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Sources: Apple agrees to rent 75K square feet of office space in San Francisco's SoMa, in first big push into the city — Apple dives into SoMa for first big S.F. real estate grab — The San Francisco office market may get its first big bite of Apple. — Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) …
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Sources: NBCUniversal close to investing $250M in BuzzFeed at a $1.5B valuation, also investing in Vox Media at a $850M valuation — NBCUniversal Poised to Make Big Investments in BuzzFeed and Vox Media — NBCUniversal is close to a deal to invest $250 million in BuzzFeed … | Evan Sharp / Pinterest Blog: |
Pinterest makes diversity hiring goals for 2016 public for accountability and promises to share findings on what works — Our plan for a more diverse Pinterest — There's been a lot of talk lately about the lack of diversity in the tech industry. Back in 2013, one of our engineers Tracy …
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| Andy Chalk / PC Gamer: |
Windows 10 Solitaire requires a subscription to remove ads — Windows 10—which is out now, by the way—comes, as it used to in the pre-Win8 days, with Solitaire preinstalled. The Microsoft Solitaire Collection, in fact, which bundles the classic Klondike with other familiar variants …
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Groupon launches Groupon To Go food delivery service, available in Chicago, expanding to other metro regions in US throughout the year — Groupon Launches Its Own Food Delivery Business, Groupon To Go — Following its acquisition of food delivery service OrderUp earlier this month …
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| Leena Rao / Fortune: |
Uber to lease cars directly to UberX drivers with Xchange Leasing pilot program, which includes unlimited mileage and limited early termination fees — Uber now offers its own car leases to UberX drivers — As Uber continues to evolve beyond just dominating on-demand rides … | Roger Cheng / CNET: |
T-Mobile beats estimates in Q2 with profit of $361M, revenue of $8.2B, and strong subscriber growth — T-Mobile blows away profit expectations as customer growth surges — The carrier continues its torrid pace of customer growth amid stiff competition in the wireless business.| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Study: Shutdown of Google News and other aggregators in Spain hurt news sites' traffic and ad revenue, particularly for new and smaller publishers — Study Of Spain's ‘Google Tax’ On News Shows How Much Damage It Has Done — As you may recall, governments across Europe …
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Sources: Caller ID app Truecaller looking to raise around $100M at a $1B valuation — Caller ID App Truecaller Is Raising $100M At A $1B Valuation — Communications apps that strike a chord with users across different markets are hot property these days, and it looks like another … | John Biggs / TechCrunch: |
Smartwatch company Olio raises $10M Series A led by New Enterprise Associates — Olio Raises $10 Million To Build More Fancy Smartwatches — Smartwatch underdog Olio has raised a $10 million Series A led by New Enterprise Associates. The cash will go to expand Olio's manufacturing prowess … | Min-Jeong Lee / Wall Street Journal: |
Samsung Q2 profit down 8% YoY, fifth straight quarterly profit drop as Galaxy S6 falls short of market expectations — Samsung Profits Hurt By Smartphone Price Declines — Cheaper smartphone models from China and India could fuel further price cuts — SEOUL- Samsung Electronics Co …
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| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
Hammertoss: Russian hackers target the cloud, Twitter, GitHub in malware spread — FireEye says a new virulent strain of malware buries itself in network traffic to avoid detection. — The newly-discovered Hammertoss malware strain uses network traffic noise from sources including Twitter …
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CNET, Threat Research, Financial Times, Reuters, Inquirer, V3.co.uk, Threatpost, The Hill, InvestorPlace, PCWorld, BBC, Fortune, The Register and Ubergizmo
| Alistair Barr / Wall Street Journal: |
Google is quietly distributing a new version of Glass for business customers that attaches to other glasses; consumer version at least a year away — Google Quietly Distributes New Version of Glass Aimed at Workplaces — Device is being pitched to industries such as healthcare, manufacturing, energy| David Meyer / Politico: |
Google asks French data protection authority CNIL to withdraw its order forcing right to be forgotten delistings to be applied globally — Google challenges global ‘right to be forgotten’ order — Don't make us apply European laws around the world, Google pleads.| Carmel DeAmicis / Re/code: |
Yelp stock dropped 28% Wednesday following grim earnings; company cited rising talent costs amid competition with “unicorns” — Yelp Admits the Unicorn Bubble Is Hurting Its Profits — Yelp debuted “surprise losses” on its earnings yesterday, causing its stock to plummet 28 percent by the next day.Sponsor Posts
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