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A Day In The Life Of A Tumblr Employee Is Pretty Enviable -
:Danielle Strle joined Tumblr in January 2011 as a designer.
(She signs her emails cleverly, ":D")
The Pratt graduate is a member of Tumblr's community team, where she focuses on keeping existing users happy and handling the exploding number people flocking to the site.
This Waiting-List Only, Curated Site For Gadgets Just Got $1.3 Million In Funding -
Grand St. might just be the hippest, most exclusive New York startup we've ever seen.
It's a curated, super-thoughtful, new gadget flash-sale site that's currently waiting-list-only for new customers — and it just closed a $1.
9 Things Windows Phones Can Do That The iPhone Can't (MSFT, AAPL) -
Microsoft's mobile operating system for smartphones, Windows Phone 8, has a unique approach to the traditional smartphone.
These Are The Top 20 Tech Investors You Should Follow On Twitter -
If you follow the right investors on Twitter, you can gain a lot of insight into how they think, the types of startups they find most interesting, and markets that are ripe for disruption.
Flickr Has A Secret 'We're Hiring' Ad Only Engineers Can See -
Flickr is hiring a select batch of software and mobile engineer.
To make sure that only the right kind of candidates apply, the company hid its "We're hiring" ad in the source code of the newly redesigned website's front page.
You Can Fit A Lot Of Kindergartners In A Tesla Model S [Video] -
Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk is the father of five young boys (twins and triplets), and that's part of the reason the Model S is designed to fit seven people.
CHART OF THE DAY: This Is The Younger Audience Yahoo Gets With Tumblr (YHOO) -
The reason Yahoo bought Tumblr for $1.1 billion is that it wanted a younger audience. This chart from comScore shows just how young that audience really is.
YELP: Trust Us, We're Not Screwing With Reviews -
Social review site Yelp has a big problem: Angry small-business owners. This week, Yelp published a fiery blog post defending itself, yet again, against claims that it extorts money from small-business owners.
Apple Devices Dominate Mobile Video Traffic -
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Google Is Planning To Build Its Own Wireless Network (GOOG) -
Google is developing plans to build its own wireless network in emerging markets, Amir Efrati at The Wall Street Journal reports.
