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CNN sells Zite to Flipboard in all-stock transaction worth more than the $20M CNN paid in 2011 — Flipboard buys Zite news app from CNN — The standalone iPad news app will eventually be shut down and integrated into Flipboard. Also: Zite's CEO tells Fortune why he left.| Gemma Padley / British Journal of Photography: |
Getty Images makes 35 million images free in fight against copyright infringement — Getty Images has single-handedly redefined the entire stock photography market with the launch of a new embedding feature that will make more than 35 million images freely available to anyone for non-commercial usage.
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See also Mediagazer| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Getty's new embed feature allows free use of its photos for non-commercial use — The world's largest photo service just made its pictures free to use — Getty Images is betting their business on embeddable photos — If you go to the Getty Images website, you'll see millions of images, all watermarked.
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See also Mediagazer| Reid Hoffman / LinkedIn Pulse: |
Short-term Profit Taking vs. Long-term Value Creation: The Future of PayPal — In January, activist investor Carl Icahn acquired around 2 percent of eBay's stock. A month or so later, eager for a return on his investment, he published an open letter to eBay's shareholders.
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| Reuters: |
EBay CEO says top shareholders agree PayPal should stay put — (Reuters) - EBay Inc CEO John Donahoe said on Wednesday that several of the online retailer's most active shareholders have assured him they support his efforts to resist demands by activist investor Carl Icahn for a spin-off of the PayPal unit.
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| Lisa Fernandez / NBC Bay Area: |
Facebook Will Be First Private Company in U.S. to Pay for Full-Time Beat Cop — Facebook will become what experts say is the first private company in the country to bankroll a full-time beat cop, establishing what could become a blueprint for many more similar partnerships.
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| Neil Chenoweth / Financial Review: |
Apple moved $8.9B in untaxed profits from Australia to Irish subsidiary in last decade — How Ireland got Apple's $9bn profit — US tech giant Apple has shifted an estimated $8.9 billion in untaxed profits from its Australian operations to a tax haven structure in Ireland in the last decade …
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| Tim Peterson / AdAge: |
Apple Bringing Full-Screen Video iAds to Mobile — iPhone Maker May Sell the Ads Thru Company's New Ad Exchange — How Advertising Performs in a Social Media World — Coming to an iPad near you: iAds that look a lot like TV ads. — Apple will roll out new video iAds this year …
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| Ron / WinBeta: |
Microsoft to unveil DirectX 12 on March 20th at the Games Developers Conference — The Games Developers Conference (GDC) is set to take place in San Francisco on March 20th and Microsoft has something big up their sleeve for that event - the unveiling of DirectX 12, Microsoft's next generation graphics API.| Reuters: |
Exclusive: DirecTV in talks with Disney on deal for Internet rights — (Reuters) - DirecTV is in talks with Walt Disney Co to license the rights to offer Disney's broadcast and cable channels as part of an Internet-based product, DirecTV said on Wednesday. — The deal would mirror … | Evelyn M. Rusli / Wall Street Journal: |
Founders Fund Raises $1 Billion for New Venture-Capital Fund — Founders Fund, a backer of Facebook and Space Exploration Technologies, has closed $1 billion in new financing for a fifth fund, the firm announced on Wednesday. — The new vehicle is quite a step up from the $50 million …
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| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
Ars Technica experiments with digital currency, creates Arscoin for “educational use only” — Behold Arscoin, our own custom cryptocurrency! — Recently, I became the first person in the history of Ars Technica to have a gold—rather than black—user name. — How did I get this blinged-out honor?
Tweets: @scifri, @matthew_d_green and @caseynewton
| Bloomberg: |
Bill Gates, Satya Nadella, Tony Bates and Microsoft's board all initially opposed Ballmer's plan for Nokia acquisition — Microsoft's Nadella Manages Legacy of Ballmer-Board Split — New Microsoft Corp. CEO Satya Nadella is seeking to reshape a company whose main businesses are losing steam …
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| Biz Carson / Gigaom: |
CrossCoin Ventures launches first Ripple startup accelerator — With Bitcoin's woes, could it be time for Ripple to shine? CrossCoin Ventures plans to announce Wednesday that it is launching the first Ripple digital currency accelerator, which will be based in San Francisco.| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Stripe updates Checkout with better address support, new device-specific design, option to save payment info — Stripe today announced its first major update to Stripe Checkout, its attempt at the most straightforward payment experience possible. The new release includes expanded address support …
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Stripe Blog and TechCrunch
| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 12.2 will ship March 9th for $650 — Samsung already gave us a heads-up that the largest of its new tablets, the Galaxy Pro 12.2, wouldn't arrive until March. Well, here it is, right on schedule. The company just announced that the 12-inch Android slate will go on sale March 9th …
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SamMobile, Electronista, Droid Life, PhoneDog.com, Ubergizmo, 9to5Google, Softpedia News, Unwired View and SlashGear
| Shawn Musgrave / BetaBoston: |
Car repossession companies profit from scanned license plates showing when and where vehicles were located — A vast hidden surveillance network runs across America, powered by the repo industry — Few notice the “spotter car” from Manny Sousa's repo company as it scours Massachusetts parking lots … | Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Mozilla launches JPEG encoder mozjpeg to reduce webpage loads, results show up to 10% decrease in file size — Mozilla today announced a new project called mozjpeg, the goal of which is to provide a production-quality JPEG encoder that improves compression rates.
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Mozilla Research, TechCrunch, CNET, The Register, Engadget, BrowserNative and 1001 Noisy Cameras
| Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge: |
Native American tribes adopt Bitcoin-like currency, prepare to battle US government — MazaCoin could be what the Lakota people need to boost them out of longstanding poverty, but is it legal? — The programmer and Native American activist Payu Harris raised a gavel Monday night …
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Forbes, RT, ThinkProgress, The Independent, The Wire, newsBTC and Telegraph. Tweets: @marshallk
| Rohin Dhar / Priceonomics Blog: |
San Francisco house prices are going up, but not the 60-80% over asking price cited by NYT — Fact Checking The New York Times and Redfin — Over the weekend, The New York Times about San Francisco real estate titled “The Housing Market with Nowhere to Go (But Up).” As we've previously shown, and are going way up.| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Yahoo acquires social media visualization startup Vizify — Vizify, a Portland-based startup that turns your social media chatter into visualizations, today was acquired by Yahoo. — Founded by Todd Silverstein, Jeff Cutler-Stamm, and Eli Tucker in 2011, Vizify is all about helping individuals make great first impressions.
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BetaNews, Inquirer, Engadget, Vizify, TechCrunch, PC Advisor, SlashGear, PC Magazine, VatorNews, Marketing Pilgrim, Silicon Florist, CNET, TechnoBuffalo, ReadWrite, The Next Web, VentureBeat, bizjournals, Tech Trader Daily and Re/code. Tweets: @jasoncosta. Thanks:@toddbishop
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