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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 13 – August 12, 2012 824 stories · Vol. 12 · Catalogue 32 · Issue 225 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

    IPhone caused "crisis of design" at Samsung

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

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

    3 of 30 days · 7 articles

  3. Technology

    One of Apple’s Best Ideas Ever — Made Worse

    3 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 48 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. Yesterday, I Went to the American Idol for Startups. It Made Me Want to Die.

    slog.thestranger.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. Entitlement and Acquisition

    mattgemmell.com · 1 outlets

  9. App.net is crowdfunding their realtime feed platform

    join.app.net · 1 outlets

  10. Peter Thiel’s startup class notes in PDF

    klinger.io · 1 outlets

Sports 35 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. Watch what you store on SkyDrive–you may lose your Microsoft life

    wmpoweruser.com · 1 outlets

  4. WikiLeaks wins case against Visa

    rt.com · 1 outlets

  5. Oculus Rift: Step Into the Game

    kickstarter.com · 1 outlets

  6. Sparrow for Windows was just a few weeks away

    everydaypanos.com · 1 outlets

Technology 598 stories

  1. Mars Curiosity's first images

    space.com · 12 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. Textmate2 Goes Open Source

    github.com · 1 outlets

  5. Design Tip: Never Use Black

    ianstormtaylor.com · 1 outlets

  6. An Unexpected Ass Kicking

    joelrunyon.com · 1 outlets

  7. Dear Mark Zuckerberg

    daltoncaldwell.com · 1 outlets

  8. Making Friends Over 30 with Grubwithus

    nytimes.com · 2 outlets

  9. ToS;DR — TL;DR for Terms of Service and Privacy Policy

    tos-dr.info · 1 outlets

Entertainment 43 stories

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

    markupwand.com · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: Burner, for temporary phone numbers

    blog.burnerapp.com · 1 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. Distribution of colors in movie posters between 1914 and 2012

    vijayp.ca · 1 outlets

  5. Please turn on two-factor authentication

    mattcutts.com · 2 outlets

  6. Show HN: Music for Geeks and Nerds

    musicforgeeksandnerds. · 1 outlets

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