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Atlassian closes at $27.78 per share, up 32% from its IPO price, valuing the company at $5.8B — Atlassian Gains in Stock Debut, Sets High Bar for Tech IPOs — Shares gain 32% from $21 IPO price in first day of trading — Company makes collaborative technology used by Twitter, NASA| Tomer Shekel / Google Chrome Blog: |
Chromecast Audio update adds multi-room support, high-resolution audio — Even more to love about Chromecast Audio — A couple of months ago we launched Chromecast Audio to provide an easy way to stream your favorite tunes from your phone, tablet, or laptop to your existing speakers.
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| Cade Metz / Wired: |
Facebook Open Sources Its AI Hardware as It Races Google — In Silicon Valley, the new currency is artificial intelligence. — Over the last few years, a technology called deep learning has proven so adept at identifying images, recognizing spoken words, and translating from one language to another …
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Google Wallet Will Now Let You Send Money To Anyone With A Phone Number Via SMS (US Only) — In an upcoming update to the Google Wallet app for Android, Google will let you send money to anyone in your contacts list with a valid phone number. The new feature was announced on Google's Commerce Blog … | Kevin Rawlinson / BBC: |
Kickstarter hires reporter to probe mini-drone Zano project that failed after raising $3.4M from 12K backers — Kickstarter hires journalist over Zano take-off failure — The crowdfunding site Kickstarter has hired a journalist to investigate the demise of a mini-drone project that failed, despite record funding.| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
Steam tightens trading security amid 77,000 monthly account hijackings — Traded items will be “held” for days unless you have two-factor security. — Account theft is a common and longstanding problem for all kinds of online gaming services, as I can personally attest after losing … | Katherine Boehret / The Verge: |
Google Photos gains shared albums on iOS, Android, and web — Google Photos' new shared albums aren't designed for a social world — Google is tired of Apple getting all the glory when it comes to photo sharing. Today, the company introduced a feature in its Google Photos app that's designed … | Jordan Kahn / 9to5Google: |
Yahoo's new Video Guide app offers universal search across streaming services — Yahoo today released a new “Yahoo Video Guide” app for mobile devices that acts as one central location for users to find content from across a long list of competitive video services and networks.| Martyn Williams / PCWorld: |
DJI teams up with thermal imaging firm FLIR to create the Zenmuse XT, an infrared camera for use on drones — FLIR to develop infrared cameras for DJI drones — Drones could become much more useful for police, fire, farmers — Thermal imaging camera maker FLIR Systems has started working …
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| Samit Sarkar / Polygon: |
EA launching esports division, will be led by Peter Moore — Start practicing your no-scope headshots and your touchdown dances. Electronic Arts is pushing into esports with a new branch of the company: the EA Competitive Gaming Division, CEO Andrew Wilson announced today.
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| Michael de Waal-Montgomery / VentureBeat: |
Facebook testing News Feed update on mobile that shows cached stories on slow connections, starts rolling out offline commenting — Facebook to show cached stories on poor connections, allow offline commenting — Facebook announced late Wednesday that it's testing tweaks to its news feed … | Harrison Weber / VentureBeat: |
Adobe sees strong Q4 with $1.31B in revenue, 833K new Creative Cloud subscribers — Adobe now has 6.16 million paying Creative Cloud subscribers, the company said in its latest (Q4 2015) earnings report, exceeding the roughly 6 million subscriber goal it set for the year. — This is a bit surprising.
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Twitter Widens Its Advertising Net, Tests Promoted Tweets With Logged-Out Users — It's been over a year since Twitter first said it planned to monetize logged-out users — that is, make money off the 500 million or so people who dip in and read Tweets without being signed in or even registered.
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| Gillian Wong / Wall Street Journal: |
Baidu tests two prototype self-driving cars in Beijing, plans autonomous vehicles for use as public shuttles — Baidu Joins Race to Build Autonomous Cars — Chinese Internet search engine provider pledges to field urban shuttles within three years — BEIJING—Chinese Internet search giant Baidu Inc …
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Cloud integration firm SnapLogic raises $37.5M from Microsoft, Silver Lake Waterman, and other investors — SnapLogic Survives Its Re-do and Raises $37.5 Million … Not all startups are allowed the luxury of redoing their products, and not all CEOs survive the process.
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