I’ve run websites with millions of monthly visitors, built mobile apps with hundreds of thousands of downloads, created online learning communities with over half a million registered users, and eaten a 24-oz peppercorn steak in one glorious sitting.

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Überinvestor Warren Buffet on Apple: ‘If you can buy dollar bills for 80 cents, it’s a good thing to do’

Investor Warren Buffet, recently the world's richest man, seems to think that Apple stock is going to do just fine.

Billion-dollar Danish: Microsoft owes Denmark $1 billion in unpaid taxes, treasury says

Microsoft owes the Danish treasury 5.8 billion kroner, or about $1 billion U.S., in unpaid taxes relating to its purchase of financial software vendor Navision in 2002, says the Denmark government.

Indeed.com reaches 100M monthly visitors, handles half of all U.S. job search traffic

Job-finding and recruiting sites are hotter than heat, but no-one's hotter than the relatively ancient old man on the block: 8-year-old Indeed.com.

Amazon down: Product pages coming up Error 400 (bad request)

Amazon.com and you're (not) done.

How Google searches 30 trillion web pages, 100 billion times a month

How do you run 100 billion web searches a month?

Kid spends $2,500 on iTunes in 15 minutes

Five-year-old Danny Kitchen of Bristol, England, spent $2,500 on iTunes in-app purchases in about 15 minutes, the Beeb reports. Score!

No more silly sideshow? David Einhorn drops Apple lawsuit (after winning)

From Einhorn's perspective, the lawsuit is no longer necessary: he got what he wanted.

PTTOW is the Dalai Lama + Coca Cola + Will.i.am + GE + Elon Musk

That vision has produced events where Activision and the State Department, QuikSilver and the Gates Foundation rub shoulders with music industry giants. And where beauty and fashion -- Diane von Furstenberg -- meet brains and technology: Google Glass.

Google wins! Publishers win! No one wins, in German news copyright decision

Google and news publishers in Germany are going to have more problems before this all gets figured out, and this recent legislation is a complete waste of time.

Rumored iPhone ‘Mini’ is actually big: 4.5 inches, polycarbonate, and $330

Will the iPhone mini actually be the iPhone maxi?

Apple’s massive margin problem: The Mini is going maxi, with 55M sales projected to only 33M iPads

Shipments of 9.7" table panels collapsed from 7.4 million in December 2012 to just 1.3 million in January 2013.

Google Glass is a giant chisel to pry me out of Apple’s ecosystem

In Glass, I think, we sense the birth struggles of the new human. Hacked. Connected. Augmented. Enhanced. And yeah, way geekier.

U.K. judge who forced Apple to apologize to Samsung hired … by Samsung

Interestingly, Sir Robin had publicly criticized Apple for what he thought was a lack of integrity.

OpenTable now competing with Facebook Graph with new Facebook app ‘Places I’ve Eaten’

OpenTable has released a Facebook application to help friends connect around food. My question: won't Facebook Graph support this kind of thing natively?

UpTo wants to be the social glue of tomorrow, adds $1.5M, and opens its event stream platform

500,000 shared events and 2000 organizational event streams later, UpTo is pivoting to become the social glue of what's next on an even bigger scale.

If Craigslist was Pinterest, it would look like this app

Craigslist is possibly one of the ugliest sites on the web. But you can experience it as if it was Pinterest, as long as you use Mokriya Craigslist on your smartphone.

Facebook’s new ‘custom audiences’ tools for advertisers package its product better (that’s you)

Facebook is moving beyond the simple "X liked Coke" to the meaning of that like -- and using more nuanced clues based on what Facebookers have posted and shared on the site to built that characterization.

Groupon Q4 2012 earnings release: Daily deals still can’t make money, shares dive 28%

Groupon reported its fourth quarter 2012 earnings today almost exactly where analysts had expected: with $638 million in revenue, up 30 percent over last year.

The problem was that analysts wanted a profit.

China’s $265 billion e-commerce world (infographic)

Alibaba predicts that 2013 will be the year that Chinese e-commerce surpasses U.S e-commerce, with $265 billion in sales compared to a projected $230 billion for America, and that total Chinese online sales will reach $445 billion in 2015.