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| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Google Was Willing to Beat Facebook's $19B Offer for WhatsApp — Last week, Google CEO Larry Page met with WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum in a last-ditch effort to prevent the rapidly growing messaging app from selling itself to Facebook, according to three people involved in the deal.
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eWeek, Valleywag, Mercury News, BGR, The Switch, BuzzFeed, Ubergizmo, AppleInsider, Business Insider and TechnoBuffalo
Tweets: @startupljackson, @pkafka, @ericnewcomer and @amir
Thanks:@ericnewcomer| Liz Gannes / Re/code: |
Before Facebook Deal, WhatsApp Was Helping BuzzFeed and Shazam Go Viral With New Platform Tools — Unlike mobile messaging competitors like Line and WeChat, WhatsApp has taken a resolute stance against becoming a platform that distributes games and other apps.
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Nieman Journalism Lab, Digiday, New Yorker, Quartz, Gawker, POPSUGAR and dailywireless.org
Tweets: @buzzfeedben, @mattbuchanan and @lheron
See also Mediagazer| Evelyn M. Rusli / Wall Street Journal: |
WhatsApp: the Bomb That Shook Silicon Valley — On Wednesday afternoon, in a modern office building in San Francisco, entrepreneur Daniel Raffel saw a news alert cross his phone: Facebook Inc. had just paid $19 billion for messaging startup WhatsApp. — The founder of mobile app Snapguide …
Tweets: @monkbent, @wsjd, @borthwick and @jonrussell
| Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: |
‘Early’ WhatsApp Employees Will Make $160 Million Each — Yesterday, Facebook bought messaging app WhatsApp for $19 billion — $12 billion in stock, $4 billion in cash, and another $3 billion in stock grants for employees that will vest over the next four years. — How much will WhatsApp's employees make in the deal?| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Q&A With Sequoia's Jim Goetz on Wassssup With the WhatsApp Deal — So I lobbed in a call to Sequoia Capital this morning to get its VC-of-the-moment Jim Goetz's take on the blockbuster deal in which Facebook forked over $19 billion dollars to buy one of its portfolio companies, WhatsApp.| Peter Lauria / BuzzFeed: |
Mark Zuckerberg Comes Of Age As A Mogul — The Facebook CEO has grown into a cocksure leader, solid operator, and gutsy deal-maker, even if the casual dress remains. — Jonathan Ernst / Reuters — Noticeably absent from the mounds of coverage of how Facebook's $19 billion acquisition …
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San Francisco Chronicle, New York Times, Reuters, AdAge, Wall Street Journal, DealBook, Slate, Guardian, FierceMobileIT News and SocialTimes. Tweets: @peterlauria3
| Jessi Hempel / Fortune: |
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Gigaom, DealBook, TechnoBuffalo, CNET, Gigaom Research, Tech Trader Daily, BGR, iPhone in Canada Blog and iDownloadBlog.com …. Tweets: @charlesarthur
| Adam Bryant / New York Times: |
Satya Nadella, Chief of Microsoft, on His New Role — This interview with Satya Nadella, the new chief executive of Microsoft, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant. — Q. What leadership lessons have you learned from your predecessor, Steve Ballmer?
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The Verge, Quartz, Digits, Business Insider, Gigaom and WinBeta
Tweets: @nytcorneroffice, @trengriffin and @benthepcguy
Thanks:@petewootton| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Launches Project Tango Smartphone To Experiment With Computer Vision And 3D Sensors — Google today announced Project Tango, an Android-based prototype 5″ phone and developer kit with advanced 3D sensors out of its Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) hardware skunkworks group.
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Google ATAP, Computerworld, eWeek, Engadget, BBC, BetaNews, UnleashThePhones, Gigaom, ZDNet, Ars Technica, The Verge, Gizmodo, IntoMobile, Droid Life, MobileSyrup.com, VentureBeat, ReadWrite, Gotta Be Mobile, TechnoBuffalo, Android Authority, Electronista, Re/code, 9to5Google, BGR, CITEworld and Digits. Tweets: @eghosao
| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
| Om Malik / Gigaom: |
Om Malik leaves day-to-day operations at Gigaom, becomes full partner at True Ventures, site raises $8M more — Now that Gigaom is all grown up, it's time for the next chapter — It's a new year (although it's well underway) and I'm excited to talk about the new phase at Gigaom.
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True Ventures, Om Malik and TechCrunch
Tweets: @hnshah, @davemcclure, @briansolis, @jason_pontin, @timoreilly, @pkafka, @raanan, @shak, @carr2n, @hblodget, @nitashatiku, @johnolilly, @alexia and @rafat
See also Mediagazer| Amanda Lefebvre / Office Blogs: |
Office Web Apps rebranded as Office Online at Office.com — Introducing Office Online at Office.com — Today, you'll notice something new about Office.com and Office Web Apps-now officially called Office Online. An online version of the Office you know and trust has been available for quite a while …
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Apple Bitch, Business Insider, SiliconANGLE, PC Magazine, The Register, TechSpot, eWeek, Mercury News, The Tech Report, LiveSide.net, CITEworld, MSDN Blogs, InfoWorld, Wired.co.uk, Computerworld, Wpxbox, CNET, WebProNews, Gotta Be Mobile, Ubergizmo, Digital Trends, Windows Phone Central and WinBeta
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
More Cortana details: Siri/Google Now-like virtual assistant to replace Bing search feature in Windows Phone 8.1 — Apple has Siri, and Microsoft is about to get Cortana — Microsoft has been in a state of “shut up and ship” with Windows Phone for more than a year now.
