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Sources: Uber looking to raise close to $1B in new venture capital at valuation of $60-$70B — Uber Said to Plan Another $1 Billion in Fund-Raising — Just three months after raising an enormous sum of money from investors, Uber is at it again. — The ride-hailing service is planning …
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Nexus 5X teardown shows many components are modular and can be replaced independently — Nexus 5X Teardown … Teardown — Teardowns provide a look inside a device and should not be used as disassembly instructions. — Featured Guide — This guide has been found to be exceptionally cool by the iFixit staff.| Mathew Ingram / Fortune: |
Pandora shares fall more than 30% after company reports quarterly loss of $85M — Pandora investors are losing faith in its ability to compete — Long before there was a Spotify or an Apple Music, there was Pandora. One of the earliest streaming music services, it was founded in 2000 …
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Why distribution deals with unsigned artists are a good path to profitability for music platforms like Pandora and Spotify — Thinking Outside of Pandora's Box — “And you ain't get a coin, [Nas], you was getting f**ked then — I know who I paid, God - Serchlite publishing
| Mark Bergen / Re/code: |
Google CEO Sundar Pichai Brings in Less Egotistical Leadership — Bruno Bowden describes Google's top ranks in a very Google-y way. With stats. — “In leadership at Google, you have to be three-plus standard deviations better than normal in technical ability,” said Bowden …
Tweets: @mikeindustries and @brianosh
| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg Business: |
Twitter's first Promoted Moments native advertising campaign rolls out this weekend — Twitter Rolls Out Advertising on New ‘Moments’ Feature — First Promoted Moment to run this weekend for movie ‘Creed’ — Twitter Inc. isn't wasting any time making money from its newest feature, called Moments.
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See also Mediagazer| Joe Fedewa / Phandroid: |
HTC and Under Armour delay fitness tracker again, with HTC promising suite of related fitness products in early 2016 — HTC's Under Armour fitness tracker slips to Q1 2016 — In July we reported on HTC and Under Armour delaying the HTC Grip until later this year.
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| Dell Cameron / The Daily Dot: |
DoJ says courts should require Apple to decrypt data on iOS devices because software is “licensed, not sold” to customers — DOJ dismisses Apple's arguments against decrypting iOS communications — The U.S. government rejected Apple's arguments in federal court …
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
ESPN videos unavailable on YouTube because of rights issues related to YouTube Red launch — ESPN is shutting down its YouTube channels over paid subscriptions — Not everyone's on-board with YouTube's new paid subscription option. In the wake of this week's announcement … | Matt Weinberger / Business Insider: |
Microsoft restructures, changes leadership of some units within its Cloud and Enterprise division amid strong growth — Microsoft shuffles its cloud business to keep the good times rolling — Microsoft's cloud infrastructure business is leading the company's ongoing growth …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Brewster Contacts App Team Gets Acqui-Hired By Burger King Owner RBI, Brewster Lives On — We've heard a lot about software eating the world; now a company that has built its business around food is now eating up a software startup. Restaurant Brands International, owner of Burger King and Horton's …
Tweets: @delrey, @caseynewton and @rafat
| Paul Lilly / Maximum PC: |
Microsoft adds an entry-level $1,699 Surface Book with Nvidia GPU and a $3,199 model with 1TB solid state storage and top-end specs to its lineup — Microsoft Adds $200 Nvidia GPU Option to Entry Level Surface Book — Keeping it discrete — Microsoft wants to ensure there's …
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