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AOL to take over Microsoft ad sales for display, mobile, and video in US and 8 other markets; Bing to replace Google on AOL for search and search advertising — AOL Takes Over Majority of Microsoft's Ad Business, Swaps Google Search For Bing — Microsoft Corp. is stepping back from the advertising business in a big way.
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Microsoft exec says Bing is a multibillion dollar business that pays for itself — Search Beats Display: Microsoft Says Bing Is Sustainable & Standalone Multibillion Dollar Business — A rare reveal as Microsoft exit the display ads business highlights what a powerhouse Bing search apparently is.
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AdExchanger, PCWorld, International Business Times, TechCrunch, Bing Blog, TechSpot and Search Engine Land. Tweets: @edbott
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Term sheet for Uber's convertible bond sale reveals the company saw 300% YoY growth and generated $470M in operating losses on $415M in revenue — Uber Bonds Term Sheet Reveals $470 Million in Operating Losses — Uber Technologies Inc. is telling prospective investors that it generates $470 million …
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| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Uber Acquires Part Of Bing's Mapping Assets, Will Absorb Around 100 Microsoft Employees — Uber will acquire assets from Microsoft Bing, including roughly 100 employees focused on the product's image collection activities. In short, Uber is absorbing data-collection engineers from Microsoft to bolster its own mapping work.
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| Jad Mouawad / New York Times: |
Federal Railroad Administration partners with Google to include railroad crossings in Maps, asks other map makers to do the same — Agency Taps Mapping Technology to Curb Rail Crossing Accidents — After a sharp increase in the number of rail crossing accidents last year …
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| Klint Finley / Wired: |
GitHub has become the go-to centralized repository for software, but its freemium model, like SourceForge's, is bound to come under pressure — The Problem With Putting All the World's Code in GitHub — The ancient Library of Alexandria may have been the largest collection of human knowledge in its time …
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Samsung says it sold 1M Z1 Tizen phones, will launch several more in 2015 according to source — Samsung Electronics plans more Tizen smartphones this year: source — Leading smartphone maker Samsung Electronics Co Ltd plans to launch more handsets running on its own Tizen operating system later …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Vine co-founder Dom Hofmann launches Byte in private beta for iPhone, allowing users to make and share collages of text, sound, photos, memes, emojis, and more — Byte is a wild new creative tool from the founder of Vine — Dom Hofmann grew up in an earlier era of software development … | Matt Brian / Engadget: |
UK's Barclaycard launches new wristband, key fob, and sticker for its bPay contactless payment service, confirms it won't support Apple Pay at launch — Barclaycard steps up its contactless game with three new NFC devices — If you didn't know, Britain now prefers cashless payments to notes and coins.
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| Martin Beck / Marketing Land: |
Facebook adds signals to News Feed video rankings, will now take into account actions like activating audio and watching videos full screen — Facebook Expands Beyond Like, Comment & Share In Ranking Video In News Feed — News Feed video rankings will start taking into account actions …
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Facebook, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, Forbes, Ubergizmo, The Next Web, VentureBeat, VatorNews, Tubefilter, SocialTimes and WebProNews
| Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider: |
Forrester: US smartphone users spend more time in Facebook's mobile apps than Google's — There is one key reason why people are spending more time on Facebook's apps than Google's — Smartphone users in the United States are spending more time in Facebook's apps than Google's apps … | S.Somasegar / MSDN Blogs: |
Microsoft will release Visual Studio 2015, Team Foundation Server 2015 and .NET 4.6 on July 20 — Save the Date: Visual Studio 2015 RTM on July 20th — Visual Studio 2015 is a big release. We are opening up Visual Studio to developers targeting new platforms - from cross-platform mobile …
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