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The month's top story

Microsoft reports first quarterly loss ever

marketday.msnbc.msn.co · 2 sources

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What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Some Lisp books (and then some)

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    What I Learned From Increasing My Prices

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    That’s No Phone. That’s My Tracker.

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 57 stories

  1. Microsoft reports first quarterly loss ever

    marketday.msnbc.msn.co · 2 outlets

  2. The real reason we’re upset about Sparrow’s acquisition

    elezea.com · 1 outlets

  3. Being a Developer Makes You Valuable. Learning How to Market Makes You Dangerous

    talsraviv.com · 1 outlets

  4. Lenovo CEO Gives His $3 Million Bonus to 10,000 Employees

    dailytech.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. Talent Acquisitions

    marco.org · 1 outlets

  2. Goldman Sachs and the $580 Million Black Hole

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  3. Why Do Startups Do This?

    asymptomatic.net · 1 outlets

  4. If you run a contest as a startup, don't be dishonest. JPEGmini scammed me.

    dl.dropbox.com · 1 outlets

  5. The rotten heart of finance

    economist.com · 1 outlets

  6. Unbreakable crypto: Store a 30-character password in your subconscious memory

    extremetech.com · 1 outlets

  7. A Redditor about the problem with today's Silicon Valley startup community

    reddit.com · 1 outlets

  8. Investing in GitHub

    github.com · 1 outlets

  9. Entitlement and Acquisition

    mattgemmell.com · 1 outlets

  10. App.net is crowdfunding their realtime feed platform

    join.app.net · 1 outlets

Sports 43 stories

  1. Installing Linux on Windows 8 PCs: No easy answers

    kotaku.com · 4 outlets

  2. Company withdrawing from Facebook as analytics show 80% of ad clicks from bots

    facebook.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Late bloomer, not a loser. (I hope)

    500hats.com · 1 outlets

  2. I'm an American and I want to watch the Olympics. What do I do?

    iamnotaprogrammer.com · 1 outlets

  3. Aaron Winborn: Special Needs Trust

    aaronwinborn.com · 1 outlets

  4. Watch what you store on SkyDrive–you may lose your Microsoft life

    wmpoweruser.com · 1 outlets

  5. WikiLeaks wins case against Visa

    rt.com · 1 outlets

  6. Oculus Rift: Step Into the Game

    kickstarter.com · 1 outlets

Technology 609 stories

  1. Marissa Mayer Has a Secret Weapon

    dealbook.nytimes.com · 6 outlets

  2. Amazon Career Choice Program

    amazon.com · 1 outlets

  3. John Siracusa's OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Review

    marco.org · 7 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. The Next Microsoft

    minimallyminimal.com · 1 outlets

  2. Google Fiber Plans & Pricing

    fiber.google.com · 3 outlets

  3. Physical assault by McDonald's for wearing Digital Eye Glass

    eyetap.org · 1 outlets

  4. Dear Mark Zuckerberg

    daltoncaldwell.com · 1 outlets

  5. Making Friends Over 30 with Grubwithus

    nytimes.com · 2 outlets

  6. Higgs Boson Explained by Cartoon

    apod.nasa.gov · 2 outlets

  7. A Dust Over India

    postmasculine.com · 1 outlets

  8. Github Raises $100 Million

    online.wsj.com · 1 outlets

  9. Can a 32-bit OS machine use up all 8GB RAM + 20GB page file?

    lcamtuf.coredump.cx · 2 outlets

Entertainment 37 stories

  1. Show HN: fontBomb - Stylishly destroy the web

    fontbomb.ilex.ca · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: Markupwand, magically convert your photoshop files to HTML & CSS

    markupwand.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: Moqups - Vectorial mockups with HTML5 and SVG

    moqups.com · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: gist.io, blogless writing for hackers

    gist.io · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: BrainTripping - language model comedy

    matt.is · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: Iorad - the tutorial builder

    iorad.com · 1 outlets

  5. Show HN: My weekend project using the Soundcloud API

    gridspot.com · 2 outlets

  6. Distribution of colors in movie posters between 1914 and 2012

    vijayp.ca · 1 outlets

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