MG Siegler
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Help! I'm Being Forced To Pirate Game Of Thrones Against My Will!
Today is the first day of spring. Which is weird. Because winter is coming.
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Burstly Quietly Acquires TestFlight and Secretly Builds TestFlight Live
Towards the end of last year, I reached out to the guys behind TestFlight to see if they were interested in talking about their funding situation. You can't blame me. It seems that nearly every popular iPhone app out there uses the platform to distribute test builds of their apps before they're App Store-ready. But the guys politely let me know that they weren't interested in talking about funding. Weird, I thought, as we usually at least get a meeting.
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Reset At TechCrunch: Eric Eldon Named Top Editor
A little over four years ago, Eric Eldon sent me an email that changed my life. As an editor at VentureBeat, he was on the hunt for new talent to better compete with the likes of TechCrunch.
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Two-Face: Will Google Become The New Patent Villain?
Back in August of last year, Google was under attack. Some of their main rivals — namely, Apple and Microsoft — had teamed up to secure the Nortel patents, which Google was also vying for in order to protect Android. Google SVP and Chief Legal Officer David Drummond decided to take the fight public.
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Evil, Greed, And Antitrust Aren't Google's Real Problems, Relevancy Is
It seemed like this week could finally be the week when Google didn't make headlines for their decision to inject Google+ results right into Search. That hope lasted until Monday. Now the story is back — with a vengeance.
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The Assclownification Of The MPAA
SOPA and PIPA are bad. On this, basically the entire web agrees. But not everyone does. Take The Wall Street Journal, for example. And they look like total jackasses as a result. Luckily for them, it's impossible to look as bad as the Motion Picture Association of America.