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Elusive bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto is reportedly a 64-yr old living in California — The Face Behind Bitcoin — Satoshi Nakamoto stands at the end of his sunbaked driveway looking timorous. And annoyed. He's wearing a rumpled T-shirt, old blue jeans and white gym socks …
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Satoshi Nakamoto chased by reporters, denies founding Bitcoin — After being outed as the founder of Bitcoin Thursday by Newsweek, Satoshi Nakamoto has been riding around Los Angeles in a car with a reporter while being chased by several other journalists. — Nakamoto emerged from his home … | Kashmir Hill / Forbes: |
Rather than an invasion of privacy, Satoshi Nakamoto's outing is brilliant journalism — The Outing of Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto Is Brilliant Journalism — In Newsweek, finance editor Leah McGrath Goodman claims to have outed the mysterious creator of the digital currency Bitcoin.| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Spotify Acquires The Echo Nest, Gaining Control Of The Music DNA Company That Powers Its Rivals — Spotify has acquired The Echo Nest, as revealed by an official blog post today. The financial details of the acquisition haven't been revealed, but The Echo Nest is a self-described …
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Facebook rolls out a simpler newsfeed redesign a year after first try was scrapped due to negative feedback — Facebook goes back to basics with latest News Feed redesign — After a year testing an aggressive update, Facebook finally settles on a look — Almost exactly one year ago … | Brooks Barnes / New York Times: |
Disney's Game and Internet Division Cuts One Quarter of Its Workforce — GLENDALE, Calif. - Disney's struggling video game and Internet division laid off roughly 700 employees on Thursday, or 26 percent of its global staff, in a major retrenchment that includes a shift in advertising strategy at Disney.com.
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Apple Releases Revamped iTunes Festival App Ahead of SXSW, iOS 7.1 Not Required — Apple today updated its iTunes Festival app to version 5.0, ahead of next week's SXSW iTunes Festival, which kicks off on Tuesday, March 11. The iTunes Festival app [App Store Link] shows up in the iTunes Store … | 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 … | Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Sean Parker formally leaves Founders Fund — Sean Parker will not make new investments for Founders Fund, but will maintain board seats like Spotify. — FORTUNE — Sean Parker is no longer making new investments on behalf of Founders Fund, a San Francisco-based venture capital firm … | Evelyn M. Rusli / Wall Street Journal: |
| Mark Gomes / Seeking Alpha: |
Pixelworks Discloses Relationship With Apple — Wednesday afternoon, Pixelworks made a major (and mandatory) disclosure to the SEC that Apple represented more than 10% of its revenue. — The stakes couldn't be higher for Apple. Any consumer device that can run a smart phone operating system is strategically important.
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Jack Tretton stepping down as president of Sony Computer Entertainment America — At the end of March, Sony Computer Entertainment America president and CEO Jack Tretton will be stepping down from his position after nearly two decades with the company. According to SCEA …
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DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M From Andreessen Horowitz To Take On AWS — Cloud hosting company DigitalOcean raised a Series A round of $37.2 million at a $153 million valuation led by Andreessen Horowitz. Previous investors IA Ventures and CrunchFund also participated, but Andreessen Horowitz …
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‘Wello’ iPhone case can track your blood pressure, temperature and more — Last year, Scanadu caught our attention with Scout, its simple-to-use tricorder-style health monitor. Now a new iPhone case promises to make monitoring your vital signs even easier.
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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.
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