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I think that’s definitely a concern when you’re talking about government officials, particularly high-level government officials, who give background briefings to reporters to basically give the administration’s public position without attaching their name to it. But I think that’s an entirely different category than whistle-blowers who are trying to expose wrongdoing and who are keeping their name anonymous so that they can protect themselves from being fired or going to jail. There are definitely two types of anonymous sources, and the former type that I mentioned is certainly a concern when we’re talking about journalism and not wanting to take government claims at face value. 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And there’s infighting over the future of the currency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Go anonymous?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://spar.isi.jhu.edu/~mgreen/\">Matthew Green\u003c/a> is a founder of ZeroCoin and a computer scientist at Johns Hopkins University. He wants Bitcoin to improve protections so that users are effectively anonymous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green fears surveillance has gotten out of hand, that “we live in a world where we’re losing privacy. We’re losing privacy every day when companies collect our information. And I believe the only way you can truly protect yourself is to use technological means to keep your private information to yourself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> People might still know that somebody transacted three dollars to somebody else. But they won’t be able to trace that back to you. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Green has a \u003ca href=\"http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2013/04/zerocoin-making-bitcoin-anonymous.html\">thesis\u003c/a> on how to make Bitcoin more anonymous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every Bitcoin transaction gets recorded on an accounting ledger called a block chain. Green is working on a way to scramble the user IDs listed on the ledgers and then further conceal them with encryption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People might still know that somebody transacted three dollars to somebody else. But they won’t be able to trace that back to you,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The appeal of anonymity turned Bitcoin into a leading form of payment for illegal drugs. And it’s why the U.S. government is worried Bitcoin may just be a tool for money laundering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This month the FBI took down a site called \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/03/the-digital-drug-lord-next-door-feds-bust-alleged-silk-road-master/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Silk Road\u003c/a>, arresting its alleged operator in a San Francisco public library.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the currency is continuing to trade in all sorts of legal transactions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Or go mainstream?\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Armstrong is a poster child for the Bitcoin camp that wants to go mainstream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Armstrong is a founder of \u003ca href=\"https://coinbase.com\">Coinbase\u003c/a>, a Bitcoin startup in San Francisco that’s raised nearly seven million \u003ca href=\"http://www.crunchbase.com/company/coinbase\">dollars\u003c/a> in seed funding from some prominent investors in Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Armstrong takes his five employees rock climbing every week at Dogpatch Boulders, a local favorite, to bond with other startup entrepreneurs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said, “It’s a good place to talk with people about Bitcoin, maybe poach a few candidates, things like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OKCupid.com, Reddit.com and Khan Academy currently accept the Internet cash. Armstrong’s job now is to get more people and companies to use Bitcoin.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> The technology exists today where (transferring money overseas) can be really simple and easy. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>His pitch is that it’s cheaper and easier to use than Western Union, Visa or PayPal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you need to send a hundred dollars to someone in Buenos Aires, for example, “it’s way too difficult,” he said. “The technology exists today where those things can be really simple and easy. But they’re not. And Bitcoin is going to bring that technology to the masses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Armstrong says it’s time for Bitcoin to grow up and it’s going to take basic government oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s glad the feds cracked down on Silk Road. When he sees a shady merchant trying to sell marijuana seeds or Russian mail order brides on his site, he says he routinely speaks with federal anti-money laundering regulators at \u003ca href=\"http://www.fincen.gov\">FinCEN\u003c/a> and files suspicious activity reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are all things that a legitimate Bitcoin company now and in the future is going to have to do,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bitcoin camp that wants to go mainstream recently \u003ca href=\"https://bitcoinfoundation.org/blog/?p=281\">hired staff \u003c/a>to work Capitol Hill. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/04/where-to-watch-facebooks-945-am-annoucement-about-android-we-think/to-go-with-us-it-internet-ipo-facebook-a-3/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-93309\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-93309\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/facebook-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"Facebook \" width=\"640\" height=\"425\">\u003c/a>Facebook has bought Israeli startup \u003ca href=\"http://www.onavo.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Onavo\u003c/a>, a company that specializes in apps that compress data to improve the performance of smartphones. Analysts we’re reading say the acquisition could aid Facebook in developing its own products for mobile devices. It could also aid \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/21/technology/facebook-leads-an-effort-to-lower-barriers-to-internet-access.