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 | Nir Eyal On February 8, 2014, an app called Flappy Bird held the coveted No. 1 spot in the Apple App Store. The app's 29-year-old creator, Dong Nguyen, reported... read more | |  | Greg Kumparak Surprise! It's Valentine's Day, the stealthiest of all the holidays. If you're trying to get a gift today, you… might be a bit short on options. Will you... read more | |  | Alex Wilhelm In a Reddit AMA session today, HTC employees confirmed that the company's 8X Windows Phone handset will receive future firmware updates. This indicates that the... read more | | | |  | Gregory Ferenstein | |  | Alex Wilhelm | |  | Jon Evans The Great Bifurcation is underway. The American economy is polarizing between the minority rich and the majority poor; technology is a major cause of this; and... read more | |  | Alexia Tsotsis Solo investor Ronny Conway has closed the early-stage fund he had left Andreessen Horowitz last year to raise. Back in September, Dan Primack had reported that... read more | | |
 | In this week’s episode of Ask A VC, we hosted Comcast Ventures’ Dave Zilberman to talk about mobile... read more | |  | 2013 was a very good year for Twitter, so it's only fitting that Twitter's CEO Dick Costolo took home the award... read more | |  | It's just about Valentine's Day, which means love is in the air, even here among the workaholics in the tech industry.... read more | | | To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here. | | |
