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April 16, 2015, 3:50 PM
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Microsoft and Yahoo Agree to Amend Search Partnership — SUNNYVALE, Calif. & REDMOND, Wash.—(BUSINESS WIRE)— Today Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO) announced that the companies amended their search partnership to improve the search experience, create value for advertisers …
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Reuters, International Business Times, The Verge, Yahoo, Search Engine Land, PC Magazine, Engadget, The Seattle Times, WinBeta, ValueWalk, TechCrunch, Phone Scoop, Windows Central, ZDNet, CNET and Neowin. Tweets: @mattrosoff
| Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: |
New search deal with Microsoft requires Yahoo to monetize just 51% of its traffic via Bing, not 100% as before — Marissa Mayer redoes Yahoo's search deal with Microsoft, makes huge changes — Yahoo just renewed its search partnership with Microsoft — with huge modifications.
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| Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: |
Ahrendts memo: no Apple Watch in-store purchases until June, pre-orders start arriving this Friday; April 24th launch date removed from Apple's website — No Apple Watches in store until June, Ahrendts tells staff as April 24th date removed from website — Angela Ahrendts has told Apple Store staff …
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Telegraph, iGeneration, CNET, MacRumors, Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, Ars Technica, SiliconBeat, BGR, Macworld, The Independent, Business Insider, TodaysiPhone.com, USA Today, PhoneDog.com, The Verge, O'Grady's PowerPage, Ubergizmo, App Advice, AppleInsider, ZDNet, Geeky Gadgets, Digital Trends, iMore, iDownloadBlog.com, Tech Times, iPhone in Canada Blog, Fortune, MobileSyrup.com and Pocketnow
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Cyanogen partners with Microsoft to bundle and create native integrations of Bing, Skype, OneDrive, OneNote, Outlook, and Office on Cyanogen OS — Microsoft will bundle its apps on Cyanogen's Android OS — Rumors of a Microsoft and Cyanogen partnership have been making the rounds recently … | Russell Holly / Android Central: |
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| Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
Problems & Solutions: Analyzing The EU's Antitrust Charges Against Google Over Shopping Search — After years of investigation, we finally have a formal EU antitrust complaint against Google in search. It's narrow — all about shopping search. Here's a look at the specific charges and what they might mean for the search engine.| Kevin Tofel / ZDNet: |
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| Mark Bergen / Re/code: |
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| Howard Blume / Los Angeles Times: |
L.A. school district ditches iPad curriculum, seeks refund from Apple — The Los Angeles Unified School District has canceled further plans to use expensive curriculum that was part of a $1.3-billion effort to provide iPads to every student, teacher and campus administrator.
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Slate, AppleInsider, 89.3 KPCC, Ars Technica, CNET, ZDNet, SiliconBeat, iMore, Fortune, Reuters, SlashGear, USA Today, Slashdot, PandoDaily, Hit & Run, 9to5Mac, Patently Apple, Engadget, Ubergizmo, iLounge, International Business Times, AppleInsider and MacRumors
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| Ruth Reader / VentureBeat: |
Etsy opens at $31, up 93% from IPO price, valuing company at over $3.5B — Etsy starts trading on the Nasdaq at $31 per share — nearly double its original price — Etsy began trading on the Nasdaq at $31.86 a share — a big pop from the $16 a share price the company set yesterday.
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Business Insider, New York Times, PR Newswire, The Verge, Mashable, ABC News, internetretailer.com, Los Angeles Times, CNNMoney, Forbes, iamWire, Bloomberg Business and Reuters
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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Slack confirms raising $160M at a $2.8B valuation with new investors including DST Global, IVP, and Horizons Ventures, claims 750K daily users — Slack confirms $160M funding round at $2.8B valuation — Slack, that San Francisco startup with an increasingly popular team communication app …
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TechCrunch, VatorNews, BetaKit, Fortune, Business Insider, The Verge, Techvibes Global News, PE Hub Blog, Entrepreneur and Mashable. Tweets: @ingridlunden
| Kathleen Chaykowski / Forbes: |
Snapchat tries to poach Uber employees using a geolocation filter that appears near Uber's HQ showing an url for its jobs page — Snapchat Sneakily Uses Its Own App To Poach Uber Engineers — Uber Technologies and Snapchat are among the world's most valuable startups and have raised billions of dollars between them.
