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| Ashlee Vance / Businessweek: |
Dropbox Seeks Another $250 million and $8 billion valuation — Dropbox has always had a flair for the dramatic. Its CEO and co-founder Drew Houston, for example, appeared on a YouTube clip in 2012, belting out “Rocket Man” with a pint in hand at a Swiss bar—just one of several bravura performances.
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Dropbox's revenue in 2012 was $116M and $46M in 2011 — Dropbox Seeks Funding Round at $8 Billion Valuation … Online-storage service Dropbox Inc. is raising a funding round that could value it at more than $8 billion, according to people familiar with the situation, though new figures reveal its revenue growth is decelerating.
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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Bitcoin surges to all-time high of $900, then drops below $650 in 30 minutes — The value of Bitcoin has skyrocketed in the past five days. Graph via Bitcoincharts.com. — It's Bitcoin-madness today. — On the same day the U.S. government began discussions about Bitcoin, the value of the digital currency is skyrocketing.
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| Marissa Mayer / Yahoo: |
Yahoo will encrypt all information moving between its data centers by the end of Q1 2014 — Our Commitment to Protecting Your Information — We've worked hard over the years to earn our users' trust and we fight hard to preserve it. — As you know, there have been a number of reports …
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| Barb Darrow / Gigaom: |
Salesforce.com buys cloudconnect just in time for Dreamforce — Salesforce.com has purchased cloudconnect, a startup founded by Heroku and Salesforce.com alum Adam Gross who is now, I guess, back in the fold. — The news was posted — with scant details — on cloudconnect's web page which read:
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| Andy Greenberg / Forbes: |
Meet The ‘Assassination Market’ Creator Who's Crowdfunding Murder With Bitcoins — As Bitcoin becomes an increasingly popular form of digital cash, the cryptocurrency is being accepted in exchange for everything from socks to sushi to heroin. If one anarchist has his way, it'll soon be used to buy murder, too.
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| Katie Fehrenbacher / Gigaom: |
Special report: Apple's ground-breaking bet on its clean energy infrastructure, with exclusive photos — Last week a utility in North Carolina announced something seemingly mundane on the surface, but it was a transcendent moment for those that have been following the clean energy sector.
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| Spencer Ackerman / Guardian: |
Court order that allowed NSA surveillance is revealed for first time — Fisa court judge who authorised massive tapping of metadata was hesitant but felt she could not stand in the way — A secret court order that authorised a massive trawl by the National Security Agency of Americans' email …
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| Derek Khanna / Slate: |
Obama's Secret Attempt to Ban Cellphone Unlocking, While Claiming to Support It — Last week, WikiLeaks made public a portion of a treaty that the White House has been secretly negotiating with other nations and 600 special interest lobbyists. The draft of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Treaty …
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Google is working on a new Android camera API, supports Camera RAW — Could a new API with many new features shore up one a big Android weak spot? — The Nexus 5 camera was a huge disappointment, especially after comments from high-ranking Googler Vic Gundotra stating that …
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| Miyoung Kim / Reuters: |
Samsung Elec says Gear smartwatch sales hit 800,000 in two months — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co said on Tuesday its Galaxy Gear has become the world's most popular smartwatch with sales reaching 800,000 since its debut two months ago, defying some market concerns the accessory would fail due to a lack of compelling features.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Microsoft's Office Remote lets you control Word, Excel, and PowerPoint with a Windows Phone — Microsoft has just unveiled Office Remote, a new app that lets users control Word, Excel, and PowerPoint presentations with any Windows Phone 8 device. It's basically SmartGlass …
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| Donna Tam / CNET: |
Uber adds PayPal payment option to drive user adoption — Uber users can now pay for on-demand car service with PayPal, kicking off a partnership that lends PayPal some mobile cred while potentially driving new users to Uber's services. — Uber is releasing new versions of its Android … | Grant Gross / Computerworld: |
Google to pay $17M to states in Apple cookies case — State attorneys general accused the company of circumventing cookie-blocking defaults in the Safari browser — Google has reached a $17 million settlement with 37 U.S. states and the District of Columbia over its unauthorized placement …
| Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
Second anti-patent-troll bill shows up, and splits emerge on the first — Two weeks after an anti-patent-troll bill was introduced in the House, a different bill (PDF) on the same topic has been introduced in the Senate. — The new bill (overview, PDF) has one new thing that reformers wanted …
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| Ted Johnson / Variety: |
NFL, Major League Baseball Warn That Aereo Could Trigger End of Free TV Game Broadcasts — The National Football League and Major League Baseball are urging the Supreme Court to grant broadcasters' petition to hear their challenge to the legality of Aereo, the startup that features unauthorized streams of local broadcast signals.| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Major League Gaming Launches Its Own Premium E-Sports Network, MLG.TV — E-sports programmer Major League Gaming has spent the last decade building an audience of video game enthusiasts, through events in which gamers go head-to-head with each other. Now it's looking to bring those viewers …
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