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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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Search Engine Watch, Search Engine Roundtable, The Hill, eWeek, Ars Technica, PCMag UK, FACT Magazine, Engadget, BGR, Gizmodo, Threatpost, Fast Company, TorrentFreak, Mashable, Inquirer, Lifehacker, Digital Trends, TechSpot, SlashGear, Motherboard, gHacks Technology News, Neowin, Android News, Rumours … and CIO.com
| 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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