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| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Google Was Willing to Beat Facebook's $19B Offer for WhatsApp — Last week, Google CEO Larry Page met with WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum in a last-ditch effort to prevent the rapidly growing messaging app from selling itself to Facebook, according to three people involved in the deal.
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Tweets: @pkafka, @startupljackson, @ericnewcomer and @amir
Thanks:@ericnewcomer| Evelyn M. Rusli / Wall Street Journal: |
WhatsApp: the Bomb That Shook Silicon Valley — On Wednesday afternoon, in a modern office building in San Francisco, entrepreneur Daniel Raffel saw a news alert cross his phone: Facebook Inc. had just paid $19 billion for messaging startup WhatsApp. — The founder of mobile app Snapguide …
Tweets: @borthwick, @wsjd, @jonrussell, @elie_h and @monkbent
| Liz Gannes / Re/code: |
Before Facebook Deal, WhatsApp Was Helping BuzzFeed and Shazam Go Viral With New Platform Tools — Unlike mobile messaging competitors like Line and WeChat, WhatsApp has taken a resolute stance against becoming a platform that distributes games and other apps.
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See also Mediagazer| Mike Isaac / Re/code: |
Facebook's WhatsApp Deal Could Jumpstart Internet.org Plans — What's cooler than $19 billion? How about changing the world? — Mark Zuckerberg took a step closer to realizing a dream to bring the Internet to everyone on the planet with Facebook's $19 billion acquisition of mobile messaging service WhatsApp on Wednesday.| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Q&A With Sequoia's Jim Goetz on Wassssup With the WhatsApp Deal — So I lobbed in a call to Sequoia Capital this morning to get its VC-of-the-moment Jim Goetz's take on the blockbuster deal in which Facebook forked over $19 billion dollars to buy one of its portfolio companies, WhatsApp.| Peter Lauria / BuzzFeed: |
Mark Zuckerberg Comes Of Age As A Mogul — The Facebook CEO has grown into a cocksure leader, solid operator, and gutsy deal-maker, even if the casual dress remains. — Jonathan Ernst / Reuters — Noticeably absent from the mounds of coverage of how Facebook's $19 billion acquisition …
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| Adam Bryant / New York Times: |
Satya Nadella, Chief of Microsoft, on His New Role — This interview with Satya Nadella, the new chief executive of Microsoft, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant. — Q. What leadership lessons have you learned from your predecessor, Steve Ballmer?
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Thanks:@petewootton| Matt Brian / Engadget: |
New Google WiFi app could automatically log you into Starbucks and other private hotspots — Google is working on a new WiFi app that could take a lot of the drudgery out of accessing wireless hotspots. According to our sources, the search giant has built Android and iOS versions of an app … | Brad Stone / Businessweek: |
Invasion of the Taxi Snatchers: Uber Leads an Industry's Disruption — Ray Markovich started driving a taxi in Chicago three years ago after shuttering his struggling wireless phone store. Driving a cab wasn't particularly gratifying or lucrative—he had to pay $400 a week just to lease his 2011 white Ford Escape.
Tweets: @valleyhack, @bw, @erickecage, @nytimesbits and @jamesappell
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Launches Project Tango Smartphone To Experiment With Computer Vision And 3D Sensors — Google today announced Project Tango, an Android-based prototype 5″ phone and developer kit with advanced 3D sensors out of its Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) hardware skunkworks group.
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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
More Cortana details: Siri/Google Now-like virtual assistant to replace Bing search feature in Windows Phone 8.1 — Apple has Siri, and Microsoft is about to get Cortana — Microsoft has been in a state of “shut up and ship” with Windows Phone for more than a year now.
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GeekWire, Engadget, Gizmodo, BGR, TechnoBuffalo, SlashGear, TechCrunch and WebProNews. Tweets: @chrismessina
| Carl Franzen / The Verge: |
Steve Jobs will appear on a US postage stamp in 2015 — Many of his creations reduced the need to send physical mail, but late Apple founder Steve Jobs will still get a fitting tribute from the US Postal Service: his likeness will appear on a postage stamp beginning in 2015, according to a document obtained by The Washington Post.
