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LinkedIn plunges 40% in early trading, erases $10B in market cap — LinkedIn shares plummet 20% on lower guidance — CNBC's Julia Boorstin reports a disappointing cut in guidance at LinkedIn. — Shares of LinkedIn plunged as much as 40 percent at the market open Friday … | Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
LinkedIn says it has acquired Connectifier, a job candidates search tool; some of the Connectifier team “freely pursuing their next adventure” — LinkedIn acquires recruiting startup Connectifier — LinkedIn today announced in its earnings statement that it has acquired Connectifier …
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Apple to update iPhone trade-in program to give credit for units with damaged displays, will offer screen protector installation — Apple launching new broken iPhone upgrade, screen protector installation programs — Apple is gearing up to launch a pair of new retail initiatives centered around …
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| Miles Brignall / Guardian: |
“Error 53” fury mounts: iPhone 6 users claim iOS 9 installation bricks phones with Touch ID sensors repaired by third parties — ‘Error 53’ fury mounts as Apple software update threatens to kill your iPhone 6 — housands of iPhone 6 users claim they have been left holding …
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| Chris Coyne / Keybase: |
Keybase debuts an open-sourced filesystem with end-to-end encryption that ties users' identities from across services to make sharing easy, now invite only — The Keybase filesystem — Big news, everyone. — Alpha releases of the Keybase app are starting to come with a cryptographically secure file mount.| Chris Kohler / Wired: |
Nintendo's Quality of Life sleep tracking device, planned for release in March, shelved indefinitely — Nintendo Puts Its Sleep-Tracking Gizmo on Hold Indefinitely — Nintendo will sleep on its so-called “quality of life” health tracking device, it said this week.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Rocket Internet Sells Food Startups In Spain, Italy, Brazil, Mexico For $140M To Just Eat — The takeout shakeout continues apace. Since going public in 2014, Rocket Internet has been trying to simplify and reorganize the tangle of e-commerce startups funded and grown by the Berlin-based incubator … | Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
AltspaceVR, an app that allows multiple users to meet in virtual spaces, launches on Gear VR — AltspaceVR Social Platform Launches On Samsung Gear VR — Virtual reality can sometimes appear like it's a pretty isolating platform. Visually, people experiencing VR certainly …
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Epic's Unreal Editor now allows game developers to create environments through a VR headset — The Unreal Engine now lets you build games inside virtual reality — Epic's Unreal Engine has supported making virtual reality games for some time. Now, it supports making games in virtual reality too.
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UnrealEngine, Co.Design, Ars Technica, Kotaku, VRFocus, Engadget, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, The Next Web, Digital Trends and VentureBeat. Tweets: @gamesbeat
| Rob Lewis / Techvibes Global News: |
Visa opens up its global payments network to developers with launch of Visa Developer — Visa Opens its Global Network with Launch of Visa Developer — Today in San Francisco Visa announced the launch of Visa Developer, a milestone that transforms the world's largest retail payments network …
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BetaKit, Engadget, Quartz, Mashable, Gizmodo, ResearchBuzz, Visa Developer Blog, The Next Web, iTnews, ProgrammableWeb.com and Ubergizmo. Tweets: @brianroemmele
| Lucas Ballard / Google Online Security Blog: |
Chrome's Safe Browsing feature now warns users about sites with deceptive embedded content, like fake download buttons — No More Deceptive Download Buttons — In November, we announced that Safe Browsing would protect you from social engineering attacks - deceptive tactics that try …
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| Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg Business: |
General Catalyst Raises $845 Million Venture Fund — Firm announces eighth fund, bringing total to $3.75 billion — General Catalyst has invested in Airbnb, Stripe, Snapchat — General Catalyst Partners, a backer of technology startups such as Snapchat Inc. and Stripe Inc. …
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