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Internet.org\u003c/a>, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s campaign to expand Internet access to the developing world. The sale price is reported to be between $100 million and $200 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From \u003ca href=\"http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/13/facebook-buys-mobile-analytics-company-onavo-and-finally-gets-its-office-in-israel/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TechCrunch\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Onavo, which was founded in 2010, has two parts to its business: a consumer-facing apps to help optimise device and app performance and battery life on iOS and Android devices; and an analytics business for mobile publishers to chart how well its own apps are performing, and to chart that against apps of its competitors. It had raised some $13 million in venture funding from investors like Sequoia, Horizons Ventures, Motorola and Magma Venture Partners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rationale for the deal is easy to see on a few levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook has been focusing on building up its mobile business, which is seeing the most growth and is the platform that most users in developing markets are turning to first when signing up for and using the social networking service. So this means beefing up Facebook’s mobile operations in general, but also for making Facebook as usable as possible in these emerging markets. Today, Onavo’s technology is focused only on smartphones rather than feature phones, but what it does on those devices is help users track how well those devices work, in terms of battery life and so on.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>From \u003ca href=\"http://venturebeat.com/2013/10/14/facebook-heads-to-israel-with-onavo-buy-gets-a-leg-up-on-mobile-data-compression-and-analytics/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VentureBeat\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Onavo’s core technology uses proxy servers to reroute and compress your mobile data. The company also offers standalone apps like Onavo Count, which claims to offer a more accurate view of your data usage than other apps. The company’s Insights product is particularly interesting — with its close view of how exactly people use apps, it can reveal things like retention and usage figures that normally only the publishers themselves can access. Making that information a bit more public is valuable for the competition (and reporters like me).\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And from \u003ca href=\"http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/14/facebook-acquires-onavo-and-a-foothold-in-israel/?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times Bits blog\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The big draw for Facebook is Onavo’s pioneering data compression technology, which helps smartphones cut data consumption as much as 80 percent. Such compression is vital to the goals of Internet.org, an organization started by Facebook’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, in August that is trying to offer mobile Internet access free or at very low cost to the about four billion people globally who do not have it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>‘‘We expect Onavo’s data compression technology to play a central role in our mission to connect more people to the Internet, and their analytic tools will help us provide better, more efficient mobile products,’’ a Facebook spokesman said.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Last, here’s the Associated Press writeup of Facebooks Onavo acquisition:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JERUSALEM (AP) — Facebook says it is acquiring an Israeli mobile technology startup and opening its first office in Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook said in a statement Monday that Israeli mobile utility application developer Onavo would help the social media giant create better mobile products and help connect more people around the world to the Internet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Onavo was founded three years ago and produces technology that compresses content so mobile users can use more data. The Tel Aviv-based company also has an office in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Israeli media reported that Facebook is buying the company for more than $100 million and that it was Facebook’s largest acquisition of an Israeli company. Facebook declined comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook has bought two Israeli companies in recent years, but employees were transferred to Facebook’s U.S. headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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In other words, get teachers to love the free product and prove its effectiveness, then down the road, districts will pay for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But does this model have the potential to shake up the old education market, as many predict?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trace Urdan from Wells Fargo is one of the few skeptical voices on this topic. He doesn’t think the explosion of ed-tech companies and investment will hurt traditional textbook giants like Pearson and McGraw-Hill that still dominate the market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The textbook publishers are absolutely paying very close attention to every little startup that gets funded, and every application that’s out there that’s going into the classroom,” Urdan said. He thinks most startups will run out of funding and the big publishers will buy the best ones at bargain prices. And in his opinion, schools will be happy to buy from established vendors because it’s less risky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think at some level all of this investment will end up being productive in some way, even if the way it’s productive is that at some point Pearson will buy them and bring them to market,” Urdan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No matter who ends up profiting, the new ideas could ultimately change the way kids learn. For many people working in ed-tech, that’s always been at least part of the goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen to the radio story:\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F114744685\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For more on how technology is changing education check out KQED's education blog \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/\">MindShift\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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So, now that potential investors get a chance to paw through the company's numbers, the debate begins: Is the offering a rocketship or a dog?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The New York Times Dealbook blog \u003ca href=\"http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/twitter-discloses-its-i-p-o-plans/\" target=\"_blank\">summarizes\u003c/a> company financials disclosed today:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"In its second quarter this year, Twitter reported 218.3 million average monthly active users, up 44 percent from the same time a year. Its revenue for the first half of this year was $253.6 million, more than double the same time last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company has also been losing money, reporting a net loss of $79 million last year and $69 million for the first six months of 2013. 