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1.

The NSA story reinforces why an entity like WikiLeaks is important (gigaom.com)

683 points by cdooh 2013-06-06 | 65 comments

2.

Famous judge spikes Apple-Google case, calls patent system “dysfunctional” (gigaom.com)

601 points by bokchoi 2012-06-08 | 121 comments

3.

European Parliament passes net neutrality law (gigaom.com)

541 points by xmpir 2014-04-03 | 143 comments

4.

Facebook open sources its servers and data centers (gigaom.com)

530 points by arithmetic 2011-04-07 | 98 comments

5.

Google wins book-scanning case: judge finds “fair use,” cites many benefits (gigaom.com)

500 points by japaget 2013-11-14 | 147 comments

6.

Apple’s “warrant canary” disappears (gigaom.com)

406 points by panarky 2014-09-18 | 93 comments

7.

Sorry Google; you can Keep it to yourself (gigaom.com)

399 points by iProject 2013-03-21 | 228 comments

8.

The new Galaxy Note 3 is region-locked (gigaom.com)

361 points by pjmlp 2013-09-26 | 225 comments

9.

In surprise FCC filing, Sprint endorses net neutrality (gigaom.com)

331 points by larubbio 2015-01-16 | 65 comments

10.

Nokia: Yes, we decrypt your HTTPS data, but don’t worry about it (gigaom.com)

321 points by rmk2 2013-01-10 | 152 comments

11.

Clever piece of code exposes hidden changes to Supreme Court opinions (gigaom.com)

321 points by adelevie 2014-06-12 | 94 comments

12.

Craigslist Suing Padmapper (gigaom.com)

317 points by staunch 2012-07-24 | 449 comments

13.

The dark side of .io (gigaom.com)

298 points by zactral 2014-11-10 | 79 comments

14.

Thanks to Quora, now you can’t read anonymously (gigaom.com)

290 points by ColinWright 2012-08-03 | 178 comments

15.

NSA hacked into encrypted UN communications, leaked documents show (gigaom.com)

282 points by electic 2013-08-25 | 108 comments

16.

New PRISM slides say the program allows NSA to eavesdrop on live conversations (gigaom.com)

282 points by llamataboot 2013-06-30 | 53 comments

17.

SOPA Hearings Delayed, 140,000 Americans watched the hearings (gigaom.com)

269 points by kposehn 2011-12-16 | 57 comments

18.

Tim O’Reilly: Why I’m fighting SOPA (gigaom.com)

253 points by ukdm 2012-01-13 | 27 comments

19.

Why Spotify can never be profitable: The secret demands of record labels (gigaom.com)

253 points by Tomek_ 2011-12-12 | 124 comments

20.

Mistakes You Can’t Afford to Make with Stock Options (gigaom.com)

248 points by DanielRibeiro 2011-06-06 | 61 comments

21.

Stanford researchers to open source model they say has nailed sentiment analysis (gigaom.com)

241 points by suprgeek 2013-10-03 | 66 comments

22.

How France’s Free will reinvent mobile (gigaom.com)

238 points by jaybol 2012-01-10 | 73 comments

23.

AT&T Charging Customers to Not Spy on Them (gigaom.com)

229 points by jeremynixon 2015-03-21 | 67 comments

24.

Mozilla will add H.264 to Firefox as Cisco makes push for WebRTC’s future (gigaom.com)

218 points by gz5 2013-10-30 | 62 comments

25.

AT&T’s GigaPower plans turn privacy into a luxury that few would choose (gigaom.com)

213 points by TwoFactor 2014-05-14 | 133 comments

26.

EMC Buys Pivotal Labs (gigaom.com)

200 points by michaelfairley 2012-03-16 | 66 comments

27.

Thousands of scientific papers uploaded to The Pirate Bay (gigaom.com)

200 points by nextparadigms 2011-07-21 | 46 comments

28.

Facebook Home destroys any notion of privacy (gigaom.com)

198 points by shawndumas 2013-04-04 | 155 comments

29.

Meet Coin (YC W13), a startup creating a universal credit card (gigaom.com)

190 points by sohailprasad 2013-11-14 | 175 comments

30.

AOL Close to Buying TechCrunch (gigaom.com)

188 points by afrombie 2010-09-27 | 78 comments

31.

Patent troll stalks travel site Hipmunk (gigaom.com)

188 points by chewymouse 2012-07-05 | 82 comments

32.

Ogg founder moves to Mozilla to work on new video codec (gigaom.com)

183 points by bsimpson 2013-10-22 | 39 comments

33.

RISC creator is pushing open source chips (gigaom.com)

175 points by Tsiolkovsky 2014-08-20 | 93 comments

34.

