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Facebook acquires 56 acres immediately south of current Menlo Park HQ at an estimated $400M — Exclusive: Facebook buys 56 acres in Menlo Park, considers future of the campus — Facebook Inc. has already changed how people connect online. Now it's thinking about transforming the Silicon Valley tech campus.
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Media companies turn to communication apps and services instead of websites for distribution — The Next Internet Is TV — I was talking to someone who works on one of those half-dozen or so apps that we tend to associate with teenagers: the ones that were built around some novel concept …
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Gigaom and everwas. Tweets: @dkthomp, @mattbuchanan, @mattyglesias, @frankpasquale, @mathewi, @dangillmor and @digiphile
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How Fab went bust: e-commerce firm once worth $900M to sell for as little as $15M this month — THE TECH ‘TITANIC’: How red-hot startup Fab raised $330 million and then went bust — On Friday, Oct. 11, 2013, Fab CEO Jason Goldberg gathered a dozen executives in the eighth-floor conference room …
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Microsoft now has over 100 active apps on iOS and Android, excluding Skype and Yammer apps, as it expands its presence on multiple platforms — Don't look now, but Microsoft has more than 100 iOS and Android apps — As Microsoft works on revamping its underperforming Windows Phone platform … | Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
The first Tizen smartphone isn't an “Android killer”—it's a bad Android clone — Review: Samsung's Android alternative arrives, but it's no match for the real thing. — This is the Samsung Z1—the world's first Tizen phone. After one of the bumpiest pre-launch situations in recent memory …
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PhoneDog.com, Ars Technica, Fast Company, GSMArena.com, BGR, AndroidHeadlines.com, CNET, Android Authority, Wall Street Journal and SamMobile. Tweets: @lee_ars
| Kevin Poulsen / Wired: |
Drone maker DJI expands use of geofences as DHS warns that hobbyist drones can be used as weapons — Why the US Government Is Terrified of Hobbyist Drones — If you want to understand why the government freaked out when a $400 remote-controlled quadcopter landed on the White House grounds last week …
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Electronic Frontier Foundation, CoinTelegraph.Com News, The Verge, Ink, Bits, & Pixels and Engadget
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MIT researchers study successful startups to map entrepreneurial quality in the Bay Area — An analysis of San Francisco's startups shows where the ‘real’ Silicon Valley is — Mapping entrepreneurial quality in California — There's a new map of entrepreneurial hotspots in California … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Google Acquires Odysee, An App For Private Photo/Video Backup And Sharing, Team Joins Google+ — Google may be adding more offline and private sharing features to its Google+ Photos service soon. It has acquired Odysee, an iOS and Android app that let users automatically back up photos … | Megan Geuss / Ars Technica: |
Patent reform hits Congress again with reintroduced Innovation Act — New act, same as old act, but this time will it make it through the Senate? — Today, Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) introduced a new version of the patent-reforming Innovation Act to the House of Representatives.| Chris Gayomali / Fast Company: |
Inside Zulily, the flash sale e-commerce company for young mothers that's about to hit $1B in annual revenue — The Billion-Dollar E-commerce Company You Know Nothing About — Zulily has defied the conventional wisdom—marketing to moms, sticking with flash sales, evading Amazon.Thanks:@chrisgayomali
| Nellie Bowles / Re/code: |
Startups and Self-Loathing at the 8th Annual Crunchies Awards — There was a moment last night — when comedian T.J. Miller (who had called an Uber co-founder's girlfriend “bitch” multiple times) was smashing a TechCrunch piñata as a hundred people walked out of his performance …
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TechCrunch, The Daily Dot, Medium, SocialWayne.com, The Bold Italic, VentureBeat, Business Insider, Business Insider, CBS San Francisco and TechCrunch
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Google Uses Hangouts As A Virtual Genius Bar To Sell Google Devices — In 2013, Google expanded its Hangouts video conferencing service into a commerce platform called Helpouts, where people buy and sell services like cooking or technical advice via live video.
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Android and Me, PhoneDog.com, Android Police, 9to5Google, The Verge, Phandroid, Engadget, SlashGear and The Next Web. Tweets: @amir
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