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Google is working on a project that lets users receive and pay bills with debit or credit cards from Inbox app and Gmail, to debut in fourth quarter — Google Working on Project to Let You Receive and Pay Bills Directly Inside Gmail — Google's mission to organize the world's information is now targeting your physical mailbox.| Sam Altman: |
Y Combinator's Sam Altman rebuts talk of bubble with a public wager that three tech portfolios will appreciate sharply by 2020 — Bubble talk — I'm tired of reading about investors and journalists claiming there's a bubble in tech. I understand that it's fun to do and easy press, but it's boring reading.
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| Maya Kosoff / Business Insider: |
Sequoia Capital's Michael Moritz echoes Bill Gurley's bubble warning, predicts death for many unicorns and “crazy little companies” — One of the most prolific tech investors says there will soon “undoubtedly will be some sort of setback” in Silicon Valley| New York Times: |
Facebook to test new format for hosting publisher content within months, initial partners include New York Times, BuzzFeed, and National Geographic — Facebook May Host News Sites' Content — Nothing attracts news organizations like Facebook. And nothing makes them more nervous.
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Morgan Stanley CFO Ruth Porat to join Google as CFO on May 26 — Ruth Porat to Join Google as Chief Financial Officer — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif (Tuesday, March 24, 2015) — Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced that Ruth Porat, currently Chief Financial Officer at Morgan Stanley, will join its management team as CFO.
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| Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico: |
Google and Twitter veteran Jason Goldman heads to White House as first-ever chief digital officer — Barack Obama names two new top aides — Murray is currently Vice President Joe Biden's deputy chief of staff and communications director; Jason Goldman will take over and expand the White House's digital outreach.
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Ars Technica obtains the Oakland Police Department's database of 4.6M license plate scans through a public records request — We know where you've been: Ars acquires 4.6M license plate scans from the cops — One citizen demands: “Do you know why Oakland is spying on me and my wife?”| Chris Dixon / cdixon blog: |
London-based distributed computing firm Improbable raises $20M from a16z, develops large-scale simulated worlds — Improbable: enabling the development of large-scale simulated worlds — Over the past decade, computing resources that were previously available only to large organizations became available to almost anyone.
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Google Fiber announces Salt Lake City expansion, making it the eighth location to get the service — Google Fiber expands gigabit service again, plans move to Salt Lake City — Five metro areas on track to get Google Fiber; three already have it. — Google announced today …
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple Watch sales training encourages employees to build trust with customers so they can serve as fashion advisors during sale — Apple's sales overhaul for Apple Watch will focus on building trust, offering fashion views, upselling bands — The job of Apple Retail Store employees will begin changing in profound ways next month.
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| David Morgan / Reuters: |
FAA grants airspace clearance to firms cleared to fly commercial drones if flying with equipment under 55 pounds, lower than 200 feet — U.S. FAA streamlines approval for some commercial drone use — (Reuters) - U.S. aviation regulators on Tuesday unveiled a new policy to speed up approval …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook introduces On This Day, a Timehop-like page that shows you posts, photos, other content that happened on this day in the past, offers notifications — Facebook's Timehop Clone “On This Day” Shows You Your Posts From Years Ago — Facebook's experimented with ways to surface old Memories since 2010.
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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Apple Acquires Durable Database Company FoundationDB — Apple has acquired FoundationDB, a company that specializes in speedy, durable NoSQL databases, TechCrunch has learned. — A notice on the FoundationDB site notes that it's no longer offering downloads of its database software.
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HP dumps Apple's Beats audio, partners with Bang & Olufsen — Hewlett-Packard once relied on Beats for audio technology in its PCs and tablets, but that was before Apple acquired it. HP has now found a new audio partner in Bang & Olufsen. — HP will use Bang & Olufsen audio technology to its PCs, tablets and accessories.
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| Sarah Buhr / TechCrunch: |
Former Hulu CEO Jason Kilar's Vessel opens to public for $2.99/month, 12 months free if you sign up within 72 hours — Former Hulu CEO Jason Kilar's Vessel Launches To The Public — Vessel, the new online video subscription service built by some of the early team at Hulu, is launching to the public today.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
deeplink.me launches AppWords, a platform that lets users search within apps and get deep links into other apps, and lets marketers bid for those deep links — Deeplink.Me Moves Into Google Territory With AppWords, A Deep Link Mobile Search And Ad Platform| Jamie Condliffe / Gizmodo: |
Xiaomi's New Mi TV 2: A 40-Inch Android-Powered Smart TV for $320 — Xiaomi's onslaught of affordable technology continues. The Chinese company has today launched its new 40-inch Mi TV 2: a powerful smart TV running an Android-based OS that will sell for $320.Sponsor Posts
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