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Provided by: techmeme.com1212012-05-18 03:35:05buzz / techmeme.com /: Chris Ziegler / The Verge:
Microsoft talks Windows Store features, Metro app sandboxing for Windows 8 developers — In a post today on Microsoft's Building Windows 8 blog, program manager John Hanzen took a deep dive on two topics that are set to separate the platform's Metro style apps apart from every Windows app before them: installation and permissions.

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Chris Ziegler / The Verge:
Microsoft talks Windows Store features, Metro app sandboxing for Windows 8 developers — In a post today on Microsoft's Building Windows 8 blog, program manager John Hanzen took a deep dive on two topics that are set to separate the platform's Metro style apps apart from every Windows app before them: installation and permissions.

Provided by: techmeme.com1232012-05-18 02:50:00buzz / techmeme.com /: Joel Kotkin / Forbes:
The Best Cities For Tech Jobs — With Facebook poised to go public, the attention of the tech world, and Wall Street, is firmly focused on Silicon Valley. Without question, the west side of San Francisco Bay is by far the most prodigious creator of hot companies and has the highest proportion …

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Dylan Tweney / VentureBeat:
Kleiner Perkins closes its fifteenth venture fund with $525M — Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, one of Silicon Valley's most storied venture capital firms, has closed its fifteenth investment fund. — The company announced today that it has raised $525 million for KPCB 15 …

Provided by: techmeme.com1252012-05-18 02:15:06buzz / techmeme.com /: Dylan Tweney / VentureBeat:
Kleiner Perkins closes its fifteenth venture fund with $525M — Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, one of Silicon Valley's most storied venture capital firms, has closed its fifteenth investment fund. — The company announced today that it has raised $525 million for KPCB 15 …

Provided by: techmeme.com1262012-05-18 01:45:00buzz / techmeme.com /: Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple Receives Regulatory Approval for 20-Megawatt Solar Farm at North Carolina Data Center — The North Carolina Utilities Commission today officially approved (PDF) Apple's proposal to construct a 20-megawatt solar farm across the street from its data center in Maiden, North Carolina.

Provided by: techmeme.com1272012-05-18 01:05:04buzz / techmeme.com /: Emil Protalinski / ZDNet:
Facebook IPO: Final numbers — Summary: Facebook is going public on Friday. Forget all the hype, speculation, and rumors. Focus on the numbers, not the letters. Here's a quick rundown of the most important and most recent ones. — When Facebook filed for its initial public offering (IPO), I wrote Facebook's IPO by the numbers.

Provided by: techmeme.com1282012-05-18 01:10:24buzz / techmeme.com /: Lex Friedman / Macworld:
Apps using global hotkeys will remain welcome in the Mac App Store — Despite reports earlier Thursday suggesting that Apple would disallow Mac App Store apps from employing systemwide keyboard “hotkey” shortcuts, sources close to the matter confirm to Macworld that such apps remain welcome …

Provided by: techmeme.com1292012-05-18 00:25:37buzz / techmeme.com /: Dustin Curtis:
Twitter is tracking you on the web — In a blog post today announcing Twitter's new tailored suggestions system is something that has me absolutely shocked: an overt admission that Twitter is transparently tracking your movements around the web. Othman Laraki, on the Twitter blog:

Provided by: techmeme.com1302012-05-18 00:30:00buzz / techmeme.com /: Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
Sony hires Woz as advisor to Steve Jobs film, which Sorkin says won't be a ‘straight ahead biopic’ — As the production gets underway for the Steve Jobs biopic being penned by Aaron Sorkin, some details are coming to light. According to a report from Reuters, via the Chicago Tribune …

Provided by: techmeme.com1312012-05-17 23:50:00buzz / techmeme.com /: Ansuya Harjani / CNBC:
India Set to Overtake US as Facebook's Largest Market — India is set to overtake the U.S. as the world's largest Facebook market by number of users as early as 2015, according to social media analysts, driven by the growing internet penetration in the country, particularly on the mobile platform.

Provided by: techmeme.com1322012-05-17 23:25:24buzz / techmeme.com /: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Forbes:
RunCore Debuts World's First Self-Destructing SSD — While technology has changed almost every aspect of our lives, it can also be incredibly daunting. I firmly believe that technology is for everyone, and here I will be writing about the hardware and software that should matter to you.

Provided by: techmeme.com1332012-05-17 22:40:27buzz / techmeme.com /: Austin Carr / Fast Company:
J. Crew CEO, Apple Board Member Mickey Drexler Reveals Steve Jobs' iCar Dream, Confirms “Living Room” Plans — J. Crew CEO and Apple board member Mickey Drexler offers an insider's perspective on Steve Jobs's vision: “Steve's dream before he died was to design an iCar.”

Provided by: techmeme.com1342012-05-17 23:00:42buzz / techmeme.com /: Lori Phillips / Wikimedia blog:
Welcome to the world's first Wikipedia Town — You've probably heard the saying, “In theory, Wikipedia shouldn't work, but in practice it does.” Three of the things that contribute to make Wikipedia work are topic-specific WikiProjects ("let's write about a town), Wikimedia chapters …

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Austin Carr / Fast Company:
J. Crew CEO, Apple Board Member Mickey Drexler Reveals Steve Jobs' iCar Dream, Confirms “Living Room” Plans — J. Crew CEO and Apple board member Mickey Drexler offers an insider's perspective on Steve Jobs's vision: “Steve's dream before he died was to design an iCar.”