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Twitter announces IPO pricing of $26 per share with a valuation of $18.3 billion — Twitter announced on Wednesday that it will price its IPO at $26 per share when it begins trading on Thursday. The company plans to sell 70 million shares out of a total of 545 million outstanding shares.
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Square Exploring 2014 IPO With Banks — Technology entrepreneur Jack Dorsey is trying to pull off two high-profile initial public offerings in the span of one year. — Square Inc., the payments startup with a square credit-card reader that plugs into Apple and Android-based mobile devices …
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Minting Cash: how Square designed a product with no design at all — Is the best interface no interface? — Robert Andersen was feeling flustered. Square founder Jack Dorsey had asked him to design a product that was so simple, it wouldn't even have an interface. “Square Cash” would let people send money over email.| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Google Says Its Mystery Barges May Be Used As Interactive Space Where People Can Learn About Its Technology — Google has issued a statement (finally?) about its months'-long mystery barge project. The barges, which are anchored in both Portland, Maine and San Francisco …
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Blockbuster to End Domestic Retail, DVD By Mail Services — ENGLEWOOD, Colo.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—DISH Network Corporation (NASDAQ: DISH) today announced that its subsidiary, Blockbuster L.L.C., will end its retail and by mail DVD distribution operations by early-January 2014.
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Samsung admits its software needs improving, commits half of R&D workforce — Samsung is just like the Red Sox — Samsung today admitted it needs to work on software, an area it's “not as good” at as hardware. Samsung Vice Chairman & CEO Kwon Oh-hyun compares the company's software efforts …
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Facebook redesigns the Like button for the first time — When you're redesigning the Like button, which appears on over 7.5 million websites, the details count. Every pixel you change, color you swap, and drop-shadow you alter will get seen 22 billion times per day, Facebook says.
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Full Text of BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins Goodbye Letter — Earlier this week, BlackBerry called off a plan to go private but did make a big change in the executive suite: Chief Executive Thorsten Heins is out, to be replaced by Silicon Valley veteran John S. Chen.| Andy Greenberg / Forbes: |
‘Silk Road 2.0’ Launches, Promising A Resurrected Black Market For The Dark Web — The Silk Road is dead. But the dark web dream lives on. — On Wednesday morning, Silk Road 2. came online, promising a new and slightly improved version of the anonymous black market for drugs …
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The Nexus 5 isn't pure Android, it's pure Google — In this, the fifth year of Android's existence, we also have seen the release of the fifth Nexus phone — appropriately enough called the Nexus 5. Meanwhile, it's been two years since we saw the release of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich …
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HealthCare.gov's head tech guy is out — A Medicare official who oversaw HealthCare.gov's botched launch will leave the federal government for the private sector, according to an e-mail sent late Tuesday to Medicare employees. — Tony Trenkle is the chief information officer at the Center … | Derrick Harris / Gigaom: |
Facebook open sources its SQL-on-Hadoop engine, and the web rejoices — Facebook has open sourced Presto, the interactive SQL-on-Hadoop engine the company first discussed in June. Presto is Facebook's take on Cloudera's Impala or Google's Dremel, and it already has some big-name fans in Dropbox and Airbnb.
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New Google Maps For Desktop Brings Back Pegman, Adds Waze Data And 3D Earth Tours — http://www.youtube.com/watch? feature=player_embedded&v= N6DrfYHVcXs — Google today launched an update to its new Google Maps for desktop that brings traffic data from Waze to the desktop for the first time …
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YouTube Starts Rolling Out Its New Commenting System Based On Google+ — In September, YouTube announced that it would soon roll out a new commenting system powered by Google+. After testing it on channel discussion tabs for a few weeks, it's now starting to roll it out to all videos on the site.
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YouTube Blog, The Verge, CNET, Google Operating System, The Next Web, Computerworld, WebProNews, 9to5Google, Android Central, Music Ally, Engadget, Phandroid and Marketing Pilgrim. Tweets: @dujkan. Thanks:@fredericl
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Microsoft and Facebook sponsor Internet Bug Bounty program, offer cash for hacking the Internet stack — Microsoft and Facebook today jointly launched a new initiative called the Internet Bug Bounty program. In short, the two companies are looking to secure the Internet stack by rewarding anyone … | James Kanter / NYT Bits: |
Details Emerge of Potential Google Monitor in Europe — Wanted: A Google watchdog in Europe. — A 96-page description of the potential job emerged on Wednesday, giving a window into what Google faces if it signs the latest settlement offer from the European Commission and ends the long-running antitrust case against the company.
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Skype tweaks Desktop API plans: Chat still going away, call recording and device compatibility to stay for now — Skype today announced a change to its plans regarding the retirement of the Desktop API used by third-party developers to extend Skype functionality.
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Intel creates new business division for connected gadgets — (Reuters) - Intel Corp has set up a business division aimed at making money out of a new technology wave that can link up a host of electronic devices. — The Santa Clara, California chipmaker and other technology companies … | Alyson Shontell / Business Insider: |
Now All Of Snapchat's Investors Are Being Sued By The Man Who Says He Was The Third, Ousted Founder — Snapchat is a fast-growing photo sharing app — it handles about 350 million photo messages per day — and is reportedly worth $3 - 4 billion. But the company's two founders are being sued …
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