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| Study Predicts BYOD Boom by 2016 | | A recent Telework Week report indicated that bring-your-own-device, or BYOD, programs have yet to fully take hold in the federal government, even though many employees are pressing to use their own smartphones and tablets for work. That may soon change: A new analysis predicts more than one-third of organizations will stop providing devices to workers by 2016.
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| A Simple Algorithm That May Prevent Financial Disaster | | Monday, May 06, 2013 9:27 PM | MIT Technology Review |
| Monday marks the three-year anniversary of the 2010 Flash Crash, when the U.S. stock market lost 1,000 points in a matter of minutes before recovering most of these loses a few minutes later. The crash occurred when high-frequency trading algorithms got into a vicious, high-speed selling spiral, wiping out billions of dollars of value before anyone knew what was happening.
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| Zuckerberg Delayed Instagram Deal to Watch 'Game of Thrones' | | Monday, May 06, 2013 5:30 PM | The Daily Dot |
| Only Mark Zuckerberg could throw a billion-dollar deal on ice to sit down with his friends and watch Game of Thrones. We're at least a few years away from calling the 28-year-old Facebook CEO an eccentric billionaire (because a) he's not old; and b) he hasn't thrown stacks of benjamins from a hot air balloon just yet), but this is just one of the few details about the Facebook-Instagram deal that shook up the Web last year.
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| 'New York Times' Runs GIF-Like Video on Its Home Page | | Monday, May 06, 2013 3:48 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| Visitors to the NYTimes.com Monday afternoon were treated to something slightly unusual: Instead of a large photograph or even a video, the Times embedded side-by-side looping, animated images at the top of its homepage. Both images are embedded in an .mp4 video file, but look like animated GIFs. The left animation features a jellyfish known as Phacellophora camtschatica, filmed near the Washington coastline.
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| 'The Onion' Twitter Account Appears to Have Been Hacked | | Monday, May 06, 2013 2:09 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| The Onion's Twitter account on Monday appeared to have been hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army, though there's always the possibility that it could be a joke. The account began tweeting strange messages around 1 p.m.
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| Is This Publix Mother's Day Ad Pro Life? | | Monday, May 06, 2013 2:03 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| A pregnant mom and her daughter prepare a meal in this sweet Mother's Day ad for supermarket Publix which some conservatives are championing as a pro-life statement. In the ad, the mom feels her baby kicking and asks her daughter to feel her belly.
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| Are You a High-Tech Sports Fan? Here's Your Dream Job | | Monday, May 06, 2013 1:05 PM | Dani Fankhauser |
| Many people recall childhood dreams of wanting to be a doctor, lawyer or even president of the United States. Not so for Ricky Engelberg, experience director of digital sport at Nike and longtime enthusiast of the brand.
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| Happy 10th Birthday, LinkedIn! | | Monday, May 06, 2013 12:52 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| LinkedIn launched ten years ago in a living room. Now, it has more than 200 million users and generates more than $300 million in revenue each quarter.
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| Facebook Makes Fortune 500 List for the First Time | | Monday, May 06, 2013 11:00 AM | Seth Fiegerman |
| Mark Zuckerberg can put another big accomplishment on his resume. Facebook cracked the Fortune 500 list on Monday for the first time, about nine years after launching and less than a year after becoming a public company.
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| Advice for Clueless Brands on Social Media | | Monday, May 06, 2013 11:00 AM | Bob Garfield |
| Dear Bob & Doug:I am so fed up with “shoppers” entering my celiac supply store to eyeball items, then stand there ordering them from some discounter online. I now charge people $5 to browse. (If they buy something else, I take the $5 off their bill.) Turning my place into a showroom for the Internet is so unfair — what else was I to do?— Despairing Down Under Dear Despairing: What should you do? Gosh, hard to say.
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| Billboard Shows Different Messages for Kids and Adults | | Monday, May 06, 2013 9:49 AM | Todd Wasserman |
| A billboard in Spain created by an organization dedicated to aiding abused children shows a different message to children and adults, even if both see the ad at the same time. The feat is achieved by use of lenticular printing, which allows different images to be seen depending on the vantage point.
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| LG Is the World's No. 3 Smartphone Maker | | Monday, May 06, 2013 9:14 AM | Todd Wasserman |
| The No. 3 spot for global shipments of smartphones changed hands once again as LG narrowly wrested control from China's Huawei, according to a report. Strategy Analytics pegged LG's first-quarter shipments at 10.3 million (4.9% market share) vs. 10.0 (4.8%) for Huawei. Samsung and Apple, respectively, took the top spots at 69.4 million (33.1%) and 37.4 million (17.9%).
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| Job Hunting? 190+ Openings in New York, San Francisco and More | | Monday, May 06, 2013 8:59 AM | Elisha Hartwig |
| Whether you're unemployed, underemployed or just looking for something a bit more interesting, the Mashable Job Board is full of listings to take your career to the next level. Since 2005, Mashable has been committed to bringing the top digital, social and tech news and resources to our readers. Over time, we've built a readership of 20 million people who are well versed in digital trends, social media and all the hottest technologies.
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| 5 Signs Your Startup Hit a Plateau | | Monday, May 06, 2013 8:30 AM | Bob Sullivan |
| The startup graveyard is full of companies that enjoyed initial success — call it beginner's luck. But often, good news can become the worst enemy of a growing company. We call this paradox "the plateau effect.“ Everything we do in life follows this familiar pattern — love, playing music, learning how to swim. We succeed, then we get stuck.
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