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Unilever acquires Dollar Shave Club, sources say for $1B; DSC founder and CEO Michael Dubin to continue running the company — Unilever announced on Tuesday evening that it is getting into the razor business, by agreeing to acquire Dollar Shave Club. — No financial terms were disclosed …
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VC at Venrock on how Dollar Shave Club became successful and why he invested in it — Success has many fathers, but in this case, there is only one. — When I first met Michael in June of 2012, I had already seen the DSC launch video like everyone else. I saw his site melt down and watched the video explode and actually go viral.
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Twitter permanently suspends Breitbart tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos for repeated violation of rules regarding targeted abuse of users — After years of provocation, Twitter has permanently banned Milo Yiannopoulos from its service. — After years of provocation, Twitter has permanently banned Milo Yiannopoulos from its service.
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A history of Facebook Messenger as it reaches 1B monthly users five years after its debut; 17B photos are now sent through the service each month — Facebook's gamble of forcing users to download Messenger has paid off. Despite the backlash, Messenger has doubled its user count in twenty months …
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Thanks:@joshconstine| Ganesh T S / AnandTech: |
Seagate unveils three 10TB, helium-based 7200 RPM hard drives for the consumer market, with prices starting at $460 — Our recent interview with Seagate's CTO, Mark Re, gave us an idea about of the future of the hard drive market. As late as Q1 2016, Seagate had considered helium-based drives suitable for high-end applications only.| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Microsoft Q4: Azure revenue up 102% YoY with compute usage doubling, Intelligent Cloud revenue up 7% YoY, Surface revenue up 9% YoY; Office 365 subs top 23M — The company delivered strong cloud growth as its Office 365, Dynamics and Azure products and services chugged along.
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Source: Niantic postponed Pokémon Go Japan launch after internal communication from McDonald's Japan, the game's sponsor, detailing the launch leaked — Game-maker Niantic has postponed today's scheduled launch of Pokémon Go in Japan following an email leak.
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| Katie Roof / TechCrunch: |
Report: global VC funding, propped up by mega deals, rose 3% from previous quarter to 27.4B in Q2 but number of deals fell by 6% to 1886, lowest since Q2 2013 — If you look at the investment dollars for the last quarter, you might be surprised to see an uptick in deal volume.
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Nintendo's market value more than doubles to $42.5B since Pokémon Go release, surpasses Sony market value of about $40B — For a game that isn't even technically a Nintendo property, Pokémon Go is having quite the healthy impact on the Japanese company's finances.
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| Jack Clark / Bloomberg: |
Google says DeepMind-powered AI has improved its datacenters' power usage efficiency by 15% — Game-playing AI coordinates data center tasks like cooling — DeepMind efficiencies cover part of cost of 2014 acquisition — Google just paid for part of its acquisition of DeepMind in a surprising way.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Duolingo releases Tinycards, a free, game-like memorization app for iOS, that lets users create flashcards, or select from the hundreds currently available — Duolingo is probably the most popular mobile education app, but until now, the company's focus has been solely on language learning.
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| Benjamin Smedberg / Future Releases: |
Firefox will block non-essential, invisible Flash content starting in August — Browser plugins, especially Flash, have enabled some of our favorite experiences on the Web, including videos and interactive content. But plugins often introduce stability, performance, and security issues for browsers.
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