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October 15, 2015, 6:25 PM

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Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal:

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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Nathan Ingraham / Engadget:

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.

More: Wired, The Next Web, Gigaom, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, The Verge, Cult of Mac and Pocket-lint

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CB Insights:

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 …

More: International Business Times, VatorNews, The Next Web, TechCrunch, CNNMoney, Business Insider, Xconomy, Quartz and VentureBeat

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.

More: Washington Post, Adweek, MediaPost, The Irish Times, Mediatel, Digiday and Consumerist. See also Mediagazer

Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:

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.

More: 9to5Google, VentureBeat, Re/code, Tech Times, SiliconANGLE, bizjournals, Gamasutra, Android Authority, MobileSyrup.com, The Pocket Gamer Podcast, Nintendo Life, Variety, Android Central, Business Wire, The Next Web and New York Times. Tweets: @mikeisaac

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 …

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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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

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.

Noah Kulwin / Re/code:

Civic Tech Startup OpenGov Raises $25 Million, Adds Marc Andreessen to Its Board — For a number of startups, government transparency isn't just a political talking point — it's a lucrative business opportunity. — Their public-interest pitch is that the antiquated technology governments use …

More: Nextgov, bizjournals, PE Hub Blog, VatorNews, TechCrunch, VentureBeat and silicontap.com. Tweets: @anildash

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 …

More: ZDNet, Ars Technica, The Verge, AppleInsider, MacRumors and MacStories

Ken Yeung / VentureBeat:

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 …

More: bizjournals and TechCrunch

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 …

More: The Next Web, MacRumors and MacMegasite

William Alden / BuzzFeed:

Square guaranteed investors a 20% return in its most recent round, S-1 shows — Some Of Square's Backers Were Guaranteed A 20% Return In IPO — The payments company revealed the special provision, known as a ratchet, in its IPO prospectus today. — Jack Dorsey, CEO of Square.

More: bizjournals, BBC, Seeking Alpha and TechCrunch

Tweets: @joshconstine and @mikeisaac

Ken Yeung / VentureBeat:

Square lost $56M+ in Starbucks deal over three years, partnership to end in Q3 2016

More: TechCrunch, Tech Times, Wall Street Journal, NFC World+, MarketWatch, StreetInsider.com, Wired, Re/code, Business Insider and GeekWire

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