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Mountain View city council allocates LinkedIn 1.4M of 2.2M square feet in North Bayshore, threatening Google's campus expansion plans — In stinging defeat for Google, LinkedIn scores lion's share of real estate capacity in Mountain View's North Bayshore — LinkedIn Corp. came away …
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First consumer version of Facebook's Oculus Rift VR headset to ship Q1 2016, pre-orders to start later in 2015 — Facebook's Oculus Rift virtual reality headset will ship in early 2016 — After months of rumours that the first commercial model of VR headset would slip beyond 2015, company confirms the news
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| Eric Johnson / Re/code: |
Zynga to lay off 364 people, or 18% of its staff, within the next three quarters as part of the company's $100M cost reduction program — Zynga Narrows Focus, Will Cut 18 Percent of Staff — With Don Mattrick out and founder Mark Pincus reinstalled as CEO, what will Zynga's future look like?| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Ex-Apple retail boss Ron Johnson launches Enjoy e-commerce site, with personal delivery and in-home setup service at no cost — Former Apple Retail Boss Ron Johnson Unwraps New Web Startup ‘Enjoy’ — Ron Johnson, the former Apple retail chief who was ousted as J.C. Penney's boss two years ago …
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| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Reddit launches a video division to create original content — The social news service Reddit has grown to a truly massive size, garnering 170 million monthly visitors and 6.7 billion pages view this January, while maintaining a fairly bare-bones service. It helps elevate obscure material …
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EU unveils plan to unite fragmented online markets, crack down on possible abuses by US Internet firms — EU Announces Plans to Create a Single Digital Market — Plans include inquiries into the role of online platforms and possible abuses by U.S.-based companies| Paul Thurrott / Thurrott.com: |
Sources: Xbox One will get DVR functionality as Windows Media Center is removed from Windows 10 — Confirmed: Media Center is Dead — You may have seen recent rumors that Microsoft has killed off Windows Media Center, the ten-foot digital media interface that it first developed for a special version of Windows over 10 years.
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Banjo raises $100M from SoftBank to build out software that detects world events in real time, using photos and videos uploaded to social media sites — Banjo Raises $100 Million to Detect World Events in Real Time — Banjo started four years ago as a simple app for viewing social media posts tagged …
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Sources: BMW, Audi, Mercedes-Benz, and Baidu preparing formal bid for HERE mapping service at “considerably more than €2B” — German Car Makers Preparing Formal Bid for Nokia's Here Map Service With China's Baidu — BMW, Audi, and Mercedes-Benz eager to acquire technology needed to run self-driving cars
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Comcast to offer 4K Xi4 set-top box this year and Xi5 set-top box with HDR in 2016 — Comcast to offer 4K set-top box this year — The nation's largest cable provider has confirmed plans to deliver Ultra HD content to its subscribers via a new set-top box called the Xi4 later this year.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Work Management Platform Wrike Raises $15M Series B Round — Work management and collaboration platform Wrike today announced that it has raised a $15 million Series B round led by Scale Venture Partners with participation from DCM Ventures and previous investor Bain Capital Ventures.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Meerkat Launches Developer Platform To Differentiate From Periscope — How did it feel getting cut off by Twitter with just 2 hours notice? “It sucked” says Meerkat founder Ben Rubin. That's why it's determined to treat developers with more respect. In the nine weeks since Meerkat launched … | Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
Paypal co-founder Max Levchin's lending startup Affirm raises $275M — Lending Start-Up Affirm Raises $275 Million — Affirm, a San Francisco-based consumer lending start-up, is adding $275 million in debt and equity to accelerate its growth plans. — The big Series B funding round … | Wall Street Journal: |
Chinese drone maker DJI raises $75M from Accel Partners, sources say at a valuation of $8B — Chinese Drone Maker DJI Raises $75 Million From Accel Partners — Accel investment values SZ DJI Technology Co. at around $8 billion, sources say — Chinese drone maker SZ DJI Technology Co. secured …
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The Verge, TechCrunch, Business Insider, PE Hub Blog, Reuters, New York Times and Fortune. Tweets: @danprimack
| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Sources: Samsung to introduce Artik, new chip platforms to power IoT devices, next week — Samsung readies new processors to power the Internet of Things — The hardware platform, which Samsung will reveal next week during a San Francisco event, will be called Artik, CNET has learned.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Encrypted Chat App Wickr Creates New Non-Profit Arm, Nico Sell Steps Down As CEO To Lead It — Some big changes ahead for Wickr, a messaging app that emerged in the wake of the NSA private data leaks to offer consumers an encrypted, more secure alternative to mainstream services like Facebook.
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VentureBeat, VatorNews, Chicago Business, FierceMobileIT News, New York Times and Re/code. Thanks:@ingridlunden
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Google to shut down its website optimization service PageSpeed on Aug. 3 — Google Shuts Down PageSpeed Service For Accelerating Websites — Google is shutting down PageSpeed Service, its hosted solution for optimizing websites for faster delivery, on August 3.
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