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Engadget, Washington Post, Gizmodo, CNET, Cult of Mac, PC Magazine, Digital Trends, The Register, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacNN, UnleashThePhones, The Technology Chronicles, Business Insider, AppleTell, The Mac Observer, iDownloadBlog.com …, iMore, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, IntoMobile, AppleInsider and App Advice
| Ben Woods / The Next Web: |
4G data: The USA is second-slowest while Australia is fastest — OpenSignal has released a report today looking at the state of LTE coverage and speeds around the world, revealing that, contrary to what you might expect, not all LTE networks perform comparably.| Om Malik / Gigaom: |
Om Malik leaves day-to-day operations at Gigaom, becomes full partner at True Ventures, site raises $8M more — Now that Gigaom is all grown up, it's time for the next chapter — It's a new year (although it's well underway) and I'm excited to talk about the new phase at Gigaom.
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See also Mediagazer| Reuters: |
Nokia considers buying Juniper to expand network unit: report — (Reuters) - Finland's Nokia is considering buying U.S.-based Juniper Networks to merge into its telecommunications network gear business, German's Manager Magazin Online reported, citing unidentified sources.
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SiliconANGLE, eWeek, Tech Trader Daily, Bloomberg, Business Insider and SiliconBeat. Tweets: @forthebest
| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Former Motionloft CEO Jon Mills Arrested By The FBI — Jon Mills, the founder and former CEO of real-world analytics startup Motionloft, has been arrested by the FBI, the bureau has confirmed. The arrest follows allegations that Mills lied to investors about an acquisition of his company …
Tweets: @ryanlawler, @benparr, @bensign and @caseynewton
| Timothy J. Seppala / Engadget: |
Microsoft is hand-picking users to test Xbox One's next software update — BY TIMOTHY J. SEPPALA @TIMSEPPALA FEB 20TH 2014 10:53PM — Ahead of Xbox One's second spring update Microsoft is inviting a handful of gamers to test the patch's mutiplayer features.| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon in talks with brand retailers like Neiman Marcus and Abercrombie to feature their listings as it contemplates Prime rate hike — Amazon Tempts the Anti-Amazons — Offer to Showcase Goods Comes Amid Plan to Boost Price of Prime — Amazon.com Inc. is in talks to bring listings for J. Crew khakis … | Salvador Rodriguez / Los Angeles Times: |
Google creates ‘near-real-time’ deforestation tracking tool — Google and several partners have launched Global Forest Watch, a website that makes it possible for users to track global deforestation. — Google is bringing awareness to global deforestation with a new website that lets users …
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SiliconANGLE, Google LatLong, Boing Boing, BetaNews and Engadget
| Pankaj Mishra / TechCrunch: |
With $8M In Fresh Funding, Ezetap Is More Than Just A Square For Emerging Markets — There are almost 900 million active cell-phone users in India now, and from newer startups to some of the biggest companies in the world, everybody is chasing the next mobile disruption that could potentially result …
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Tech in Asia and MediaNama
| Eric Blattberg / VentureBeat: |
Crowdtilt launches free, open source crowdfunding solution — and it supports Bitcoin — Source: Photo Illustration: Eric Blattberg / VentureBeat — If you want your crowdfunding campaign to accept Bitcoin, Crowdtilt has you covered. — The crowdfunding company today launched CrowdtiltOpen …
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TechCrunch, Crowdfund Insider, BroadwayWorld.com, Category feed and Y Combinator Posthaven. Tweets: @pmarca
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Meg Whitman buys more time as HP beats earnings estimates — Caption: Hewlett-Packard chief executive Meg Whitman — Hewlett-Packard reported earnings that beat Wall Street's earnings expectations. — Analysts had expected a big drop in quarterly revenue, but HP exceeded estimates on both profits and revenues.
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