Meet the algorithm that can learn “everything about anything” (gigaom.com)

175 points by ossama 2014-05-25 | 76 comments

35.

US Supreme Court reverses patent judges again in 9-0 decision on lawyer fees (gigaom.com)

170 points by acgourley 2014-04-30 | 45 comments

36.

Ericsson open-sources OpenWebRTC, rival to Google’s WebRTC implementation (gigaom.com)

167 points by openmaze 2014-10-02 | 50 comments

37.

Economics of Google Fiber and what it means for U.S. broadband (gigaom.com)

163 points by iProject 2012-07-27 | 64 comments

38.

Apple declines to join Microsoft in funding patent troll Intellectual Ventures (gigaom.com)

163 points by dashausbass 2014-04-11 | 84 comments

39.

Neil Young is right — piracy is the new radio (gigaom.com)

160 points by DealisIN 2012-01-31 | 66 comments

40.

Google launches Contributor, a crowdfunding tool for publishers (gigaom.com)

160 points by plantain 2014-11-20 | 52 comments

41.

Simulating 1 second of real brain activity takes 40 minutes and 83K processors (gigaom.com)

157 points by gmatty 2013-08-04 | 118 comments

42.

Meteor (YC S11) gets $9M in funding (gigaom.com)

156 points by dko 2012-05-31 | 64 comments

43.

Malaria is no excuse for patent trolling, Mr. Myhrvold (gigaom.com)

154 points by wglb 2012-08-11 | 32 comments

44.

Github finally raises funding: $100M from Andreessen Horowitz (gigaom.com)

152 points by mrkmcknz 2012-07-09 | 11 comments

45.

AT&T will start selling customers’ usage data (gigaom.com)

150 points by coloneltcb 2013-07-03 | 58 comments

46.

Since 2010, trolls have made 3 times as much money in court as real companies (gigaom.com)

149 points by prostoalex 2014-10-12 | 39 comments

47.

Android Sales Overtake iPhone in the U.S. (gigaom.com)

148 points by yanw 2010-08-02 | 130 comments

48.

Twitter open sources its MySQL secret sauce (gigaom.com)

147 points by noinput 2012-04-09 | 19 comments

49.

Mono's Making Money (gigaom.com)

146 points by cek 2011-12-13 | 47 comments

50.

The search for the lost Cray supercomputer OS (gigaom.com)

144 points by bane 2014-01-16 | 42 comments

51.

Ex-Facebookers launch MemSQL (YC W11) to make your database fly (gigaom.com)

144 points by ericfrenkiel 2012-06-18 | 104 comments

52.

Justice Dept. defends secret rulings in new spy court filing (gigaom.com)

139 points by ferdo 2013-07-08 | 94 comments

53.

HTC sues Apple over everything (gigaom.com)

138 points by taylorbuley 2011-08-17 | 70 comments

54.

Will Go be the new go-to programming language? (gigaom.com)

137 points by mtgx 2012-09-13 | 183 comments

55.

How Google Compute Engine stacks up to Amazon EC2 (gigaom.com)

134 points by namityadav 2013-03-15 | 38 comments

56.

India’s missed call culture (gigaom.com)

131 points by sytelus 2011-12-17 | 89 comments

57.

Court allows Samsung Galaxy Tab to again sell in Europe (gigaom.com)

131 points by tilt 2011-08-16 | 57 comments

58.

With $42M more, 10gen wants to take MongoDB mainstream (gigaom.com)

130 points by znq 2012-05-29 | 58 comments

59.

Google to launch Amazon, Microsoft cloud competitor at Google I/O 2012 (gigaom.com)

130 points by iProject 2012-06-22 | 128 comments

60.

Mesosphere Announces First Data Center OS and $36M in Funding (gigaom.com)

129 points by preillyme 2014-12-08 | 48 comments

61.

How Egypt Switched Off The Internet (gigaom.com)

128 points by doron 2011-01-28 | 66 comments

62.

Guardian kills its Facebook social reader, regains control over its content (gigaom.com)

126 points by mtgx 2012-12-14 | 36 comments

63.

Google sues to protect Android device makers from Apple-backed patent hell (gigaom.com)

125 points by kirtijthorat 2013-12-25 | 120 comments

64.

In AT&T & T-Mobile Merger, Everybody Loses (gigaom.com)

124 points by alecperkins 2011-03-20 | 30 comments

65.

Skype mess: How far will this go? (gigaom.com)

123 points by zoowar 2011-06-25 | 51 comments

66.

Why the days are numbered for Hadoop as we know it (gigaom.com)

122 points by iProject 2012-07-07 | 25 comments

67.

Twilio Launches Roll-Your-Own Google Voice (gigaom.com)

121 points by malbiniak 2010-06-15 | 39 comments

68.

