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DuckDuckGo bypasees 3M searches in one day

Cale Guthrie Weissman — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:39:53 +0000

Alternative search engines seem to be on the rise. Today, search engine DuckDuckGo tweeted that it received more than three million direct searches in a single day. [Source: Search Engine Land]

Cloudera brings in new CEO

Cale Guthrie Weissman — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:36:08 +0000

Cloudera has announced that its current CEO Mike Olson will become chief strategy officer and chairman of the board. In his place will be former Arcsight CEO Tom Reilly. [Source: GigaOm]

Toshiba to cut costs by $104M

Cale Guthrie Weissman — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:26:51 +0000

Toshiba has announced that it plans to cut about 10 billion yen ($104 million) in TV business costs by the end of this fiscal year. This comes after the company lost almost 50 billion yen in the last business year. [Source: Reuters]

FiftyThree raises $15M

Cale Guthrie Weissman — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:51:29 +0000

FiftyThree, the company behind the iPad app Paper, has just closed a $15 million round of funding. This round was led by Chris Dixon at Andreessen Horowitz. [Source: VentureBeat]

Blekko releases new version of Izik

Cale Guthrie Weissman — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:46:15 +0000

Blekko has released a new iOS and Android version of its Izik search app. The Izik app makes use of Blekko’s “Dynamic Inference Graph.” [Source: TheNextWeb]

Noam Chomsky doesn’t like Google Glass

Cale Guthrie Weissman — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:38:01 +0000

“I feel we’re moving into a world that was described pretty accurately by one of the founders of Google… Some reporter asked Eric Schmidt if this was an invasion of privacy … and he said ‘If you’re doing anything that you don’t want to be on the internet, you shouldn’t be doing it.’”

Dish blasts Sprint’s attempt to block Dish’s Clearwire bid

Cale Guthrie Weissman — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:23:13 +0000

Dish today issued a response to Sprint’s lawsuit against Dish claiming its bid to buyout Clearwire is illegal. According to Dish, the lawsuit is a “transparent attempt to divert attention from its failure to deal fairly with Clearwire’s shareholders.” [Source: GigaOm]

Amazon won’t release its shows all at once

Cale Guthrie Weissman — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:19:39 +0000

It looks like Amazon will not be taking a cue from Netflix in terms of episode release. According to the Verge, when it released its new program “Alpha House,” it will not release every episode all at once. [Source: The Verge]

BBC announces new startups for BBC Labs accelerator

Cale Guthrie Weissman — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:14:17 +0000

Last night the BBC announced six London-based digital media startups that will join its BBC Labs accelerator program. This is the BBC Labs’ second class. [Source: GigaOm]

GE announces internet focus, new platform of products

Cale Guthrie Weissman — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:06:54 +0000

GE, in a presentation today, announced it will be building new Hadoop-based appliances and software. This is to go towards GE’s new goal of connecting devices to the “industrial internet.” [Source: GigaOm]