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| Zachary M. Seward / Quartz: |
Comcast, investor in Vox Media and Recode, could end up buying them both — Vox on the block. — Before Vox Media struck a deal to buy Recode, the two digital publishers already had something in common: Comcast, which has invested in both companies and could end up owning them outright.
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See also Mediagazer| Sydney Ember / New York Times: |
Vox Media acquires Re/code in all-stock deal, Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher to stay at Re/code after merger — Vox Media Acquiring ReCode — ReCode, the news website led by the veteran journalists Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, is being acquired by Vox Media, a deal that reflects …
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Fortune, Social Media Today, Talking New Media, Business Insider, SiliconANGLE, AdExchanger, TechCrunch, Geek News Central, Mashable, Stowe Boyd, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, tech.co, International Business Times, The Huffington Post, Jessica E. Lessin, FishbowlNY, Bloggers Blog, Washington Post and Poynter
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| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Obama administration sides with Oracle in Supreme Court fight with Google over copyrighted Java APIs — Let Oracle own API's, Justice Dept tells top court in surprise filing — The right of companies to use key elements of computer code, known as application programming interfaces (API's) …
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Techdirt, Ars Technica, PCWorld, USA Today, 9to5Google, Reuters, TechEye and Beyond Search
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
New iOS bug crashes Messages app and reboots iPhones when a specific string of text is received via iMessage or SMS — New iOS Bug Crashing iPhones Simply by Receiving a Text Message [Includes Fix] — A new bug has been discovered in the Messages app, allowing a string of characters sent …
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| Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal: |
Mobile web traffic adds to desktop, which is not in decline as some reports might suggest — Mobile Isn't Killing the Desktop Internet — People are increasingly accessing online content on mobile devices, but that doesn't mean the desktop is in decline.| Mary Meeker / KPCB: |
Slides: Mary Meeker's Internet Trends Report for 2015 — 2015 Internet Trends — KPCB's Mary Meeker presents the 2015 Internet Trends report, 20 years after the inaugural “The Internet Report” was first published in 1995. Since then, the number of Internet users has risen from 35 million in 1995 to more than 2.8 billion today.
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| Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Interview with Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel: Snapchat is planning an IPO, has 100M daily active users — Snapchat's Evan Spiegel Takes the Stage at Code Conference (Liveblog) — Snapchat considering changing or eliminating push-to-view feature. — Not entertaining any acquisition possibilities.
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Re/code, Wall Street Journal, The Next Web, International Business Times, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, Tech News Today, Bloomberg View, TechCrunch, Business Insider, PandoDaily, VentureBeat, AppleInsider, Ubergizmo, Marketing Land, USA Today, Business Insider, iMore and Seeking Alpha
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Google and Yahoo have both held early acquisition talks with Flipboard in recent weeks but deal price hasn't yet been discussed — Google, Yahoo Have Had Talks to Buy Flipboard — Twitter's Flipboard discussions have largely stalled since April — Several Internet giants have inquired …
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CNET, Ubergizmo, bizjournals, MobileSyrup.com, SlashGear, The Next Web and Seeking Alpha. Tweets: @harrymccracken. See also Mediagazer
| Lizette Chapman / Wall Street Journal: |
Dell Ventures and Intel Capital Invest $45 Million in DocuSign — Just weeks after closing funding from growth investors at a $3 billion valuation, DocuSign Inc. has raised an additional $45 million from the venture arms of Dell and Intel at the same valuation.
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple replaces problematic OS X networking process discoveryd with mDNSResponder in new beta — Apple drops discoveryd in latest OS X beta following months of network issues — After many complaints from the developer community about poor networking performance on Yosemite …
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TIME, OS X Daily, iMore, Business Insider, Ars Technica, MacRumors, The Next Web, MacRumors and Daring Fireball
Tweets: @marcoarment and @josephschmitt
| TechCrunch: |
Search on iOS in Google and Chrome apps now features content from installed iOS apps that support deep links — Google Search Will Now Also Feature Content From iOS Apps — For the last two years, Google has been showing Android users relevant content from apps they have installed on their phones and tablets.| Dashiell Bennett / Bloomberg Business: |
Brick and mortar retailer Hot Topic to buy ThinkGeek parent company Geeknet for $122M in cash and stock — One of the Biggest Tech IPOs of All Time Is Getting Bought by a Teen Clothing Store — From hardware company to e-tailer — Hot Topic, the fashion staple of suburban malls everywhere …
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PR Newswire, Ars Technica, Engadget, Gizmodo, The Verge, SiliconANGLE and Slashdot
Tweets: @moorehn, @thestalwart and @thestalwart
| Stephen Ohlemacher / Associated Press: |
IRS says hackers gained access to tax returns, other info of more than 100K taxpayers by targeting “Get Transcript” service and using SSNs, birth dates, more — APNewsBreak: IRS says thieves stole tax info from 100,000 — WASHINGTON (AP) — Thieves used an online service provided …
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| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
US judge says Yahoo must face class action lawsuit alleging it illegally intercepted emails to improve ads — Yahoo must face email spying class action: U.S. judge — A U.S. judge ordered Yahoo Inc to face a nationwide class-action lawsuit accusing it of illegally intercepting the content … | Leo Kelion / BBC: |
Google Play to include country-specific age ratings for apps from external rating authorities — Google Play revamps its Android apps' age ratings — Google is passing over control of app ratings in its Play store to an independent organisation — Later this week, Google Play will revamp the way it rates apps.
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