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The Little-Known Reason Pencils Are Yellow
artsy.net
Twilio just spent $2 billion on a company that helps send mass emails
CNBC - Sara Salinas
Twilio just spent $2 billion to buy SendGrid, a company that helps send mass emails, the company said Monday. Shares of Twilio fell more than 4 …
Open Source Movement
Getting started with Minikube: Kubernetes on your laptop
opensource.com - brson
Minikube is advertised on the Hello Minikube tutorial page as a simple way to run Kubernetes for Docker. While that documentation is very …
I Analyzed 258 Decentralized Exchanges and This Is What I Found
medium.com - Marc Howard
TL;DR: There are now over 250 decentralized exchanges in the world today. These are the hurdles of what it will take to be #1. Binance, the largest …
How This New Football Helmet Is Designed To Protect The Brain
Forbes - Bruce Y. Lee
Trying to design a football helmet that doesn’t obstruct a player’s movements? That’s easy. Continue to stick with the general design that’s been around since the 1970′s. Or go back to the days when players
Ticketing site Eventbrite files to raise up to $200 million in IPO
CNBC - Jordan Novet
Eventbrite, a provider of online ticketing services and personalized event invitations, announced plans to raise up to $200 million in an initial …
Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire Coding Site GitHub
Bloomberg - Dina Bass, Eric Newcomer
For Microsoft Corp., acquiring GitHub Inc. would be both a return to the company’s earliest roots and a sharp turnaround from where it was a decade …
Internet Trends Report 2018
kpcb.com
We use data to tell stories of business-related trends we focus on. We hope others take the ideas, build on them & make them better. At 3.6B, the …
Square to buy Weebly for $365 million
CNBC - Anita Balakrishnan
Square announced an agreement on Thursday to buy website-building company Weebly for $365 million. The cash-and-stock deal will allow small business …
Cloudflare Argo Tunnel with Rust+Raspberry Pi
cloudflare.com - Steven Pack
Yesterday Cloudflare launched Argo Tunnel. In the words of the product team:Argo Tunnel exposes applications running on your local web server, on any …
Dropbox
Dropbox Files for Its Initial Public Offering
The Wall Street Journal. - Maureen Farrell and Jay Greene
Filing reveals a firm with more than $1 billion in annual revenue and 11 million paying users out of 500 million total Web-storage company Dropbox Inc. raised the curtain Friday on its long-awaited initial
Red Hat acquires CoreOS for $250 million in Kubernetes expansion
TechCrunch - Ron Miller
Red Hat, a company best known for its enterprise Linux products, has been making a big play for Kubernetes and containerization in recent years with its OpenShift Kubernetes product. Today the company
Millennials are flocking to cryptocurrency and cannabis stocks, TD Ameritrade CEO says (AMTD)
Business Insider - Graham Rapier
TD Ameritrade We talked to TD Ameritrade CEO Tim Hockey about investing, markets, and millennials.• He says the $1.2 billion brokerage has seen a huge uptick in interest surrounding cryptocurrencies,
U.S. product lets investors triple bet on popular tech stocks
Reuters - by Trevor Hunnicutt
(Reuters) - Investors are getting a high-octane way to bet on or against the stock market’s technology leaders. Commuters pass by the NASDAQ Marketsite in New York, May 21, 2012. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
All-Night ETF Trading Arrives for TD Ameritrade Customers
Bloomberg - Rob Urban
Stock traders who want to pull all-nighters can now do so through TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. The second-biggest discount broker now lets customers …
How to Win Founders and Influence Everybody
WIRED - Jessi Hempel
In May 2015, The New Yorker published a profile of the Silicon Valley investor Marc Andreessen. In it, writer Tad Friend joined Andreessen in his …
Linux
Analyzing the Linux boot process
opensource.com - chaiken
The oldest joke in open source software is the statement that "the code is self-documenting." Experience shows that reading the source is akin to …
Dogecoin
My Joke Cryptocurrency Hit $2 Billion and Something Is Very Wrong
VICE - Jackson Palmer
Dogecoin's inventor looks to the past for insight into the future. When I jokingly tweeted about “investing in Dogecoin” in late 2013, I never imagined that the tongue-in-cheek cryptocurrency I had just
Harvard Study Shows Why Big Telecom Is Terrified of Community-Run Broadband
VICE - Karl Bode
Community-owned internet service providers are cheaper and better. A new study out of Harvard once again makes it clear why incumbent ISPs like Comcast, Verizon and AT&T are so terrified by the idea of
Dropbox
Dropbox Files for IPO Three Years After $10 Billion Private Valuation
The Wall Street Journal. - Eliot Brown and Jay Greene
Web-storage company stands to be one of the largest tech IPOs in 2018 Web-storage company Dropbox Inc. has filed confidentially to go public, in what stands to be one of the largest tech IPOs in the past
Dropbox Files Confidentially for U.S. IPO
Bloomberg - Alex Barinka
Dropbox Inc., the file-sharing private company valued at $10 billion, has filed confidentially for a U.S. initial public offering, people familiar …
Ten Things I Wish I’d Known About bash
zwischenzugs.com - by zwischenzugs
Intro Recently I wanted to deepen my understanding of bash by researching as much of it as possible. Because I felt bash is an often-used (and …
Raspberry Pi
Why Raspberry Pi isn’t vulnerable to Spectre or Meltdown
raspberrypi.org - Eben Upton
Over the last couple of days, there has been a lot of discussion about a pair of security vulnerabilities nicknamed Spectre and Meltdown. These …
Exclusive: Spotify files for its IPO
Axios - Dan Primack
Music streaming giant Spotify confidentially filed IPO documents with the SEC at the end of December, Axios has learned from multiple sources. Why it …
Typography
Best Tools for Web Designers to Use in 2018
designmodo.com - Jake Rocheleau
You're reading Best Tools for Web Designers to Use in 2018, originally posted on Designmodo. If you've enjoyed this post, be sure to follow on …
4 Volatility Indicators for Options Trading With ThinkOrSwim ThinkScript Code
thetatrend.com - Dan
A hammer isn’t the only thing you need to build a house, but it would be pretty hard to build a house without one. Understanding volatility is an …
Docker and Linux Containers on Windows, with or without Hyper-V Virtual Machines
hanselman.com - Scott Hanselman
Containers are lovely, in case you haven't heard. They are a nice and clean way to get a reliable and guaranteed deployment, no matter the host …
Becoming Your Own ISP, Just for Fun
hackaday.com - by: Lewin Day
When moving into a new house, it’s important to arrange for the connection of basic utilities. Electricity, water, and gas are simple enough, and …
Why incompetent people often think they’re actually the best
Vox - German Lopez
Stitch Fix has filed for an IPO, and the numbers look good
TechCrunch - Matthew Lynley
Stitch Fix has filed to go public, finally revealing the financial guts of the startup which will be a test of modern e-commerce businesses that are looking to hit the market — and the numbers look pretty

