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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.
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Apple Aims to Shrink Its Carbon Footprint 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 yards away.
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Billboard: |
Beats Music raising another $60-100M; sources estimate subscriber count is “low six figures” — Beats Music's First 100 Days: A Bumpy Start — As Spotify allies with Sprint, labels say Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre's streaming service is off to a slow start.| Harrison Weber / VentureBeat: |
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.| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Apple Interviewing Job Candidates for Mobile Payments Push — Apple has been interviewing senior payments industry executives to push ahead on a plan to build an electronic payments business, according to two people familiar with the process. — The company has been meeting with potential applicants … | 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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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.| Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: |
Fred Wilson Leads $23M Funding In CrowdRise, A ‘Charity Water’ For Everyone — How do charities and non-profits raise enough money for their causes? Well, the normal route, that which needs to be “disrupted” if you will, means a lot of thousand dollar per-plate dinners …
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