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Zero tech companies went public in the US in Q1 2016, which hasn't happened since Q1 2009 during the recession — Zero tech companies went public in the US in Q1 2016, which hasn't happened since Q1 2009 — The US market for tech IPOs has totally frozen over.| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Apple faces opposition from India's largest phone brands in its push to import and sell used iPhones in the country to gain market share — Apple's Push to Flood India With Used iPhones Ignites Backlash — Apple seeks again to import and sell used phones into India| David Ruddock / Android Police: |
LG G5 review: inferior to Galaxy S7 in almost every way; modular design and accessories, wide-angle camera feel more like gimmicks than useful features — LG G5 Review: A Bit Of A Mess, Frankly — LG is a company whose smartphone products have gone from bottom of the barrel to highly competitive in under four years.| Michael D. Shear / New York Times: |
The White House is undergoing its first major IT overhaul in over a decade, now has improved WiFi and color printers, allows employees to use iPhones, more — Technology Upgrades Get White House Out of the 20th Century| Eugene Kim / Business Insider: |
Inside the development of Amazon Echo: early Echo team members recount company's ambitions for the device and the challenges they faced — The inside story of how Amazon created Echo, the next billion-dollar business no one saw coming — When Amazon executive Dave Limp first saw the pitch …
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| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
CockroachDB just raised $20 million from Benchmark, Index, and GV — CockroachDB a New York-based open-database company that aims to keep the applications of its enterprise customers up and running, even when their data centers and cloud infrastructure suddenly go offline, has raised $20 million in Series A1 funding.| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft game chief Phil Spencer on openness, HoloLens, and Xbox 1.5 — Microsoft has had its fair share of criticism about its platform strategy. Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games, recently blasted Microsoft's commitment to an open Windows platform. HoloLens may not do much for games … | Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Study finds that of 108M DMCA takedown requests, 99.8% targeted Google search, 28% of all requests are “questionable”, Google likely removes more than it should — 28% of Piracy Takedown Requests Are “Questionable” — In recent years copyright holders have overloaded Google …
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Netflix throttling itself isn't a net neutrality problem, FCC chair says — Wheeler disappoints Netflix critics who called for investigation. — Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler said yesterday that he has no plans to investigate Netflix for throttling its own video streams … | Leena Rao / Fortune: |
New OpenTable CEO Christa Quarles says OpenTable made nearly 250M reservations in 2015, discusses global expansion, Premium Reservations, mobile payments, more — OpenTable's New CEO Talks Mobile Payments, Premium Reservations, and More — OpenTable is one of the few Web 1. companies …
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| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Peter Thiel's other fund, Mithril Capital Management, is raising $600M according to SEC filing, sources say it's already oversubscribed and may reach $1B — Peter Thiel's other fund, Mithril Capital Management, raises $600 million — Peter Thiel is having a good month.
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| Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
IBM to Acquire Cloud Consulting Firm Bluewolf for About $200 Million — Computing and services giant IBM will announce on Thursday that it has reached a deal to acquire Bluewolf Group, a consulting company that focuses on helping businesses use Salesforce and other cloud software applications.
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