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 | Alex Williams Amazon Web Services has added support for Impala, the Google inspired query tool developed by big data startup Cloudera. It provides real-time, parallel... read more | |  | Catherine Shu Update: AOL says implications that Patch is closing down are inaccurate. A New York Times article stated that AOL is reportedly planning to "dismantle Patch or... read more | |  | Josh Constine My friends aren't using Instagram Direct, at least not yet. I've received just two IGD messages since it launched Thursday. In the meantime, over 20 close... read more | |  | Anthony Ha You hear about graduate students who drop out to found startups, but I guess that would be too easy for Jeff Smith. He co-founded and serves as CEO at Smule,... read more | |  | Darrell Etherington Yahoo's new direction under Marissa Mayer is still coming together, but one thing they've unquestionably done right is the weather app for iPhone they debuted... read more | |  | Catherine Shu Tesla Motors has launched its Chinese site, Tousule.cn, as it prepares to sell its electric cars, the Model S and Model X, in China (h/t TechNode). The site is... read more | |  | Semil Shah 'Tis the season to reorganize the apps on my iPhone. With iOS 7 and the shift from spotlight search to swipe-down-to-search for apps, I've noticed my app... read more | |  | The weather outside is frightful, but CrunchWeek is so delightful. So since we've no place to go, why don't you... read more | |  | The Gillmor Gang — John Taschek, Keith Teare, Dan Farber, and Steve Gillmor — take the edge off of a slow week... read more | |  | In this week's episode of Ask A VC, DFJ Managing Director Josh Stein joined us in the studio to talk about his... read more | | | To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here. | | |
