Venturebeat (Thursday)

Are there too many angel investors funding too many startups? That was the topic of some debate today at AngelConf, which was held at the Mountain View, Calif. campus of incubator Y Combinator.

The opening speaker was well-known and prolific angel Ron Conway (pictured), who argued that if ...

Venturebeat (Thursday)

Are there too many angel investors funding too many startups? That was the topic of some debate today at AngelConf, which was held at the Mountain View, Calif. campus of incubator Y Combinator.

The opening speaker was well-known and prolific angel Ron Conway (pictured), who argued that if ...

Venturebeat (Thursday)

Are there too many angel investors funding too many startups? That was the topic of some debate today at AngelConf, which was held at the Mountain View, Calif. campus of incubator Y Combinator.

The opening speaker was well-known and prolific angel Ron Conway (pictured), who argued that if ...

GigaOm (Thursday)
This week Twitter rolled out User Streams to its users for the first time, a significant architectural change that should make Twitter much faster and more reliable. I talked to members of Twitter's product and platform team about User Streams at length for GigaOM Pro.

Silicon Alley Insider (Thursday)

It looks more and more as if the United States will pull the plug on its ill-advised ban of online gambling later this year. This morning, the House Financial Services Committee voted 41-22 in favor of a measure that would regulate, but legalize online poker and some other forms of gamblin...

News.com (Thursday)
The names and Facebook profile Web addresses for 171 million accounts are scraped from the site and posted on file-sharing site Pirate Bay.