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Dropbox Raises About $250 Million at $10 Billion Valuation — BlackRock Is Leading the Deal Alongside Previous Backers — Dropbox Inc. has closed on about $250 million in a funding round that values the online-storage provider at close to $10 billion, according to two people familiar with the deal.
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| Liz Gannes / Re/code: |
Dropbox Fundraising Could Actually Be as Much as $400 Million — Dropbox's latest funding round values the company at $10 billion, with private equity giant BlackRock leading the deal with participation with existing investors. — But while the round is currently worth $250 million …
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Obama bans spying on leaders of U.S. allies, scales back NSA program — (Reuters) - President Barack Obama announced a ban on U.S. eavesdropping on the leaders of close friends and allies on Friday, and rein in the vast collection of Americans' phone data in a series of reforms triggered by Edward Snowden's revelations.
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Andreessen Horowitz raising $1.5 billion for new fund — Andreessen Horowitz is raising its fourth fund in six years. — FORTUNE — Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is in the process of raising $1.5 billion for its fourth fund, Fortune has learned.
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| Greg Bensinger / Digits: |
Amazon patents method for anticipating your purchases to move them to a shipping hub near you — Amazon Wants to Ship Your Package Before You Buy It — Amazon.com knows you so well it wants to ship your next package before you order it. — The Seattle retailer in December gained … | Noel Randewich / Reuters: |
Intel announces plans to cut 5% of its 107k workforce this year — Intel to reduce global workforce by five percent in 2014 — (Reuters) - Intel Corp plans to reduce its global workforce of 107,000 by about 5 percent this year as the chipmaker, struggling with falling personal-computer sales …
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Building an open source Nest — Earlier this week, Google bought Nest, a connected devices company, for $3.2 billion. This might seem like an ungodly sum for a company that makes thermostats and smoke detectors, but it makes absolute sense. Nest's products are beautifully designed …
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HTC Said to Plan New One Phone With Larger Screen, Better Camera — HTC Corp. (2498) plans a March release for the latest version of its HTC One smartphone featuring a larger screen and twin-sensor rear camera, according to a person with direct knowledge of the plans.
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| Jim Finkle / Reuters: |
Exclusive: Cybercrime firm uncovered six active attacks on U.S. merchants — The sign outside the Target store is seen in Arvada, Colorado January 10, 2014. — (Reuters) - The cyber security firm IntelCrawler said on Friday that it has uncovered six ongoing attacks at merchants across …
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| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Nintendo ‘studying’ mobile devices in wake of bleak hardware sales forecast — “It's not as simple as enabling Mario to move on a smartphone.” — Earlier today Nintendo slashed its sales forecast for the Wii U by nearly 70 percent, which in turn led the company to predict an operating loss of around $336 million.
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| Andrew Martonik / Android Central: |
Sprint Wifi Calling poised to debut on two Samsung phones — Calling requires software update but no monthly fee; only supported in the U.S. — T-Mobile may soon no longer be the only major carrier offering first-party Wifi calling, as Sprint apparently is preparing to launch a system of its own.
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BGR, The Verge, TechnoBuffalo, FierceWireless, Gotta Be Mobile, TheStreet.com, DSLreports, Gigaom, AndroidGuys, AndroidHeadlines.com and The Droid Guy. Tweets: @andrewmbenton
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Google visualizes data from Google Play Music to show changes in music genres over the decades — Explore the history of Pop — and Punk, Jazz, and Folk — with the Music Timeline — With newspapers, blogs, and websites wrapping up their Top Ten album lists for 2013 … | Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac: |
Google developing “Chromoting” remote desktop management app for iOS — Google has been working on a remote desktop management app for Android devices called “Chromoting” since last year, but today an entry in the Chromium issue tracker has revealed that an iOS version is also under developement.
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Google introduces surveys to discover why you're muting its ads — Google today announced it is introducing, over the next few weeks, a series of short surveys in English-speaking countries which will appear after a user mutes an ad. The company says its goals are to learn why users mute ads …
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VP Of Product Michael Sippey Is Leaving Twitter — Twitter's Vice President of Product Michael Sippey just announced that he's stepping into an advisory role at the company, then moving on to, well, something else. — In a company email that Sippey also posted on his blog, he said he realized that … | Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Path launches for Windows Phone as a public beta — Path today quietly launched an app for Windows Phone, but there's a small catch: it's a public beta. Nevertheless, the social network has arrived on Microsoft's mobile platform and you can grab the app now directly from the Windows Phone Store.
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