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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close February 19 – February 26, 2014 206 stories · Vol. 14 · Catalogue 09 · Issue 57 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 27 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. Famous tech acquisitions’ cost per user

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

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

  3. Mt. Gox Resigns Bitcoin Foundation Board Seat

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

Sports 5 stories

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

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

  2. The Game Changed in Venezuela Last Night and the Media Is Asleep At the Switch

  3. Ubuntu desktop moving application menus back into application windows

Technology 160 stories

  1. Neovim

  2. Project Tango

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  1. Sam Altman for President

  2. Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

  3. GitHub's new text editor leaked on Twitter

  4. AI

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

Entertainment 7 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: Add forms to your static site – no iFrames required

  3. Show HN: Google Music for Mac

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