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| Bill Gurley / Above the Crowd: |
How “dirty” term sheets protecting valuations will imperil founders, employees, and investors alike — On the Road to Recap: — Why the Unicorn Financing Market Just Became Dangerous...For All Involved — In February of last year, Fortune magazine writers Erin Griffith …
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| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
We read Bill Gurley's big warning about Silicon Valley's big money troubles so you don't have to — Last night, Benchmark VC Bill Gurley posted a 5,700-word piece sounding the alarm about the state of over-funded Silicon Valley companies and the investors who over-funded them.| Jamie Condliffe / Gizmodo: |
Opera Now Has a Totally Free and Unlimited Built-In VPN — Dodging firewalls and masking your IP address usually requires firing up separate—often paid-for—software or plug-ins while you're browsing. Now, though, Opera has its own free VPN baked right into the desktop browser.
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| Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal: |
Comcast announces Xfinity app will be available to subscribers directly through Roku devices and Samsung smart TVs, without requiring leasing of a set-top box — Comcast Fires Back at FCC by Making TV Service Available Without a Set-Top Box — Comcast's full TV lineup will be available on Roku, Samsung smart TVs for first time
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See also Mediagazer| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Live TV listings coming to search results as Google announces new ad platform for video — Following big Google Cloud announcements at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show earlier this week, the company is announcing a new ad platform to monetize and personalize video content … | MSDN Blogs: |
Microsoft Translator for Android now translates text in photos, supports 43 languages offline — Microsoft Translator Adds Image Translation to Android — Today, we are announcing several new Microsoft Translator capabilities available for Android users, including instant translation of images.| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Verizon Q1: $32.2B revenue misses estimates, adds 640K postpaid wireless subscribers, $195M IoT revenue — Verizon Q1 on track, $195 million in IoT revenue, 640,000 postpaid wireless additions — Verizon's wireless business hummed along as it aims to grow via investments in new businesses such as AOL and Internet of things.| Dan Graziano / CNET: |
Acer announces range of new devices including Switch Alpha 12 liquid-cooled 2-in-1 notebook, new gaming PCs, durable Chromebook 14 for Work, and more — Acer debuts new gaming PCs with VR support and a powerful 2-in-1 laptop — The company also showed off a new smartphone and fitness devices set to arrive later this year.| Steven Russolillo / Wall Street Journal: |
Microsoft stock surpasses 93% of the peak reached in December 1999, with cloud efforts as driver — How Microsoft Is Reclaiming Its Former Glory — As Microsoft's stock approaches its record, Thursday's earnings report could help the rally maintain its momentum
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| Katie Roof / TechCrunch: |
PayPal leads $30 million round in Acorns investing app — Acorns, the investing app, is announcing a $30 million strategic investment from PayPal, with participation from the Rakuten Tech Fund. This brings the team's total funding to $62 million. — With 850,000 active investment accounts …
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| George Slefo / Ad Age: |
Google expands AMP to News; site navigation, sidebar menus, and self-updating pages coming soon — AMP Articles Get Prime Real Estate in Google News — New AMP Features Like Site Navigation, Sidebar Menus and Self-Updating Pages to Come — Publishers Tout Content Management Systems As ‘Secret Sauce’| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Sean Parker's Airtime group video-chatting service relaunches as an iOS and Android app for collectively experiencing text, video, music, and photos — Sean Parker's group chat app Airtime relaunches on iOS and Android — Airtime, the group video-chatting service started in 2011 … | Joshua Brustein / Bloomberg: |
Tribune Publishing using commenting system from startup SolidOpinion that lets readers earn or buy points for prominent comment placement — News Sites Start Charging Readers to Comment on Articles — A startup thinks newspapers can profit by getting people to pay to elevate their rants … Sponsor Posts
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