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Leaked photos allegedly show Amazon's bluetooth gaming controller — Amazon Streamer To Feature Bluetooth Gaming Controller — By way of an overseas regulatory agency, similar to our very own FCC, we continue to hone in on the elusive Amazon media streamer.
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Tweets: @davezatz and @wjrothman
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
iOS 8: Apple considers simpler Notifications Center, inter-app communication, auto-deletion of Messages threads, removal of Game Center, CarPlay over WiFi — iOS 8: Apple considers Notification Center + Messages tweaks, removing Game Center app — Besides adding new Maps, Healthbook …
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| Jeff Goodell / Rolling Stone: |
Bill Gates on technology, surveillance, the future of the planet and God — Bill Gates: The Rolling Stone Interview — The richest man in the world explains how to save the planet — At 58, Bill Gates is not only the richest man in the world, with a fortune that now exceeds $76 billion, but he may also be the most optimistic.| Wall Street Journal: |
Asustek dual-OS mobile device plans shelved, due to opposition from Microsoft and Google — Plans for mobile devices running operating systems from both Microsoft and Google have apparently hit a wall, falling victim to opposition from the software suppliers.
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GoDaddy Prepares for IPO — Company to Interview Underwriters in Coming Weeks — GoDaddy Group Inc., the Internet company that helps individuals and businesses create websites, is preparing for an initial public share offering, said people familiar with the matter.
| Jim Edwards / Business Insider: |
Google Is Winding Down Wildfire, The Social Media Platform It Bought For $350 Million — In 2012, Google made a huge splash when it bought Wildfire, a social media marketing company that helps advertisers manage their pages on Facebook, for $350 million. The acquisition came after a flurry … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook's Secret New “Business Manager” Could Compete With Developer Partners For Marketing Dollars — TechCrunch has discovered a big, unannounced marketing tool from Facebook called Business Manager that lets teams at enterprises and agencies manage multiple ad campaigns and Pages in one interface.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Anonymous Social App Secret Confirms $8.6 Million In New Funding — Secret, the anonymous social sharing app popular among the Silicon Valley and tech industry crowd, officially announced today it has raised $8.6 million in outside investment. The round included participation from Garry Tan …
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Alibaba Said to Plan to File for U.S. IPO as Soon as April — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is preparing to file for an initial public offering in the U.S. as soon as April, according to people with knowledge of the matter. — China's largest e-commerce company is working …
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| Aaron Pressman / Yahoo! Finance: |
Popcorn Time app shuts down amid threats of video piracy — Popcorn Time, we hardly knew ya. Just a few days after the new app arrived on the scene with its incredibly easy to use interface giving users acces to the entire Internet storehouse of illegally uploaded movies and TV shows, it has shut down.
| Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac: |
Apple launches new featured App Store section dedicated to taking selfies — Apple has added a new section to the iOS App Store today promoting apps used to share selfies (via MacStories' Federico Viticci). Among the apps included are classics like Snapchat and the Justin Bieber-backed Shots … | Nathaniel Mott / PandoDaily: |
Uber and Lyft expand insurance coverage after controversy — Uber and Lyft have announced increased insurance coverage for their drivers that will reportedly cover incidents that occur whenever their respective apps are open, not just when drivers have passengers in their cars.
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Uber Blog, TechCrunch, Re/code, GeekWire, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, Forbes, Re/code, VatorNews, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Times, Mashable, Gigaom, The Verge, The Next Web, SlashGear and GeekWire. Tweets: @joshconstine
| Matt Krantz / USA Today: |
Castlight Health up 149% on first day of trading, raises $178M — Castlight Health IPO soars 149% in debut — Castlight Health, a provider of cloud-based software that enables companies to gain control over their health care costs, listed its IPO on the NYSE on Friday.
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Garrett Camp's Expa Raises $50M To Build New Startups — Expa, a self-described “startup studio” created by StumbleUpon and Uber founder Garrett Camp, is announcing that it has raised $50 million in funding from some big names, including Virgin founder Richard Branson and HP CEO Meg Whitman.
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Expa, tech.co and VentureBreak
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
General Colin Powell Joins Salesforce Board Of Directors, As CRM Giant Zeros In On Public Sector — Salesforce today announced an interesting development in its leadership ranks: General Colin Powell is joining its board of directors. He brings the total number of members of the board up to 11.
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Thomson IR, ZDNet, Re/code and PE Hub Blog
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Sprint launches more prepaid options, including smartphones with no data plans — Prepaid has been very good for Sprint, so good that it runs multiple no-contract services from the Virgin Mobile and Boost Mobile brands as well as the Sprint As You Go plans launched last year.| Sharif Sakr / Engadget: |
Nokia's Refocus camera app is now available to all Lumia owners on WP8 — You'd be forgiven for thinking that Nokia's “shoot now, focus later” photography app, Refocus, required PureView hardware to run, because until now it's only been available on PureView-branded phones.| Matt Brian / Engadget: |
Samsung's new smartphone case uses ultrasound to detect people and objects — Samsung's Galaxy S5 may be getting lots of smart new accessories, but the Korean smartphone maker is also making sure its lower-powered phones get some love too. After including various software usability functions …
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Samsung Mobile Press, Samsung Tomorrow, The Next Web, Greenbot and Ars Technica
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Social Analytics Platform Synthesio Secures $20M Series B From Idinvest Partners — Synthesio, the global social ‘listening and analysis’ platform, has announced it's secured a Series B funding round of $20 million in funding from a European private equity firm, Idinvest Partners.
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