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Twilio stock opens at $23.99, 60% above its $15 IPO price — Twilio began trading Thursday on the NYSE under the ticker symbol TWLO, entering the market on a day filled with uncertainty as the world awaits the outcome of the UK's referendum on its EU membership.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
FTC fines InMobi, a Singapore-based mobile ad firm, $950K for collecting location data of users without consent — InMobi ad network, which reaches more than 1 billion devices, settles FTC charges. — A mobile advertising company that tracked the locations of hundreds of millions … | Mark Bergen / Recode: |
Google Fiber to acquire Webpass, an ISP that focuses on apartment complexes and businesses, serves San Francisco, Miami, Boston, Chicago, and San Diego — Deal gives the Alphabet unit a foothold in apartments and businesses. — To take on the big internet service providers, Google Fiber is scooping up a small one.
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| Dave Mark / The Loop: |
Apple says the unencrypted kernel cache in iOS 10 was deliberate, doesn't contain user info, optimizes performance without compromising security — Earlier today, we posted a link to an MIT Technology Review article, which stated, in part: — Some security experts who inspected that new version of iOS got a big surprise.
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Google and Udacity launch an Android Basics course for novice coders, which costs $199/month and features input from Google experts — Online education company Udacity has partnered with Google to introduce a new course covering the basics of Android programming.| Nathan Ingraham / Engadget: |
BitTorrent Now ad-supported music and video streaming service launches on Android, with iOS and Apple TV apps coming soon — Chances are good that most people still think of BitTorrent as a tool to pirate the latest Game of Thrones episode — but for several years now …
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Instagram will start recommending video channels in Explore section — Next time you're looking for something to watch on Instagram, you might have better luck: Instagram is rolling out an update to its Explore section so that it'll start recommending video collections it thinks you'll be interested in.
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| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Nest starts selling select Works With Nest products like Philips Hue in its Nest Store — Nest has taken another step to showcase its ability to be a platform by opening up its store to third-party products built off of its “Works with Nest” program. While there are more than 100 supported products … | Hadas Gold / Politico: |
C-SPAN broadcasts Periscope and Facebook streams after its feed gets cut during US House protest over gun legislation — That was definitely not your father's C-SPAN. — Wednesday's dramatic protest on the House floor over gun control was a powerful reminder of how dramatically …
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Comcast, Alarm.com acquire and split up IoT firm Icontrol; Alarm.com to pay $140M for Connect and Piper interactive security and home automation business units — The main business Comcast is acquiring is Icontrol's Converge software platform, which currently powers the Xfinity Home touch-screen panel and back-end servers.
| Michael Corkery / New York Times: |
Major US banks increasingly using fingerprints and eye/voice scans for passwords to avoid data breaches — The banking password may be about to expire — forever. — Some of the nation's largest banks, acknowledging that traditional passwords are either too cumbersome or no longer secure … | Laura Shin / Forbes: |
Circle, a blockchain-based payment service, raises $60M series D from IDG, Baidu, others, amid China expansion — Circle, an international peer-to-peer payments company using the Bitcoin blockchain or network, is betting big on China. — In Beijing Thursday, the Boston-based startup announces …
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