The Real Reason Mike McCue Needs $50 Million: Google Is Building A Flipboard Killer

When news came out the other day that Flipboard just raised another $50 million at a $200 million valuation for its iPad news reading app, I gave CEO Mike McCue a hard time on Twitter and here on TechCrunch. Does an iPad app startup really need $50 million, or is this yet another sign of a bubble? McCue responded on Twitter, but yesterday we spoke by phone and he went into great detail about why exactly he thinks he needs $50 million. He came up with the number a few months ago. It's what he calculates he needs to get to cashflow positive, or at least pretty close (more on that below). Raising money is distraction, and his preference was to raise it all at once. But towards the end of our conversation, he also mentioned another concern which was a factor in taking as much money as he can right now. "I see a lot of competition down the pike," he says. Rumors have been reaching him that there is a team of engineers at Google who are "saying they are building a Flipboard killer." He adds quickly, " I have no idea what it is," but hearing about "this desire to kill us" is unsettling and it does add "a little concern about the unknown."

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Sources: Sanchez likely to run for Texas Sen. seat (The Arizona Republic)

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democratic sources say former Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez is expected to run for U.S. Senate in Texas, giving Democrats a high-profile recruit to fill the seat being vacated by GOP Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison....
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BOOK REVIEW: Wine Makes Mummy Clever ~ The Fringe Magazine

Title:????????????????????? Wine Makes Mummy Clever

Author:??????????????????Andy Riley

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ISBN:???????????????????? 9781444711035

Release Date:?????? April 2011

Pages:?????????????????? 64

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PERFECT gift for Mother s Day (8th May 2011). From the bestselling author of BUNNY SUICIDES comes a new, perfect all year round gift.

The perfect gift for Mother's Day - 60 brilliant ALL NEW cartoons from Andy Riley celebrating the special one. Affectionate, witty and endearing - just like Mum, and it's the gift that keeps on giving - just like Mum. Every day should be Mother's Day.

About the Author

Andy Riley is the author/artist of the BUNNY SUICIDES books, GREAT LIES TO TELL SMALL KIDS, SELFISH PIGS, D.I.Y DENTISTRY, ROASTED, and lots of other stuff. His scriptwriting work includes BLACK BOOKS, THE GREAT OUTDOORS, LITTLE BRITAIN, HYPERDRIVE, ARMSTRONG AND MILLER, SMACK THE PONY, GNOMEO AND JULIET, and THE ARMANDO IANNUCCI SHOWS.

Review:

I got a copy of Andy Riley?s Bunny Suicides last year and was rolling on the floor laughing all through the book. The sense of humour from Riley is very dark but hilarious, much like the humour of such great comedies like Black Books or Little Britain (which he has scriptwriting credits for).

Wine Makes Mummy Clever is only 64 pages, but every cartoon and joke was a classic, with so many situations that ring true for any mother. I love how Riley makes such simple things so funny, and can?t wait to pick up his next book, ?Beer Makes Daddy Strong?.

If you need a good laugh then pick up a copy of this for yourself and for your mother for mother's day.

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Eldar: A Young Jazz Star Goes It Alone

Eldar Djangirov, 24, has already released six albums under his own name.
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In 2005, jazz pianist Eldar Djangirov was 18 and a month away from graduating high school, but he was already a seasoned performer and recording artist. Back then, he visited NPR's studios and played solo versions of standards such as "Take the 'A' Train," "Armando's Rhumba" and "Ask Me Now," each brimming with rapid-fire pyrotechnics.

Djangirov is 24 now, and has just released Three Stories, an album of solo piano. Its name comes from the different types of tunes included: jazz standards, original compositions and interpretations of classical themes. While on tour in Washington, D.C., he paid another visit to Weekend Edition Sunday host Liane Hansen at NPR headquarters.

"This particular record is a solo piano record, which is an exciting format for me because as a pianist, you begin playing piano solo," Djangirov says. "And for any pianist, solo means something that you've been doing all your life. So it's just a matter of documenting that in an appropriate moment."

Djangirov describes his artistic growth and his work with kids. While in the D.C. area, he visited Kenmore Middle School in Arlington, Va., to work with the jazz band.

"When [students] hear music so early, I think they register it as a positive memory," he says. "And that can have a profound effect on how they appreciate music when they grow up."

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Video: Obama on the Emir of Qatar's view of democracy (cbsnews)

While in Chicago for a fundraiser, President Obama was caught on tape making comments after reporters had left the room. The president is heard here discussing the Emir of Qatar advocating democracy everywhere but in his own country.
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Bravo users, rejoice! Your Froyo update is now live

Good news for all you Bravo users out there, as Moto's got a software upgrade that bringing you up to Android 2.2 Froyo.

