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Comcast terminates $45B Time Warner Cable merger agreement — Comcast / Time Warner Cable / Charter Transactions Terminated — Comcast Corporation announced this morning that its merger agreement with Time Warner Cable and its transactions agreement with Charter Communications, Inc. have been terminated.
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Comcast and TWC combined would have controlled 57% of national broadband market, too high a threshold for FCC and DoJ — Comcast Confirms End of Deal With Time Warner Cable — Comcast confirmed Friday that it had called off its $45 billion takeover of Time Warner Cable … | Bloomberg Business: |
Comcast's hurdles were too high, despite political donations, deep Washington ties, and $17M spent on lobbying — Comcast Finds Golf and 128 Lobbyists Can't Sell U.S. on Merger — The company brought formidable muscle to its arguments, and lost. — t TShields3
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Apple Watch teardown reveals 205mAh battery, Apple S1 CPU, inside view of Taptic Engine and Digital Crown — Apple Watch Teardown — Time flies: it's been eight months since Apple announced its (digital) crowning achievement: the Apple Watch. Join us as we make time stand still by tearing …
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The history of YouTube and how Google overcame legal, financial, and technological problems to build a site that has almost 50 years of video uploaded daily — Cheaper bandwidth or bust: How Google saved YouTube — Leading the Web video revolution was an almost constant battle for survival.
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Facebook testing new notifications tab that acts as news hub, includes birthdays, events, local news, nearby friends, and more — Facebook's new notifications tab is a robust mini-news hub — Facebook wants notifications to become much more than a perfunctory list of recent behavior, events and invitations.| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Victorious Launches Its First Apps For Online Stars And Their “Superfans” — Victorious is launching mobile apps today built for Internet video stars Ryan Higa and The Young Turks. — I assume this is good news if you're a fan of Higa or The Young Turks, but even if you're not … | Wall Street Journal: |
Filings: Kleiner Perkins offers to waive nearly $1M in legal fees if Ellen Pao doesn't appeal, offered $965K settlement last year — Kleiner Perkins Is Seeking Nearly $1 Million in Legal Fees From Ellen Pao — Silicon Valley venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers filed legal …
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Reproductive health app Glow now allows men to track factors affecting their fertility and link with partners' accounts — An App for Hacking Fertility Now Also Works for Men — In our culture, reproduction is often seen as women's work. From pregnancy to childbirth through nursing a newborn child …
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Social music app Smule raises $38M in debt and equity round led by Adams Street Partners — Musical social network raised $38M for expansion — Musical social network Smule raised $26 million in equity and $12 million in debt funding on Thursday to grow its platform.
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Amazon Web Services generated $5.16B in revenue last year, $1.57B in revenue last quarter, up from $1.1B in the same quarter last year — Amazon breaks out cloud results for first time on Q1 earnings report — Summary:Analysts and shareholders have been waiting many moons for Amazon … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Dropbox's Collaborative Note-Taking Service, Dropbox Notes, Heads Into Beta Testing — Earlier this month, Dropbox was spotted testing an early version of an online note-taking service dubbed “Project Composer,” which appeared to have roots in the company's 2014 acquisition of collaborative docs startup HackPad.
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Tests reveal Snapdragon 810 runs hot and throttles early and severely, causing performance issues — In-depth with the Snapdragon 810's heat problems — This is a hot chip that throttles early and often, and it makes a difference. — If you're using a relatively recent, non-Apple …
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Sources: BitTorrent laid off about 40 of their 150 domestic employees — Big Layoffs At BitTorrent — The company behind the revolutionary file-sharing protocol sacks dozens of employees. — Wikimedia Commons — They're swinging the axe over at BitTorrent.| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft's Q3 revenue grew 6% YoY to $21.7B, Surface revenue up 44%, Commercial Cloud revenue up 106%, Office 365 hits 12.4M subscribers — Microsoft Beats In Its FQ3 With Revenue Of $21.7B, EPS Of $0.61 — did not Today following the bell, Microsoft reported its fiscal third quarter financial results …
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