Top Stories of the Day // November 9, 2014

TODAY'S TOP STORIES // Nov 9, 2014

PETER YARED The Rise And Fall Of The Full Stack Developer It seems as though everyone in tech today is infatuated with the full-stack developer. Full stack may have been possible in the Web 2.0 era, but a new... read more

RYAN LAWLER Uber’s Next Billion-Dollar Financing Could Be A Convertible Debt Round Uber could add more money to its already substantial war chest, as the company is seeking to raise an addition $1 billion in funding. Instead of offering equity... read more

NOVA SPIVACK It’s Time For An Open Standard For Cards Cards are fast becoming the hot new design paradigm for mobile apps, but their importance goes far beyond mobile. Cards are modular, bite-sized content... read more

GREG KUMPARAK Xbox One November Update Brings Custom Backgrounds And Twitter Integration Another month, another pack of shiny new features heading for the Xbox One. It's not the most exciting update the One has received to date, and it sounds... read more

MATT OGUZ Little’s Law Is Big For Startups Traffic, traction, growth. We all know that these terms are prerequisites to success. As we launch our startups we hope for initial customer acceptance, which... read more

REID HOFFMAN Managing Talent In A Networked Age, Part I Success in Silicon Valley is all about people — about how companies build lasting alliances with talented teams of entrepreneurial employees. Outsiders... read more

CORY DOCTOROW Cory Doctorow: Information Doesn’t Want To Be Free The technical implausibility and unintended consequences of digital locks are big problems for digital-lock makers. But we’re more interested in what digital... read more

TOP VIDEOS

TC Cribs: Indiegogo’s Colorful And Crowd-Pleasing Abode  Today’s episode of Cribs brings us to the Mid-Market neighborhood of San Francisco, which is where... read more

Built In Brooklyn: Maker’s Row Bets On US Manufacturing  For the first episode of our new show Built In Brooklyn, we took the “built” part of the title... read more

Gillmor Gang: Eating the World  The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded... read more

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