcement, we are pleased to welcome Jason Pressman from Shasta Ventures to the Typesafe board of directors.

What do we plan...

Spotting a patent troll used to be easy. They were the ones who sold lawsuits, not products. Companies like Intellectual Ventures picked up the title "patent troll" from critics as they went beyond buying and licensing patents to suing companies like Dell and Hewlett-Packard over claimed violations.

That is, until the industry started to adopt the behavior of the patent trolls, looking to...

A funny cartoon about having to read other people's source code (and how little fun that can be sometimes).

Some examples of using SBT with ScalaTest, Tag, and test-only.

But when I asked them what they actually fear about Apple, their answer was interesting. I had expected them to say things like Apple has great industrial design. Or their $117 billion cash position gives them a huge advantage over all competitors. Or even that since Apple owns their hardware, software and services, they can make them work together seamlessly, which also gives them a huge...

We started a project at Facebook a little over a year ago with a pretty big goal: to build one of the most efficient computing infrastructures at the lowest possible cost. We decided to honor our hacker roots and challenge convention by custom designing and building our software, servers and data centers from the ground up – and then share these technologies as they evolve.

The...

A photographic look inside Facebook's new data center in Oregon, including a solar panel farm, and more.

A very attractive website geared towards photographs of Alaska scenery.

Fairbanks, Alaska - Jack Townshend, one of the great larger-than-life characters that Fairbanks has ever known, has died at 85. A veteran runner, he completed the Midnight Sun Run a year ago and this summer he was honored as a special guest, belting out the National Anthem before the run began.

"You Are So Beautiful" was one of his favorite songs, which he would never hesitate...

A simple chart shows a nice correlation between the output volume of garbage from our economy, measured in trainloads of garbage, compared to GDP.

tmux is intended to be a modern, BSD-licensed alternative to programs such as GNU screen. Major features include:

• A powerful, consistent, well-documented and easily scriptable command interface.
• A window may be split horizontally and vertically into panes.
• Panes can be freely moved and resized, or arranged into preset layouts.
• Support for...

Also, Hulu debuted on the iPad and migrated over to Apple TV. It is only a matter of time before Amazon's streaming service shows up on Apple TV as well. Apple knows content is king and that it helps it sell hardware.

As I stated earlier, Apple could create a standalone TV, but I would be highly surprised if it did. Instead, I believe Jobs and his team saw the long-term evolution of...