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Facebook Launching Mobile Ad Network At F8 Conference — Lots of people have wanted Facebook to build an ad network for a long time. — Here it comes. Facebook will take the wraps off its plans for a mobile ad network at its “F8″ developer conference in San Francisco at the end of the month …
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Aereo's CEO on the future of Netflix, TV sports and the public airwaves — In 2012, Chet Kanojia set out to take on TV's goliaths with a slingshot full of tiny antennas, but he never imagined things would go so far so fast. Aereo, the start-up he created, is going before the Supreme Court … | Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog: |
Case preview: Supreme Court to hear oral arguments from Aereo and broadcasters on Tuesday — Argument preview: Free TV, at a bargain price? — At 11 a.m. next Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hold one hour of oral argument on copyright issues surrounding a new technology for Internet streaming …
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Apple and Google offer promotional boost to games in exchange for exclusivity — Apple, Google Vie to Offer Exclusive Game Apps — The Battle for Mobile Dominance Is Spreading to the Most Lucrative Genre of Apps: Videogames — A long-running battle between Apple Inc. and Google Inc …
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Square discussed possible sale to Google, Apple, and PayPal, recorded loss of $100M in 2013 — Mobile-Payments Startup Square Discusses Possible Sale — Company Faces Wider Loss, Less Cash; Google Considered Potential Acquisition — With losses widening and cash shrinking …
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| Dorinda Elliott / Fast Company: |
Tencent: the Chinese internet giant founded by Ma “Pony” Huateng guns for global expansion — Tencent: The Secretive, Chinese Tech Giant That Can Rival Facebook and Amazon — China's most powerful Internet company is headquartered in a bland, glassy tower in southern Shenzhen.| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Facebook's dedicated unfollow button triples unfollows as users tire of original friend model — Facebook's friend problem — Why can't the social network adapt to how we make (and lose) friends? — When I arrived at the University of Michigan in fall 2007, everybody said “Facebook me.”| Chris Stokel-Walker / The Verge: |
How Ukraine's Readdle built a business on unglamorous apps like Scanner Pro and PDF Expert — The app men of Odessa — How a Ukrainian software firm found success outside Silicon Valley — “Uh guys, I think we took a wrong turn somewhere.” — Denys Zhadanov, the 25-year-old marketing manager …
Tweets: @tselyuko, @michelesolla, @readdle and @stokel
| Michael Sokolove / New York Times: |
David Cohen: the Comcast EVP in charge of avoiding antitrust questions raised by TWC merger — Comcast's Real Repairman — One morning late last month, David L. Cohen took a seat in a conference room atop Comcast's corporate headquarters in Philadelphia, the tallest building in the city …
Tweets: @scrawford, @jonathancohn and @pkafka
| Chris Davies / SlashGear: |
Inside Nokia's effort to build a detailed, three-dimensional “HD Map” for self-driving cars — Inside the Nokia HERE HD Maps putting Google on notice — Where exactly am I? That's the question Nokia is facing, not in its position following the Microsoft deal that will see it shed …
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| Erin Griffith / Fortune: |
Exclusive: Birchbox banks $60 million — The Series B round values the beauty ecommerce company at $485 million. — FORTUNE — Two years ago, “stuff in a box” was all the rage among startups. The young and funded were hawking subscription memberships for coffee, razors, jewelry, sex toys, shoes and booze.| Christina Tynan-Wood / ITworld: |
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