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Slack raised $120M at $1.12B valuation in a round led by Kleiner and Google Ventures, all previous backers participated too — Slack's One-Year-Old Software Business Valued at $1.12 Billion — Workplace collaboration tool Slack didn't exist two years ago.
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| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Q&A with Slack co-founder and CEO Stewart Butterfield: thoughts on valuation, competition, road to success — Stewart Butterfield explains why Slack is now worth more than $1 billion — Slack this morning announced that it has raised $120 million in new VC funding … | Elisabeth Hulette / Virginian-Pilot: |
Circuit court rules criminal defendant can be forced by police to unlock phone with his fingerprint, but not his passcode — Police can require cellphone fingerprint, not pass code — A Circuit Court judge has ruled that a criminal defendant can be compelled to give up his fingerprint …
| JP Mangalindan / Fortune: |
Amazon exec: We priced the Fire phone wrong — When it introduced the Fire smartphone in July, Amazon bet sales would be something worth bragging about. But three months in, it's obvious the Fire phone is more dud than runaway success. — Last week, Amazon CTO Tom Szkutak disclosed … | Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Facebook now available through Tor browsers at an onion address, SSL still enabled — Why Facebook Just Launched Its Own ‘Dark Web’ Site — Facebook has never had much of a reputation for letting users hide their identities online. But now the world's least anonymous website has just joined the Web's most anonymous network.
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FCC close to reclassifying ISPs as common carriers on back-end, while still allowing fast lanes — FCC reportedly close to reclassifying ISPs as common carriers — FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler speaking to the cable industry in April 2014. — NCTA — The head of the Federal Communications Commission … | Micah L. Sifry / Mother Jones: |
Facebook has experimented with Newsfeed content before elections to analyze effect on voter turnout — Facebook Wants You to Vote on Tuesday. Here's How It Messed With Your Feed in 2012. — The social network tries to promote voting, but it also has conducted tests that affect users' voting behavior—without telling them.| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Microsoft Band first impressions: clunky hardware, useful software; tile interface works well — Wearing the Microsoft Band, the next big thing in fitness tracking — I've been wearing it for two hours, and I'm still acutely aware that it's there. This is the first and most unavoidable thing …
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Hungary internet tax cancelled after mass protests — Hungary has decided to shelve a proposed tax on internet data traffic after mass protests against the plan. — “This tax in its current form cannot be introduced,” Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft launches redesigned Outlook for Mac, announces new Office for Mac coming next year — Microsoft today launched a new version of Outlook for Mac, available to Office 365 customers. At the same time, the company announced its plans to release a new Office for Mac version next year.
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| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Banking giant BBVA Compass partners with Dwolla for real-time transfers at reduced fees — A banking giant and payment startup unite to modernize money transfer — As the mainstream adoption and subsequent uproar around Apple Pay has shown, people are beginning to expect … | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
BlackBerry updates BBM with timed messages and message retraction, unveils plans for a paid subscription — Above: BBM for iOS/Android, now beefed up with Voice and Channels — BlackBerry today released a new version of BBM, adding timed messages, message retraction, HD picture transfer, among other features.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Joyent Raises $15M To Bring Enterprise-Grade Docker Support To Its Cloud Platform — Until today, cloud infrastructure company Joyent had raised a total of $120 million in a number of funding rounds, with its 2012 $85 million Series D round being the latest and largest.
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Twitter's MoPub is using the UIDH “perma-cookies” inserted by Verizon into web pages — Somebody's Already Using Verizon's ID to Track Users — Twitter's mobile advertising arm enables its clients to use a hidden, undeletable tracking number created by Verizon to track user behavior on smartphones and tablets.
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