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YC raises $700M VC fund, managed by Ali Rowghani, to invest in Series A and later rounds of all YC companies valued under $300M, and selective ones above $300M — Tech Incubator Y Combinator Takes New Tack With Venture Capital Fund — Backers bet $700 million fund will transform startup accelerator …
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Dropbox unveils Paper, a web app for collaborative document editing, to-do management, currently in beta and invite-only — Paper is Dropbox's new vision for how teams can work together — Six months ago, Dropbox quietly announced a collaborative note-taking tool called Notes and launched it in an invite-only beta test.
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| Shira Orbach / IAB: |
IAB launches program to address ad blocking with light, encrypted, ad-choice supported, and non-invasive ads — Getting LEAN with Digital Ad UX — We messed up. As technologists, tasked with delivering content and services to users, we lost track of the user experience.
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Nevada rules daily fantasy is gambling, orders sites like DraftKings and FanDuel to obtain licenses from gaming commission or shut down — Nevada Regulators Rule Daily Fantasy Is Gambling, Order Sites To Shut Down In State — The Nevada Gaming Control Board offered perhaps … | Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple updates Pages, Keynote, & Numbers for iOS + OS X w/ Split View, 3D Touch, much more — A little later than some expected, Apple has released new versions of the iWork suite of apps for iPhone and iPad with iOS 9 and iPhone 6s features. Pages, Keynote, and Numbers …
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KPMG and CB Insights: VC funding this year already exceeds all of 2014 with $37B raised in Q3, including 68 $100M+ mega-rounds — Global Venture Capital Report - Q3 2015 — KPMG and CB Insights: VC-backed Companies Haul in US$37.6 Billion Globally in Q3 2015 Due to Mega-Rounds … | Roger Fingas / AppleInsider: |
Pixelmator for Mac rewritten in Swift, gets El Capitan optimizations and a Metal-based extension for Apple's Photos app — Pixelmator for Mac gets El Capitan optimizations, Metal-based Photos extension — Pixelmator for Mac was updated to version 3.4 on Thursday, adding things like optimization …
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Married Founders Of Wildfire Leave Google 3 Years After $350M+ Buyout — Wife and husband duo Victoria Ransom and Alain Chuard hit the jackpot on social. With every brand trying to figure out a Faceboook marketing strategy in 2008, the two built a startup called Wildfire that did it for them.
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Niantic, recently spun out from Google and known for Ingress, raises $20M from Google, Pokémon Company, and Nintendo — Niantic Raises $20M From Google, Pokémon Company, And Nintendo — Just about two months ago, the maker of the popular-with-nerds game Ingress, Niantic Labs, was spun out of Google.| Nicole Lee / Engadget: |
Yahoo Mail offers password-less login, which ties authentication to your smartphone with an Account Key app, and adds third-party email support to updated apps — Yahoo Mail drops passwords and adds third-party email support for new apps — It's Yahoo Mail's 18th birthday this month … | Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Pebble to let developers add voice dictation to their Pebble Time and Pebble Round apps with new API powered by Nuance — Pebble Time apps can now add voice dictation — Pebble is starting to let third-party developers add voice dictation to apps for its Time, Time Steel, and Time Round smartwatches.
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Flipboard cofounder Evan Doll leaves permanently after returning from sabbatical to become an EIR at Redpoint Ventures, days after CTO Eric Feng's departure — Flipboard cofounder Evan Doll leaves to become an EIR at Redpoint Ventures — Flipboard has announced that cofounder Evan Doll has …
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bizjournals, TechCrunch and Giles Morgan
| Federico Viticci / MacStories: |
Facebook's iOS app continues to use data and drain battery in the background, even with Background App Refresh turned off; Facebook says it's working on fix — The Background Data and Battery Usage of Facebook's iOS App — Nick Heer, commenting on Facebook's battery usage on iOS in response to a piece by Matt Galligan:
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