Update 37.4.0 brings all of the stock Froyo goodies, like Adobe Flash, Apps2SD, Wi-Fi hotspot, and USB tethering, but Mototola's also got you covered with some Bravo-specific additions, such as:

  • Profiles: Added profiles feature that provides three customizable sets of home screens to give you access to the apps, shortcuts, and widgets you want, when you need them.
  • Dialer Search: Phone numbers and contacts can now be searched from the dialer screen by entering the first few letters of the contact’s name or first few digits of the contact’s number.
  • LinkedIn: LinkedIn® social network accounts can now be added to integrate with contacts, social networking updates, and messaging.
  • Security: Added new security features, including Exchange-based encryption and password security.

Anyone get the update yet? If so, how's it working for you? Make sure to let sound off in the forums or comments and let us know how Froyo is treatin' ya.

For everyone else, installation instructions are after the break. [Motorola]

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Luddites, leave your tech nostalgia at home

April 11, 2011

On April Fools' Day, NPR's All Things Considered ran a story about the Slow Internet Movement, based around a coffeehouse called Drip that offered slow Internet service on purpose, to cater to those who yearn for the old days of 14.4kbps modems and waiting 10 minutes to check your email. They even had someone describe the time spent waiting for data to arrive as a form of meditation.

It was a joke, and a funny one, but such people actually do exist. The All Things Considered letters segment the following week brought forth this comment:

James Sweeney got the joke, but asked: Am I the only one who was disappointed when they realized it was the gag story? He continues: I live a somewhat conflicted life. I am at the same time nostalgic for technology of days gone by, yet I work in the IT industry with current technology. But I resist new technology as much as possible. No smartphone, no Bluetooth, and yes, still dial-up at home. Others make fun of me, of course, and I was excited to be able to share news of this anti-bandwidth revolt with them. P.S., Mr. Sweeney writes: I still have my original Commodore 64 somewhere in the attic.

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I don't know Mr. Sweeney, but I know people like him: folks who work in IT every day, dealing with highly technical operations in the fastest-moving industry on the planet, who in their hearts prefer simpler times. Most don't bring their Luddite tendencies to work with them. But some do.

In fact, some bring it to the table during technical discussions, flaming the room with the IT equivalent of "fix old, no new!" There's definitely a time and a place for such caution, but I've found that these folks tend to pick their battles poorly -- and fight every change as though it were the end of days.

As a brief example -- one going back a way -- I recall a time when a senior IT member who was in charge of the AS/400 was absolutely adamant that the company did not need any of these new Intel servers. Instead, they could buy a bunch of AS/400 Integrated Netfinity Servers and keep everything within the AS/400 purview, never mind that they had been end-of-life for years. This old-school frame of mind can lead to a horrific waste of money in all kinds of pernicious ways.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-center/luddites-leave-your-tech-nostalgia-home-348?source=rss_infoworld_blogs

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Emma Roberts & Hayden Panettiere Worried About Spilling ?Scream 4? Script Secrets

Emma Roberts & Hayden Panettiere April 13The stars of Scream 4 were under a lot of pressure to keep the plot of the film a secret, even though they were only given as little of the script as possible. Still, Emma Roberts and Hayden Panettiere panicked that they?d accidentally spill some script secrets!

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?[I got] the middle bit, the middle section,? Hayden explained to MTV about how much of the script she was given. ?I was in Germany and [the filmmakers] had somebody fly to Germany, meet me at home to watch me read the middle part of the script, so there was no beginning, no end, subject to change.?

?There?s just something very funny about somebody sitting there watching you read it to make sure you don?t sneak pictures or go sending it anywhere,? she said. ?You feel like your life may be in jeopardy if, God forbid, anything got out.?

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And Emma had the same concerns!

?When I first read the script, I had to read it at [director] Wes Craven?s house,? Emma explained. ?So I couldn?t even have it sent to my house. When we got our scripts on set, they all had our names on them and I? remember I was getting out of my car to go to work one day and I dropped my script and, literally, the pages were everywhere and I was in this parking lot chasing after all of my pages and, of course, the last few pages were floating away from me.?

?I grabbed them and brought them to my trailer, [thinking], ?OK, I don?t know what to do with all this paper, I?m so nervous to be carrying this around.? ?

Well, it seems like they did a good job as Scream 4 hits theaters Friday!

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NATO Allies Question Their Role In Libya

In Libya, the violent, nearly month-long conflict between forces loyal to leader Moammar Gaddafi and rebel fighters is raising questions and frustrations about the urgency and scale of the NATO air operation. Host Scott Simon talks with Stephen Flanagan, senior vice president and Henry A. Kissinger Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, about NATO's engagement in Libya, the disagreement among allies over the level of engagement and calls from Britain and France to intensify strikes against Gadhafi's forces.

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In Libya the violent nearly month-long conflict between forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi and rebel fighters is raising questions and frustrations about the urgency and scale of the NATO air operation.