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BGR, Gizmodo, Engadget, SlashGear, TechCrunch, TechnoBuffalo and WebProNews. Tweets: @chrismessina
| Carl Franzen / The Verge: |
Steve Jobs will appear on a US postage stamp in 2015 — Many of his creations reduced the need to send physical mail, but late Apple founder Steve Jobs will still get a fitting tribute from the US Postal Service: his likeness will appear on a postage stamp beginning in 2015, according to a document obtained by The Washington Post.| Matt Brian / Engadget: |
New Google WiFi app could automatically log you into Starbucks and other private hotspots — Google is working on a new WiFi app that could take a lot of the drudgery out of accessing wireless hotspots. According to our sources, the search giant has built Android and iOS versions of an app … | Ben Woods / The Next Web: |
4G data: The USA is second-slowest while Australia is fastest — OpenSignal has released a report today looking at the state of LTE coverage and speeds around the world, revealing that, contrary to what you might expect, not all LTE networks perform comparably.| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Former Motionloft CEO Jon Mills Arrested By The FBI — Jon Mills, the founder and former CEO of real-world analytics startup Motionloft, has been arrested by the FBI, the bureau has confirmed. The arrest follows allegations that Mills lied to investors about an acquisition of his company …
Tweets: @ryanlawler, @bensign, @benparr and @caseynewton
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Meg Whitman buys more time as HP beats earnings estimates — Caption: Hewlett-Packard chief executive Meg Whitman — Hewlett-Packard reported earnings that beat Wall Street's earnings expectations. — Analysts had expected a big drop in quarterly revenue, but HP exceeded estimates on both profits and revenues.
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hp.com, CNET, eWeek, The Register, Bloomberg and Mercury News
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Adobe releases emergency Flash update amid new zero-day drive-by attacks — Adobe has released an emergency update for its widely used Flash Player to combat active attacks that exploit a previously unknown security bug that hackers are actively exploiting to surreptitiously install malware on end-user computers.
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FireEye Blog, helpx.adobe.com, ZDNet, Threatpost, PC World, SC Magazine, 9to5Mac and MacRumors
| Tim Bray / ongoing: |
Tim Bray leaving Google, cites requirement that he end working remotely from Vancouver — Leaving Google — As of March 17th I'll be an ex-employee. It's an amicable separation in the face of irreconcilable differences: I wouldn't move to California and Google wouldn't open a Vancouver office.
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9to5Google, Re/code and WebProNews
| Erin Griffith / Fortune: |
Birchbox raising $50M Series B — The New York-based subscription and commerce company did $80 million to $100 million in revenue in 2013. — FORTUNE — Birchbox is close to closing a $50 million Series B round of funding, according to several sources familiar with the situation.
Tweets: @shaig
| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Groupon Skyrockets After Hours On Q4 Beat With Revenue Of $768.4M, EPS Of $0.04 [Update: Following Enthusiasm, Investors Turn Sour] — Update 1: Investors bid Groupon massively higher following a better than expected financial performance. However, a mere 10 minutes after pushing Groupon up nearly 15 percent, the tone turned.
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Business Wire, VatorNews, Tech Trader Daily, Re/code, ValueWalk and internetretailer.com
| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
“Pirate Sites Generate $227 Million In Ad Revenue a Year” — It's no secret that running a torrent portal, linking site, or cyberlocker can be highly profitable. Thus far, however, only a few have attempted to quantify the money that flows into these businesses.| Salvador Rodriguez / Los Angeles Times: |
Google creates ‘near-real-time’ deforestation tracking tool — Google and several partners have launched Global Forest Watch, a website that makes it possible for users to track global deforestation. — Google is bringing awareness to global deforestation with a new website that lets users …
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Google LatLong, BetaNews, Boing Boing and The Verge
| Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat: |
Online bank Simple acquired by Spain's BBVA for $117M — will focus on international growth — Nobody expected this Spanish banking acquisition. — Simple, the online bank devoted to offering a more humane alternative to traditional banking, announced today that it's being acquired …
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Simple Blog, The Verge, TechCrunch, Webrazzi, The Next Web, Oregonian, Mashable, Android Community and Gizmodo. Tweets: @kimheras
| Jon Southurst / CoinDesk: |
Bitcoin Price Hits $135 on Mt. Gox Following Office Move and Verification Demand — Updates and rumors related to Mt. Gox this week include: a possible company relocation, a requirement for users to hold verified accounts to withdraw bitcoins and a fall in Gox's listed price of bitcoin.
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Computerworld, TechCrunch, Bitcoin Magazine, newsBTC, ValueWalk, Business Insider, MoneyBeat, Investing.com, International Business Times and PFhub.com ™. Tweets: @coindesk
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