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Microsoft to Shutter Xbox Entertainment Studios — Microsoft will shut down the Xbox Entertainment Studios, ending an ambitious foray into original video programming. — The Santa Monica studio will be shuttered as Microsoft focuses on strengthening its core videogame business.
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| Stuart Dredge / Guardian: |
Microsoft plans to spin-off Nokia MixRadio as a standalone music streaming service, iOS and Android versions now a possibility — Nokia MixRadio spins out of Microsoft as standalone streaming music service — Personal radio app will still be preloaded on Windows Phones, but now has scope to launch on iOS and Android too
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| Om Malik: |
Elop is the latest in a string of high-profile executives moving up the ranks despite being a dud — It is time to stop rewarding failure — Silicon Valley (the notion) has become very much like rest of corporate America — it has embraced the philosophy of failing upwards.
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| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Nikesh Arora, Google's chief business officer, leaves company to join SoftBank — Nikesh Arora, Google's Top Business Executive, Is Out — Google's Q2 earnings report was overshadowed by news about the top of the company's org chart: Nikesh Arora, the company's longtime sales boss … | Adam Lashinsky / Fortune: |
Bill Campbell reflects on his relationship with Steve Jobs, coaching tech's leaders, and Apple under Tim Cook — After 17 years, Bill Campbell steps down from Apple's board — Bill Campbell recalls Steve Jobs' invitation to join Apple's board of directors as the kind of request that takes your breath away.
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Longtime Apple board member Bill Campbell retires after 17 years; BlackRock director Sue Wagner to replace him — Sue Wagner Joins Apple's Board of Directors — Apple® today announced that Susan L. Wagner, founding partner and director of BlackRock, has been elected to Apple's board of directors.
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| Matt Brian / Engadget: |
Amazon's Kindle Unlimited offers all-you-can-eat e-books for $10 a month — After teasing us with a possible launch, Amazon has confirmed Kindle Unlimited, its all-you-can-read e-book subscription service. For $9.99 per month, the new service offers 600,000 books and “thousands” of audiobooks across a range of devices.
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| Jemima Kiss / Guardian: |
Snowden: Dropbox is hostile to privacy, unlike ‘zero knowledge’ Spideroak — Whistleblower urges consumers to adopt more secure file storage systems which are less susceptible to government surveillance — Edward Snowden has warned against the cloud storage service Dropbox which he says is …
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| Dave Lee / BBC: |
Apple scolded by Europe over in-app purchase protections — Some parents have been shocked by charges for additional features in free-to-download games — Apple has been criticised by the European Commission for not offering any “concrete and immediate” plans to stop users being misled by “free” apps.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Chrome 37 beta supports Microsoft's DirectWrite API, which improves the appearance of fonts — Fonts In Chrome For Windows Will Look Better Soon — Google released the latest beta version of its Chrome browser today, and if you're a Windows user on a machine that runs at least Vista, fonts will now look better on your screen.
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| Nellie Bowles / Re/code: |
Airbnb Founder on Vagina Logo: “Go Ahead, Laugh All You Want” — Airbnb launched a new corporate logo yesterday, and everyone — including their dinner guests last night — had an opinion about it. — At the Verdi Club in San Francisco's Potrero Hill neighborhood, many of the guests …
Tweets: @caseynewton, @startupljackson and @nero
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook starts testing Buy button on News Feed ads and Page posts, will not charge participating US businesses for now — Facebook Tests Buy Button To Let You Purchase Stuff Without Leaving Facebook — Facebook is trying out letting you pay for ecommerce purchases from other businesses without leaving its site or app.
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| Michael Arrington / Uncrunched: |
They Might Be Tearing Down The Creamery To Build Condos — If you're involved in the startup world in San Francisco you've likely been to the Creamery on Townsend and 4th street. It's iconic, even if only recently so. — In 2012 I wrote about the Creamery in a post talking about the shift …
Tweets: @startupljackson and @caseynewton
| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Amazon's first Fire Phone ad is all about Amazon Prime — After announcing it a month ago, Amazon is finally about to release its first smartphone, the Fire Phone. It's now beginning to air its first commercial for the phone too, and it's one of strange choices, to say the least.
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| Cromwell Schubarth / Silicon Valley Business Journal: |
TubeMogul lowers IPO shares to $7, raises $43.8M ahead of first trade Friday, will list on Nasdaq as TUBE — TubeMogul IPO raises $43.8M after hitting bottom of lowered target range — It's been a rough second half start Silicon Valley area companies going public, with TubeMogul the latest …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Twitter Acquires CardSpring To Power In-Tweet Commerce And Offers — Twitter just announced it's acquired CardSpring to enable “in-the-moment commerce experiences.” CardSpring is an application platform that lets developers build card-linked offers electronic coupons, loyalty cards … | Kevin Fitchard / Gigaom: |
No signal? GoTenna has a messaging gadget that will work in the middle of nowhere — For all of our dependency on mobile phones, there are still quite a few places in this world you can't get a wireless signal, from mountaintops to national parks to rural highways and even the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.| Bloomberg: |
Line Said to Pursue U.S. IPO With Confidential Filing to SEC — Line Corp., operator of Japan's most popular mobile messaging service, filed confidentially for an initial offering in the U.S., people with knowledge of the matter said, taking a step closer to a dual-listing in New York and Tokyo.Sponsor Posts
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