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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close February 17 – February 24, 2014 191 stories · Vol. 14 · Catalogue 09 · Issue 55 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

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

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Business 22 stories

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

  2. I Crashed a Wall Street Secret Society

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

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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 10 stories

  1. Drawing as a programmer

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

  2. Irrational Games (Bioshock Infinite) is shutting down

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

Technology 143 stories

  1. Neovim

  2. Project Tango

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  1. Sam Altman for President

  2. AI

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

  4. Your Path to a $16B exit? Build a J2ME App

  5. Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor

Entertainment 9 stories

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

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  1. Show HN: I redesigned the Microsoft employee badge

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

  3. Show HN: Google Music for Mac

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