A 3D Printer For Ice Sculptures? Sure, Why Not? | A/B Tester Optimizely Raises Funding From Battery And Google Ventures, Plans Mobile Launch | Want To Be Like Steve Jobs? Well It's Probably Not Going To Happen, Says BFF Larry Ellison | Flipboard kicks off Android beta test, sign up now | Kleiner Perkins' John Doerr responds to sexual harassment allegations

A 3D Printer For Ice Sculptures? Sure, Why Not?

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Researchers at McGill University are looking into 3D printing ice sculptures--with remarkable success[...]
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A/B Tester Optimizely Raises Funding From Battery And Google Ventures, Plans Mobile Launch

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Optimizely, the Y Combinator-incubated startup that helps companies A/B test their websites, just announced that it has raised new funding from Battery Ventures, Google Ventures, and InterWest Partners.The startup previously raised $1.2 million from angels including Ron Conway, Chris Sacca, and Ashton Kutcher, but this is its first venture round. Co-founder and CEO Dan Siroker (who was director of analytics for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign in 2008) says he isn’t disclosing the amount — which is the exact thing that a tech journalist doesn’t want to hear — because he doesn’t want to get into a competition over valuation and “vanity metrics.”[...]
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Want To Be Like Steve Jobs? Well It’s Probably Not Going To Happen, Says BFF Larry Ellison

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Because Steve Jobs had visited the AllThingsD stage so many times over the course of the past decade, Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher decided to pay him tribute by inviting two of his friends for 25 years, Dr. Ed Catmull and Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, to talk for the closing hour about “The Lessons of Steve Jobs.”When both men were asked by Mossberg about what advice they had for aspiring entrepreneurs who’d like to replicate Steve’s success, both had similar answers but Ellison, who was Jobs next door neighbor in Woodside, dominated the conversation. Want to be like Steve Jobs? Well you’re not going to get there by trying, Ellison asserted[...]
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Flipboard kicks off Android beta test, sign up now

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Slowly, but surely, the social news reader app Flipboard is making its way to Android — officially, this time. Today the company opened up its Android beta program to all, allowing anyone with an Android device to sign up and get their hands on the app.
But it’s not like Flipboard had much choice in the matter. The announcement follows a leak of the Flipboard Android app from earlier this month — which satisfied the Flipboard urge for eager Android users, but didn’t do much to help the company test its app on the platform. Now with an official beta, Flipboard can actually learn from all of the issues the beta testers will inevitably come across. (You can also download[...]
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Kleiner Perkins’ John Doerr responds to sexual harassment allegations

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Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers managing partner John Doerr responded to partner Ellen Pao’s lawsuit against the company, involving sexual harassment and retaliation.
“The last several days have been a difficult time for me and my partners at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers,” said Doerr in the statement. “It is not easy to stand by as false allegations are asserted against the firm, especially because legal constraints prevent us from responding fully at this time.”
Pao, who remains a partner at the firm, filed the lawsuit earlier this month, saying that fellow partner Ajit Nazre began courting her for a sexual relationship in 2006. Allegedly Pao rejecte[...]
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