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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 8 – August 7, 2012 833 stories · Vol. 12 · Catalogue 32 · Issue 220 Get it by email ↓
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

    What PHP 5.5 might look like

    4 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    Some Lisp books (and then some)

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    OS X Mountain Lion: Data Loss via 'Save As'

    3 of 30 days · 7 articles

Business 53 stories

  1. Microsoft reports first quarterly loss ever

    marketday.msnbc.msn.co · 2 outlets

  2. A Man Walks into a Bank

    ft.com · 1 outlets

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

    elezea.com · 1 outlets

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

    talsraviv.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

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

    dailytech.com · 1 outlets

  2. Talent Acquisitions

    marco.org · 1 outlets

  3. Goldman Sachs and the $580 Million Black Hole

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  4. Why Do Startups Do This?

    asymptomatic.net · 1 outlets

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

    dl.dropbox.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 39 stories

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

    blogs.valvesoftware.co · 5 outlets

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

    facebook.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. SpaceX wins $440M contract with NASA to develop Space Shuttle successor

    spaceflightnow.com · 1 outlets

  2. American TV Neglected the Saddest Story in the Olympics

    iamnotaprogrammer.com · 2 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 602 stories

  1. Mars Curiosity's first images

    space.com · 8 outlets

  2. Marissa Mayer Has a Secret Weapon

    dealbook.nytimes.com · 6 outlets

  3. Amazon Career Choice Program

    amazon.com · 1 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. OS X Mountain Lion: Data Loss via 'Save As'

    marco.org · 7 outlets

  2. Google Fiber Plans & Pricing

    fiber.google.com · 2 outlets

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

    eyetap.org · 1 outlets

  4. An Unexpected Ass Kicking

    joelrunyon.com · 1 outlets

  5. Dear Mark Zuckerberg

    daltoncaldwell.com · 1 outlets

  6. Making Friends Over 30 with Grubwithus

    nytimes.com · 2 outlets

  7. A Dust Over India

    postmasculine.com · 1 outlets

  8. Great work Visa, now I hate you

    modern-products.tumblr · 1 outlets

  9. Github Raises $100 Million

    online.wsj.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 36 stories

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

    markupwand.com · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: Pup, real-time app metrics with Statsd

    moqups.com · 2 outlets

Show 6 more

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

    gist.io · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: BrainTripping - language model comedy

    matt.is · 1 outlets

  3. NASA TV feed of 10:31 pm PDT Curiosity landing

    nasa.gov · 1 outlets

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

    gridspot.com · 2 outlets

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

    vijayp.ca · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: Music for Geeks and Nerds

    musicforgeeksandnerds. · 1 outlets

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