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Slack raised $120M at $1.12B valuation in a round led by Kleiner and Google Ventures, all previous backers participated too — Slack's One-Year-Old Software Business Valued at $1.12 Billion — Workplace collaboration tool Slack didn't exist two years ago.
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| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Q&A with Slack co-founder and CEO Stewart Butterfield: thoughts on valuation, competition, road to success — Stewart Butterfield explains why Slack is now worth more than $1 billion — Slack this morning announced that it has raised $120 million in new VC funding … | Elisabeth Hulette / Virginian-Pilot: |
Circuit court rules criminal defendant can be forced by police to unlock phone with his fingerprint, but not his passcode — Police can require cellphone fingerprint, not pass code — A Circuit Court judge has ruled that a criminal defendant can be compelled to give up his fingerprint …
| JP Mangalindan / Fortune: |
Amazon exec: We priced the Fire phone wrong — When it introduced the Fire smartphone in July, Amazon bet sales would be something worth bragging about. But three months in, it's obvious the Fire phone is more dud than runaway success. — Last week, Amazon CTO Tom Szkutak disclosed … | Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Facebook now available through Tor browsers at an onion address, SSL still enabled — Why Facebook Just Launched Its Own ‘Dark Web’ Site — Facebook has never had much of a reputation for letting users hide their identities online. But now the world's least anonymous website has just joined the Web's most anonymous network.
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
FCC close to reclassifying ISPs as common carriers on back-end, while still allowing fast lanes — FCC reportedly close to reclassifying ISPs as common carriers — FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler speaking to the cable industry in April 2014. — NCTA — The head of the Federal Communications Commission … | BBC: |
Hungary internet tax cancelled after mass protests — Hungary has decided to shelve a proposed tax on internet data traffic after mass protests against the plan. — “This tax in its current form cannot be introduced,” Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday.
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| Micah L. Sifry / Mother Jones: |
Facebook has experimented with Newsfeed content before elections to analyze effect on voter turnout — Facebook Wants You to Vote on Tuesday. Here's How It Messed With Your Feed in 2012. — The social network tries to promote voting, but it also has conducted tests that affect users' voting behavior—without telling them.| Alistair Barr / Wall Street Journal: |
Google's robotics lead and Android founder Andy Rubin leaving the company to start an incubator for hardware startups, will be replaced by James Kuffner — Former Android Leader Andy Rubin Leaving Google — Rubin Is Starting an Incubator for Startups Interested in Building Technology-Hardware Products
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Twitter's MoPub is using the UIDH “perma-cookies” inserted by Verizon into web pages — Somebody's Already Using Verizon's ID to Track Users — Twitter's mobile advertising arm enables its clients to use a hidden, undeletable tracking number created by Verizon to track user behavior on smartphones and tablets.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft launches redesigned Outlook for Mac, announces new Office for Mac coming next year — Microsoft today launched a new version of Outlook for Mac, available to Office 365 customers. At the same time, the company announced its plans to release a new Office for Mac version next year.| Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat: |
Despite Android TV push, Google Play Movies & TV app comes to Roku set-top boxes — The latest app making its debut in the Roku Channel store today is Google Play Movies & TV, which is the search giant's digital media store for buying and renting videos. — The move is a tad interesting …
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| Adriana Lee / ReadWrite: |
Google now lets developers add “Ok Google” voice search functionality to third party apps — OK, Google: Search Inside My Apps! — Soon Android users won't have to trifle with actually opening apps to dig up social photos, find restaurants or conduct other in-app searches.
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| Kip Kniskern / LiveSide.net: |
Microsoft's Outlook.com will get third-party app support in spring 2015 — 3rd party apps coming to Outlook.com — Microsoft continues to re-examine and bolster its platform company roots, this time by announcing app support for Outlook.com, coming in Spring 2015.
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| Jessica Dolcourt / CNET: |
Samsung Galaxy A5 and A3: Sleek, slim, fully metal (hands-on) — Side by side on a table, the two nearly identical rectangular handsets look innocuous enough and extremely familiar. Yet two things quietly make the Samsung Galaxy A3 and A5 stand out: their all-aluminum material and their unibody construction.| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
BlackBerry updates BBM with timed messages and message retraction, unveils plans for a paid subscription — Above: BBM for iOS/Android, now beefed up with Voice and Channels — BlackBerry today released a new version of BBM, adding timed messages, message retraction, HD picture transfer, among other features.Sponsor Posts
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