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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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| 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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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 …
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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 … | 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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| 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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| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
In Another Fire Sale, Amazon Cuts Phone Price to $199 Unlocked, Still With a Free Year of Prime — It's no secret that Amazon has a lot of unsold Fire Phones, but the question has been how the retailer would look to sell its inventory. — Screenshot by Re/code
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| Aaron Smith / Pew Internet: |
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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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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Union pushes for better conditions for security guards on Apple campus — As organized labor expands its efforts in Silicon Valley, a local union and civil rights activist the Rev. Jesse Jackson are pushing for better working conditions for the security guards who work at Apple's campus.
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| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
SyFy reality TV series The Bazillion Dollar Club to follow 12 startups participating in 500 Startups and Highway1 — 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 …
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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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