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Apple Adds UnionPay Payment Option for App Store Customers in China — Apple® today announced that the App Store has added UnionPay as a payment option for customers in China. China UnionPay is the most popular payment card in China and will provide App Store customers with a simple …
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Nest's hierarchical, meeting-centric culture is said to clash with Dropcam's — Unrest at Nest — Sitting on stage last week at a San Francisco conference, Greg Duffy, the 28-year-old co-founder and CEO of Dropcam, which makes Internet-connected video cameras, fielded questions from an audience of startup founders.| Robin Wauters / Tech.eu: |
Rocket Internet Q3: portfolio valued at €2.7B, up €74M from IPO, plans 10 new startups in 2015 — Rocket Internet says portfolio value increased by €74m after IPO, gives bullish outlook for next decade — Following its IPO last month, German e-commerce focused venture fund …
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Forgoing streaming and iTunes sales, Garth Brooks sees meager sales for his comeback album — How Garth Brooks took on the internet - and lost — The poor sales of his comeback album Man Against Machine show that taking a stand against the modern music business only works if you're Taylor Swift| Jason Abbruzzese / Mashable: |
Facebook at Work, now in testing at several companies, will enable document collaboration and chat, and let users separate personal and work profiles — Facebook is making ‘Facebook at Work,’ so you can Facebook at work — You already Facebook at work, so here's “Facebook at Work.”
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| Henry Blodget / Business Insider: |
Sources: Uber's gross revenue expected to hit a run rate of $10B by the end of 2015 — Now I Know Why Investors Are Going Hog Wild About Uber ... The digital taxi service Uber is raising money again, which means that people are once again gawping at the company's valuation.| Juro Osawa / Wall Street Journal: |
Alibaba co-founder and vice-chairman Joe Tsai talks Apple, M&A and the company's U.S. plans — Q&A: Alibaba Senior Executive On Apple, M&A and U.S. Plans — After going public in September in a $25 billion initial public offering, Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group is gearing up for the next stage of its growth.| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Nokia Teases “Something” That Either Is, Or Comes In, A Black Box — Nokia is getting back into hardware after selling its handset division to Microsoft, but its re-entry into the gadgets market doesn't look like it's going to be a phone. The Finnish company tweeted out a teaser …
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Vevo Confirms Rio Caraeff To Step Down As CEO This Year, CFO Alan Price Steps Up For The Interim — Music video streaming service Vevo today announced that Rio Caraeff is stepping down from his role as the CEO of the company — formally confirming news that was reported twice this past weekend …
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| Cade Metz / Wired: |
Facebook's new data center sidesteps a hierarchical network model, avoiding the expensive switches made by Cisco and Juniper — Facebook's New Data Center Is Bad News for Cisco — Facebook is now serving the American heartland from a data center in the tiny town of Altoona, Iowa.Thanks:@sarahaasullivan
| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
A new program at San Quentin State Prison is teaching 18 inmates HTML, CSS, and JavaScript — How 18 inmates at California's notorious San Quentin prison learn to code — SAN QUENTIN, CA—It sounds almost like a parody of Silicon Valley: two wealthy San Francisco Bay Area tech veterans … | Carol Morello / Washington Post: |
State Department shuts down its e-mail system amid concerns about hacking — The State Department scrambled over the weekend to secure its unclassified e-mails, shutting down the entire e-mail system after finding evidence suggesting a hacker may have been been poking around.
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