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Apple Moves Toward Expanded Mobile-Payment Service — Apple Inc. laying the groundwork for an expanded mobile-payments service, leveraging its growing base of iPhone and iPad users and the hundreds of millions of credit cards on file through its iTunes stores.| Steven Levy / Wired: |
The Macintosh Is 30, and I Was There for Its Birth — Nineteen eighty-four was not like 2014. When Steve Jobs launched the Macintosh, he had to generate excitement about a product — a computer — that was unfamiliar to most people, if not downright scary.
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| Mike Fleming Jr / Deadline.com: |
Sony Pictures, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg Make Movie Deal For ‘Lean In’ — EXCLUSIVE: In a deal spearheaded by Sony Pictures production president Hannah Minghella, the studio has made a preemptive acquisition of film rights to Lean In: Women, Work, And The Will to Lead, the 2013 book written by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg.
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Gmail And Google+ Go Down Across The World, Service Returns After Roughly 50 Minutes — Update 2: As of 2:52 service seems to be restored and reliable on both Gmail and Google+ for most of those affected. — Update: Users are now reporting that Gmail service at least is back for some …
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Black Car Competitor Accuses Uber Of DDoS-Style Attack; Uber Admits Tactics Are “Too Aggressive” — Competition is fierce in the world of on-demand transportation. The consumer demand for better, more convenient car service has exploded over the last two years, and startups services are racing to capitalize.| Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
Bay area tech companies should give back and promote good public policy in their community — It Doesn't Have To Be This Way — There is a story being told about us here in the tech industry in San Francisco — that we are entitled, or that we are oblivious. I don't believe that's true.
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| Douglas MacMillan / Digits: |
SoundCloud raises over $60M at a $700M valuation, led by IVP and Chernin — Music-Sharing Service SoundCloud Raises New Funds at $700 Million Valuation — SoundCloud, the site for uploading and sharing music, has raised a new round of funding valuing the company at about $700 million, according to a person familiar with the deal.
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| Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter: |
Jury finds Courtney Love not liable in landmark Twitter defamation case — Courtney Love Wins Twitter Defamation Trial — After eight days of testimony, the singer prevails in a trailblazing case. — Courtney Love — On Friday, a California jury decided that Courtney Love …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft's Windows 8.1 Update 1: Rumored release target is March 11 — Summary: Windows 8.1 Update 1 may be headed for a March 2014 release and could include some under-the-hood changes to reduce memory and disk space requirements for cheaper tablets. — There's nothing like ending the week with a few fresh Windows rumors.| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Yahoo Acquires Virtual World Gaming Startup Cloud Party, Will Shut It Down — Yahoo is doing more than just throwing shade at Google on Twitter today and then taking it back - the company has acquired Cloud Party, a browser-based game creation engine. In a blog post today …
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