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Rdio to shut down the service, file for bankruptcy, with Pandora acquiring key assets for $75M in cash — Pandora to Acquire Key Assets from Rdio — Adding technology, IP and talent to accelerate development of new capabilities; Pandora hosting investor call to outline growth strategy at 1:30 p.m. PT today
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Pandora plans subscription-based on-demand service because ad revenue not enough to offset content costs — Pandora Bought Rdio Because Ads Aren't Enough to Offset Content Costs — Content Acquisition Costs Growing at Faster Clip Than Ad Revenue — Pandora is acquiring key assets of Spotify rival Rdio for $75 million.| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
Google's natural language search gets smarter, can now handle superlatives, ordered items, time based, and more complicated queries — Google's Natural Language Search Gets Smarter — Google is saying their search engine is getting better at understanding our natural language searches … | Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Twitter is testing multiple emoji reactions to tweets — The heart's reign of terror as the only emoji-based reaction to a tweet may be coming to an end. Twitter user _Ninji noticed the ability to select multiple emoji from the heart, including the frown, the grimace, the party noisemaker, and the 100.
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| Mike Ayers / Wall Street Journal: |
Oxford Dictionaries selects “face with tears of joy” emoji as 2015 Word of the Year — Oxford Dictionaries Selects an Emoji as Word of the Year — The Oxford Dictionaries has chosen its Word of the Year for 2015: An emoji depicting the “face with tears of joy.”
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| Fred Wilson / AVC: |
Fidelity's markdowns are another sign that for startups, access to capital from public market investors comes with the price of increased transparency — The Blurring Of The Public And Private Markets — Five or six years ago, as the USV team was discussing the evolution of late stage financings …
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Re/code and VatorNews. Tweets: @semil, @reformedbroker, @modestproposal1, @delrey and @aweissman
| Sarah Buhr / TechCrunch: |
Uber is testing a new feature for drivers to pick up riders headed in the same direction as them, in the Bay Area — Uber Drivers Can Now Pick Up Riders Headed In The Same Direction As Them — Going My Way? A new Uber feature allows drivers the ability to set a destination and pick up riders headed in that same direction.
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| Jessica E. Lessin / The Information: |
Sources: Google wearable tech group Project Aura working on three prototypes, one with screen, and two without that rely on bone conduction like original Glass — Google Glass Successor Dumps Some Glass — So much for the screen. We've learned that Google's revamped Google Glass project … | Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land: |
Foursquare Joins Apple Maps Data Sources As Company Builds Out Ecosystem — Apple continues to improve its mapping product by adding new features and content, albeit often under the radar. Last year, reviews and content from Booking.com and TripAdvisor began to show for locations and travel destinations, especially outside the US.
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Facebook allows Google to crawl and index public profiles, Pages, Groups, and Events from its mobile app — Google Gets Surprise Ally in Mobile-App Search Push: Facebook — Google's effort to keep its search engine relevant in a world of mobile apps just got a boost from a big rival.
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The Next Web, AdExchanger, Android Police, Ubergizmo, SlashGear, Engadget, Macworld, The Verge, Business Insider, Tech Times, iDownloadBlog.com, 9to5Google, Android Authority, USA Today, Yahoo Tech and WebProNews. Tweets: @dannysullivan
| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
Apple SIM gains Japanese network support through KDDI's ‘au’ brand — More than year after launching on iPad, Apple's flexible multi-carrier Apple SIM officially arrived in Japan on Monday with support from local telecom KDDI, which is partnering with Apple through its “au” mobile network brand.
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MacRumors, TechCrunch and iPhone Hacks
| Scott Webster / CNET: |
AT&T selling Microsoft Lumia 950, Samsung Galaxy View Nov 20 — The carrier will sell the first Windows 10 smartphone and the gargantuan tablet later this week.
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AT&T, Microsoft Store, The Verge, WinBeta, PhoneDog.com, Digital Trends, Android Police, The Next Web, TechnoBuffalo, 9to5Google, Windows Central, Phandroid, AndroidGuys, Thurrott.com, Droid Life, Inquirer, Engadget, Digital Trends, Thurrott.com, ZDNet, Neowin, WinBeta, PhoneDog.com, Ubergizmo, Windows Central and Pocketnow
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