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The Little-Known Reason Pencils Are Yellow

Twilio just spent $2 billion on a company that helps send mass emails

Getting started with Minikube: Kubernetes on your laptop

I Analyzed 258 Decentralized Exchanges and This Is What I Found

How This New Football Helmet Is Designed To Protect The Brain

Ticketing site Eventbrite files to raise up to $200 million in IPO

Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire Coding Site GitHub

Internet Trends Report 2018

Square to buy Weebly for $365 million

Cloudflare Argo Tunnel with Rust+Raspberry Pi

Dropbox Files for Its Initial Public Offering

Red Hat acquires CoreOS for $250 million in Kubernetes expansion

Millennials are flocking to cryptocurrency and cannabis stocks, TD Ameritrade CEO says (AMTD)

U.S. product lets investors triple bet on popular tech stocks

All-Night ETF Trading Arrives for TD Ameritrade Customers

How to Win Founders and Influence Everybody

Analyzing the Linux boot process

My Joke Cryptocurrency Hit $2 Billion and Something Is Very Wrong

Harvard Study Shows Why Big Telecom Is Terrified of Community-Run Broadband

Dropbox Files for IPO Three Years After $10 Billion Private Valuation

Dropbox Files Confidentially for U.S. IPO

Ten Things I Wish I’d Known About bash

Why Raspberry Pi isn’t vulnerable to Spectre or Meltdown

Exclusive: Spotify files for its IPO

Best Tools for Web Designers to Use in 2018

4 Volatility Indicators for Options Trading With ThinkOrSwim ThinkScript Code

Docker and Linux Containers on Windows, with or without Hyper-V Virtual Machines

Becoming Your Own ISP, Just for Fun

Why incompetent people often think they’re actually the best

Stitch Fix has filed for an IPO, and the numbers look good