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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close February 18 – February 25, 2014 197 stories · Vol. 14 · Catalogue 09 · Issue 56 Get it by email ↓
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Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus $3B in RSUs

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Business 21 stories

  1. Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus $3B in RSUs

  2. Banking Startup Simple Acquired for $117M, Will Continue to Operate Separately

  3. Y Not – Adventures in Functional Programming (2012)

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  1. This Man's $600K Facebook Disaster Is a Warning For All Small Businesses

  2. Mt. Gox Resigns Bitcoin Foundation Board Seat

  3. WhatsApp issued takedown against alternative clients a week before acquisition

  4. Steve Jobs threatened Palm’s CEO, court documents reveal

Sports 8 stories

  1. Game Theory: How 70,000 Pokemon Players Sabotage Themselves

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  1. Irrational Games (Bioshock Infinite) is shutting down

  2. Most Winning A/B Test Results are Illusory [pdf]

  3. The Internet Sucks: Or, What I Learned Coding X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter (1999)

Technology 153 stories

  1. Neovim

  2. Project Tango

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  1. Sam Altman for President

  2. AI

  3. Spritz – read 500 words per minute without any training

  4. MtGox.com is offline

  5. One of the Most Alarming Internet Proposals I've Seen

Entertainment 8 stories

  1. Netflix Agrees to Pay Comcast to End Web Traffic Jam

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  1. Show HN: We've open-sourced our bootstrapped startup, ShareLaTeX

  2. Show HN: Google Music for Mac

  3. Show HN: An easy-to-use Text Analysis API – NLP and Machine Learning

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