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Los Angeles Times, Fortune, CIO.com, Business Insider and Dice News
| Ellen Cushing / BuzzFeed: |
Apple buys around 36K acres of private forestland to be managed by The Conservation Fund and sustainably harvested for packaging — Apple Is Buying Up 36,000 Acres Of Forest To Conserve It — The partnership with The Conservation Fund help supply the company's virgin paper fiber.
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Medium, The Conservation Fund, The Next Web, iMore, Business Insider, MacNN, Tech Times, MacRumors, AppleInsider, iLounge, CBS San Francisco, MacDailyNews, iDownloadBlog.com and Cult of Mac. Thanks:@mat
| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Sources: Jawbone closes $300M investment round from BlackRock, giving it a valuation of about $3B — Jawbone to Launch Payments Wearable With Amex, as It Closes a $300M Investment Round — “Reports of our death are greatly exaggerated,” said Jawbone CEO Hosain Rahman to me earlier today in an interview in New York.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Updated Google app for Android lets you locate and ring your device by typing “find my phone” into Google search box on desktop — You can now Google your lost Android phone — Despite all its efforts in various markets, Google is still primarily a search company.
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| Lizette Chapman / Wall Street Journal: |
Navdy, maker of a gadget that projects info onto car windshields, raises $20M Series A at $80M valuation led by Upfront Ventures — Driving Display Startup Navdy Raises $20M to Start Commercial Production … Seeking to end the dangerous juggle many smartphone-wielding drivers do when navigating …
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PE Hub Blog, Fortune, StrictlyVC, PandoDaily, bizjournals and Entrepreneur. Tweets: @ychernova
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
To-Do App Any.do 3.0 Adds Collaboration, Zoom And List Sorting Among 150 New Features — While the world is getting its first taste of what life will be like when you have a small wearable like a watch to direct you to what you should do next, one of the leaders in personal organization apps for smartphones is releasing a big update.| New York Times: |
China suspends policy requiring audits, source code, and backdoors from foreign tech companies serving banks — China Suspends Rules on Tech Companies Serving Banks — HONG KONG — A policy that would effectively push foreign technology companies out of China's banking sector has been suspended …
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| Neil Hughes / AppleInsider: |
KGI's Ming-Chi Kuo: Apple makes “last-minute decision” to use TSMC for 30% of A9 chip orders for next iPhone — Apple makes ‘last-minute decision’ to use TSMC for 30% of ‘A9’ chip orders for next iPhone — Facing poor yield rates from chipmaker GlobalFoundries … | Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land: |
Bing Reaches 20 Percent Search Market Share Milestone In US — Bing has hit 20 percent market share in the US according to new data from comScore. The slow and steady gains resulting in today's milestone have come mostly at the expense of Search Alliance partner Yahoo.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Mozilla prepares marketing and product push in attempt to stop its decline, will release Firefox for iOS; president Li Gong and mobile VP Rick Fant to leave — As Mozilla Prepares Firefox Fightback, President Li Gong And Mobile VP Rick Fant Leave — Mozilla and its Firefox browser … | Natt Garun / The Next Web: |
WikiLeaks launches easy search interface for 30K documents and emails from Sony Pictures hack — WikiLeaks releases a searchable archive of hacked Sony Pictures emails and documents — WikiLeaks today released “The Sony Archives,” a searchable online database that the organization claims contain …
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Engadget, Guardian, The Verge, Computerworld, Hollywood Reporter, Deadline and Ubergizmo. See also Mediagazer
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Cell phones proliferate in sub-Saharan Africa: texting, taking pictures and video are the most common uses, mobile money popular in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania — Cell Phones in Africa: Communication Lifeline — In a few short years, the proliferation of mobile phone networks has transformed communications in sub-Saharan Africa.| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Cloud startup Vlocity raises $42 million led by Salesforce Ventures — Summary:Vlocity has honed in on the industry-specific cloud approach, with a portfolio built entirely on the Salesforce Customer Success Platform. — Industry cloud startup Vlocity has raised $42.8 million …
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CNN and PE Hub Blog
| Jim Young / Reuters: |
Target settles with MasterCard, will pay card issuing banks $19M for 2013 data breach; settlement with Visa still pending — Target announces $19 million data breach settlement with MasterCard — (Reuters) - Target Corp said it had agreed to reimburse about $19 million to financial institutions …
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