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Larry Page interview: Silicon Valley has become short-sighted; too few investors are chasing breakthrough technologies — FT interview with Google co-founder and CEO Larry Page — Even the search engine's original mission is not big enough for what he now has in mind
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| Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
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 …
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| 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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See also Mediagazer| 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 …
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| Michael Hsu / Wall Street Journal: |
HP unveils MB Chronowing smartwatch with buttons instead of a touchscreen, and an estimated 7-day battery life, on sale Nov. 7 starting at $349 — Michael Bastian Creates a Smartwatch That Looks Like a Watch — High-tech meets high-style in the MB Chronowing from Michael Bastian and Hewlett-Packard.
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Microsoft Band first impressions: clunky hardware, useful software; tile interface works well — Wearing the Microsoft Band, the next big thing in fitness tracking — I've been wearing it for two hours, and I'm still acutely aware that it's there. This is the first and most unavoidable thing …
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| 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 …
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| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Come Out, Come Out: The Tim Cook Moment Is Here — Looking back, I guess we in the media might have asked Apple CEO Tim Cook if he were gay. — Me especially, since I am gay. And, like many, I had heard all the assumptions about the self-effacing exec's sexual orientation, even though he and I had never once discussed the issue.
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| Micah L. Sifry / Mother Jones: |
Before 2012 election, Facebook increased hard news stories in 1.9M feeds, which added measurably to civic engagement and 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 …
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See also Mediagazer| Dan Levine / Reuters: |
Samsung says Microsoft deal invites ‘charges of collusion’: filing — (Reuters) - Samsung said its collaboration with Microsoft on Windows phones raised antitrust problems once Microsoft completed its acquisition of Nokia's handset business, according to a court filing.
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| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Banking giant BBVA Compass partners with Dwolla for real-time transfers at reduced fees — A banking giant and payment startup unite to modernize money transfer — As the mainstream adoption and subsequent uproar around Apple Pay has shown, people are beginning to expect … | Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
Google Flu Trends to incorporate data from CDC after greatly overestimating number of cases in the US for the 2012-13 flu season — The New Thing in Google Flu Trends Is Traditional Data — Google is giving its Flu Trends service an overhaul — “a brand new engine,” as it announced in a blog post on Friday.
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| Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
Will He Ever Return? Head Of Google's Web Spam Team Matt Cutts Extends Leave Into 2015 — The head of Google's web spam team, Matt Cutts, says that his leave from the company has gone so well that he'll be continuing it through 2015. — Cutts shared the news today in a note added … Sponsor Posts
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