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Sources: Uber looking to raise close to $1B in new venture capital at valuation of $60-$70B — Uber Said to Plan Another $1 Billion in Fund-Raising — Just three months after raising an enormous sum of money from investors, Uber is at it again. — The ride-hailing service is planning …
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District court dismisses Wikimedia v. NSA internet surveillance case brought by ACLU for broad coalition, says plaintiffs failed to show they were monitored — Court Dismisses ACLU Challenge to NSA Internet Surveillance — ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A federal district court granted the government's motion …
| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg Business: |
Twitter's first Promoted Moments native advertising campaign rolls out this weekend — Twitter Rolls Out Advertising on New ‘Moments’ Feature — First Promoted Moment to run this weekend for movie ‘Creed’ — Twitter Inc. isn't wasting any time making money from its newest feature, called Moments.
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Pandora shares fall more than 30% after company reports quarterly loss of $85M — Pandora investors are losing faith in its ability to compete — Long before there was a Spotify or an Apple Music, there was Pandora. One of the earliest streaming music services, it was founded in 2000 … | Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
ESPN videos unavailable on YouTube because of rights issues related to YouTube Red launch — ESPN is shutting down its YouTube channels over paid subscriptions — Not everyone's on-board with YouTube's new paid subscription option. In the wake of this week's announcement … | Matt Weinberger / Business Insider: |
Microsoft restructures, changes leadership of some units within its Cloud and Enterprise division amid strong growth — Microsoft shuffles its cloud business to keep the good times rolling — Microsoft's cloud infrastructure business is leading the company's ongoing growth …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
BlackBerry launches US preorders for $699 Priv Android slider phone, to work only with AT&T and T-Mobile and ship on November 6 — BlackBerry launches US preorders for $699 Priv Android slider phone — BlackBerry's Priv will start shipping in the United States on November 6th … | Paul Lilly / Maximum PC: |
Microsoft adds an entry-level $1,699 Surface Book with Nvidia GPU and a $3,199 model with 1TB solid state storage and top-end specs to its lineup — Microsoft Adds $200 Nvidia GPU Option to Entry Level Surface Book — Keeping it discrete — Microsoft wants to ensure there's …
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UK ISP TalkTalk suffers massive breach, warns data of 4M customers, including credit card and bank details, could have been accessed — TalkTalk website hit by cyber-attack — Police are investigating after a “significant and sustained cyber-attack” on the TalkTalk website, the UK company has confirmed.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Brewster Contacts App Team Gets Acqui-Hired By Burger King Owner RBI, Brewster Lives On — We've heard a lot about software eating the world; now a company that has built its business around food is now eating up a software startup. Restaurant Brands International, owner of Burger King and Horton's …
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| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Wall Street Journal: |
Palantir adds $105M to latest round that closed in July and gave company a $20B valuation — Big Data Company Palantir Technologies Adds Independent Director — Founder's classmate and venture investor Adam Ross added to board — Palantir Technologies, Inc., the secretive Silicon …
| Dell Cameron / The Daily Dot: |
DoJ says courts should require Apple to decrypt data on iOS devices because software is “licensed, not sold” to customers — DOJ dismisses Apple's arguments against decrypting iOS communications — The U.S. government rejected Apple's arguments in federal court …
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