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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 … | Wall Street Journal: |
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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| Brad Smith / The Official Microsoft Blog: |
Microsoft to complete acquisition of Nokia Devices and Services business on Friday — The Nokia Devices and Services acquisition close date — The following post is from Brad Smith, General Counsel & Executive Vice President, Legal & Corporate Affairs, Microsoft.
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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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| Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom: |
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 …
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| 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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| 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
| Erin Griffith / Fortune: |
Birchbox raises $60M in Series B round, values beauty e-commerce company at $485M — 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.| 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 … | Dorinda Elliott / Fast Company: |
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