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Uber raises $1.2B, looks to invest in the Asia Pacific region; acknowledges shortcomings in company's culture — The Ride Ahead — 2014 has been a year of tremendous growth for Uber. It was just a year ago that Uber was operating in 60 cities and 21 countries - today we are in over 250 cities in 50 countries.
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| Liz Gannes / Re/code: |
Uber confirms $40B valuation; $1.2B round of funding could swell to $1.8B — Uber Announces $1.2 Billion Raise, Confirms $40 Billion Valuation — Quick on the heels of a filing this morning, Uber announced it has raised $1.2 billion in a new round of funding.
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| Ryan Gallagher / The Intercept: |
Operation AURORAGOLD: How the NSA hacks cellphone networks worldwide and spies on the GSM Association, which includes Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, Facebook, others — How the NSA Hacks Cellphone Networks Worldwide — In March 2011, two weeks before the Western intervention in Libya …
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| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Amazon Unveils Its Own Diapers and Baby Wipes Called Amazon Elements — For years, Amazon naysayers have warned that the e-commerce giant's ambition would drive it to compete ever more directly with the merchants who sell goods on Amazon's popular online marketplace.
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| Jeff Elder / Wall Street Journal: |
Lawyers say Apple deleted music from rival services on users' iPods between 2007-2009 — Apple Deleted Rivals' Songs from Users' iPods — Apple deleted music that some iPod owners had downloaded from competing music services from 2007 to 2009 without telling users, attorneys …
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Inside Mark Zuckerberg's plan to wire the world and put every single human being online — Exclusive: Inside Facebook's Plan to Wire the World — Chandauli is a tiny town in rural India about a four-hour drive southwest of New Delhi. India's a big country, and there are several Chandaulis.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft sells its 17.6% stake in Nook back to Barnes & Noble for $62M and 2.7M shares — Microsoft sells its stake in Nook back to Barnes & Noble — Microsoft and Barnes & Noble unveiled a “strategic partnership” back in April 2012 which involved the software maker investing $300 million … | Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Four Months After Acquisition, Square Launches iOS App For Food Delivery Service Caviar — Over the summer, Square purchased food delivery startup Caviar. Today, it's making ordering on the service even easier with the launch of a mobile app. — Square announced the acquisition …
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| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
Google's Inbox team promises cross-browser support, unified inbox, and more in Reddit AMA — Google's Inbox team promises cross-browser support and a host of other features soon — Google's new Inbox interface for its longstanding Gmail service is an intriguing, futuristic … | Alistair Barr / Wall Street Journal: |
Google to raise commissions for resellers of Google Apps for Work in a push to woo larger organizations — Google Makes Move on Microsoft's Turf in Workplace — Gmail Operator to Offer Bigger Fees to Resellers Amid Push to Challenge Outlook Owner — Google Inc. plans to boost … | Benedict Evans: |
Questions about mobile: What happens to Android OEMs? Will more players attempt to fork Android? In what layer will aggregation and discovery sit? More — New questions in mobile — Seven years into the smartphone world, it seems like it's time to change the questions.
| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Docker announces Docker Hub Enterprise to manage companies' apps behind the firewall, and a suite of orchestration services for admins — Docker debuts on-premises software for storing companies' apps in containers — At its user conference in Amsterdam today, the executives of hot startup Docker …
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| Zoran Basich / Wall Street Journal: |
Early Oculus Backer Formation 8 Raises $500 Million to Connect Dots Between Asia, U.S. — Formation 8 has closed its second fund at $500 million, a quick turnaround for a young venture firm whose successful early bet on virtual-reality company Oculus VR Inc. created plenty of demand from institutional investors.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Kantar: Apple On Track For ‘Record Quarter’ As iPhone 6 Sales Bump Up Its Market Share Vs. Android — Apple has been seeing its smartphone market share erode over the last several years as its simple-and-small line up of iPhones competed against model after model of low-priced, big-screened, fancy-featured Android-based handsets.
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| Sherrel Wheeler Stewart / Reuters: |
Tim Cook agrees to lend his name to Alabama LGBT anti-discrimination bill after initial resistance from Apple — Alabama anti-discrimination bill to be named after Apple's Tim Cook — (Reuters) - An anti-discrimination bill championed by Alabama's only openly gay lawmaker will bear …
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| Emily Steel / New York Times: |
Dish, consumer groups, more unite to launch Stop Mega Comcast coalition to advocate against $45B TWC merger — Coalition Opposes Comcast-Time Warner Cable Merger — A group of companies, public interest groups and labor unions have joined forces to urge regulators to reject Comcast's …
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