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Square Said to File Confidentially for Initial Public Offering — Square Inc., the mobile-payments company founded and led by Jack Dorsey, the interim chief executive officer of Twitter Inc., filed confidentially for an initial public offering, people with knowledge of the matter said.| Ted Johnson / Variety: |
FCC OKs AT&T-DirecTV merger with conditions lasting 4 years: expand fiber internet to 12.5M new customers, submit interconnection agreements for review, more — FCC Approves AT&T-DirecTV Merger — AT&T and DirecTV's merger cleared its final federal regulatory hurdle on Friday, garnering the votes at the FCC for approval.
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Google, Amazon, Verizon, and at least 11 others will help NASA devise the first air-traffic control system to coordinate small, low-altitude drones — Google Wants to Be the Air Traffic Controller for Drones … Google Inc., the company that brought order to the Internet …
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Sources: MCX's CurrentC mobile payment app to begin limited trial in stores next month as deals keeping Apple Pay out of stores expire — Retailers' Answer to Apple Pay Is Said to Hit Stores in August … After almost three years in development, the retail industry's answer to Apple Pay is finally getting off the ground.
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New patent group threatens to derail 4K HEVC video streaming — It's better than H.264, but it's going to cost more than H.264 too. — A new industry group called HEVC Advance is threatening to demand royalties for the new HEVC video codec that could halve the bandwidth required …
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New Voicemail Transcription For Google Voice And Project Fi Reduces Errors By 49% — Sometimes Google's voicemail transcription is good enough to get the point across, and other times it's a seemingly random collection of words that only make sense when you're under the influence of really great narcotics.| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Verizon's mobile video service Go90 will launch late this summer, initially for free, with full TV show episodes from select networks on tap — Verizon Mobile Video Service Details Uncovered: To Be Called Go90 (Exclusive) — Verizon is getting ready to launch a new mobile video service called Go90 this summer, Variety has learned.| Bloomberg Business: |
Airbnb Hires Blackstone's Tosi as CFO of Home-Sharing Network — Airbnb Inc. hired Blackstone Group LP's Laurence Tosi as chief financial officer of the home-sharing startup, filling a position left vacant since Andrew Swain departed last year. — “L.T.'s expertise in hospitality and finance …
| Kevin Kingsbury / Wall Street Journal: |
With a market cap of over $247B and a 55% rise in stock price this year, Amazon is now worth more than Wal-Mart — Amazon Is Now Worth More Than Wal-Mart — While Amazon.com Inc.'s revenue has long been fast growing, easily outpacing brick-and-mortar giant Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the bottom line has never been close.
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Nike, Apple agree to $2.4M settlement in suit over false FuelBand claims, Apple to pay nothing — Consumers who purchased a Nike+ FuelBand between 2012 and 2015 might be eligible for a small payment from Nike after the sports brand, alongside co-defendant Apple, agreed to settle … | Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land: |
Unclaimed and inactive Google+ pages linked with Google My Business to be shut down July 28 — Google To Shutter Orphaned Google+ Pages Next Week (July 28) — Google is going to “unverify” inactive Google+ local pages. Business pages that have not been claimed or with unresponsive owners …
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| Maria Armental / Wall Street Journal: |
US Consumer electronics company Vizio files for IPO with plans to raise up to $172.5M — Television-Maker Vizio Files for IPO — Best known for its low-priced televisions, Vizio plans to raise up to $172.5 million — Vizio Inc., best known for its low-priced televisions …
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