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Andreessen on factors slowing IPOs and tech M&A, higher private valuations, how tech investment remains tiny from macro POV, education and health startups, more — Brainstorming with Marc Andreessen — Internet pioneer Marc Andreessen is one of America's most active venture capitalists.| Scott Kupor / Andreessen Horowitz: |
Activist investors' near-term obsession slowing M&A for tech incumbents and IPOs for startups — What's Holding Tech M&A Back? — Mergers and acquisitions activity around the world continues on a tear. Last year alone saw $3.5 trillion of deal-making, just below the all-time high of 2007, Thomson Reuters data show.
| Dave McClure / Medium: |
High private tech valuations the result of investors betting against doomed public incumbents unable to innovate — Bubble, My Ass: Some Unicorns Might Be Overvalued, But All Dinosaurs Gonna Die. — Summary: pundits argue billion-dollar startups are overvalued, but few realize … | TechCrunch: |
Twitter Is Pushing Celebrities And Publishers To Stop Using Meerkat — Twitter is doing whatever it can to help its live video streaming acquisition Periscope beat independent competitor Meerkat. Multiple sources tell TechCrunch that Twitter has been contacting celebrities who use Meerkat …
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| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
First four Game of Thrones season 5 episodes leak online, apparently originating from review copies, surfacing on major torrent sites, in major blow to HBO — First Episodes of Game of Thrones Season 5 Leak Online — Starting a few hours ago several episodes of the new Game of Thrones season started to appear online.
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Variety, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Mashable, New York Times, PC Magazine, NEWS.com.au, The Daily Dot, Wall Street Journal, Engadget, TechnoBuffalo, BuzzFeed, Sydney Morning Herald, BetaNews, VentureBeat, Digital Trends, SlashGear, Gotta Be Mobile, Forbes, Gizmodo UK and TMZ.com
Tweets: @dannysullivan, @jsnell and @chrismlacy
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| Stack Overflow: |
Stack Overflow user survey: 92% male, 41.8% self-taught, 54.5% use Javascript, 32.4% are full-stack web developers, 9.1% mobile developers — Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2015 — Every year we run a survey. This year, more developers answered more questions than ever before.
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InfoQ, Tim Anderson's ITWriting, ZDNet, Slashdot, WordPress Tavern and SlashGear
Tweets: @samthebrand, @mjasay, @anildash and @mims
| Washington Post: |
Inside the battle over crypto backdoors as the White House prepares report for President Obama — As encryption spreads, U.S. grapples with clash between privacy, security — For months, federal law enforcement agencies and industry have been deadlocked on a highly contentious issue …
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Ars Technica, Slashdot, The Verge and Engadget
Tweets: @binitamshah, @csoghoian, @dangillmor, @xor, @xor and @trevortimm
| Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note: |
Word of mouth after a few months of general availability, not reviews based on early impressions, will decide the success of Apple Watch — An Apple Watch Meta-Review Reimagined — Product reviews of the Apple Watch launch are reaching new summits — and depths.
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App Advice, Tech.pinions, Business Insider, Rob Pegoraro, Tech Times, Bloomberg View and The Daily Dot
Tweets: @danb, @reckless, @reckless, @reckless and @dangillmor
| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Galaxy S6 review: spectacular camera, Exynos beats Snapdragon 810, but TouchWiz and Material Design do not mesh, S-Voice ruins always-on voice support — Samsung Galaxy S6 review: It's what's on the outside that counts — A great camera and premium materials offset the loss of power-user features.
Tweets: @steipete
| Dan Frommer / Quartz: |
Over 1M US Apple Watch preorders, with two-thirds for Sport line, and black bands most popular, according to shopping data firm Slice Intelligence — Apple Watch pre-orders were 1 million in the US on its first day, a shopping data firm estimates — (Ryan Emberley/Invision for Apple/AP Images)| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Twitter cuts off firehose access for third-party data resellers DataSift and NTT Data as Twitter grows in-house big data business — Twitter Cuts Off DataSift To Step Up Its Own Big Data Business — In the push for more revenue growth, Twitter has been building up its business in areas …
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The Next Web, Gnip, Forbes and Search Engine Journal
Tweets: @maccaw, @stevesi, @jamesdcameron, @mdmgeek, @jstrauss, @jamesaneufeld, @panzer, @mikeisaac, @jstrauss, @biologypartners and @howardlindzon
| Nick Halstead / DataSift: |
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Bothsides of the Table, New York Times, Re/code, The Register, Seeking Alpha, VentureBeat and Beyond Search
Tweets: @msuster, @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac, @loic, @bhorowitz, @nik, @fattypontoonski, @markzohar, @vivian, @jakeludington and @ruskin147
| David Katzmaier / CNET: |
Roku 3 (2015) review: remote with voice search makes it the best streaming box in its class — Roku 3 (2015) review: A fresh voice improves the best search in streaming — Competing against Apple, Amazon and Google isn't easy. Just ask Microsoft, Barnes & Noble and Yahoo.
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Mini-review of Hisense's $149 ARM Chromebook: well-made for price, but screen is mediocre, short battery life compared to Intel Chromebooks — Mini-review: Hisense's ARM Chromebook actually isn't awful for $149 — The laptop doesn't cut corners that $199 Chromebooks aren't already cutting.
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