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Peter Thiel acknowledges he spent around $10M to fund a team of lawyers to help Gawker “victims” like Hulk Hogan sue the company, in act of “deterrence” — A billionaire Silicon Valley entrepreneur was outed as being gay by a media organization.
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Sources: Apple had preliminary discussions about buying Time Warner last year as spending on original content set to increase — A top Apple executive raised the prospect of the iPhone maker buying Time Warner at a meeting with the owner of HBO, CNN and Warner Brothers, according to three people who were briefed on it.
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Filing: Snapchat raised $1.8B in Series F round; leaked deck reveals $59M revenue in 2015, 110M DAUs in December — Earlier this week, we reported that the messaging app startup Snapchat was raising more money. Now we have more updates for you. — An SEC filing has been made today …
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HP goes big on gaming with new Omen laptops and desktop — HP gave us a brief taste of the legendary Voodoo PC gaming brand with its Omen laptop over nearly two years ago. Now, the company is bringing the Omen name to all of its gaming hardware — a new lineup of laptops and desktops, as well as a 32-inch quad-HD monitor.| Paul McNamara / Network World: |
FCC formally fines Chinese firm $34.9M for selling illegal cellphone jammers and a Florida man $48K for using them — Two years ago the FCC announced its intention to fine a Chinese electronics maker $34.9 million and a Florida man $48,000 for respectively selling and using illegal cell-phone jammers.
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Lenovo Q4 profit up 80% to $180M but revenue falls 24% to $9.13B YoY as PC demand slows — First-quarter profit up drastically, helped by cost cuts — HONG KONG—A year and a half ago, Lenovo Group Ltd. spent $5 billion to buy itself into growth sectors as the personal-computer market slowed.| Ginny Marvin / Marketing Land: |
Google releases Data Studio, a free version of its data visualization tool, Data Studio 360; tool only available in US for now — Google Data Studio integrates with AdWords, Analytics, YouTube and other data sources. — Google has released Google Data Studio, a free version of its new reporting …
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GoDaddy launches Flare, a community app for sharing and rating business ideas — Internet domain name registrar and Web hosting giant GoDaddy has launched a new mobile app designed to help entrepreneurs garner feedback for new business ideas. — Flare, which launches on iOS today …
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Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur — Reddit never let you upload images, until now. That could dismantle Reddit's informal alliance with image-sharing community Imgur. That's where Redditors would typically post their images or GIFs and then share the links on Reddit.| Barb Darrow / Fortune: |
Salesforce to spend $400M on Amazon Web Services over next four years according to 10Q statement and sources — We knew Salesforce and Amazon Web Services were getting cozy, ever since Salesforce's recent earnings call when its chief executive, Marc Benioff, effusively praised Amazon's cloud unit.| Marty Swant / Adweek: |
Facebook to shut down its desktop-based ad retargeting exchange as company shifts focus toward mobile — Social platform redirecting advertisers to mobile — Facebook is shutting down Facebook Exchange and moving advertisers to newer products in a coordinated effort to focus more heavily …
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Chrome 51 released with new APIs, including Credential Management API, more efficient page rendering; available for Windows and Mac, Linux coming soon — Google today launched Chrome 51 for Windows and Mac, promising that the Linux version will “ship shortly.”
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