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| Mike Isaac / Re/code: |
Facebook Launching Mobile Ad Network At F8 Conference — Lots of people have wanted Facebook to build an ad network for a long time. — Here it comes. Facebook will take the wraps off its plans for a mobile ad network at its “F8″ developer conference in San Francisco at the end of the month …
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| Brad Smith / The Official Microsoft Blog: |
Microsoft to complete acquisition of Nokia Devices and Services business on Friday — The Nokia Devices and Services acquisition close date — The following post is from Brad Smith, General Counsel & Executive Vice President, Legal & Corporate Affairs, Microsoft.
| Wall Street Journal: |
Apple and Google offer promotional boost to games in exchange for exclusivity — Apple, Google Vie to Offer Exclusive Game Apps — The Battle for Mobile Dominance Is Spreading to the Most Lucrative Genre of Apps: Videogames — A long-running battle between Apple Inc. and Google Inc …
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Computerworld, PC Magazine, The Verge, PandoDaily, TUAW, MacRumors, AppleTell, FierceWireless, Gigaom, I4U News, Business Insider, Electronista, PadGadget, Kotaku, BGR, TechnoBuffalo, The Next Web, AppleInsider, Android Central, iDownloadBlog.com, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, Reuters, Android and Me, Engadget and iMore. Tweets: @wsj
| Wall Street Journal: |
Square discussed possible sale to Google, Apple, and PayPal, recorded loss of $100M in 2013 — Mobile-Payments Startup Square Discusses Possible Sale — Company Faces Wider Loss, Less Cash; Google Considered Potential Acquisition — With losses widening and cash shrinking …
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PC Magazine, The Technology Chronicles, Forbes, VentureBeat, Mashable, Gigaom, TechCrunch, MobileBurn.com, VentureBreak, Reuters, SlashGear, GeekWire, App Advice, iDownloadBlog.com and MacDailyNews
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Apple Tries to Clean Up Its Carbon-Spewing Ways With New Data Centers — On a stunning cloudless day in the Nevada desert, Lisa Jackson stands with her back to an array of advanced solar cells, peering across a low chain link fence at NV Energy's Fort Churchill Power Generating plant just a few hundred years away.
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| Erin Griffith / Fortune: |
Birchbox raises $60M in Series B round, values beauty e-commerce company at $485M — Exclusive: Birchbox banks $60 million — The Series B round values the beauty ecommerce company at $485 million. — FORTUNE — Two years ago, “stuff in a box” was all the rage among startups.
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VatorNews, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Re/code, Mashable, PE Hub Blog and internetretailer.com. Tweets: @fortunemagazine
| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Microsoft and Motorola Solutions sign patent licensing agreement covering Android and Chrome OS — Microsoft and Motorola Solutions today announced a patent licensing agreement that will allow the companies to share technology. While the duo didn't reveal too many details …
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| David Carr / New York Times: |
Aereo Case Will Shape TV's Future — Throughout America's business history, the victories and spoils went to the visionaries who made all manner of things — actual things like cars, pharmaceuticals and entertainment. — But more and more, many of the splashy business victories … | Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog: |
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Google is researching ways to make encryption easier to use in Gmail — Above: A photo composition of National Security Agency headquarters in Maryland, U.S. — In response to Edward Snowden's mass surveillance revelations, Google is working to make complex encryption tools, such as PGP, easier to use in Gmail.| David Streitfeld / New York Times: |
Settlement imminent in anti-poaching class action lawsuit against tech companies — In Silicon Valley Thriller, a Settlement May Preclude the Finale — SAN FRANCISCO — After years of legal skirmishes, four leading Silicon Valley companies are scheduled to go on trial next month on claims of conspiring to keep their employees down.
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Business Insider and Wall Street Journal
| Chris Stokel-Walker / The Verge: |
How Ukraine's Readdle built a business on unglamorous apps like Scanner Pro and PDF Expert — The app men of Odessa — How a Ukrainian software firm found success outside Silicon Valley — “Uh guys, I think we took a wrong turn somewhere.” — Denys Zhadanov, the 25-year-old marketing manager …
Tweets: @tselyuko, @michelesolla, @readdle and @stokel
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