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Service marketplace Thumbtack raises $125M at a $1.3B valuation, led by Scottish money management firm Baillie Gifford — Thumbtack Raises New Funding at a $1.3 Billion Valuation — Thumbtack, which handles marketing and job listings for professionals like yoga instructors and electricians …
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Axel Springer Buys 88% of Business Insider for $343 Million — German media company Axel Springer SE agreed to buy an 88 percent stake in Business Insider Inc. for $343 million. — Axel Springer already owns a 9 percent stake in New York-based Business Insider, which runs …
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Google to launch Pixel C 10.2" tablet with 308ppi, detachable keyboard, Android Marshmallow in 2015 — [Exclusive] Google Pixel C 10.2" Tablet With 308ppi, Detachable Keyboard, Lightbar, And Android Marshmallow Coming Later This Year — The Chromebook Pixel launched in 2013, and a replacement followed up in March of this year.
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| Gulveen Aulakh / The Economic Times: |
Sources: Indian mobile wallet firm Paytm gets $680M from Alibaba and Ant Financial — Alibaba, Ant Financial invest about $680 million in Paytm, up stake to 40% … NEW DELHI: Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding has made a strategic investment in One97 Communications …
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft details Azure Data Lake plans, says public preview is coming later this year — Microsoft fleshes out its Azure Data Lake plans; readies public preview — Microsoft plans to make its Azure Data Lake store, analytics service and new query language — all derivatives … | Derrick Harris / Fortune: |
Google and NASA extend quantum computing contract with D-Wave Systems — The quest for an entirely new type of computer will continue at NASA's Ames Research Center, which is nestled in the heart of Silicon Valley. The space agency, along with Google GOOG and the Universities Space Research Association … | Rich McCormick / The Verge: |
Slack revamps Posts feature to better compete with email, making it easier to create, share, and discuss long-form messages — Slack revamps its Posts tool to better kill email — Previously, workplace communications app Slack has primarily worked like a (particularly advanced) chatroom … | Dan Ackerman / CNET: |
LG enters US laptop market with 13" and 14" LG Gram ultrabooks, starting at $899 — Meet the Gram, LG's first laptop for the US — While it's widely known for everything from televisions to smartphones to appliances, Korean electronics giant LG is also a computer manufacturer.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft revamps its financial reporting into three new operating segments: Productivity, Intelligent Cloud, and More Personal Computing — Microsoft revamps again the way it will report its financials — Microsoft is revamping, for the second time in two years, the way it reports its financials.
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| Karin Tuxen-Bettman / Google Green Blog: |
Google equips Street View cars with Aclima sensors to map air quality in California, following its successful pilot program in Denver — Making the invisible visible by mapping air quality — How clean is the air we breathe? How much climate-warming greenhouse gases are our cities emitting?| Wall Street Journal: |
Google tries to make its cars drive more like humans by cutting corners, edging into intersections, and crossing double-yellow lines — Google Tries to Make Its Cars Drive More Like Humans — Autonomous vehicles are learning to edge into intersections, cut corners
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Medium says it raised $57M in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz, at a $400M valuation according to sources — Ev Williams's Medium Raises $57 Million for the ‘Best Stories and Ideas on the Internet’ — Medium, the publishing platform hatched by Twitter co-founder Ev Williams …
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Chipworks: Both Samsung and TSMC are making the A9 chip for Apple — And the Samsung version is smaller than the TSMC version. — The only thing that most people will need to know about Apple's A9 is that it's a whole lot faster than last year's A8. But for those of you who are more interested …
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| Rita El Khoury / Android Police: |
Nexus 5X Will Start At $379.99, Available For Pre-Order On September 29th In The U.S., UK, Korea, Japan, and Ireland — [Exclusive] Nexus 5X Will Start At $379.99, Available For Pre-Order On September 29th In The U.S., UK, Korea, Japan, and Ireland — By now, you know all there is to know about the Nexus 5X, don't you?
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