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Twitter plans on selling advertisements in more countries in the future it states, but if Line and its ilk slow its rollout, Twitter could find its revenue growth on hold.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\nVentureBeat \u003ca href=\"http://venturebeat.com/2013/10/03/twitter-to-hit-the-stock-market-in-1b-ipo-as-twtr/\" target=\"_blank\">goes deeper\u003c/a> into Twitter's numbers and highlights Twitter's claimed advantages as an advertising platform:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In its filing, Twitter is telling the world that it can be \u003cem>the\u003c/em> “content creation, distribution, and discovery platform for the Internet and evolving mobile ecosystem,” combining the elements of public data, real-time information, conversation tone, and massive distribution. The resulting value proposition for advertisers, the company says, is: unique ad formats (its suite of promoted tweets, accounts, etc.), interest targeting, viral global reach, real-time advertising, pay-for-performance, and the extension of offline advertising, as on TV.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Finally, here's the Associated Press's latest writethrough on the Twitter IPO:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Barbara Ortutay\u003cbr>\nAP Technology Writer\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NEW YORK — Twitter has unsealed the documents for its planned initial public offering of stock and says it hopes to raise up to $1 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company is also revealing for the first time the amount of money it makes. Founded in 2006, Twitter has never turned a profit and has an uninterrupted history of losses totaling $419 million since its inception. But its revenue is growing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twitter disclosed three weeks ago that it filed confidential IPO papers to start the process of going public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, San Francisco-based Twitter Inc. unsealed the papers with the Securities and Exchange Commission, giving potential investors and its user base a look inside its business. The company was taking advantage of federal legislation passed last year that allows companies with less than $1 billion in revenue in its last fiscal year to avoid submitting public IPO documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twitter says that it generated $317 million in revenue in 2012 and that it had more than 218 million active users as of the end of June, up 44 percent from a year earlier. That compares with Facebook's nearly 1.2 billion and LinkedIn's 240 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company also said that it lost $69.3 million in the first six months of 2013, compared with a loss of $49.1 million for the same period last year. Revenue more than doubled to $254 million from $122 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twitter did not say which stock exchange it plans to list its shares on, though the company said it intends to use the ticker symbol \"TWTR.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The underwriters of the offering are Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, BofA Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank Securities and CODE Advisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twitter's IPO has been long expected. The company has been ramping up its advertising products and working to boost ad revenue in preparation. But it is still tiny compared with Facebook, which saw its hotly anticipated IPO implode last year amid worries about its ability to grow mobile ad revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twitter's moneymaking potential has minted the company with an estimated market value of $10 billion, based on the appraisals of venture capitalists and other early investors. The IPO could value it higher or lower. 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The city just south of Silicon Valley is trying to capitalize on its lettuce fields by turning them into laboratories for tech entrepreneurs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tom Taggart, for example, has driven a lot of tractors. But the nearly 3-ton hunk of metal parked by a field in Salinas is smarter than the others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He points to the dashboard and a screen where the rearview mirror would be. “Inside this compartment up here we’ve mounted a mini Mac computer, and it houses the lettuce program that does all this magical stuff,\" Taggart said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taggart is the technology director at Foothill Packing, a firm that farmers hire to manage their fields. He built this device to thin out crops. 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More than 800 people lost their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a lot of people, so the economic setback was probably $60 million annually in payroll, which was a big hit for us,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monterey County got federal and state grants to help laid-off workers rewrite their resumes. Salinas didn’t have access to similar funding because California shut down redevelopment programs for cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, Salinas decided it would try to help create jobs by becoming a startup incubator. Corpuz said that when he tells other city managers, they look at him a bit cross-eyed and say, “It’s risky. Sounds like a great idea, but it sounds risky.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A new venture fund\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salinas is paying SVG Partners, a venture capital firm based in San Jose, $180,000 to attract ag-tech investors and build links between local residents and Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Hartnett is the investor leading the project. He said cities need to spend less money on research and more on real-world plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t need to spend a year to produce a report because it’s so obvious what needs to be done,” Hartnett said. “In many cities it’s obvious. It’s about taking the risk of execution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley’s venture-capital community already has a \u003ca href=\"http://www.pwc.com/us/en/technology/publications/moneytree-cleantech-venture-funding-q4-2012.jhtml\">big appetite for clean tech\u003c/a>. 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