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Facebook to start limiting the number of non-ad “promotional Page posts” in News Feed in January — News Feed FYI: Reducing Overly Promotional Page Posts in News Feed — One of the main reasons people come to Facebook is to see what's happening in their News Feeds.
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| Vindu Goel / New York Times: |
Facebook reducing promotional posts from Pages in News Feed is just the latest blow to businesses — Facebook to Cut Unpaid Posts by Marketers on News Feeds — SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook's executives are not terribly worried about upsetting people these days.| Reuters: |
Google Glass's future clouded as consumer launch slips to 2015, key employees depart, and many developers abandon projects on the platform — Google Glass future clouded as some early believers lose faith — (Reuters) - After two years of popping up at high-profile events sporting Google Glass … | Joshua Brustein / Businessweek: |
Behind Closed Doors, Ford, UPS, and Visa Push for Net Neutrality — The corporate battle lines over the new federal rules for the Internet have been well established. Vocal technology startups have been leading the charge for muscular regulations for broadband access …
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Gizmodo, The Verge, BGR and Business Insider
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Apple Pay brings significant increase in mobile payments to retailers like Whole Foods and McDonald's, increases awareness of Google Wallet and Softcard — Apple Pay Gives Glimpse of Mainstream Appeal for Mobile Payments — For years, tech companies have dreamed of a future in which people ditch …
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MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, iMore, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider and App Advice
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Vevo CEO Rio Caraeff to leave at the end of the year, CFO will take over during CEO search — Vevo CEO Rio Caraeff Heads for the Door. (Memo) — Rio Caraeff, who has run the Vevo music video service since its creation in 2009, is leaving at the end of the year.
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New York Post
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
After Spotify quietly announces it's removing App Finder, Soundrop says its group listening app will close too — Spotify Axes App Finder, Kills Soundrop And Its Listening Rooms — Music streaming service Spotify quietly announced in October that it would be removing the App Finder …
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Show.co, Digital Music News, PC Magazine, Music Week, Engadget and hypebot
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Uber Integrates With Spotify To Let Passengers Become Backseat DJs — Uber is adding a new feature to its mobile app that could allow passengers to play DJ while they take a ride with one of its drivers. Thanks to an integration with Spotify, Uber will soon make music a central part of its ride-hailing service.
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New York Times, The Next Web, The Verge, Stereogum, SlashGear and Business Insider. Tweets: @megan. See also Mediagazer
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Bitcoin wallet company Coinbase raising $40M-60M at a valuation of about $400M, with most funds likely coming from new investor DFJ — Bitcoin Company Coinbase Raising New Investment at $400 Million Valuation — Coinbase, a company that lets people store and buy the digital currency bitcoin … | Brandon Bailey / Associated Press: |
Microsoft surpasses Exxon as 2nd most valuable co. — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The bull run in Microsoft's stock this past year has helped the tech giant surpass Exxon Mobil and seize the rank of the second most valuable company, behind Apple Inc. — Under new CEO Satya Nadella …
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MarketWatch, Cult of Mac, Redmond, Bloomberg and GeekWire
| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
Yik Yak local anonymous messaging app is close to raising roughly $75M in new financing — Yik Yak Is Close To Closing On Roughly $75 Million — Thank the kids in America for turning Yik Yak into the newest technology craze that's a parental nightmare and an anonymous messaging juggernaut.| Julia Angwin / ProPublica: |
AT&T says it's no longer inserting phone-tracking IDs in web traffic, which was only a test, but may still sell the resulting data — AT&T Stops Using Undeletable Phone Tracking IDs — AT&T says it has stopped its controversial practice of adding a hidden, undeletable tracking number to its mobile customers' Internet activity.
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Wired, Associated Press, USA Today, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Engadget, SlashGear, The Register, The Verge, MacRumors, Associated Press, DISPLAYBLOG and Gizmodo. Tweets: @robpegoraro
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