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March 6, 2014, 8:55 AM

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Gemma Padley / British Journal of Photography:
Getty Images makes 35 million images free in fight against copyright infringement  —  Getty Images has single-handedly redefined the entire stock photography market with the launch of a new embedding feature that will make more than 35 million images freely available to anyone for non-commercial usage.
Russell Brandom / The Verge:
Getty's new embed feature allows free use of its photos for non-commercial use  —  The world's largest photo service just made its pictures free to use  —  Getty Images is betting their business on embeddable photos  —  If you go to the Getty Images website, you'll see millions of images, all watermarked.
Neil Chenoweth / Financial Review:
Apple moved $8.9B in untaxed profits from Australia to Irish subsidiary in last decade  —  How Ireland got Apple's $9bn profit  —  US tech giant Apple has shifted an estimated $8.9 billion in untaxed profits from its Australian operations to a tax haven structure in Ireland in the last decade …
JP Mangalindan / Fortune:
CNN sells Zite to Flipboard in all-stock transaction worth more than the $20M CNN paid in 2011  —  Flipboard buys Zite news app from CNN  —  The standalone iPad news app will eventually be shut down and integrated into Flipboard.  Also: Zite's CEO tells Fortune why he left.
Reid Hoffman / LinkedIn Pulse:
Short-term Profit Taking vs. Long-term Value Creation: The Future of PayPal  —  In January, activist investor Carl Icahn acquired around 2 percent of eBay's stock.  A month or so later, eager for a return on his investment, he published an open letter to eBay's shareholders.
Reuters:
EBay CEO says top shareholders agree PayPal should stay put  —  (Reuters) - EBay Inc CEO John Donahoe said on Wednesday that several of the online retailer's most active shareholders have assured him they support his efforts to resist demands by activist investor Carl Icahn for a spin-off of the PayPal unit.
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Setback for Apple: U.S. judge denies renewed bid for permanent injunction against Samsung  —  After it just became publicly-known that Apple itself had disclosed confidential licensing terms with respect to which it wanted Samsung sanctioned, Apple has to deal with another setback in its litigation with its most important competitor.
Tim Peterson / AdAge:
Apple Bringing Full-Screen Video iAds to Mobile  —  iPhone Maker May Sell the Ads Thru Company's New Ad Exchange  —  How Advertising Performs in a Social Media World  —  Coming to an iPad near you: iAds that look a lot like TV ads.  —  Apple will roll out new video iAds this year …
Reuters:
Exclusive: DirecTV in talks with Disney on deal for Internet rights  —  (Reuters) - DirecTV is in talks with Walt Disney Co to license the rights to offer Disney's broadcast and cable channels as part of an Internet-based product, DirecTV said on Wednesday.  —  The deal would mirror …
Kim Zetter / Wired:
Feds dismiss charges against Barrett Brown for linking to Anonymous' stolen data  —  Feds Drop Most Charges Against Man Who Linked to Anonymous' Stolen Data  —  Federal prosecutors in Texas have moved to drop all but one of the 12 fraud charges against Barrett Brown, a writer charged …
Evelyn M. Rusli / Wall Street Journal:
Founders Fund Raises $1 Billion for New Venture-Capital Fund  —  Founders Fund, a backer of Facebook and Space Exploration Technologies, has closed $1 billion in new financing for a fifth fund, the firm announced on Wednesday.  —  The new vehicle is quite a step up from the $50 million …
Rohin Dhar / Priceonomics Blog:
San Francisco house prices are going up, but not the 60-80% over asking price cited by NYT  —  Fact Checking The New York Times and Redfin  —  Over the weekend, The New York Times about San Francisco real estate titled “The Housing Market with Nowhere to Go (But Up).”  As we've previously shown, and are going way up.
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Biz Carson / Gigaom:
CrossCoin Ventures launches first Ripple startup accelerator  —  With Bitcoin's woes, could it be time for Ripple to shine?  CrossCoin Ventures plans to announce Wednesday that it is launching the first Ripple digital currency accelerator, which will be based in San Francisco.
Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:
NASDAQ Finally Launches Its Market For Privately-Held Companies  —  Just as the JOBS Act kickstarts bigger markets for shares of privately-held companies, NASDAQ is launching its own entrant in the field.  —  The U.S. stock exchange, which hosts tech companies like Apple, Google and Facebook …
Stacey Higginbotham / Gigaom:
Canary raises $10M for new home security product  —  Canary, a connected home security device designed for those who live in apartments or who don't want to pay monthly fees to the big giants in the industry, has raised $10 million in funding from Khosla Ventures, Bobby Yazdani …

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