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Yahoo board begins meeting Wednesday for three days to plan future after Starboard increased pressure on company to sell core business last month — Yahoo Board to Weigh Sale of Internet Business — Board to discuss whether to proceed with a plan to spin off its investment in Alibaba …
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Sources: Yahoo board to discuss Alibaba spinoff and selling off some units, said to back Marissa Mayer — Despite Wall Street Noise and Sale Rumors, Yahoo Board Backs Mayer — As the old saying kind of goes, reports of the impending demise of CEO Marissa Mayer at Yahoo are greatly exaggerated.| Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
Google Deceptively Tracks Students' Internet Browsing, EFF Says in FTC Complaint — EFF Launches ‘Spying on Students’ Campaign to Raise Awareness About Privacy Risks of School Technology Tools — San Francisco—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a complaint today …
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Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan pledge 99% of Facebook shares, now worth $45B, to Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, an LLC to promote equality for next generation — A letter to our daughter — Your mother and I don't yet have the words to describe the hope you give us for the future.
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| Lucas Mearian / Computerworld: |
Consumer SSDs and hard drive prices are nearing parity — The prices of mainstream consumer SSDs have fallen dramatically every year over the past three, and by 2017 they are expected to be within 11 cents of the per-gigabyte price of hard disk drives (HDDs).
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Uber debuts simple Ride Request Button for devs to include in iOS, Android apps, offers $5 for each new rider sign up, prohibits integrating competing services — Uber's API Now Lets Other Apps Add A “Ride Request Button”, Earn $5 Per Signup — Uber's latest growth strategy is to colonize …
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App Annie: Spotify top-ranked music streaming app worldwide in Q3 2015, Pandora retains lead in US on iPhone and Android — Spotify Claims Streaming Music Throne Worldwide, But Pandora Is Still Top Service In U.S. — Spotify is the world's top streaming music service in terms of active users … | Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Postmates partners with Starbucks, debuts pilot service in Seattle, promising delivery in less than an hour for a $5.99 fee, available only on iOS — Your coffee is here: Starbucks and Postmates launch delivery in Seattle, and this is what it's like
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| Dan Frommer / Quartz: |
A review of Apple Watch 220 days in: apps ecosystem seems stalled, perhaps because the watch is so reliant on iPhone — Half a year later, the Apple Watch feels like a stalled platform — Seven months later, my Apple Watch is still the second thing I put on every morning. (Glasses first.)
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The advantages of going public for Box show how Lyft could benefit from IPOing ahead of Uber — Crazy Like a Box: Going Public Can Give Start-Ups Outsize Power — In early 2014, when the cloud storage company Box filed for an initial public offering, many on Wall Street looked at its numbers and laughed.
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SEC charges former CEO of Bitcoin mining firm, GAW Miners, with conducting a Ponzi scheme that defrauded up to 10K people of about $19M — SEC Charges GAW Miners CEO Josh Garza With Securities Fraud — The US Securities and Exchange Commission has charged former GAW Miners CEO Josh Garza … | Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Airbnb shares anonymized data for New York City, shows median host income is about $5K per year — Airbnb Releases Trove of New York City Home-Sharing Data — Airbnb has had a rough history with regulators in New York City. Now the company is playing nice.
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