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YC raises $700M “Continuity Fund”, managed by Ali Rowghani, to invest in later rounds of all YC startups valued under $300M and select YC startups valued $300M+ — Tech Incubator Y Combinator Takes New Tack With Venture Capital Fund — Backers bet $700 million fund …
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Dorsey gave 15M shares back to Square and Start Small Foundation, an organization to invest in local businesses and underserved communities, pledges 40M more — Jack Dorsey is giving almost 20% of Square to an organization serving struggling communities — Square CEO Jack Dorsey is donating … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
App Annie: iOS App Store revenue was about 80% higher than Google Play in Q3 2015, up from 70% in Q2 2015 — iOS App Store Revenue Now 80 Percent Higher Than Google Play, Thanks To China — The move to larger-screened iPhones has led to China becoming Apple's most important market … | Nathan Ingraham / Engadget: |
Dropbox unveils Paper, a web app for collaborative document editing, to-do management, currently in beta and invite-only — Paper is Dropbox's new vision for how teams can work together — Six months ago, Dropbox quietly announced a collaborative note-taking tool called Notes and launched it in an invite-only beta test.
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IAB launches program to address ad blocking with light, encrypted, ad-choice supported, and non-invasive ads — Getting LEAN with Digital Ad UX — We messed up. As technologists, tasked with delivering content and services to users, we lost track of the user experience.
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple updates Pages, Keynote, & Numbers for iOS + OS X w/ Split View, 3D Touch, much more — A little later than some expected, Apple has released new versions of the iWork suite of apps for iPhone and iPad with iOS 9 and iPhone 6s features. Pages, Keynote, and Numbers …
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Pixelmator for Mac rewritten in Swift, gets El Capitan optimizations and a Metal-based extension for Apple's Photos app — Pixelmator for Mac gets El Capitan optimizations, Metal-based Photos extension — Pixelmator for Mac was updated to version 3.4 on Thursday, adding things like optimization …
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Alibaba submits $4.2B offer to buy Chinese video streaming giant Youku Tudou — In a massive bet on Internet video, China's Alibaba announced today it has made a $4.2 billion bid to acquire Youku Tudou. — The move is not entirely shocking. Last year, Alibaba invested $1.22 billion in the company …
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Nevada rules daily fantasy is gambling, orders sites like DraftKings and FanDuel to obtain licenses from gaming commission or shut down — Nevada Regulators Rule Daily Fantasy Is Gambling, Order Sites To Shut Down In State — The Nevada Gaming Control Board offered perhaps … | Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Pebble to let developers add voice dictation to their Pebble Time and Pebble Round apps with new API powered by Nuance — Pebble Time apps can now add voice dictation — Pebble is starting to let third-party developers add voice dictation to apps for its Time, Time Steel, and Time Round smartwatches.
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City-owned power utility EPB brings 10 Gbps internet to Chattanooga, TN, for $299 per month — Chattanooga boosts citywide broadband capacity to 10 gigabits — Ultra-high-speed broadband available to all 170,000 customers for $299 per month … Chattanooga's EPB, which created America's first … | Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
AMD Q3 earnings miss expectations with net loss of $197M, revenue drops 26% YoY to $1.06B — AMD Q3: Revenue beats despite steep decline, but earnings miss — The semiconductor maker also entered into a joint venture with Chinese tech firm Nantong Fujitsu Microelectronics in an effort to stabilize its balance sheet.
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