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Facebook to acquire WhatsApp for $4B cash, $12B in Facebook shares, and $3B in restricted stock units — Facebook to Acquire WhatsApp — Facebook today announced that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire WhatsApp, a rapidly growing cross-platform mobile messaging company …
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| Jan Koum / WhatsApp Blog: |
WhatsApp says it will remain autonomous and nothing will change for users — Facebook — Almost five years ago we started WhatsApp with a simple mission: building a cool product used globally by everybody. Nothing else mattered to us. — Today we are announcing a partnership …
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| Jim Goetz / Sequoia Capital: |
WhatsApp in numbers: 450M active users, 32 engineers, $0 in marketing, and only $1/year to use — Four Numbers That Explain Why Facebook Acquired WhatsApp — WhatsApp Co-Founders Jan Koum and Brian Acton — Earlier today, Facebook announced its acquisition of WhatsApp for $16 billion.
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| Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook: |
WhatsApp and Messenger serve different uses, Facebook will continue investing in both — I'm excited to announce that we've agreed to acquire WhatsApp and that their entire team will be joining us at Facebook. — Our mission is to make the world more open and connected.
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| Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom: |
Wheeler unveils new proposed rules for network neutrality, will try to stop “improper blocking” — The FCC announced its response to an explosive court decision that ended “net neutrality” last month: it will not appeal the decision, but scramble to impose new rules.| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
| Bloomberg: |
Google Capital Lands $300 Million and Leaps Into Web Education — Google Inc. (GOOG)'s new investment arm has $300 million in fresh capital to put to work this year and is starting the dealmaking with its first foray into Web education. — Google Capital, established by the search company …
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ZDNet, Gigaom, BetaNews, TechCrunch, 9to5Google and Xconomy
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Google Fiber chooses nine metro areas for possible expansion — Google Fiber is ready to expand, as Google has identified nine metro areas scattered around the country as possible sites of deployment, the company said. — “We've invited 34 cities in nine metro areas across the US to work …
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| Josh Lowensohn / The Verge: |
Google I/O is back June 25-26 and you'll need to win a lottery to attend — Google just announced dates for its annual I/O developers conference, an event that has typically brought new products and updates to other services. This year's conference will be held from June 25-26 … | Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Samsung goes back to trashing Apple with latest commercials — After some innovative advertising campaigns, Samsung's latest commercials once again find the company setting its sights on Apple. In a new ad for the Galaxy Note 3, Samsung uses NBA star LeBron James to highlight …
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9to5Google, BGR, AppleInsider, Softpedia News, Breaking Apple News …, MacRumors, iMore and TechnoBuffalo
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn Opens Its Publishing Platform To All Members — To date, LinkedIn has allowed a small, editorially selected group of “Influencers” like Richard Branson, Bill Gates and Barack Obama to publish their thoughts and advice to its network as long-form blog posts.
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LinkedIn Official Blog, Marketing Pilgrim, USA Today, Nieman Journalism Lab, Marketing Land, CNET and The Next Web. Tweets: @jeffweiner. See also Mediagazer
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Starts Making The New Google Maps The Default For Everybody — After just under a year in preview, Google today announced that it is now rolling out the new Google Maps to all of its users as the default option. — Since Google announced the new version of Maps at its I/O developer conference …
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Google LatLong, The Verge, Gigaom, PC Magazine, ZDNet, Search Engine Land, The Next Web, Engadget, 9to5Google, VentureBeat and Slate
| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Loop Wallet review: mobile payments are finally everywhere you want to be — Loop tricks any cash register into thinking your phone is your credit card — NFC was supposed to be the future. — My next phone was going to include the technology, which would let me pay at any cash register …
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Re/code, Gigaom, Engadget, BGR, TechCrunch, Gigaom, Engadget, AppleInsider, TechnoBuffalo and MacRumors
| Nick Summers / Businessweek: |
New Tinder Security Flaw Exposed Users' Exact Locations for Months — Internet security researchers in New York say that a flaw in Tinder, the super-popular hookup app, made it possible to find users' precise location for between 40 and 165 days, without any public notice from the company.
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Include Security Blog, The Switch, NEWS.com.au, ZDNet, The Verge, CNET, Gigaom, Gothamist, Business Insider and PR Newswire. Tweets: @m_delamerced
| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
BlackBerry's CEO is ‘outraged’ by T-Mobile's attempts to convert its customers to the iPhone — BlackBerry's new CEO John Chen is taking issue with what appears to be a fairly innocent T-Mobile promotion. Last week, T-Mobile sent out an email to some customers currently using …
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Inside BlackBerry, CrackBerry.com, Re/code, ZDNet, eWeek, BBC, GeekWire, Daring Fireball, PhoneArena, Los Angeles Times, CNNMoney.com, GeekWire, iPad and PC Magazine
| Nathaniel Popper / DealBook: |
Winklevoss brothers launch new Bitcoin price index called Winkdex as their Bitcoin Trust moves closer to regulatory approval — Before a Bitcoin Fund Comes a Price Index — Stock traders have the S.&P. 500. Bitcoin bettors will have the Winkdex. — The new financial index takes …
Tweets: @winklevoss, @delrey and @kashhill
| Digits: |
Apple's smartphone market share in China grows to 7%, now back in top 5 smartphone vendors — Apple Gains Some Ground in China Smartphone Market — Apple seems to be gaining some ground in the world's largest smartphone market. — In China, Apple's market share rose slightly …
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China Real Time Report, The Next Web, TechCrunch, PC Magazine, 9to5Mac and MacRumors. Tweets: @juroosawa
| Terrence O'Brien / Engadget: |
Ubuntu phones arriving in 2014 from Meizu and BQ Readers — Canonical is finally poised to enter the mobile market. After years of teases, promises and demos, the company has locked up the first two manufacturers of Ubuntu phones. Meizu and BQ Readers will be releasing handsets …
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Canonical, eWeek, The Next Web, Ars Technica, Computerworld, ZDNet, Inquirer, TechCrunch, Softpedia News and Pocketnow
| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
eBay Acquires PhiSix To Integrate 3-D Virtual Try On Technology Across The Marketplace And More — It looks like 3-D virtual try-on technology will soon make an appearance on eBay. The marketplace giant is announcing the acquisition of PhiSix, a company that develops 3-D visualization and simulation technologies for clothing.| Kevin C. Tofel / Gigaom: |
Leaked HTC One 2014 picture shows dual rear cameras — HTC is planning to introduce its newest HTC One on March 25 and if the reliable @evleaks is correct, this is what the phone will look like: … Rumors of two rear cameras appear valid based on the leaked press shot of the new HTC One …
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Examiner, 9to5Google, The Droid Guy, T3 News, WebProNews, Android Beat, TechnoBuffalo, HTC Source, BGR, The Verge and VentureBeat. Tweets: @evleaks
| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple bringing iTunes Festival to the US for the first time at SXSW, for five nights in March — Apple has announced that it is bringing the iTunes Festival to the United States for the first time, after being a UK-only event since it began in 2007. The festival will be held at SXSW … | Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times: |
Federal court in Utah sides with broadcasters against Aereo — Aereo transmits via tiny antennas. — Aereo's streak of legal victories over the broadcasting industry has come to an end. — The startup company, which sends broadcast television signals to consumers via the Internet …
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Adweek, CNET, Hollywood Reporter, The Wrap, Associated Press, Variety, bizjournals and multichannel.com/rss
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