President Barack Obama joined leaders of France and Britain yesterday in saying they are committed to using force to prevent Moammar Gadhafi from slaughtering civilians in his country.

Mr. Obama signed a joint opinion piece published in European newspapers that said the objective of the U.N. resolution that authorized the mission, quote, "Is not to remove Gadhafi by force, but it is impossible to imagine a future for Libya with Gadhafi in power."

In recent days, both Britain and France have asked other members of the NATO alliance for more assets including ground attack fighter jets to attack Libyan military forces that are besieging civilians in Misurata and other places.

So that's where we begin this hour. We turn now to Stephen Flanagan, senior vice president and Henry A. Kissinger chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He's joined us in our studios. He's been on the staff at the National Security Council, and has taught at both Harvard and the National War College.

Thanks so much for being with us.

Mr. STEPHEN FLANAGAN (Senior Vice President, Center for Strategic and International Studies): Nice to be with you, Scott.

SIMON: What do you read in, or even between the lines, of this co-authored piece?

Mr. FLANAGAN: There were two messages here I think, Scott. One was a message directed very much at Gadhafi, that if he continues on the path of trying to slaughter his people, that he will continue to see an escalation of the military campaign.

I think the second message was one very much a reassurance to the members of the coalition on the part of President Obama to say that yes, the United States is this. While it has transferred leadership of the overall effort of the military campaign to NATO, the president made clear that the U.S. is still a member of NATO. It's been supporting in a very robust way, but in a secondary and a supporting way, the NATO operations, and opening up the possibility, and I'm sure with some of the developments in recent days, increasing pressure that the United States fill some of the gaps that NATO realizes that they have, as you mentioned in combat ground strike aircraft.

SIMON: Well, it raises the question, is this genuinely a NATO mission, or is it now a U.S., British, and French mission?

Mr. FLANAGAN: No. It really has morphed. Now it is formally a NATO mission as of the 27th of March. And so NATO has been engaged. Not all of the allies -while they've all said they support this, not all of them are taking on the most risky and difficult mission, that is the ground strike to protect civilians from attack by the Gadhafi loyalist forces.

SIMON: Yeah. And help us understand that. Because there are a number of countries, member states in NATO, most notably Germany, that have some real ambivalence about their involvement.

Mr. FLANAGAN: Absolutely. Indeed, Germany abstained from the passage of the resolution that called for this action, and it then went to say as NATO undertook the mission that it would not support any element of it. And there are reports that it's even created some difficulties within the alliance in the conduct of the current operations.

This is an organization that's designed to work as a multilateral machine all the time, but still there are different restrictions that some of the countries put on their forces. Indeed, even the U.S. has put restrictions on its forces, as the French and the British have been complaining about the last few days.

SIMON: Well, that's what I want to follow, because it struck me that I thought both Prime Minister Cameron and President Sarkozy were blunt when they talked about the fact that they - Britain and France weren't getting the support that they would most devoutly desire from NATO states. And it seemed like they did not exempt the United States from that.

Mr. FLANAGAN: No, absolutely not. No. Indeed. One of the things - the hope was that the U.S. would come once again to the rescue, and in some ways this is what the Obama administration is laying down a bit of the challenge to the rest of the alliance, saying here's an operation that is very close to your borders in southern Europe. Your equities are most immediately at stake.

This is not that difficult, especially after the United States used its heavy and unique assets to basically decimate the Libyan air defense system. This is a mission that should be manageable by a number of the NATO countries, and indeed, President Sarkozy and Prime Minister Cameron seemed anxious to show that they could take this on.

The problem was that they didn't get a lot of their other European allies to come along, so they went to the Security Council and then finally to NATO to get this together. But certainly now what the hope is that that U.S. will provide some combat strike aircraft. And so that's really what the other NATO allies are looking for now, is the hope that the U.S. might step in. or other allies that have some of these assets too.

SIMON: The longer the situation goes on in Libya without resolution, Moammar Gadhafi stays in power. Does that increase the pressure on the United States to do something to get - move the situation along?

Mr. FLANAGAN: Absolutely, it does. Because the feeling that already, you know, we hear these complaints from some of the rebel leaders saying that it seems as if NATO has slowed down the tempo, or things aren't happening. But I think the strategy is that with enough pressure on Gadhafi, with the feeling that the resolve is there that these strikes will continue until Gadhafi decides that he has to consider turning over power.

In some ways this is very reminiscent of the campaign against Milosevic in 1999, where Milosevic thought NATO couldn't last - he could last it out. And after 78 days, he finally capitulated. I think the hope is that Gadhafi will look for the exits even sooner, but so far he's shown a remarkable degree of tenacity. But, of course, he's a rather mercurial leader and always full of surprises.

SIMON: Stephen Flanagan, senior vice president and Henry A. Kissinger chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Thanks so much.

Mr. FLANAGAN: Glad to be with you, Scott. Thank you.

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