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Google acquires music streaming service Songza for undisclosed amount, will keep product intact for now — Google Buys Songza — Google has acquired music streaming service Songza after weeks of speculation around a potential buyout. — Songza uses information about the user and context …
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| Husain Sumra / MacRumors: |
Apple Launches $49 Mac Pro Security Lock Adapter in Online Store — Apple today launched a new $49 Mac Pro Security Lock Adapter in its online store, offering users of the new Mac Pro a way to easily secure their machines using existing Kensington locks. Previously, users had to resort …
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon sues former employee for taking Google cloud job, in new test of non-compete deals — Amazon is suing a former Amazon Web Services strategic partnerships manager, Zoltan Szabadi, alleging that his new job at Google Cloud Platform violates the terms of a non-compete agreement that he signed when he originally joined Amazon.| Julian Hattem / The Hill: |
Privacy board backs NSA's foreign spying — A federal privacy watchdog is largely putting its support behind a major pillar of the National Security Agency's foreign snooping. — A draft version of a new Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) report released late Tuesday …
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BlaBlaCar Raises A Massive $100 Million Round To Create A Global Long Distance Ride-Sharing Network — In what is the largest VC round in a French startup of all time, BlaBlaCar just raised a $100 million round led by Index Ventures, with existing investors Accel Partners, ISAI and Lead Edge Capital also participating in the round.
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Tinder CEO's Internal Memo Claims Harrassment Complaint Is Inaccurate — TechCrunch has obtained an internal memo sent from Tinder CEO Sean Rad to employees in the wake of a new lawsuit waged against the company. The lawsuit focuses on the relationship between Whitney Wolfe … | Amy Schatz / Re/code: |
FTC says T-Mobile made hundreds of millions on crammed text message charges; T-Mobile says accusations are “unfounded and without merit” — FTC Alleges T-Mobile Made Millions From Allegedly Bogus Text Message Charges — T-Mobile made hundreds of millions of dollars …
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Samsung Gear Live and LG G Watch review: expensive accessories with promise, but not yet must-haves — Android Wear hardware review: Sometimes promising, often frustrating — Why wear one smartwatch when there's room for two? — We've reviewed most of the major entrants into the smartwatch arena …
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| Stan Higgins / CoinDesk: |
US Marshals: One Auction Bidder Claimed All 30,000 Silk Road Bitcoins — The US Marshals Service (USMS) has announced that a single, undisclosed bidder claimed all of the roughly 30,000 bitcoins seized from online black market Silk Road and sold in its recent auction.
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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
VAIO computers return after Sony sells the brand — The new VAIO Corporation is here — The iconic VAIO PC brand has been resurrected today, following Sony's sale of the struggling business to investment fund Japan Industrial Partners. At the time, Sony said it planned to concentrate …
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| Nellie Bowles / Re/code: |
Hinge, a Transparent Dating App, Raises $4.5 Million — Hinge, a transparent, totally not anonymous dating app (you use your full name, and it pulls photos from Facebook), just received $4.5 million in venture funding from Founders Fund, Lowercase Capital and others.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Dropbox Buys E-Commerce A/B Testing Service Predictive Edge, Shuts It Down — Dropbox has made another acquisition: Predictive Edge, a company that had built a way to personalise e-commerce offerings, along with dynamic pricing, for marketers to send out to users and run A/B tests around them.
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Custom Analytics Startup Keen IO Raises $11.3M Round From Sequoia And Others — Keen IO, a startup that helps developers build their own analytics products, is announcing that it has raised $11.3 million in Series A funding. — Co-founder and CEO Kyle Wild told me that when the company started talking …
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| Mark Hearn / 9to5Google: |
Google's Smarty Pins map game tests your knowledge about location-based events — Google released another web-based game today called Smarty Pins that will most likely distract you from other things that you should be doing. Powered by Google Maps, this quiz game tests your knowledge … | Kevin C. Tofel / Gigaom: |
Lumia 635 with LTE comes to US through T-Mobile, Metro PCS for as little as $99 — Microsoft's newest Lumia smartphone with LTE arrives in the U.S. later this month. The Lumia 635 can be had from T-Mobile for zero down and $7 a month while MetroPCS customers get special promotional pricing of $99 for the Windows Phone 8.1 handset.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Launches Its Most Affordable EC2 Instances Yet, But There's A Caveat — Amazon today launched its most affordable instances for its EC2 cloud computing service yet. Starting at just $0.013 per hour ($9.50 per month) for on-demand access (reserved instances are even cheaper) … | Ian Austen / New York Times: |
Canadian antispam law goes into effect, resulting in a flurry of ‘please opt in’ emails — Canadian Antispam Law Whips Up a Storm of Last-Minute Messages — OTTAWA — The email has all the markings of malicious spam: an overwrought subject line screaming “Urgent Action Required … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
An Upper Limit For Apps? New Data Suggests Consumers Only Use Around Two Dozen Apps Per Month — There are now well over a million mobile applications in both Google Play and the iTunes App Store alike, and growth of those app marketplaces shows no sign of slowing down.
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