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Facebook to test new format for hosting publisher content within months, initial partners include New York Times, BuzzFeed, and National Geographic — Facebook May Host News Sites' Content — Nothing attracts news organizations like Facebook. And nothing makes them more nervous.
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Morgan Stanley CFO Ruth Porat to join Google as CFO on May 26 — Ruth Porat to Join Google as Chief Financial Officer — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif (Tuesday, March 24, 2015) — Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced that Ruth Porat, currently Chief Financial Officer at Morgan Stanley, will join its management team as CFO.
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Google and Twitter veteran Jason Goldman heads to White House as first-ever chief digital officer — Barack Obama names two new top aides — Murray is currently Vice President Joe Biden's deputy chief of staff and communications director; Jason Goldman will take over and expand the White House's digital outreach.
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Google Fiber Plans Experiment With Targeted Ads for Television — Cute animals. Addictive jingles. Local sports stars acting awkwardly. These are some of the charming hallmarks of local television ads, and Google would like you to see more of them. — In a note to customers who subscribe …
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Google Fiber announces Salt Lake City expansion, making it the 8th location to get the service — Google Fiber expands gigabit service again, plans move to Salt Lake City — Five metro areas on track to get Google Fiber; three already have it. — Google announced today that its gigabit Internet … | Chris Dixon / cdixon blog: |
London-based distributed computing firm Improbable raises $20M from a16z, develops large-scale simulated worlds — Improbable: enabling the development of large-scale simulated worlds — Over the past decade, computing resources that were previously available only to large organizations became available to almost anyone.
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Ars Technica obtains the Oakland Police Department's database of 4.6M license plate scans through a public records request — We know where you've been: Ars acquires 4.6M license plate scans from the cops — One citizen demands: “Do you know why Oakland is spying on me and my wife?”| Sarah Buhr / TechCrunch: |
Former Hulu CEO Jason Kilar's Vessel opens to public for $2.99/month, 12 months free if you sign up within 72 hours — Former Hulu CEO Jason Kilar's Vessel Launches To The Public — Vessel, the new online video subscription service built by some of the early team at Hulu, is launching to the public today.| Jamie Condliffe / Gizmodo: |
Xiaomi's New Mi TV 2: A 40-Inch Android-Powered Smart TV for $320 — Xiaomi's onslaught of affordable technology continues. The Chinese company has today launched its new 40-inch Mi TV 2: a powerful smart TV running an Android-based OS that will sell for $320.| Maya Kosoff / Business Insider: |
Sequoia Capital's Michael Moritz echoes Bill Gurley's bubble warning, predicts death for many unicorns and “crazy little companies” — One of the most prolific tech investors says there will soon “undoubtedly will be some sort of setback” in Silicon Valley| TechCrunch: |
Over 50 companies make their presentations at Y Combinator Winter 2015 Demo Day One — Here Are The Companies That Presented At Y Combinator Demo Day 1 — It's that time again! Today was Demo Day 1 (of 2) for Y Combinator's Winter 2015 class — when investors and reporters … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft Launches Azure App Service, A New Set Of Tools For Web And Mobile App Developers — Microsoft is launching Azure App Service today, a new cloud-based service that gives developers a single service for building mobile and web apps, combined with tools for automating business processes … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon updates Fire TV lineup with USB storage and wireless headphone support, expands TV stick availability to UK and Germany — Amazon Updates Fire TV Lineup With Support For USB Storage, Wireless Headphones And More — Amazon announced this morning that its streaming media players Amazon Fire TV …
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NFL to broadcast one game via Internet during upcoming season for the first time in its history — NFL to Broadcast a Game Nationally Via Internet Only — Move marks first time league will air national broadcast solely by streaming — For the first time in its history … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Google warns of unauthorized TLS certificates trusted by almost all OSes — Misissued certs known to impersonate several Google domains, may affect others. — In the latest security lapse involving the Internet's widely used encryption system, Google said unauthorized digital certificates … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
deeplink.me launches AppWords, a platform that lets users search within apps and get deep links into other apps, and lets marketers bid for those deep links — Deeplink.Me Moves Into Google Territory With AppWords, A Deep Link Mobile Search And Ad Platform| Ruth Reader / VentureBeat: |
OpenTable for Android now lets you pay for meals from your phone — Android users can now pick up the check for dinner with a little extra panache. — Restaurant booking app OpenTable has long promised a mobile payments option, and today it's coming to Android users.
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Facebook introduces On This Day, a Timehop-like page that shows you posts, photos, other content that happened on this day in the past, offers notifications — Facebook's Timehop Clone “On This Day” Shows You Your Posts From Years Ago — Facebook's experimented with ways to surface old Memories since 2010.
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