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Citybot, Jobhuk grab daily prizes in our #WinSXSW contest

Here are the winners for days 3 and 4 of our South by Southwest contest. Watch their 30-second pitch videos and vote on your favorites by March 15.

How I learned to stop worrying and love SXSW

South by Southwest Interactive is a successful experiment in startup community building. It may be crowded, noisy, and overhyped, but it's still an excellent place to build connections.

Voting starts today in our #WinSXSW contest

Enter now -- and tell all your friends to start sharing your entry -- for a shot at fame, fortune, and a chance to pitch some top investors.

Tim Berners-Lee: ‘You can do anything with a computer that you can imagine’

Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the World Wide Web, spent an hour enthusiastically exhorting a crowd at SXSW to use HTML5 and build applications on the Open Web Platform. He also offered a host of pithy comments on the Web's history and future.

Nasdaq-SharesPost deal provides liquidity at the price of transparency

The new Nasdaq-SharesPost private market will make it far easier for pre-IPO companies and their investors to turn shares into cash. But at what price?

Do we want the Instagram Polaroid camera? Yes we do

Who cares if they actually build it? This concept for a Polaroid camera looks exactly like the Instagram icon, and that makes us want it.

Twitter to shut down Android, iOS versions of TweetDeck

Twitter is discontinuing versions of its TweetDeck client for Android, iPhone/iPad, and Adobe Air.

Facebook’s amazing disappearing tax trick

Facebook's IPO managed to turn a rather hefty tax bill into a huge tax refund -- retroactively. How? By granting stock options to employees.

Keith Rabois’ next act, after Square: Khosla Ventures

Keith Rabois, a longtime entrepreneur and angel investor who recently resigned as the chief operating officer of Square, will be joining Khosla Ventures.

Work from home no more: How do you feel about Yahoo’s crackdown?

Yahoo sent a memo to employees yesterday, letting them know that they were expected to show up at the office every day. Silicon Valley was outraged.

How to create a BYOD policy for your company

Want to let your employees use their own phones and tablets? Here's how to make a bring-your-own-device policy that will really work.

Java-based cyberattack hits developers at Microsoft, Facebook, Apple

Microsoft is the latest company targeted by a sophisticated Java-based cyberattack that focuses on mobile app developers -- particularly those using Macs.

It’s so easy to start a company, everyone’s doing it now

Why are there so many Pinterest clones and subscription-commerce sites? It's all thanks to a decade of engineering that has made it cheaper to start a company than ever before.

Tesla isn’t taking criticism lying down, will publish reviewer’s driving log

Tesla CEO Elon Musk threatened to release the driving logs of a reviewer's car, after the reviewer claimed that the Model S has shorter than expected range.