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Dropbox hits 400M registered users, but company still struggles with sales strategy and lacks stability within executive ranks as rivals catch up — Dropbox Is Struggling and Competitors Are Catching Up — Dropbox CEO: We Have 400 Million Users and Growing — Dropbox made itself a household name by giving away cloud storage.| Vidya Nagarajan / Official Google for Work Blog: |
Google releases new $1,999 Chromebox for meetings bundle targeted at larger conference rooms with support for up to 20 people — Chromebox, now bringing face-to-face meetings to bigger spaces — When we launched Chromebox for meetings last year, we wanted to help teams meet face to face … | Alex Stamos / Facebook: |
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Apple Paying 0.2 Cents for Each Song Streamed Free During Apple Music Trial Period — Apple will pay record labels 0.2 cents for each song that customers stream for free during the three-month Apple Music free trial, reports The New York Times. The rate is similar to what Spotify pays … | Matt Galligan / Medium: |
Circa is shutting down indefinitely after failure to monetize and close funding deals; CEO Matt Galligan says firm is working on deal involving underlying tech — Farewell to Circa News — It's with great disappointment that we let you know that Circa News has been put on indefinite hiatus.
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Facebook Messenger no longer requires a Facebook account to sign up, just a first name, last name, and phone number in the US, Canada, Peru, Venezuela — Messenger No Longer Requires A Facebook Account — Facebook wants even the people who hate Facebook to use Messenger …
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Thanks:@joshconstine| Aaron Harris / Aaron's Blog: |
As time to IPO increases, startups should rethink options packages to make them more valuable — We need to rethink employee compensation — I think that the way that employees are getting compensated at startups is starting to break. The old model of relatively low salary and “high” …
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Facebook Instant articles to begin appearing in feeds this week; New York Times expects to post 30 stories/day, NBC to post 30-40/day — Publishers Prepare to Ramp Up News Distribution on Facebook's Instant Articles in Coming Days … Publishers are ready to ramp up content distribution …
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ICANN considering changes that would disallow proxy registration for domains used for commercial purposes, could put user privacy at risk — Changes to Domain Name Rules Place User Privacy in Jeopardy — TG Storytime is a free community website for transgender authors, operated by Joe Six-Pack …
| James Risley / GeekWire: |
Amazon begins streaming original shows in HDR to Prime Instant Video subscribers on select Samsung TVs; more content and support for other devices coming soon — Amazon rolls out first-ever high dynamic range shows for Prime Instant Video — Amazon announced today that Prime Instant Video subscribers … | Tommy Caldwell / The Official Google Blog: |
Google launches first vertical Street View collection with Yosemite's El Capitan — Vertical Street View of the world's most iconic rock wall: Yosemite's El Capitan — Today we're launching our first-ever vertical Street View collection, giving you the opportunity to climb 3,000 feet … | Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Apple to block apps like Twitter from scanning users' iPhones and iPads to see which other apps are installed — Apple Moves to Block iPhone App-Scanning — In order to decide what ad to show to a person, Facebook and Twitter have sometimes drawn on data about other apps that are already installed on that person's phone.
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Spotify acquires analytics firm Seed Scientific that included Beats Music as a client, will exclusively get access to services — Spotify Buys Beats' Analytics Provider Seed Scientific — Spotify wants to own big data about bands. Today it acquired analytics firm Seed Scientific to forge … Sponsor Posts
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