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Google is working on a project that lets users receive and pay bills with debit or credit cards from Inbox app and Gmail, to debut in fourth quarter — Google Working on Project to Let You Receive and Pay Bills Directly Inside Gmail — Google's mission to organize the world's information is now targeting your physical mailbox.| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Apple Acquires Durable Database Company FoundationDB — Apple has acquired FoundationDB, a company that specializes in speedy, durable NoSQL databases, TechCrunch has learned. — A notice on the FoundationDB site notes that it's no longer offering downloads of its database software.
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Y Combinator's Sam Altman rebuts talk of bubble with a public wager that three tech portfolios will appreciate sharply by 2020 — Bubble talk — I'm tired of reading about investors and journalists claiming there's a bubble in tech. I understand that it's fun to do and easy press, but it's boring reading.
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| 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| Google: |
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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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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See also Mediagazer| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple Watch sales training encourages employees to build trust with customers so they can serve as fashion advisors during sale — Apple's sales overhaul for Apple Watch will focus on building trust, offering fashion views, upselling bands — The job of Apple Retail Store employees will begin changing in profound ways next month.
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| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
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?”| Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico: |
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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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Google Fiber announces Salt Lake City expansion, making it the eighth 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 …
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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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| David Morgan / Reuters: |
Amazon blasts FAA for slowness on drone regulation, claims its recently cleared drone is already obsolete — Amazon blasts U.S. FAA for slowness on drone regulation — (Reuters) - E-commerce power Amazon.com blasted federal regulators on Tuesday for being slow to approve commercial drone testing …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
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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| Agam Shah / PC World: |
HP dumps Apple's Beats audio, partners with Bang & Olufsen — Hewlett-Packard once relied on Beats for audio technology in its PCs and tablets, but that was before Apple acquired it. HP has now found a new audio partner in Bang & Olufsen. — HP will use Bang & Olufsen audio technology to its PCs, tablets and accessories.
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| 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| Dennis Keohane / BetaBoston: |
HubSpot acquires Google Ventures-backed social graph startup ReKindle; service closing today — HubSpot acquires ReKindle to add a better way to make connections — ReKindle co-founder and CEO Matt Grace — Cambridge-based digital marketing company HubSpot has made its first acquisition …
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