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Unroll.me CEO says it's “heartbreaking” that users are upset Unroll.me sold their anonymized email data to Uber — Sorry not sorry. — That's the tone of the apology posted by Unroll.me, an email decluttering service which takes a look at the subscriptions clogging up your inbox …
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| Selina Wang / Bloomberg: |
Source: Square acquired the engineering team of Yik Yak, which had raised ~$74M in total funding, for less than $3M — Company pays less than $3 million for small team of engineers — The deal is a sign of the once high-flying app's decline — Square Inc. acquired the engineering team of Yik Yak … | Sean O'Kane / The Verge: |
Xiaomi-backed Yi Technology debuts Yi Halo, a $17K 17-camera VR rig made in partnership with Google that can shoot stereoscopic video in 8K resolution at 30FPS — Plus a promising new 360-degree consumer camera from Yi Technology — Chinese company Yi Technology has made a name for itself … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn says it now has 500M members in 200 countries, up from 467M in October 2016; it has 9M+ companies and 10M+ jobs listed — Now that LinkedIn is a part of Microsoft (after closing its $26.2 billion acquisition in December), the social networking site for the working world no longer reports earnings …
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Sources: Amazon has created a team for self-driving tech, which focuses not on building vehicles but on how to leverage them — Group could help retailer deliver packages quickly as it builds out its supply chain and logistics network — Amazon.com Inc. AMZN -.39% has created a team focused …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft says it will start integrating Dynamics 365 for Sales with LinkedIn's Sales Navigator in July and announces new HR app called Dynamics 365 for Talent — Microsoft is rolling out a new talent-management application, staking out a space in human-capital management …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Netflix to raise $1B through debt offering to fund new content and other “strategic transactions” — Netflix has announced that it intends to raise €1 billion — a smidgen more than $1 billion (USD) when converted at today's rate — via a senior note debt offering for … | Fitz Tepper / TechCrunch: |
DJI's new FPV headset, called DJI Goggles, lets you control your drone with head movements, shipping after May 20 for $499 — When DJI announced the Mavic Pro last year they also teased a pair of FPV goggles that could be used to see first-person video from DJI's drones.
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| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Dish's Sling Media debuts SlingStudio, a $999 portable TriCaster competitor that can connect with 10 cameras, optimized for Facebook Live, YouTube live streams — Sling Media, the Dish Network subsidiary that brought us the Slingbox, is back — with a product no one expected …
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Inside the demise of Tilt, which raised a total of $67M+, was valued at $375M in 2015, but was recently bought by Airbnb, reportedly for $12M — In 2015, social payments company Tilt was worth $375 million. Less than two years later, it had lost over 95% of its value and was sold for a pittance.
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Inside Google's ads quality rater program, where contractors rush to flag and label inappropriate YouTube content for $15 per hour, while training Google's AI — Every day across the nation, people doing work for Google log in to their computers and start watching YouTube. They look for violence in videos.| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
Revised NPD report for 2016 shows digital revenue accounted for 74% of US game spending, reaching $18.13B versus $6.37B from physical sales — NPD “restatement” shows consistent spending growth as digital sales dominate. — Last year, the Entertainment Software Association's annual … | Ruth Reader / Fast Company: |
Profile of PayPal subsidiary Venmo, which has grown to an estimated 7M MAUs and processed $18B in payments in 2016 after struggling early with compliance, fraud — Under parent company PayPal, the millennial-focused payments app is finally ready to make some money. — [Illustrations: Danilo Agutoli]| Economist: |
How Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu fight for dominance in China while trying to expand abroad — Tencent is leading the acquisition spree, with Alibaba a close second — THERE was a time, not that long ago, when China's big internet companies were dismissed by investors in Silicon Valley … Sponsor Posts
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