50 years ago today the word “hypertext” was introduced (gigaom.com)

119 points by epsylon 2015-08-25 | 15 comments

69.

Wikipedia is now drawing facts from the Wikidata repository (gigaom.com)

118 points by eksith 2013-04-29 | 79 comments

70.

Heroku makes sharing SQL data as easy as URL (gigaom.com)

117 points by bbr 2012-02-14 | 9 comments

71.

Convore (YCW11) is reborn as Grove.io, a chat service for businesses (gigaom.com)

116 points by leahculver 2012-01-11 | 56 comments

72.

Lunch, disrupted: ZeroCater helps startups get fed (gigaom.com)

115 points by arram 2012-03-20 | 47 comments

73.

Pavel Durov quits as VKontakte CEO (gigaom.com)

111 points by tolitius 2014-04-01 | 124 comments

74.

How India's favorite TV show uses data to change the world (gigaom.com)

110 points by suprgeek 2012-08-11 | 14 comments

75.

4chan Founder “moot” to Speak at TED (gigaom.com)

110 points by Janteh 2009-12-23 | 48 comments

76.

DotCloud (YC S10) gets $10M to redefine cloud openness (gigaom.com)

108 points by shad42 2011-03-22 | 27 comments

77.

What Nikola Tesla vs. VCs video says about the state of Silicon Valley (gigaom.com)

108 points by mkuhn 2013-05-20 | 29 comments

78.

Swedes say no to Google Apps for government use (gigaom.com)

108 points by rahoulb 2013-06-14 | 24 comments

79.

A failed experiment: How LG screwed up its webOS acquisition (gigaom.com)

108 points by cpeterso 2014-09-03 | 75 comments

80.

Why the world of scientific research needs to be disrupted (gigaom.com)

107 points by llambda 2011-11-08 | 79 comments

81.

Everything I need to know about startups, I learned from a crime boss (gigaom.com)

107 points by FluidDjango 2012-01-07 | 26 comments

82.

Dropbox (YC S07) Raises $7.25M, Crosses 3M Users (gigaom.com)

106 points by hshah 2009-11-25 | 36 comments

83.

Amazon's Jeff Bezos Backs Nuclear Startup General Fusion (gigaom.com)

103 points by hornokplease 2011-05-05 | 47 comments

84.

Don’t look now, but AWS might be a billion-dollar biz (gigaom.com)

103 points by bond 2011-10-26 | 48 comments

85.

There’s something rotten in the state of online video streaming (gigaom.com)

101 points by kfitchard 2014-02-06 | 61 comments

86.

How to Sniff Out Online Fakers (gigaom.com)

101 points by brandonb 2012-10-04 | 47 comments

87.

Why Samsung is about to become the smartphone king (gigaom.com)

99 points by vetler 2011-06-15 | 83 comments

88.

There is now an API to build low-volume hardware products (gigaom.com)

99 points by seddona 2014-02-20 | 53 comments

89.

T-Mobile CEO confirms the iPhone and the death of phone subsidies (gigaom.com)

98 points by rkudeshi 2012-12-06 | 75 comments

90.

White House poised to name patent reform opponent as new head of Patent Office (gigaom.com)

96 points by rosser 2014-06-29 | 28 comments

91.

Physicist proposes a new type of computing at SXSW (gigaom.com)

95 points by chunky1994 2014-03-11 | 17 comments

92.

Quantum Computing, Capabilities and Limits: An Interview with Scott Aaronson (gigaom.com)

95 points by alberto_ol 2019-02-13 | 26 comments

93.

Inside Facebook’s Oregon data center (gigaom.com)

94 points by philip1209 2012-08-18 | 22 comments

94.

If WikiLeaks is dying, then the NYT is partly to blame (gigaom.com)

94 points by nextparadigms 2011-11-07 | 34 comments

95.

NYTimes.com down for some users; paper suspects “external attack” (gigaom.com)

94 points by Aaronn 2013-08-27 | 30 comments

96.

The Future of Cheap Androids Begins Now (gigaom.com)

91 points by pietrofmaggi 2011-02-02 | 71 comments

97.

Drone-based businesses soar in Canada, as FAA grounds US entrepreneurs (gigaom.com)

91 points by zabalmendi 2014-09-12 | 44 comments

98.

How Y Combinator Is Remaking Silicon Valley in Its Image (gigaom.com)

91 points by bjplink 2010-07-30 | 28 comments

99.

WhatsApp bucks convention, quietly builds a messaging titan (gigaom.com)

90 points by jasonmcalacanis 2011-11-13 | 38 comments

100.

Meet Silk, The Semantic Web For The Rest Of Us (gigaom.com)

89 points by salar 2012-05-10 | 22 comments

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