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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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| 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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| 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 … | 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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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’| 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.| 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.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook rolls out group voice calls in Messenger on iOS and Android globally — Facebook Messenger launches Group Calling to become your phone — Jump on the party line or hear the voices of your whole family with Facebook Messenger's latest feature. Rolling out globally over the next 24 hours …
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| Joshua Brustein / Bloomberg: |
Tribune Publishing using new comment software 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—or advertisements—to the top of the comments section.| Samit Sarkar / Polygon: |
PlayStation Network getting two-factor authentication, Sony confirms — IT'S ABOUT TIME!
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| Pras Sarkar / Gmail Blog: |
Google updates Inbox with feature that gathers emails related to specific events, link saving feature, newsletter previews — Inbox by Gmail: a better way to keep track of events, newsletters and links — Life can get really busy. Inboxes too. Just think about everything inside your own inbox …
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| Mario Anima / Google Docs Blog: |
| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Quora testing ads on a small number of pages after being ad free for seven years, now has 100M monthly unique visitors — Quora begins testing ads on ‘small number’ of question pages — Quora has started looking at what ads would look like on the question-and-answer service.| Vindu Goel / New York Times: |
Down to Lunch, which lets you schedule activities with your contacts, tops iPhone charts; developers “have turned away dozens of potential investors” — Down to Lunch Founders Pursue Less-Traveled Path to App Success — SAN FRANCISCO — Nikil Viswanathan and Joseph Lau have built the hottest new social app in America.
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