Author: Vinod Rawat

Facebook backer Jim Breyer sells $7.2M in stock

Facebook backer Jim Breyer Jim Breyer, the venture capitalist whose firm Accel Partners made an early bet on Facebook, last week sold shares of Facebook worth more than $81.1 million, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. More specifically, Breyer, who sits on Facebook’s board, sold 3,563,387 shares at prices ranging from $22.48 to $23.29 per share

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As Sandy bears down, fewer jokey storm tweets, more worry

As someone writing on the West Coast, it’s easy to feel at once a bit detached about Hurricane Sandy and deeply concerned for friends and family — and everyone else — stuck in the path of that once-in-a-generation natural disaster bearing down on the East Coast. But for those hunkering down in places like New York City, Sandy represents real personal consequences — and it would be natural to assume that those who’ve spent days nervously waiting to see if the hurricane is for real aren’t laughing about it now that they’re in the thick of it

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Windows RT missing your favorite apps? Try these

For all its speedy touch screen goodness, one of the biggest drawbacks of Windows 8 RT is that it doesn’t let you install third-party programs through its desktop screen. Unlike the standard version of Windows 8, RT restricts you to first-party programs (made by Microsoft) through its desktop, but gives you free rein to install whatever you want through the Windows Store

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