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Leaked emails from Sony Pictures hack indicate that Snapchat gave 0.11% of its stock to former Apple executive Scott Forstall to be an adviser — Snapchat Is Paying Ex-Apple Exec Scott Forstall 0.11% To Be An Advisor — A leaked email from the Sony Pictures hack indicates Snapchat set aside .11% …
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SiliconANGLE, Business Insider, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com and The Mac Observer. Tweets: @applespotlight
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Apple officially names Steve Dowling as Vice President of Communications — Apple has officially named long time director of public relations Steve Dowling as its new Vice President of Communications, as noted on the company's executive bios webpage. Dowling succeeds former Apple Communications …
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AMD's Q1 earnings miss with non-GAAP loss of $0.09/share on $1.03B revenue, down 16.9% from last quarter — AMD Posts Q1 2015 Results: $180 Million Net Loss — Today AMD released their Q1 FY 2015 financial results, and the company reported revenue of $1.03 billion for the quarter.
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How Moore's law has been reinvented over the last 50 years, becoming cultural shorthand for innovation itself — Moore's Law is dead, long live Moore's Law — Moore's Law turns 50 this coming week — making this an opportune time to revisit Gordon Moore's classic prediction …
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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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AdExchanger, The Verge, Reuters, Search Engine Land, SiliconANGLE, Windows Central, Tech Times, Ars Technica, Marketing Land, International Business Times, The Register, Neowin, The Seattle Times, Search Engine Watch, WinBeta, PCMag UK, ValueWalk, Phone Scoop, ZDNet and Yahoo. Tweets: @mattrosoff
| 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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Wall Street Journal, Fortune, TechCrunch, Business Insider, SiliconANGLE, BetaKit, Re/code, VatorNews, Mashable, bizjournals, The Verge, Entrepreneur, Techvibes Global News and PE Hub Blog. Tweets: @ingridlunden
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google's mobile search results on Android now prompt users to install apps that have content relevant to the search query — Google's Mobile Search Results On Android Now Prompt Users To Install Apps With Relevant Content — Google's mobile search results on Android will now prompt … | Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
EyeEm, a photo-sharing social network where users can get paid for their photos, closes $18M Series B led by Valar Ventures — EyeEm Raises $18 Million in Quest to Sell Your Smartphone Photos — EyeEm, a photo-sharing social network akin to Instagram, has raised $18 million in new venture funding, according to CEO Flo Meissner.| Amit Chowdhry / Forbes: |
Microsoft Releases ‘Halo’ Spinoffs For iOS, Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 And Steam — Microsoft has released Halo: Spartan Strike today for iPhone, iPad, Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 and Steam. The game was created by Microsoft Studios and 343 Industries in conjunction with Vanguard Games.
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| Michael Ducker / The Twitter Blog: |
Twitter's Fabric adds tools to let developers add Tweet timelines to iOS and Android apps, let apps access content from API without user login — Introducing timelines and guest authentication to Twitter Kit — Today, we're pleased to introduce two new features for Twitter Kit on Fabric …
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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 …
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Ubergizmo, Engadget, The Next Web, Pocketnow, The Register, Phandroid, Phone Scoop, Business Insider, SiliconBeat, BetaNews and 9to5Google
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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 contains … | TechCrunch: |
Etsy Stock Surges 86 Percent At Close Of First Day Of Trading to $30 Per Share — Etsy, the online marketplace for handmade goods, went public today. It turns out Wall Street investors like those homespun crafts. Shares opened at $31 on the NASDAQ, popping up 94 percent from the initial set price of $16 per share.| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Verizon offering FiOS TV packages with mix-and-match channel packs that viewers can swap out each month; plans start at $54.99 — Verizon's New Pay TV Pitch Isn't A La Carte TV. But It's Getting Closer. — People who say they hate paying for cable TV often say they only want to pay … | Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal: |
Instagram Tightens Guidelines to Curb Pornography and Harassment — Instagram is dropping the nice-guy act. — The photo- and video-sharing app Thursday unveiled more-detailed standards for images, aimed at curbing pornography and harassment. The tone is tougher, too …
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The Verge, Tech Times, Digital Trends, The Daily Dot, TechCrunch and Macworld. Tweets: @digiphile
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Google launches “Works With Google Cardboard” program to certify VR headsets that are compatible with Cardboard software — Google Announces Certification Program For Cardboard Clones — Google Cardboard has been a surprise hit among early adopters, giving an intentionally cheap …
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Google Developers Blog, Engadget, The Verge, The Next Web, Financial Post, PhoneDog.com, Ausdroid, ReadWrite, 9to5Google, VentureBeat, Android Authority and Gizmodo. Tweets: @kylebrussell
| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
IBM's X-Force Exchange to make decades worth of cyber-threat data public — Summary:IBM's X-Force Exchange aims to be one of the largest and most thorough catalogs of vulnerabilities in the world, helping companies to defend against cyber-crimes in real-time.| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft launches Office 365 Video for secure enterprise sharing and streaming, debuts new iPhone app — Microsoft is doing more with video in Office 365, announcing today a new native iPhone app for Office 365 Video, as well as a rollout of the service to all eligible Office 365 business customers.
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The Next Web, Office Blogs and WindowsITPro
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a16z Hires Former Facebooker Ted Ullyot To Help Portfolio Companies Deal With Regulatory Issues — As companies like Lyft and Airbnb have grown, they've run up against local governments and regulatory agencies in multiple markets in the U.S. and abroad. To help those portfolio companies …
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Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Bloomberg Business, Dealbreaker, PE Hub Blog, Business Insider, Re/code and Wired. Tweets: @pmarca
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Square CEO Jack Dorsey on how the company's recent initiatives fit the big picture — Square's Jack Dorsey Puts It All Together — The Square CEO and Twitter founder explains how his company's recent spate of initiatives fit together in the big picture. — Photo by Roger Askew/REX Shutterstock
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After IAC acquisition, dating app HowAboutWe relaunches with on-demand date matching, highly targeted search, updated pricing, and more — The New HowAboutWe Will Let You Order A Date On Demand — HowAboutWe, five years old and recently acquired by digital dating giant IAC …
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