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Box opens at over $20 per share, 44% above IPO price, giving it a valuation of around $2.5B — Box Skyrockets 50% To More Than $21 Per Share In First Minutes As A Public Company — Bam. — Today Box opened at around $20.50, far above its $14 IPO price, giving the company a valuation of around $2.5 billion.
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple targets Watch battery life of 2.5 hours heavy use and 3.5 hours standard use; pure standby battery life likely to be 2-3 days; CPU said to be A5-caliber — Apple targets for Apple Watch battery life revealed, A5-caliber CPU inside — Although Apple has said that the Apple Watch …
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| New York Times: |
Winklevoss Twins Aim to Take Bitcoin Mainstream With a Regulated Exchange — Bitcoin, the virtual currency that was once the talk of the financial world, has been taking a beating over the last year with the price tumbling downward. — Now two of the biggest boosters of the virtual currency …
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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Apple HomeKit incompatible with home automation accessories not licensed as MFi products that connect over WiFi, like Nest Thermostat — Apple details HomeKit compatibility with competing home automation platforms, rules out rival Wi-Fi gear — Apple will allow its upcoming Siri-controlled … | Dennis Schaal / Skift: |
Expedia Acquires Travelocity for $280 Million — The Roaming Gnome, Travelocity's mascot, takes part in the company's 16th birthday festivities at its Southlake, Texas headquarters. Max Faulkner / Fort Worth Star-Telegram/MCT) — Skift Take: Expedia is expected to retain the Travelocity brand.
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Cover story on the rise of unicorns: 80+ private companies achieve valuations of at least $1B — The Age of Unicorns — Stewart Butterfield had one objective when he set out to raise money for his startup last fall: a billion dollars or nothing. If he couldn't reach a $1 billion valuation for Slack …
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| Andreessen Horowitz: |
Andreessen Horowitz explains 16 tech trends of interest including VR and machine learning — 16 Things — We don't invest in themes; we invest in special founders with breakthrough ideas. Which means we don't make investments based on a pre-existing thesis about a category.
| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
Verizon: Don't expect us to offer a data rollover plan — Verizon CFO Fran Shammo says the carrier won't be following AT&T and T-Mobile's lead. — Don't hold your breath for Verizon Wireless to counter AT&T and T-Mobile with a data rollover program. — That's according to Verizon Chief …
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Ulbricht Confessed to Running Silk Road, His College Friend Testifies — In this courtroom sketch, defendant Ross Ulbricht listens to proceedings from the defense table during opening arguments in his criminal trial in New York, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2015. Elizabeth Wlliams/AP
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Bill and Melinda Gates annual letter: How the smartphone will lift up the world — Fifteen years after starting their foundation, Bill and Melinda Gates released their 2015 annual letter overnight, laying out their goals for the next 15 years and explaining their “big bet” — that … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Hutchison Says It's In Exclusive Negotiations To Buy UK's O2 For Up To £10.25B — Today, Hong Kong-based Hutchison Whampoa released a statement saying that it is in exclusive negotiations with Telefonica to acquire mobile carrier O2 in the UK, offering to pay up to £10.25 billion ($15.3 billion, €13.5 billion ).
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| Tim Higgins / Bloomberg: |
Tim Cook's compensation doubled to $9.22M in 2014; retail executive Angela Ahrendts received $73.4M — Apple's Cook Gets $9.22 Million in Pay as Stock Reaches High — Apple Inc. (AAPL) Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook received compensation valued at $9.22 million last year … | Reuters: |
Obama quietly abandoned proposal to put phone metadata collected by NSA under non-governmental control — Obama abandons telephone data spying reform proposal: U.S. officials — (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's administration has quietly abandoned a proposal it had been considering …
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Sources: Snapchat's Discover feature will include content created by newly hired media team — Inside Snapchat's original media ambitions — Snapchat wants to be more than just a distribution channel for other media companies; it's planning on becoming a publisher itself.
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