Exclusive: Groupon Acquires Stealth Silicon Valley Startup Campfire Labs

Groupon has continued its (talent) acquisition spree with the recent purchase of a hot Silicon Valley startup before they even launched - and with extremely little fanfare. We've learned that Campfire Labs, which was founded by ex-Googler Sakina Arsiwala (previously Head of International at YouTube) and her husband, social search technology expert Naveen Koorakula (previously at search companies like Inktomi, Yahoo and Picch), was quietly bought by Groupon.

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Carrier coverage, price plan and operating system are key to buying smartphones

The right way to shop for a smartphone is to pick a carrier with coverage and a price plan that fits your needs first. But if you're going to choose a smartphone first, you should start by picking its operating system.

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Visualized: IBM's 1956 HDD packs 5MB of storage, requires forklift for installation

Check out IBM's 305 RAMAC (Random Access Method of Accounting and Control) hard disk and those gripes about dragging around that USB thumb drive soon evaporate. This 1956 HDD was composed of 50 24-inch discs, stacked together and taking up 16 sq ft of real estate. The once-cutting-edge monstrosity was capable of commanding an annual fee of $35,000 and stored up to 5MB of data. Sure, by modern standards it's a pretty modest capacity, but the RAMAC still weighed in at just shy of a ton. Our technological forefathers could have done with that exoskeleton prototype.

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Google Currents: Another Half-Baked Google Launch

Google debuted digital reader Google Currents Thursday. My verdict: It's no Flipboard.

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Windows Phone Marketplace Hits 50,000 Published Apps

With Microsoft and Nokia making a pronounced push to expand Windows Phone's reach, they need the support of their app developers to give the platform some staying power. Fortunately, it looks like Windows Phone is picking up steam up on the app front -- All About Windows Phone reports that 50,000 apps have been published in the Windows Phone Marketplace ahead of their initial predictions.

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Laptops of 2012: What to Expect

All the pieces are in place for a surge in laptop sales next year--from new Intel chips to the planned launch of the Windows 8 operating system to sleeker designs.

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Two Standout Christmas Hacks (GeekDad Weekly Rewind)

There have been a whole range of geekified holiday season images and ideas running through my Twitter stream and other various feeds, but I wanted to highlight these two as my standouts for 2011. First, over at Archie McPhee’s Endless Geyser of Awesome�the geek tradition of adding a bit of H.P. Lovecraft to the Christmas [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/12/two-standout-christmas-hacks-rewind/

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