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Sources: Uber has submitted a bid for Nokia's HERE mapping service, for as much as $3B — Uber Joins the Bidding for Here, Nokia's Digital Mapping Service — Uber is best known for allowing people to book a taxi through its smartphone application. But the fast-growing company has far broader ambitions.
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| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Fitbit files for $100M IPO, revealing $132M net income in 2014, plans to trade on NYSE under symbol FIT — Fitbit files for $100 million IPO, shows big profits — Fitbit, a maker of fitness tracking devices that is being challenged by Apple's AAPL new watch product, has filed for a $100 million IPO.
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Sources: Yelp is exploring a sale; shares soar over 18% after news — Yelp Is Exploring a Sale — Company has $2.9 billion market value — Business-reviews website Yelp Inc. is exploring a sale, according to people familiar with the matter. — The San Francisco-based company …
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| Christian Sandvig / Social Media Collective: |
Facebook's news polarization study is flawed because it only counted users self-reporting their ideological affiliation — The Facebook “It's Not Our Fault” Study — Today in Science, members of the Facebook data science team released a provocative study about adult Facebook users in the US …
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See also Mediagazer| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Facebook study: our News Feed algorithm makes you just 5-8% less likely to see news from the opposing political side — Facebook says its algorithms aren't responsible for your online echo chamber — In 2011, progressive activist and author Eli Pariser told an unsettling story … | Wall Street Journal: |
Spotify in talks with companies that make content for YouTube and traditional media firms for new web video service — Spotify Laying Plans to Enter Web Video Business — Closely-held streaming service has been reaching out to companies that make content for YouTube
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See also Mediagazer| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Flickr redesigns on web and mobile, launches auto-upload feature and unified search with image recognition — Flickr redesigns web and mobile apps to create a powerhouse in online photo storage — When Marissa Mayer became Yahoo's CEO in 2012, she was greeted with a viral internet campaign …
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| Google: |
Google enables ordering and delivery from restaurants directly from mobile search results in US, via Seamless, Grubhub, Eat24, and other providers — Whether you're craving deep dish pizza or pad thai, starting today you can order food from some of your favorite restaurants directly from Google search results.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook's app install ads can now deep link to information in an app opened for the first time — Facebook Launches In-App Purchase Install Ads — Facebook is combining its lucrative app install ads with deep linking so a specific in-app purchase page opens once the app downloads.
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
AT&T customers with unlimited data using LTE now throttled only when network is congested, instead of when they go over 5GB/mo — AT&T finally ramps down throttling of unlimited LTE customers — Facing lawsuit, AT&T now throttles 4G customers only when network is congested.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Windows 10 described as “the last version of Windows” because it will receive regular, incremental updates rather than big releases — Why Microsoft is calling Windows 10 ‘the last version of Windows’ — “Right now we're releasing Windows 10, and because Windows 10 …
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| Mitchel Broussard / MacRumors: |
$4.99 app ‘Redacted’ hits #8 spot for paid apps on Mac App Store with just $302 in first day profit, suggesting profits on platform are low — ‘Redacted’ Hits Number 8 Spot in Mac App Store With Just $302 in First-Day Profit — App developer Sam Soffes today published …
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| Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
Oracle Hires Engineering Team From Shuttered Cloud Startup Nebula — Software giant Oracle has hired the majority of the engineering team from the cloud computing startup Nebula, which ceased operations last month. — The group of 40 engineers join Oracle's cloud computing group …
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