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Leaked Uber presentation: global bookings to reach $10.8B in 2015, revenue would be roughly $2B, IPO within 18-24 months — Uber seen reaching $10.8 billion in bookings in 2015: fundraising presentation — Uber Technologies Inc's [UBER.UL] global bookings are projected to rise nearly threefold …
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Google no longer requires new Android devices to ship with Google+, Google Newsstand, Google Play Games and Books apps pre-installed — Your new phone will have less Google bloatware, and that's awesome — You might have heard that the new Samsung Galaxy Note 5 comes without Google+ preinstalled.
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New data uncovers the surprising predictability of Android lock patterns — Like “p@$$w0rd” and “1234567” many Android patterns are easy to guess. — Marte Løge — The abundance of password leaks over the past decade has revealed some of the most commonly used …
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Bill Gurley marks recent tech sell-off with another warning about unprofitable unicorns, says cycle “where growth is valued more than profitability” may end — Bill Gurley to Unicorns: Winter Is Coming. You Ready? — Tech stocks have been taking a beating lately …
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| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Ashley Madison hackers post new 20GB archive that appears to include company emails and internal documents — Hackers Dump More Ashley Madison Data — Over the past few days, people have been digging through 10GB of data apparently sourced from the extramarital dating site Ashley Madison, and its parent site Avid Life Media.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook to allow businesses to post GIFs as ads and Page posts, begins testing with Wendy's and Coca-Cola's Brazilian brand Kuat — After Years Of Restraint, Facebook Tries Allowing GIFs In Ads And Page Posts — Facebook refused to fill its site with flashy animated banner ads for a decade.
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| Nigel Manuel / CNET: |
Samsung offers iPhone users a free 30-day trial with new Galaxy phones on any carrier — Samsung to give iPhone users a trial run with new Galaxy smartphones — Just weeks before the Galaxy Note 5 and Galaxy S6 Edge+ launches, Samsung is attempting to sway iPhone users.| Tom Cheredar / Gigaom: |
Flipboard update brings personalization to news feed with voting options using Zite technology — Ahead of Apple News launch, Flipboard adds voting to its news feed — Digital magazine app Flipboard is getting an update that will allow users to fine-tune the news feed that appears …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Mesosphere And Microsoft Bring Mesos To Windows Server — Mesosphere, the company that aims to build a container-centric “operating system for the data center” based on the Apache Mesos project, is giving the first public demo of Mesos running on the preview version of Windows Server 2016 at MesosCon today.
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Microsoft files federal antitrust lawsuit against Interdigital for “abusive licensing practices” — Microsoft files antitrust suit against InterDigital in patent feud — InterDigital Inc has violated U.S. antitrust law by failing to keep its promise to fairly license …
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| Jack Clark / Bloomberg Business: |
HP Q3 revenue falls to $25.3B, down 8.1% YoY on slumping PC sales, lower demand for services — HP Forecast Misses Estimates on PC Market Slump Before Split — Hewlett-Packard Co. issued a profit forecast that fell short of estimates, hurt by slumping personal-computer sales that underscore …
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Intuit announces it will divest Demandforce, QuickBase, and Quicken as it reports mixed Q4 earnings — Intuit reports mixed bag on Q4 earnings; divestitures on deck — Wall Street expected a loss of 12 cents per share, with revenues of $738.9 million. — Intuit published its fourth quarter …
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