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Andy Rubin's hardware incubator Playground Global raises $48M from Google, HP, Foxconn, others, and will provide support in exchange for equity, not capital — Android Creator Andy Rubin Launching Playground Global — Firm to provide support, advice to tech startups making devices| Jeff Elder / Wall Street Journal: |
After Kleiner trial, Ellen Pao talks about workplace sexism, changing hiring practices at Reddit, more — Ellen Pao Says Gender Issues Won't ‘Go Away’ After Kleiner Trial — In first interview since losing sexism case, Pao says too many 'women feel like there's no way to win'| Cat Zakrzewski / TechCrunch: |
In Snowden interview, John Oliver makes surveillance debate relatable by avoiding civil liberty hypotheticals, focusing on NSA's ease of access to “dick pics” — John Oliver Just Changed The Surveillance Reform Debate — Remember Edward Snowden?
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EXCLUSIVE: Judge says Brooklyn woman can use Facebook to serve divorce papers — A Brooklyn woman scored a judge's approval to legally change her relationship status to “single” via Facebook. — In a landmark ruling, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Matthew Cooper is allowing …
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Tim Cook: Apple employees will get 50% off Apple Watch, 1000+ apps submitted — Apple CEO Tim Cook today sent out a memo to all employees ahead of the Apple Watch's retail try-on kickoff this Friday. Cook thanks employees who have worked on the Apple Watch by saying, “congratulations …
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Snapchat Replaces “Best Friends” With Friend Emojis, Adds Low-Light Camera — It was always weird that Snapchat exposed who you snapped with most in the “Best Friends” list, so today the app is ditching that for a new private way to see who you're closest to.
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Update for Windows 7 and 8.1 silently installs Windows 10 downloader — Microsoft has released an optional update that “enables additional capabilities for Windows Update notifications when new updates are available to the user”. We discovered the update is actually a downloader for Windows 10 …
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LG may have accidentally revealed Apple's 8K iMac plans in a press release about display tech — Apple to release super-high resolution ‘iMac 8K’ later this year, display partner LG says — In a rather unusual reveal, a supposed “iMac 8K” has been outed in a press release that was published … | Leena Rao / Fortune: |
ZenPayroll raises $60 million from Google Capital, others — For the founders of ZenPayroll, a Silicon Valley startup that aims to automate the payroll process for businesses, it all started with family. Joshua Reeves, Edward Kim, and Tomer London each had close family members who managed people's paychecks.
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Apple Maps now includes hotel reviews from TripAdvisor and Booking.com, indicating the end of Yelp exclusivity — Apple Maps Now Includes Hotel Reviews From TripAdvisor and Booking.com — Since the release of Apple's in-house Maps app as part of iOS 6 back in 2012, Yelp …
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Buttercoin, a Y Combinator and Google Ventures-backed bitcoin exchange, will shut down April 10 — Google Ventures-Backed Bitcoin Exchange Buttercoin Is Shutting Down — Buttercoin, a bitcoin exchange startup backed by Y Combinator and Google Ventures, is closing its doors this month after failing to raise new investment.
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