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| Vindu Goel / New York Times: |
A look at a Facebook ad campaign for MegaRed krill oil, from conception to measured results, done through Facebook's “publishing garage” program — How Facebook Sold You Krill Oil — Joao Rodrigues had been listening and holding his tongue. For a day and a half, brand managers …
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| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Square to acquire food delivery startup Caviar in a $90M all stock deal, announcement coming later this week — Square Will Announce Acquisition of Food Delivery Startup Caviar This Week — Square is on a mission to diversify, and it's turning to the red-hot food delivery industry to do so.
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| Benny Evangelista / San Francisco Chronicle: |
NFL teams will use heavily modified Surface tablets on the sidelines to view and annotate photos of opponents' formations — NFL players to use tablet computers during games — NFL adds tablet computers, secure wireless networks to assist players, coaches and officials during games [ …
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| Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic Online: |
Q&A with Pinterest's Evan Sharp on the company's function, competitors, and ambition — What Is Pinterest? A Database of Intentions — Evan Sharp, one of the co-founders of Pinterest, delves into what the wildly popular image-collecting site is really about, and what it's likely to do in the future.| Dan Frommer / Quartz: |
Nearly 60% of sampled mid-sized tech & media firms and 92% of sampled YC startups use Gmail — Google is stealing away Microsoft's future corporate customers — Microsoft has long dominated the corporate-software market, and its new CEO Satya Nadella has set his sights on owning all things related to productivity and the cloud.| Julie Bort / Business Insider: |
Google Spotted Explicit Images Of A Child In A Man's Email And Tipped Off The Authorities — A Houston man has been arrested after Google sent a tip to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children saying the man had explicit images of a child in his email, according to Houston police.
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| Jonathan Vanian / Gigaom: |
Why these startups think chat apps are the next big thing in workplace collaboration — The big cloud storage companies like Amazon and the file-sync players like Box aren't the only ones rolling out work-collaboration features; there's a host of startups generating a lot of interest … | Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Evan Blass explains why he's leaving tech news and retiring @evleaks, a source of phone scoops — Evan Blass explains why his @evleaks Twitter account will stop reporting phone scoops — Sunday is the quietest news day of the week for the tech industry, but Evan Blass — the man behind @evleaks …
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MobileBurn.com, Ubergizmo, Android Beat, The Next Web and Android Police
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| Tanvi Misra / NPR: |
Google faces challenges in trying to support every written language with its Noto font family — Can Google Build A Typeface To Support Every Written Language? — Google has taken on its fair share of ambitious projects — digitizing millions and millions of books, mapping the whole world, pioneering self-driving cars.
Tweets: @anildash
| Tim Carmody / kottke.org: |
The problem with OKCupid is the problem with the social web — Hi, everybody! Tim Carmody here, guest-hosting for Jason this week. — On Monday, I tried to list some reasons why OKCupid's self-acknowledged experiments on its users didn't seem to be stirring up the same outrage that Facebook's had.
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| David Meyer / Gigaom: |
Germany's Bauer Media launches $134M European startup fund — Like peers such as Axel Springer, the German magazine-publishing giant Bauer Media has been branching out into the digital world as an investor, notably in Swedish health startup Lifesum earlier this year.
| Fred Wilson / AVC: |
Carriers not charging for data on select apps could lead to an exclusive, cable TV-like mobile internet — The Scourge Of Zero Rating — It seems like every week I read another article about a mobile carrier offering some incredible deal to eat the mobile data costs you rack up using certain apps.
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