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TechCrunch  just under two hours ago:

Zuckerberg Replies To His Facebook Commenters' Questions On Immigration -

"If it's just about tech wanting to hire more people, not as impressive" commented one of Mark Zuckerberg's 18 million Facebook followers.
TechCrunch  2 hours ago:

Live From Facebook's ‘New Product' Mystery Announcement -

Just last week, a small chunk of the tech press was surprised to find invitations for a Facebook announcement waiting in their mailbox.
TechCrunch  3 hours ago:

Rad, A Parisian Hipster Fashion Portal, Gets $3.3M Led By Index To Go International -

Because fashion never goes out of style, fashion portals continue to bring in the money not just from consumers looking for the next big thing -- be it style or bargain, and ideally both -- but also investors keen to ride the wave.
TechCrunch  5 hours ago:

LinkedIn Outage Due To Possible DNS Hijacking -

LinkedIn confirmed via Twitter that its site suffered an outage due to "a DNS issue."
TechCrunch  7 hours ago:

Rocket Internet's Lazada Lands $100M As It Seeks To Become The “Amazon Of Southeast Asia” -

Lazada, the e-commerce site founded by Rocket Internet in a bid to build the "Amazon of Southeast Asia," announced today that it has landed another $100 million from returning investors Holtzbrinck Ventures, Kinnevik Investment AB, Summit Partners and Tengelmann Group, as well as new investor, Belgian-based family-owned investment holding company Verlinvest.
TechCrunch  11 hours ago:

30 Days In, Bitcoin Angel Group BitAngels Doubles Network To 120, Puts First $100K Into Seasteading Venture, Blueseed -

As has been written ad nauseam, we've seen a lot of activity in the wild and whacky world of cryptocurrency of late, thanks primarily to the tech industry's new obsession with Bitcoin.
TechCrunch  11 hours ago:

EMC Acquires Israeli Storage Startup ScaleIO For $200M-$300M To Compete Better With The Cloud Kings -

Palo Alto-based ScaleIO is one of a new generation of startup storage providers that's using intelligent software to help big companies streamline and converge their data storage operations at scale, across thousands of servers.
TechCrunch  12 hours ago:

Why Makerbot Is Like Apple -

When we first discovered that Makerbot was looking to partner with Stratsys I was a bit non-plussed. Makerbot, as I've noted before, has a certain indie cred that makes this move a bit unpalatable.
TechCrunch  12 hours ago:

Well Done, Microsoft -

The reveal of the Xbox One didn't go as Microsoft hoped. Gamers loved the system, but hated the absurd restrictions placed on the games.
TechCrunch  12 hours ago:

Microsoft Heeds Gamer Feedback, Dumps Xbox One DRM Restrictions -

Attention gamers: you win. The folks at Redmond infuriated many when it revealed that the Xbox One would come with a long list of potential caveats -- there was the automated 24 hour check-in to keep the console in playable condition, and the restrictions on who you could share disc-based games with, not to mention the fact that it would shipped region-locked.