Vertical Professional Networks

By Dave Sumner Smith

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Apple is none too pleased with seeing leaked iPhone source code on GitHub
Mashable - Jack Morse
Apple's legal team has been busy. Less than 24 hours after Motherboard reported that a leaked version of some iPhone source code was posted to GitHub, the iBoot files in question have been pulled down
GitHub is raising a secondary round
TechCrunch - Matthew Lynley
We’re hearing from several sources that a secondary financing round is in the works for GitHub, following its last $250 million financing round that valued it at $2 billion in July last year. However,
GitHub boosts collaboration with new project management tools
TNW - Abhimanyu Ghoshal
At its Universe conference in San Francisco, GitHub announced handy new features that have been added to its code repository hosting platform, which have been designed to make it easier to collaborate
GitHub gets built-in project management tools and support for formal reviews
TechCrunch - Frederic Lardinois
GitHub is hosting its Universe developer conference in San Francisco today. Unsurprisingly, the company used this event to announce a number of new features for its Git-based code hosting service. The
Why GitHub finally abandoned its bossless workplace
The Globe and Mail - Melissa Mittelman
Two years ago, Chris Wanstrath gathered the employees of his software startup GitHub into a meeting to notify them of a major change: They were all getting bosses. When Wanstrath and his co-founders started
LinkedIn Deal Shows Social Media's Golden Era Is Over
Inc Magazine - By Jeff Bercovici
The heyday of standalone social networking companies may already be in the past. Trumpeting his company's $26.2 billion acquisition of LinkedIn Monday morning, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella offered no shortage
Facebook's director of product design on why websites may be a dying business
Mashable - Ariel Bogle
It feels like we were facing the end of print only years ago, but the time may be ripe to begin lamenting the end of the website. After the dominance of URLs, we're entering the platform era where more
GitHub's Electron reaches 1.0 release
TNW - Nate Swanner
Electron, GitHub’s tool for creating cross-platform desktop applications, has reached its 1.0 release which the company says is “a major milestone in API stability and maturity.” Formerly known as Atom
Vimeo acquires VHX to boost its video-on-demand business
TechCrunch - Sarah Perez
Vimeo, which has been moving over the past several months to further invest in its original content and creator community, announced this morning it has acquired VHX, a company providing a platform for
Social networking comes (at last) to the workplace
MarketWatch - By Robert McMillan
After a slow start, corporate social media may be coming into its own. Two years ago, Randy Bragdon’s real-estate brokerage tried out Yammer, the …
A Full Introduction To Edmodo
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Twitter for GitHub adds your @handle to profiles
TNW - Nate Swanner
If there’s one thing to be said for Twitter and GitHub, it’s that developers tend to make a home at both. So a new Chrome extension that adds your Twitter handle to a GitHub profile is pretty much a no-brainer.
GitHub suffers “major outage,” cause unknown
arstechnica.co.uk - Kelly Fiveash -
Further Reading GitHub attacked again as Chinese developers forced by police to pull code Code-sharing site GitHub has been hit by a major service …
How Vertical Social Networks Will Transform Your Professional Opportunities
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Spiceworks Steals Away Twitter VP Amir Movafaghi to Prepare for IPO
Recode - Carmel DeAmicis
Spiceworks, one of the biggest social networks you've never heard of, is one step closer to going public. Spiceworks, one of the biggest social networks you’ve never heard of, is one step closer to going
Health 2.0: David Shaywitz interviews Doximity CEO Jeff Tangney
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Galaxy Explorer app for Microsoft HoloLens released as open source project on GitHub
windowscentral.com
After less than two months of development, Microsoft has released its Galaxy Explorer app for the Microsoft HoloLens augmented reality headset as …
Where LinkedIn went wrong — and how it can save itself
VentureBeat - Hank Nothhaft Jr., Trapit
LinkedIn’s valuation has been hotly debated by everyone from technology publications to Wall Street insiders in recent months. According to Morgan Stanley’s analysts, “continued faster than expected deceleration
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Facebook adds 36K Telenor employees to Facebook at Work as it gears up for global launch
TechCrunch - Ingrid Lunden
Facebook at Work — the enterprise version of Facebook that lets businesses build their own secure social networks — has racked up over 60,000 companies on a waiting list while still in closed beta. And
GitHub responds to letter regarding developers' concerns, says 'surprises' are coming
TNW - Nate Swanner
Remember that letter to GitHub — the one that took the company to task for not iterating fast enough? The company has issued a response, and promises fixes are coming. The original letter addressed concerns
GitHub Enterprise 2.5 brings better support for development teams of 10k or more
TNW - Nate Swanner
For those with at least 10,000 developers, GitHub Enterprise 2.5 has clustering for large installations with multiple instances to allow growing companies to add more users in one spot. IT also sports
GitHub apologizes for ignoring community concerns
infoworld.com - Paul Krill is an editor at large at InfoWorld, whose coverage focuses on application development.
GitHub, under fire by developers for allegedly ignoring requests to improve the code-sharing site, has pledged to fix the issues raised. Brandon …
Before You Get Too Excited About That GitHub Study…
slatestarcodex.com - Scott Alexander
Another day, another study purporting to find that Tech Is Sexist. Since it’s showing up here, you probably already guessed how this is going to end. …
How to generate revenue from Vertical Markets
wordpress.com - Sharon A.M. MacLean
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It’s True, Black Female Founders Receive Basically Zero Venture Capital
TechCrunch - Megan Rose Dickey
In “The Real Unicorns of Tech: Black Founders Women,” a recent report by #ProjectDiane, you’ll come across several startling statistics like, for example, of all venture deals from 2012 to 2014, only (24
Why $2 billion startup GitHub is apparently in crisis, again
Business Insider - Julie Bort
A struggle between factions is taking place, according to a report by The Information, which matches what several sources have told Business Insider. On the one side are top executives who want to grow
Reports indicate GitHub is having major issues regarding the company's future
TNW - Nate Swanner
According to corroborating reports from The Information and Business Insider, GitHub is having major internal issues about which way to steer the company. According to both reports, GitHub brass wants
GitHub Updates Its Enterprise Product With Clustering Support, Updated Design
TechCrunch - Frederic Lardinois
GitHub Enterprise, the company’s on-premises solution for managing code, is getting a major update today. It comes at a time when there seems to be some upheaval in the company around the importance management