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Airbnb closes TPG-led $450M-500M funding round valuing company at $10B — Airbnb Has Closed Its $500M Round Of Funding At A $10B Valuation, Led By TPG — TechCrunch has learned that Airbnb, the fast-growing site that lets people become hoteliers by renting out sofas, rooms or entire private homes …
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LinkedIn hits 300M members, 100M in US, says mobile traffic will overtake desktop later this year — The Next Three Billion [INFOGRAPHIC] — We are excited to announce that we reached a big milestone today: there are now more than 300 million LinkedIn members in the world!
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HTC hints at DSLR-like optical zoom in the next 18-24 months, “wants to own the selfie market” — HTC talks camera tech: DSLR-destroying optical zooming ‘18 months’ away — The HTC One (M8) is here, and even though we're only in April, it's already a strong contender for phone of the year.
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Facebook's Paper for iOS updated with birthdays, events, photo comments, group updates, and more — Facebook today released the first major update to its Paper for iOS app, adding a slew of new features just 10 weeks after the initial launch. You can download the new version now directly from Apple's App Store.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Trends Debuts Email Notifications For Search Topics, Hot Searches And More — Google Trends, the informative resource that shows you what's currently popular around the web right now in and in the recent past, now offers email subscriptions, Google announced this morning.| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Webvan founder Louis Borders is working on a new grocery delivery business — Webvan's Founder Is Back and He's Building Another Grocery Delivery Business — Two years after his high-flying online grocery business collapsed into bankruptcy, Webvan founder Louis Borders was quoted as saying … | Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
| Kim Zetter / Wired: |
Certificate Revocations Lists increase sharply in the wake of Heartbleed, hogging bandwidth — Heartbleed Bug Sends Bandwidth Costs Skyrocketing — The exposure of the Heartbleed vulnerability last week had a number of repercussions, one of which was to set off a mad scramble by companies … | Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
Court rules Apple-backed Rockstar must fight case against Google in California, not Texas — Google wins a game of “Escape from East Texas,” linking Rockstar to Apple — A federal judge issued an order today decreeing that Google's court battle against a “patent troll” …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Heartbleed exploits expand to VPN devices: attackers hijack user sessions, bypassing multifactor authentication — Heartbleed maliciously exploited to hack network with multifactor authentication — Demonstrating yet another way the catastrophic Heartbleed vulnerability threatens users …
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| Parmy Olson / Forbes: |
Connected device companies like Nest And Fitbit start side businesses selling data to utilities and health insurers — The Quantified Other: Nest And Fitbit Chase A Lucrative Side Business — The real value in smart gadgets may be not in what they tell you but in what they say to your doctor, insurance company and utilities.
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Thanks:@parmy| Eric Johnson / Re/code: |
King Resolves Trademark Disputes With Two Independent Developers — Candy Crush Saga maker King has resolved its trademark disputes with the developers of two independent games, The Banner Saga and CandySwipe. — The mobile gaming giant had initially opposed Stoic's attempt to trademark … | Ed Christman / Billboard: |
Record Labels Sue Pandora Over Pre-1972 Recordings — As expected, the three major labels, ABKCO, and the RIAA filed a copyright infringement lawsuit in New York state court against Pandora for playing pre-Feb. 15, 1972 recordings without making any royalty payments.| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Samsung hints that Milk Music will ‘soon’ include ads, and offer a $3.99/month premium service — When Samsung introduced its first Internet radio service Milk Music in March, one of the things that stood out was that it was available free and without ads. That may change soon, according to information disclosed by Samsung today.| Robin Wauters / Tech.eu: |
Tech exits in Europe Q1 2014: 49 total, Germany and Israel lead, 43.7% of acquirers from US — Everything you've always wanted to know about tech exits in Europe: Tech.eu M&A report - Q1 2014 — In early March, I stopped to take note of the flurry of (admittedly mostly small-sized) … Sponsor Posts
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