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| Leah McGrath Goodman / Newsweek: |
Elusive bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto is reportedly a 64-yr old living in California — The Face Behind Bitcoin — Satoshi Nakamoto stands at the end of his sunbaked driveway looking timorous. And annoyed. He's wearing a rumpled T-shirt, old blue jeans and white gym socks …
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Thanks:@lainnafader. See also Mediagazer| Kashmir Hill / Forbes: |
Rather than an invasion of privacy, Satoshi Nakamoto's outing is brilliant journalism — The Outing of Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto Is Brilliant Journalism — In Newsweek, finance editor Leah McGrath Goodman claims to have outed the mysterious creator of the digital currency Bitcoin.
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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 … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Spotify Acquires The Echo Nest, Gaining Control Of The Music DNA Company That Powers Its Rivals — Spotify has acquired The Echo Nest, as revealed by an official blog post today. The financial details of the acquisition haven't been revealed, but The Echo Nest is a self-described …
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| Bloomberg: |
Spotify Said to Seek Credit Facility in Step Toward IPO — Spotify Ltd., the Stockholm-based music-streaming company backed by billionaire Li Ka-Shing, is speaking with banks about raising a credit facility, a move that could presage an initial public offering in the U.S., people with knowledge of the matter said.
| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Facebook rolls out a simpler newsfeed redesign a year after first try was scrapped due to negative feedback — Facebook goes back to basics with latest News Feed redesign — After a year testing an aggressive update, Facebook finally settles on a look — Almost exactly one year ago …
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| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Setback for Apple: U.S. judge denies renewed bid for permanent injunction against Samsung — After it just became publicly-known that Apple itself had disclosed confidential licensing terms with respect to which it wanted Samsung sanctioned, Apple has to deal with another setback in its litigation with its most important competitor.
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M From Andreessen Horowitz To Take On AWS — Cloud hosting company DigitalOcean raised a Series A round of $37.2 million at a $153 million valuation led by Andreessen Horowitz. Previous investors IA Ventures and CrunchFund also participated, but Andreessen Horowitz …
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| Emily Price / Engadget: |
‘Wello’ iPhone case can track your blood pressure, temperature and more — Last year, Scanadu caught our attention with Scout, its simple-to-use tricorder-style health monitor. Now a new iPhone case promises to make monitoring your vital signs even easier.
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Gigaom, Gizmodo, CNET, MacRumors, Telegraph, LAPTOP Magazine, PC Magazine, Electronista, The Next Web, iLounge, Pocketnow, App Advice, MacStories, Phones Review, Gotta Be Mobile, iDownloadBlog.com …, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, Softpedia News, Lastest ITProPortal news, Ubergizmo, SlashGear and Gizmodo UK. Tweets: @m4tt
| 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| Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
After 2 Years In Beta, Findery Launches Its Geo-Tagged Story Sharing App On iOS Worldwide — Findery's Caterina Fake On New iPhone App — In a city like San Francisco, there are tons of stories packed into every block — there's the one building that didn't burn down in the 1906 earthquake and fire …
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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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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Banter Debuts An Anonymous Social Network On Mobile That Focuses On Interests, Not Confessions — A new mobile app called Banter wants to build an anonymous social network on mobile by carving out a niche for itself that falls somewhere in between mobile messaging apps, like WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger … | 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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| Reid Hoffman / LinkedIn Pulse: |
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