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Square acquires food delivery startup Caviar in reported $90M all stock deal — It's Official: Square Acquires Food Delivery Service Caviar — Square has acquired curated food delivery service Caviar today, confirming earlier reports that the companies had been in serious talks.
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Caviar Blog, Square, The Verge, The Technology Chronicles, Fortune, CNET, Gigaom, Business Insider, Wall Street Journal, Re/code, ZDNet, The Next Web and GeekWire. Tweets: @delrey
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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.
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AppleInsider, iMore, iPhone in Canada Blog, Mashable, App Advice and iLounge. Tweets: @jspepper
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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.| Abhijeet M. / SamMobile: |
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.| 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.| 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.| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Taboola Acquires Perfect Market, Launches Taboola-X To Help Publishers Monetize Their Sites — Content recommendation startup Taboola has spent the last seven years perfecting a technology that is designed to help publishers drive more traffic to their sites and make some money from external advertisers at the same time.
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VentureBeat, PE Hub Blog, Fortune, Perfect Market, BestTechie, AdExchanger and The Next Web
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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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TechCrunch, eWeek, Data Center Knowledge, ZDNet, VentureBeat, Forbes and BroadwayWorld.com
| Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic Online: |
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.| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
NFL Now app with on-demand highlights and extensive archives coming to Apple TV this month — NFL Now app coming to Apple TV this month — The NFL will be launching a new NFL Now service later this month, and it will be coming to the Apple TV with a dedicated application …
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Macworld, CNET, The Verge, iPhone in Canada Blog, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, SlashGear, Engadget, App Advice, iDownloadBlog.com, MacDailyNews, MacRumors, iMore and MacNN. Thanks:@markgurman
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Wikipedia link hidden by ‘right to be forgotten’ — Jimmy Wales had previously voiced his opposition to the right-to-be-forgotten ruling — A Wikipedia entry has been removed from certain Google search results, under the new EU “right to be forgotten” law.
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Guardian, VentureBeat, Search Engine Watch, Telegraph, Softpedia News and VPN Creative
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Microsoft rolls out Windows Phone 8.1 update featuring Live Folders and more to developers — Microsoft's first Windows Phone 8.1 update is now rolling out — Developers get an early look at Live Folders and other new features — Microsoft's first update to Windows Phone 8.1 is rolling out to developers today.Sponsor Posts
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