Farhad Manjoo
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Did the government really invent the Internet?Jul 29, 2012 8:18 am - Earlier this month, President Obama argued that wealthy business people owe some of their success to the government’s investment in education and basic infrastructure. H...
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Can Marissa Mayer save Yahoo?Jul 21, 2012 5:58 pm - One evening in the spring of 1999, Marissa Mayer got a recruiting email from a tiny search company. “I was in a long-distance relationship at the time, so I was pathetic...
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Apple needs to give us something newJul 09, 2012 3:51 pm - Five years ago, after waiting in line at the Apple Store for much of the day, I finally got my hands on the first iPhone. I rushed home, plugged it into iTunes, signed m...
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The secret of BuzzFeed’s monster online successJun 29, 2012 10:55 am - Last week, BuzzFeed’s Jack Shepherd published an irresistible piece called, “21 Pictures That Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity.” The post is exactly as advertised, a ...
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‘Another Monster:” iPad app or book?Jun 25, 2012 6:17 am - When is a book no longer a book? I wasn’t expecting to have my mind blown by the iPad app of the children’s story “Another Monster at the End of This Book.” The tale, o...
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Tweets are about to get longerJun 25, 2012 6:17 am - Almost a year ago, I proposed that Twitter double its character limit from 140 to 280. The microblogging site long ago outgrew its original purpose as a platform for sim...
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iPad makes paper obsoleteMay 27, 2012 7:19 am - I didn’t expect to quit paper so easily. Sure, I love technology, but I also love reading, and I’ve always found paper to be the most pleasurable delivery system for the...
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Has Facebook ruined Silicon Valley?May 26, 2012 4:39 pm - Silicon Valley has a Facebook hangover. A week after the company's giant IPO, the social network's stock is slumping, and there are rumblings that it will sink further s...
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Search wars: Google v. BingMay 20, 2012 3:14 pm - It was astonishingly easy to quit Googling. In Chrome, Google's Web browser, I clicked a couple buttons in the Settings tab, and voilà, my default search engine w...
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Despite mission, investors will change FacebookMay 20, 2012 6:36 am - When Facebook filed for its initial public offering in February, Mark Zuckerberg wrote a frank letter to potential investors in the firm. “Facebook was not original...
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