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Square to acquire food delivery startup Caviar in a $90M all stock deal, announcement coming later this week — Square Will Announce Acquisition of Food Delivery Startup Caviar This Week — Square is on a mission to diversify, and it's turning to the red-hot food delivery industry to do so.
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4.7" Samsung Galaxy Alpha with 720p display, metal construction, and iPhone-like chamfered edges expected to be announced this month — Leaked photos show Samsung Galaxy Alpha in white — With the Galaxy Alpha getting closer and closer to an official unveil, quite a few details have leaked about Samsung's upcoming metal-clad phone.| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple hires Angela Ahrendts' confidant & former Nike exec to lead social media efforts — Apple is giving its social media department a significant shot in the arm this week. The Cupertino-based company has hired Musa Tariq, the former social media chief for both Nike and Burberry.| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Hidden sensors embedded in everyday objects like car seats may be more useful than wearables — Sensors And Sensitivity — There's only so much practical real estate on the human body for wearables — unless you're willing to revive the over-accessorizing trend of the 1980s.| Patrick Hoge / bizjournals: |
The female Pinterest engineer who pressed tech giants to air embarrassing diversity numbers — Before the recent wave of big technology companies releasing diversity data, there was a one-woman effort by Tracy Chou, a software engineer at the social bookmarking website Pinterest.| Jonathan Vanian / Gigaom: |
Docker sells dotCloud business to German PaaS company cloudControl, focuses on core container management business — Docker parts ways with its dotCloud business — The container management startup is selling off its dotCloud business to the German PaaS company cloudControl GmbH as it concentrates on its container technology.
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Q&A with Pinterest's Evan Sharp on the company's function, competitors, and ambition — What Is Pinterest? A Database of Intentions — Evan Sharp, one of the co-founders of Pinterest, delves into what the wildly popular image-collecting site is really about, and what it's likely to do in the future.| Dan Frommer / Quartz: |
Nearly 60% of sampled mid-sized tech & media firms and 92% of sampled YC startups use Gmail — Google is stealing away Microsoft's future corporate customers — Microsoft has long dominated the corporate-software market, and its new CEO Satya Nadella has set his sights on owning all things related to productivity and the cloud.| Jim Finkle / Reuters: |
Beijing to bar Symantec, Kaspersky anti-virus in procurement: report — (Reuters) - China has excluded U.S.-based Symantec Corp (SYMC.O) and Russia's Kaspersky Lab from a list of approved anti-virus software vendors, according to a Chinese media report suggesting Beijing is expanding efforts to limit use of foreign technology.| Jonathan Vanian / Gigaom: |
Why these startups think chat apps are the next big thing in workplace collaboration — The big cloud storage companies like Amazon and the file-sync players like Box aren't the only ones rolling out work-collaboration features; there's a host of startups generating a lot of interest … | Dawn Chmielewski / Re/code: |
Background on Iliad, the French wireless newcomer that made a surprise bid for T-Mobile — What the Hell Is Iliad, T-Mobile's Latest Suitor? — When French telecommunications company Iliad announced its interest in acquiring a controlling stake in T-Mobile U.S., the surprise $15 billion bid drew …
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Google faces challenges in trying to support every written language with its Noto font family — Can Google Build A Typeface To Support Every Written Language? — Google has taken on its fair share of ambitious projects — digitizing millions and millions of books, mapping the whole world, pioneering self-driving cars.
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