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The Week in Review
Monday
You are your data: The scary future of the quantified self movement
The new Flickr: Biggr, Spectaculr, Wherevr
Yahoo didn’t buy Tumblr. They bought Tumblr’s market position
Google closes Checkout, pushing thousands of merchants into Braintree’s arms
Pass the pipe: Gawker’s “Crackstarter” is skeezy but potentially significant
Sorry, NYC, Tumblr selling to Yahoo was not the “win” we needed
On the outskirts of the Maker Faire
Why Yahoo’s track record with acquisitions isn’t relevant to Tumblr
Writers should be paid
Don’t confuse Google’s ubiquity for openness
NextGuide Web launches. Can it possibly be a discovery powerhouse?
Minbox: The way file-sharing should work
Former MySpace and NASA security exec raises $700k, launches Prevoty to defend websites against malicious user code
Yahoo buys Tumblr and Mayer “promises not to screw it up” like past deals
Forget armchair activism, new app Buycott helps people shop with a conscience
Tuesday
PopExpert raises $2 million for its video teaching marketplace
The race to a “smart” television is over. Xbox won
In biggest pan-industry push since SOPA, tech leaders get set for March for Innovation
The importance of grit, rules, and discipline
In Oklahoma’s time of crisis, Sparkrelief is working to unify relief efforts
Memo to this year’s YC class: It’s damn hard to build an enterprise company
What are the effects of RelayRides’ New York cease and desist?
Finally, a Lumia-like device unbound by Windows Phone
How a Valley veteran found happiness and opportunity building tech in Mexico
Yes, the Valley can be vacuous – but it’s more complicated than the New Yorker would have us believe
The case against Shinichi Mochizuki as bitcoin’s “dance away genius”
Swipely raises another $12m from tiny Rhode Island
Is influencer marketing over? Here’s another pivot, this time from Wahooly
ServiceMax’s SaaS platform could make training technicians and replacing software a thing of the past
Wednesday
Reid Hoffman and Joi Ito’s H2 comes out of stealth
Forty more tickets on sale for our John Doerr PandoMonthly! (And a new venue…)
Too small to fail: The partnership-driven nature of fintech startups
Jaron Lanier: Information doesn’t want to be free, and ads are screwed
Data, heart, virality, and leadership: Five tips for today’s entrepreneurial journey
YouTube network Fullscreen adds NBCUniversal and HBO veteran Tim Mohn as new SVP of Engineering
Totsy burns through $34 million, lays off its 83 employees, selling assets
Why people are ignoring Windows 8′s new interface and using the “traditional” desktop instead
Eat Club hits the road to feed hungry office workers
A new iOS game looks to kickstart neuroscience education
Bill Gross’ UberMedia launches UberAds, using social and location data to better target on mobile
Skyhigh Networks raises $20M to control unauthorized cloud programs used in the enterprise
“If you’re building specifically for mobile, you’re in the past”
Scanadu asks Indiegogo users to test its “tricorder,” but don’t call it a pre-order
Thursday
John Doerr doesn’t think Google Glass is like the Segway
John Doerr on the great entrepreneurs of the last half-century
John Doerr: “The tech industry is doing a good job in politics”
John Doerr still sees a future in cleantech
John Doerr: Microsoft might be the “fifth horseman”
HP versus the headwinds, part 17
Silicon Beach: The Selena Gomez of SoCal’s tech industry
Watch out USA, Canada’s coming: A Google Hangout on immigration reform
Skillz rides skill-based real money gaming to pass 1M downloads in its first two weeks
The bible belt’s “porn problem”: Religious cities watch as much porn as non-religious cities
Pixel Press turns your child-like doodles into videogames
Fandium raises $1.25 million for sports app that blends storytelling with betting
Has content discovery reached its logical end?
YC alum’s new service Loom aims to be photo management for the mobile world
Appboy expands to help Android developers avoid heartbreak
Zippy Picovico attempts to take on Animoto from the mountains of Nepal
JustFab acquires The Fab Shoes in search of European domination, approaches $250M revenue rate
Rallyverse, a platform that helps brands spread authentic content, releases API
Original “growth hacker” Sean Ellis’ Qualaroo hacks the marketing conversion funnel
Nextdoor: “We stopped everything we were doing and trained every engineer on mobile”
Yesterday
Four simple strategies for monetizing your video content
John Doerr: “Venture capital has changed and I need to adapt”
Tumblr’s David Karp in his own words: a Pando meta media mashup
Is the Internet of Things the future of narcissism?
Lessons from Segway: Why John Doerr no longer makes $1 billion predictions
PayDragon proves that mobile grocery ordering is sticky, sees revenue grow 35% per week
Kickstarter and the view from the trenches of TechShop
The pageless Web
The uncomfortable difference between being a founder and an employer
Enter the Ninja: A startup attempts world domination on “Internet of Things” from Australia
Invalid coupons suck. Shopzilla’s Robot Oatmeal uses crowdsourcing to solve this problem
Luxury brands are still unsure about how to engage the Web’s unwashed masses
Proof we’ll never tire of photo sharing: “A Beautiful Mess” hits #1 in app store
