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Google: We have a First Amendment right to disclose government data requests -
Google is taking a stand against FISA gag orders with a pretty simple but powerful appeal: free speech.
YC startup Ink raises $1.8M to make software more open-minded -
"File system as a service" startup Filepicker.io has rebranded as Ink and announced the close of its $1.
General Electric joins the ‘big data’ party -
GE just announced a new "big-data" and analytics platform it calls “Predictivity," and it has some big partners on board to give it reach.
Emerging markets: how to conquer the unconquerable -
Guest Post
Rain Rannu is the founder and CEO of Fortumo, the mobile payments company that powers in-app payments for Rovio, Facebook, Barnes & Noble NOOK, EA, Gameloft and more than 60,000 other developers.
FiftyThree raises $15M to unleash your creativity with Paper -
FiftyThree is the company behind Paper, an iPad app that Apple named 2012 iPad App of the Year. It has raised $15 million deal led by Chris Dixon at Andreessen Horowitz.
Google Glass is Orwellian, ridiculous, and ‘destroys people,’ Noam Chomsky says -
Chomsky makes at least one pretty significant mistake, however. He said that Google Glass has a camera and a recorder, "which means that everything that's going on around you goes up on the Internet.
CareCloud raises $20M to vanquish ‘walking dead’ and ‘dinosaurs’ of health IT -
CareCloud offers cloud-based electronic health record (EHR) software that helps doctors improve patient care, increase collections, and streamline operations.
Why your insurance company wants to be ‘friends’ on social media -
Guest Post
Basil Enan is the CEO and founder of CoverHound.
To car insurance companies you’re a number.
Smart Scaling: How to get actionable advice from your board to kickstart growth -
Sponsored Post Advisory boards can be invaluable. They can also be unbearable. But either way, you can leverage their networks and knowledge to grow your business.
NSA chief: we do not ‘unilaterally’ obtain data from Google, Facebook, Microsoft servers -
Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, AOL, and Apple might breathe a little easier today. Their denials of working with the NSA's PRISM program to turn over huge quantities of customer data over to the secretive U.
