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• Inside the 'funky' history of Groupon's biggest shareholder

  Remember The New Economy? You better

  A decade before he helped found Groupon – the online daily-deals site that turned so many heads last week when it filed for an IPO valuing itself at $30bn – Eric Lefkofsky ran a startup called Starbelly.com. In the lingo of the day, the Chicago-based Starbelly was billed as a "B2B" outfit, offering a marketplace where …

  Financial News 11 Jun 00:03

• The New C++: Lay down your guns, knives, and clubs

  Pick up your multI-cores

  "The world is built on C++," Herb Sutter tells The Reg. Considering he's one of the language's chief stewards, we question his impartiality. But he does have a point. After more than 30 years – depending on whose numbers you swallow (these or these) – C++ remains one of computing's most popular programming languages, favored …

  Developer 11 Jun 02:52

• Samsung UE40D6530 LED 3D TV

  Review Cut-price super-skinny telly with all the trimmings

  When it comes to features, Samsung’s UE40D6530 40in LED telly doesn’t skimp on anything much. Freeview HD, 3D, Video on Demand, Skype, integrated web browser, social media apps, media streaming, PVR recording to external hard drive – it’s all here. This isn’t so much a TV as an all in one entertainment centre. And priced at £ …

  reghardware 11 Jun 07:00

• A cloud hangs over the sysadmin

  Reasons to be fearful?

  The IT job sector has been under increasing pressure. A couple of decades ago it was easy to imagine IT as a job for life, but outsourcing, offshoring and the dot-bomb brought wave upon wave of uncertainty to IT professionals. The past couple of years have seen redundancies in all sectors including IT. It is not surprising, …

  Cloud Business 11 Jun 10:00

• Time to say goodbye to Risc / Itanium Unix?

  Mission Critical Depends upon your coffee cup collection

  Twenty years ago open systems was the battle cry that shook the absurdly profitable proprietary mainframe and minicomputer markets. The proliferation of powerful and less costly x64-based systems that can run Solaris, Linux or Windows is making more than a few Unix shops think the unthinkable: migrating away from Unix for their …

  Enterprise Tech 11 Jun 12:00