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| Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
comScore: millennials spend 2.5x as much time in Facebook as in closest competitor, Snapchat — Are Young People Leaving Facebook? Not Even Close. (Chart) — There has been a general perception over the past few years that millennials are abandoning Facebook in search of greener …
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| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
As Apple turns 40, a look at the notes Regis McKenna took as he formulated an advertising and PR plan for Apple II — Regis McKenna's 1976 Notebook And The Invention Of Apple Computer, Inc. — On Apple's 40th birthday, an exclusive look at the notes its original media strategist took as he formulated an advertising and PR plan.
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| Paul James / Road to VR: |
Oculus Refund Shipping Costs as Rift Shipments Delayed Due to “Component Shortages” — It seems that Oculus are acknowledging the troublesome Rift launch and associated delivery delays by covering shipping costs for affected customers. According to emails sent out by Oculus to customers still waiting …
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| Scott Soshnick / Bloomberg Business: |
Source: Facebook backs off bid to stream NFL Thursday games, balks at traditional ad model preventing commercial-free streams; Yahoo, Amazon still contenders — Facebook Said to Back Off Bid to Stream NFL Thursday Night Games — Social media company turned off by commercials, London games
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| Eugene Kim / Business Insider: |
Slack raised $200M round at a valuation of $3.8B, now has 2.7M daily active users, of which 800K are paid — Slack just raised another $200 million round, and it's now worth $3.8 billion — Slack just confirmed that it's raised $200 million at a $3.8 billion valuation, confirming what Business Insider had previously reported.
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| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
StubHub experiment will let Final Four and San Francisco Giants ticket buyers preview seats in VR — StubHub Will Use Virtual Reality to Let You Preview Your Seat — Like many companies, eBay is convinced virtual reality is the next big thing. But also like a lot of companies … | Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet: |
Wim Coekaerts, who headed Linux efforts at Oracle as SVP, moves to Microsoft as Corporate Vice President of Open Source — Head of Oracle Linux moves to Microsoft — The man who turned Oracle into a Linux power, Wim Coekaerts, has moved to Microsoft. — LAKE TAHOE, Calif. …
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| Mike Perry / The Tor Blog: |
Tor says CloudFlare's claim that 94% of requests from Tor are malicious is likely based on flawed methodology, asks for explanation — The Trouble with CloudFlare — Wednesday, CloudFlare blogged that 94% of the requests it sees from Tor are “malicious.”
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| Erin Griffith / Fortune: |
Investment robo-advisor Betterment raises $100M Series E led by Sweden's Kinnevik at $700M valuation — “Robo-advisor” Betterment raises $100 million — Betterment, a digital investment startup based in New York, has raised $100 million in a Series E round venture funding led by Kinnevik, a Swedish investment firm.| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Hands-on with HoloLens: an amazing device, it now needs great software to go with it — Hands-on with HoloLens: On the cusp of a revolution — It's an amazing device, and now it needs amazing software to go with it. — Since it was first revealed in Redmond at the start of last year, I've used HoloLens a couple more times.| Maureen Farrell / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Dell's SecureWorks seeking to launch IPO this month, begin roadshow the week of April 11 — Dell's SecureWorks Aims to Launch IPO in April — Offering would mark the first tech company this year to debut in the U.S. — A cybersecurity firm owned by Dell Inc. is seeking to end the technology IPO drought.
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USA Today, SiliconBeat and Re/code
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Google reverses Gmail April 1 prank after users mistakenly put GIFs into important emails — Google has reversed one of its April Fools' Day pranks after it caused a number Gmail users to unwittingly insert GIFs into business emails and other important communications.
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