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Twitter announces acquisition of Bangalore-based ZipDial, a marketing platform for missed calls — Bringing Twitter to more people around the world — We're very pleased to announce we've reached an agreement to acquire ZipDial (@zipdial), a product partner based in Bangalore, India …
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Tweets: @valwagoner, @rsjaitly, @davemcclure, @twitterindia, @jess, @satyangajwani, @zipdial, @jess, @joshconstine and @mathewi
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Facebook to reduce distribution of deliberately false or misleading posts in News Feed, characterized by hoax-busting comments and high removal rate by sharers — News Feed FYI: Showing Fewer Hoaxes — The goal of News Feed is to catch up with your friends and find the things that matter to you.
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Re/code, The Next Web, VentureBeat and The Verge
Tweets: @mikeisaac, @jayrosen_nyu, @willoremus and @pkafka
See also Mediagazer| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Coinbase raises $75M from DFJ, the NYSE, and two banks, in biggest investment in a Bitcoin company to date — Bitcoin Startup Coinbase Raises $75 Million From DFJ, the NYSE and Two Banks — Coinbase, a software company that allows people to buy bitcoin and enables businesses to accept it as payment …
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The Coinbase Blog, New York Times, TechCrunch, Business Insider, VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal, CoinDesk, CoinTelegraph.Com News, SiliconANGLE and PE Hub Blog. Tweets: @sub8u
| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
Deutsche Telekom CEO says T-Mobile's current approach is unsustainable, still hopes for merger — Deutsche Telekom CEO Holds Out Hope for a T-Mobile U.S. Deal (Exclusive) — Deutsche Telekom CEO Tim Hoettges said that for all of T-Mobile's short-term gains in the United States … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Stack Exchange Raises $40M Led By A16Z To Boost Its Programmer Forums — On the heels of backing the likes of BuzzFeed and Genius, Andreessen Horowitz is putting more money into digital content, this time with a technical and B2B angle. The VC is leading a $40 million round of investment in Stack Exchange …
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Joel on Software, VentureBeat, Stack Exchange, Fortune, Wall Street Journal, The Verge and Medium
| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
HP announces seven new tablets, including 12.3-inch Pro Slate 12 and 7.9-inch Pro Slate 8 running Android — HP unveils a 12-inch Android tablet that looks like a giant HTC One — Plus a ton of others running Android and Windows 8 — HP wants to sell tablets that range from cheap …
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HP, PC World, BetaNews, 9to5Google, Engadget, Inquirer, Gizmodo, ZDNet, Phones Review, PhoneDog.com and Liliputing
| Harish Jonnalagadda / Android Central: |
Marriott looking to bring Netflix, Hulu Plus and Pandora to your hotel room TV — Marriott is about to make your hotel stay much more rewarding. The hotel chain has confirmed to Bloomberg that it is testing a TV service that allows its guests to access streaming content from their own Netflix, Hulu Plus and Pandora accounts.| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft acquires text analysis startup Equivio, plans to integrate machine learning tech into Office 365 — Microsoft today announced it has acquired text analysis software startup Equivio, though financial details of the deal were not disclosed. The company says it plans to integrate … | Lizzie Wade / Wired: |
How small towns in Mexico are building their own cellular networks because commercial providers won't — Where Cellular Networks Don't Exist, People Are Building Their Own — Inside the cloud that is perpetually draped over the small town of San Juan Yaee, Oaxaca, Raúl Hernández …
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| Ricardo Bilton / Digiday: |
Techmeme's Gabe Rivera on tech media: ‘A lot of intellectual dishonesty’ — Gabe Rivera has a love-hate relationship with the tech media world. Known both for helming curation site Techmeme and for his often sarcastic Twitter personality, Rivera is knee-deep in the cut-throat Silicon Valley …
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The Overspill, Beyond Search and PandoDaily
Tweets: @dannysullivan, @laurengoode, @rich_trenholm, @gaberivera, @mgsiegler, @martinsfp, @ryanlawler, @gaberivera, @digiday and @fmanjoo
See also Mediagazer| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
First Windows 10 mobile preview, due in February, key to Microsoft's OneCore vision — Summary:Microsoft will show off Windows 10 mobile and touch-first Office for Windows at its January 21 Windows 10 event, but the first mobile preview isn't likely until February.
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PC World, Gigaom, Ubergizmo, Gotta Be Mobile, Business Insider, Neowin, Mashable, Gizmodo and Windows Central
| Neal Gabler / New York Times: |
How VR startup Jaunt selected its name with help from a professional namer — The Weird Science of Naming New Products — The announcement came in November with two names attached: one famous, one not, or at least not yet. The famous name was Paul McCartney.Sponsor Posts
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