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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 …
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| Sean Behr / Zirx Blog: |
On-demand parking service closing on February 29th, 2016 — We started ZIRX with an aim to make car ownership and parking way better. Over the past year, we've parked hundreds of thousands of cars and have also built a successful enterprise business that's growing quickly.
| Tim Peterson / Ad Age: |
LinkedIn will stop selling ads on other sites, an offering launched after its $175M purchase of Bizo in 2014 — LinkedIn Shuts Down Its Ad Network 12 Months After It Opened — Overall Ad Business Only Accounted for 21% of Q4 2015 Revenue — Using A CRM Budget To Start A Loyalty Program
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon's Alexa voice recognition service on Echo speaker and Fire TV gets Uber ordering, Spotify streaming, and Domino's pizza delivery — Amazon Alexa Can Now Order An Uber From Your Echo Speaker Or Fire TV — It's been a big week for Amazon's connected speaker Echo.| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Twitter says it has suspended 125K accounts for promoting or threatening terrorist acts since mid-2015 — Twitter Steps Up Efforts to Thwart Terrorists' Tweets — For years, Twitter has positioned itself as a “global town square” that is open to discourse from all.| 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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| Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg Business: |
Sources: Jessica Alba's e-commerce startup Honest Co. is working with Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley on an IPO — Jessica Alba's Honest Co. Is Working With Banks on an IPO — Honest Co. would test rocky market for technology IPOs — Previous funding round valued e-commerce firm at $1.7 billion
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| Douglas Soltys / MobileSyrup.com: |
Sources: BlackBerry Waterloo cuts include about 150 BlackBerry 10 and Devices staff; BlackBerry says there was a “small number” of layoffs in Florida and Canada — BlackBerry reportedly cuts 35% of Waterloo workforce, including significant BlackBerry 10 & Devices staff
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| 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.| Brian Solomon / Forbes: |
Tableau beats Q4 earnings estimates and reports quarterly revenue rising 42%, but stock drops over 45% on weak forecast — Tableau Plummets Nearly 50% As Hypergrowth Stalls — Sometimes growth isn't fast enough. — On Thursday, Tableau released fourth quarter earnings …
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| Lucian Constantin / PCWorld: |
Vulnerabilities in Netgear's ProSafe network management system could lead to remote code execution with system privileges, arbitrary file download — Serious flaws found in Netgear's NMS300 network management system — The flaws could lead to remote code execution with system privileges and arbitrary file download
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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.Sponsor Posts
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