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| Ruth Reader / VentureBeat: |
Square debuts at $11.20 per share, is trading up more than 40% — Today Square began trading at $11.20 a share on the New York Stock Exchange, up slightly from its $9 pricing last night. The stock is currently up 32 percent from market open. — Square's public offering has been the subject of much discussion.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Square pays $93M penalty to investors like Rizvi Traverse, J.P. Morgan, and others, thanks to ratchet clause in its 2014 round — Square Pays $93 Million Penalty to Some Investors in IPO — Square Inc. will have to give some investors additional shares valued at $93 million …
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| Ben Sisario / New York Times: |
Sources: Adele's new album, 25, won't be available on streaming services when it's released on Friday; Adele involved in decision — Adele Is Said to Reject Streaming for ‘25’ — For weeks, the music industry has been awaiting the release of Adele's new album, “25,” with a mixture of excitement and anxiety.| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
LG partners with local banks to launch its own mobile payment service in South Korea, no word on international plans yet — LG Is Developing Its Own Mobile Payment Service — Apple Pay, Android Pay, Samsung Pay... there'll one more to add to the list soon.| Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: |
iFixit Apple Pencil teardown reveals twin emitters to measure angle & orientation, logic board folded in half — No new Apple tech survives long without being taken apart by iFixit, and the Apple Pencil is no exception. Apple didn't make it easy, however, with iFixit having to resort …
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Activist investor Starboard asks Yahoo to sell core business instead of Alibaba stake because of concerns over large shareholder tax bill — Starboard Urges Yahoo to Drop Alibaba Spinoff Plan — Firm says risk of tax hit from spinoff too high, pushes company to sell core business| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Tinder Owner Match Group Debuts On Nasdaq At $13.50/Share, Up 12.5% — After a bizarre interview from one of its executives on the day of its IPO pricing, today Match Group, owner of the popular Tinder dating app, listed as a public company, spinning out from its parent IAC.
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| Noah Kulwin / Re/code: |
On Eve of IPO, Match Group Disavows Tinder CEO Sean Rad's Disastrous Interview — This morning, the Internet collectively pointed and laughed at Tinder CEO Sean Rad for giving a trainwreck of an interview to the London Evening Standard. In the article, Rad confused the definition of sodomy …
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| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
YouTube to pay legal fees for a few video creators who are targets of unfair DMCA takedown demands — YouTube to Pay Fees for Some Video Makers to Fight Takedowns — WASHINGTON — Since its inception, YouTube has been embroiled in long and bitter battles over copyright infringement.
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| Kelly Winters / Facebook: |
Facebook tests tools that offer to hide ex-partners from you and limit the content they can see after breakup — Improving the Experience When Relationships End — Community Support FYI is a new series of blog posts about how we work to keep the Facebook community safe, supported and connected.
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| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Amazon quietly turned on two-factor authentication a few weeks ago after private beta — It's time to secure your Amazon account with two-factor authentication — Relying solely on passwords to secure important accounts may be outdated, but until they're gone for good your best alternative …
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Zerodium publishes hack price list: cracking an Android or Windows Phone could cost $100K, but expect to pay $500K to crack iOS — Here's a Spy Firm's Price List for Secret Hacker Techniques — The trade in the secret hacker techniques known as “zero day exploits” has long taken place in the dark …
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| Cleve R. Wootson Jr / The Charlotte Observer: |
Operator of two sites specializing in pirated music, RockDizMusic.com and RockDizFile.com, gets three years in prison and must pay $48K restitution — Music piracy case sends Charlotte man to federal prison for 3 years — Rocky Ouprasith ran the nation's second largest illegal music file-sharing site
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