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Sources: Amazon to launch hotel booking service in January 2015 — Exclusive: Amazon to Get Into Hotel Booking With Launch of Travel Site — Amazon.com is poised to launch its own travel service, featuring booking at independent hotels and resorts near major cities, Skift has learned.
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| Sarah Buhr / TechCrunch: |
PCH International In Talks To Buy Fab For $15 Million — Multiple sources have confirmed that Fab is in talks to sell to PCH International for $15 million in a half cash and half stock deal. — Contractual agreements are in the very early stages between the two companies (and these things could always fall apart).
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| Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online: |
Music agents rely on data to identify potential hits, entrenching repetitive, derivative songs — The Shazam Effect — Record companies are tracking download and search data to predict which new songs will be hits. This has been good for business—but is it bad for music?
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Foxconn will spend $2.6B to build dedicated Apple display plant in Taiwan — Foxconn to Build Dedicated Apple Display Plant in Taiwan — Foxconn Technology Group will spend NT$80 billion ($2.6 billion) over the next two years on a new factory in Taiwan to supply displays exclusively for a client.
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| Reuters: |
Google, Rockstar agree to settle patent litigation: filing — (Reuters) - Google Inc has agreed to settle litigation with patent consortium Rockstar, though terms of the deal were not disclosed in a court filing made public this week. — Rockstar, which counts Apple Inc as an investor … | Sean Hollister / Gizmodo: |
How Magic Leap Is Secretly Creating a New Alternate Reality — Don't you hate it when someone claims to have a magical new technology, but won't tell you how it works? When I saw that a super stealthy startup called Magic Leap had raised $542 million to make animals appear out of thin air … | Reuters: |
Obama's immigration plans will make it easier for advanced degree holders to work in the US, but won't reduce backlog of H-1B visa holders awaiting green cards — Obama's immigration tweaks leave Big Tech wanting more — (Reuters) - Silicon Valley expects President Barack Obama to make life …
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| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon leases 470,000 square-foot, 12-story space in midtown Manhattan for next 17 years — Amazon to Lease Entire Manhattan Building, Hinting at Retail Ambitions — Amazon.com agreed to lease 470,000 square feet of space in midtown Manhattan from Vornado Realty Trust …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google's Project Loon can now launch up to 20 balloons per day, and they fly 10 times longer than in 2013 — Google today shared an update from Project Loon, the company's initiative to bring high-speed Internet access to remote areas of the world via hot air balloons.| Josh Kosman / New York Post: |
GoDaddy seeks nearly $4.5B IPO valuation, talks diversifying — GoDaddy pitchwoman Danica Patrick. — GoDaddy.com is pushing ahead with an initial public offering early next year that would value the world's biggest domain registration service at roughly $4.5 billion, The Post has learned.
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Re/code drops comments on its site, noting that most discussion takes place on social media — A Note to Re/code Readers — Like all websites, Re/code is in a constant process of iteration. So, starting today, you'll notice a few changes on our site, and we wanted to let you know about them.
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| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Former Fake Steve Jobs and HubSpot content marketer Dan Lyons to head up Valleywag in January — Dan Lyons Used to be Fake Steve Jobs. Now He's the Chief Valleywag. — Valleywag's chief editor Nitasha Tiku just left for the Verge. Here's her replacement: Dan Lyons …
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| Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Uber's Massive Fundraising Drive Forges Ahead Despite Scandal — A recent controversy ensnaring Uber doesn't appear to be lessening the company's appeal to investors as it moves forward with plans to raise one of the largest venture-capital funding rounds in history.| Napier Lopez / The Next Web: |
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Airbnb Rolls Out Million-Dollar Liability Insurance Program For Hosts — Airbnb today announced an additional liability insurance program that will provide U.S. hosts with up to $1 million worth of protection in the case a guest is accidentally injured anywhere in a host's building or on their property during their stay.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Jaunt VR Releases Its First Content With App That Puts You On Stage With Paul McCartney — Jaunt wants to give you something to watch on makeshift virtual reality headsets like Google Cardboard, Dodocase, and Mirage. So today the 360-degree camera and VR production software maker launches …
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The Next Web, Rolling Stone, The Verge, Re/code, Jaunt, Re/code, Hollywood Reporter, Billboard, Ultimate Classic Rock, HotHardware.com News, CNET, Mashable, Engadget, PCMag Australia Feed, Variety, Gizmodo, Android Central, CNNMoney.com, Forbes and 9to5Google. Tweets: @bwerde
| Jeff Barr / Amazon Web Services Blog: |
Amazon's enterprise storage and sharing service Zocalo gets iOS, Android apps, 5TB file support — Amazon Zocalo Update - Mobile Apps + 5 TB Files — I have a couple of pieces of good news for current and potential users of Amazon Zocalo. Both items are available now and you can start using them today.
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ZDNet, VentureBeat and InfoQ
| Mathew Ingram / Gigaom: |
Google launches Contributor, a subscription service that lets users contribute to participating sites and turn off Google ads — Google launches Contributor, a crowdfunding tool for publishers — Google is launching a new service for websites called Contributor, which allows users to sign …
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Computerworld, VentureBeat, The Verge, Gizmodo, Tech Times, GeekWire, Marketing Land, BetaNews, Engadget, Business Insider, 9to5Google, Electronista, The Next Web and WebProNews. Thanks:@mathewi. See also Mediagazer
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
YouTube Music Awards to Return in 2015, But Not as a Live Event — Vidsite pacts with Vice Media to produce original music videos to debut in March 2015 — YouTube, as part of its stepped-up push into the music biz, will bring back the YouTube Music Awards next March and has renewed a pact with Vice Media to produce it.| Hayley Tsukayama / Washington Post: |
Comcast testing feature to track technicians in real-time; trials begin outside Boston this week, will be rolled out nationally 2015 — Comcast is testing a way to tell you exactly when the cable guy is coming — Comcast is trying out a way to let customers track technicians. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)Sponsor Posts
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