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Uber Said Close to Raising Funding at Up to $40B Value — Uber Technologies Inc. is close to raising a round of financing that would value the mobile car-booking company at $35 billion to $40 billion, according to people with knowledge of the situation. — T. Rowe Price Group Inc … | Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Netflix Sues a Former Exec — Now Yahoo's CIO — For Allegedly Collecting Kickbacks — Netflix says a former executive collected kickbacks from vendors he helped connect to the streaming video company. — Now Netflix is suing its former employee, who is currently Yahoo's chief information officer.
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Sony to cut TV, smartphone lineup; sees growth in PlayStation, image sensors — (Reuters) - Japan's loss-making Sony Corp plans to slash its TV and mobile phone product line-ups to cut costs, counting on multi-billion dollar revenue surges for its buoyant PlayStation 4 and image sensor businesses over the next three years.
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| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
With Google's deal expiring in 2015, Yahoo and Microsoft compete to take over as default search engine in Safari for iOS — All Eyes on Apple as Google Search Deal Expires Next Year — Mozilla's decision last week to replace Google with Yahoo as the default search engine for the Firefox browser …
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| Marco Arment / Marco.org: |
Twitter declines to release full-archive search API to devs, wounds third-party clients again — New Twitter search API won't be available to third-party clients — This is just the next step in killing third-party apps. Twitter doesn't have the guts to just end them outright …
| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Betaworks' latest experiment-turned-product is #Homescreen, a simple app that lets users share their iPhone home screens — Homescreen Is Betaworks' Latest Experiment-Turned-Product — When someone picks up their phone to take a peek, I can't help but take a peek, too.
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| Kristin Cwalinski / CNBC: |
Twitter has talked to Bieber-backed Shots: Source — Twitter has talked about an acquisition of Shots, the selfie app backed by singer Justin Bieber, a source close to Shots told CNBC on Tuesday. — Twitter's acquisition plans became the subject of hot speculation on Monday …
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Pew: most US internet users familiar with common terms like megabyte, captcha, but few understand concepts like Moore's Law, Internet vs. Web — What Internet Users Know about Technology and the Web — Before you read the report, test your own Web IQ by taking the interactive knowledge quiz.
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| Bill Rigby / Reuters: |
Microsoft to pay China $140 million for ‘tax evasion’ — (Reuters) - China has levied about $140 million in back taxes from Microsoft Corp in the first major case concerning cross-border tax evasion in the country, as regulators ramp up pressure on U.S. corporations doing business there.
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| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Twitter Introduces Offers: Discounts You Claim in Tweets and Redeem in Stores — First, Twitter dipped its toes into e-commerce. Now it wants a piece of bricks-and-mortar retail, too. — The social network today is introducing Twitter Offers, discounts that users can claim right …
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Tweets: @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac and @minethatdata
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Going Out App YPlan Raises $24M As It Lays Off Staff, Plans Pivot Into Long-Tail Events — YPlan — the app that gives people with no plans a curated selection of things to do and the ability to buy tickets to do them — has some big plans of its own. TechCrunch has learned and confirmed … | Stuart Dredge / Guardian: |
Spotify's 2013 revenues were €746.9M, 91% of revenue coming from subscriptions — Spotify revenues grew sharply in 2013, but operating losses also rose — Streaming music service's turnover up 74% to €746.9m, with 91% coming from its paying subscribers rather than ads| Sam Sheffer / The Verge: |
Coin beta review: limited utility, confusing setup, doesn't work at ATM, broke after 36 hours — My experience with Coin Beta in the real world — It worked, but then my unit stopped functioning — I don't carry around a traditional wallet. Instead, I've got a pile of cards held together with a hair-tie.
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StealthGenie CEO ordered to pay $500K fine for selling spyware app, surrender source code to government — Man Pleads Guilty for Selling “StealthGenie” Spyware App and Ordered to Pay $500,000 Fine — A Danish citizen today pleaded guilty in the Eastern District of Virginia and was ordered …
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Sony is developing an e-paper smart watch, entire face and band will function as a display — Sony Said to Plan E-Paper Watch in Test of Innovation — Sony Corp. (6758) is developing a watch made out of electronic paper for release as soon as next year in a trial of the company's … | Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Hollywood Comes Back To Silicon Valley With A New SyFy Reality TV Show — Hollywood just can't get enough of geeks coding in hoodies. Following the successful first season of Mike Judge's HBO brilliant farce Silicon Valley, NBC Universal techie network SyFy will try to show what being inside the tech bubble is really like.
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