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| Josh Kopelman / First Round Review: |
Dos and don'ts for navigating the Series A Crunch in the era of easy seed rounds — What the Seed Funding Boom Means for Raising a Series A — Shortly after my first child was born, a friend gave me a copy of a book called “The Blessing of a Skinned Knee.” The book was full of contrarian wisdom.
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases iOS 8.3 Public Beta, Beta Program now comprises both iOS and OS X — Apple has updated its Apple Seed website to include many references to iOS device management. It has also updated the name of its program to ‘Apple Beta Software Program’, dropping the specificity of it being for OS X only.
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases iOS 8.3 beta 3 to developers with Messages conversation filters and ability to mark messages as junk — Apple releases iOS 8.3 beta 3 for developers — Apple has just seeded a new developer build of iOS 8.3. The beta can be downloaded on Apple's developer website. iOS 8.3 beta 2 …
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| Luke Dormehl / Cult of Mac: |
Tim Cook offered Steve Jobs his liver, and other revelations from new biography — I can't wait to read Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader. The upcoming biography, by veteran reporters Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli, promises to be the definitive telling of Steve Jobs' life.| Rich McCormick / The Verge: |
Google is done selling the Nexus 5 — Google has stopped selling the Nexus 5, the company's 2014 flagship Android smartphone. A Google spokesperson told The Verge today that “while some inventory of Nexus 5 still exists (with our retail and carrier partners), our focus is on the Nexus 6 at this time.”
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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Sources confirm Apple will finally allow MacBook battery packs and third-party chargers with USB-C — USB-C has become the biggest topic of conversation following Apple's introduction of the new 12-inch MacBook. After years of separate power, data, and video ports, Apple is now pushing USB-C …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Has Quietly Acquired 2lemetry To Build Out Its Internet Of Things Strategy — Amazon is taking another step into the Internet of Things. TechCrunch has learned, and confirmed, that the e-commerce and cloud services giant has acquired 2lemetry, a startup based out of Denver …
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| Jeff Baumgartner / Multichannel News: |
Google Fiber's video subscriptions so far: 29,867 total, with penetration rates of 5% to 13%; highest number in Kansas City, Mo., with a 10.5% penetration rate — Google Fiber Ended 2014 With 29,867 TV Subs: Report — Video Market Impact Small But Growing
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| Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Publishers using Snapchat Discover set high ad rates that command $50,000 to $100,000 per day for 500K to 1M views — Snapchat's Discover Publishers Are Asking for Big Ad Rates — And They're Getting Them — Snapchat's Discover platform is one of the hottest properties in media.| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Osmo Masterpiece is an iPad app aimed at kids that uses the front-facing camera, a proprietary mirror, and AI to train people how to draw — Osmo Masterpiece could turn every kid into an iPad artist — Osmo is turning out to be wonderfully creative at making apps for children that redefine the meaning of games and play.| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Video conferencing startup Highfive raises $32M Series B led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, plans to double its workforce by end of 2015 — Highfive Raises $32 Million For Its Video Conferencing System — It's only been four months since Highfive's video conferencing units have been available …
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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Docker's latest acquisition, KiteMatic, built a Mac app that runs Docker containers — Docker, a startup whose open-source container technology is becoming a popular component in software development, is announcing today that it's acquired KiteMatic, a three-man startup that built a Mac app …
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| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Swarm update adds direct messaging and group chat, eliminates Plans tab, which let users broadcast plans to friends publicly — Swarm Launches Direct Messaging, Ditches Awkward Public Plans — Swarm has today launched private messaging within its location-based social network …
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The Next Web, The Foursquare Blog, The Verge and VentureBeat
| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Early 2015 Retina MacBook Pro teardown gives first look inside new Force Touch trackpad — Following dismantling the latest refreshed MacBook Air models yesterday, today iFixit dives inside the new MacBook Pro model that arrived this week with upgraded internals and more.
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| Jamie Talbot / Medium: |
Medium lets select publications host Medium stories at their own domain in limited beta — Custom domains for publications — Everyone's stories and ideas, in more places. — Everyone who posts on Medium already owns the rights to the original content they publish …
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App Store dev guidelines now require health research data consent, Apple Pay policy disclosure — Apple adds App Store guidelines requiring devs obtain health research data consent, disclose Apple Pay policies, more — Apple has added some new entries to its App Store Review Guidelines … | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google Code disables new project creation, will shut down on January 25, 2016 — GitHub has officially won. Google has announced that Google Code project creation has been disabled today, with the ultimate plan to kill off the service next year. — On August 24, 2015, the project hosting service will be set to read-only.
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| Jeremy C. Owens / Mercury News: |
Cypress Semiconductor and Spansion complete $5B merger, company plans to lay off 1,600 workers worldwide within three weeks — Exclusive: Hundreds being laid off as Cypress and Spansion merge in $5B deal, internal memo shows — Today: The merger of Silicon Valley chip companies Cypress Semiconductor … | Reuters: |
Chinese car maker SAIC Motor and Alibaba to invest $160M in Internet-connected cars with view to launch in 2016 — China's SAIC Motor, Alibaba to invest $160 million in Internet-connected cars — (Reuters) - Chinese auto maker SAIC Motor Corp Ltd said on Thursday it would join forces …
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| Mat Smith / Engadget: |
After its sale from Sony, Vaio launches first mid-range nondescript Android phone in Japan — Here is VAIO's first smartphone — No longer a part of Sony, VAIO likes the look of that smartphone market, and has decided to go up against its former parent company's Xperia series with its own creation …
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The Verge, Wall Street Journal, Phandroid, xda-developers, Tech Times, Android Police, Android Authority, PhoneDog.com, Neowin, Gizmodo, Electronista, Phones Review, TechnoBuffalo, Droid Life, PhoneRadar, CNET, Digital Trends, Pocketnow, Ubergizmo, AndroidGuys, The Next Web and htxt.africa. Tweets: @chrismessina
| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
DJI set to double sales to $1B in 2015, the first consumer drone company to do so, amid VC funding talks — DJI is about to become the first billion dollar consumer drone company — The company did around $500 million in sales during 2014 and is on pace to double that this year
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