David Hamilton

David Hamilton

David Hamilton is a senior editor at ReadWrite. He has covered technology, science and business of one sort or another for an uncomfortably long time, the bulk of it at The Wall Street Journal in Tokyo and San Francisco.

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Friday, 19th April 2013

RW10: How An Influential Tech Site's Design Evolved Alongside The Web

RW10: How An Influential Tech Site's Design Evolved Alongside The Web

The ReadWrite you see before you was not always thus. Here's how it came to be, step by step.

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Wednesday, 10th April 2013

Watch Aaron Swartz's 'Last' Video Interview [Video]

Watch Aaron Swartz's 'Last' Video Interview [Video]

Turns out we hadn't heard the last from Aaron Swartz. Documentarians have released unedited footage from Swartz's "last video interview," filmed roughly six months prior to the Internet activist's suicide.

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Wednesday, 3rd April 2013

Social Media: Kicking It Old School [Cartoon]

Social Media: Kicking It Old School [Cartoon]

Step into the Wayback Machine for a moment. Just how did we catch up with old friends and look at cat pictures before the Internet?

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Thursday, 28th February 2013

Andrew Mason's Great Deal As Groupon CEO Has Expired

Andrew Mason's Great Deal As Groupon CEO Has Expired

The controversial CEO of the controversial deals company Groupon found that time had run out on his leadership deal, following lousy earnings that capped several years of weak performance and clashes with the SEC.

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Thursday, 21st February 2013

Red Hat's Big Data Push: All Hat, No Cattle

Red Hat's Big Data Push: All Hat, No Cattle

It's official: Everyone has to be a Big Data provider these days. So Red Hat is now touting its Big Data strategy, which – so far, at least – doesn't amount to much more than Watch This Space.

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Friday, 15th February 2013

Zuckraking! Randi Zuckerberg Is Writing A Book About Facebook - And More

Zuckraking! Randi Zuckerberg Is Writing A Book About Facebook - And More

Zuck's sister Randi, a notorious wallflower, now plans to grace the world with a "memoir/lifestyle book" about her time at Facebook called Dot Complicated. Oh, and there will be a children's picture book, too.

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