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Facebook Reports Third Quarter 2015 Results — Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) today reported financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2015. — “We had a good quarter and got a lot done,” said Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and CEO. “We're focused on innovating and investing …
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Facebook generated $9.86 in ad revenue from every user in the US in Q3, up 50% from a year ago — Facebook makes 50% more ad revenue from every US user than it did a year ago — Facebook's ad business delivered a strong quarter that helped the social network handily beat Wall Street's revenue and profit targets.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
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Sources: Facebook's Notify app for news alerts to launch next week with dozens of media partners including Vogue, the Washington Post, and CBS — Facebook links with media groups to launch news app — Facebook is preparing its latest push into news with a new standalone app called Notify …
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Proposed new UK surveillance bill requires ISPs to store which sites users visit for a year — May unveils plan to store web browsing — Internet firms will have to store data on what people access online for a year, under new surveillance law plans. — At the same time …
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| Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
Microsoft and Red Hat Team Up to Offer Linux on Azure Cloud — Microsoft said today that it will offer Red Hat's version of the open source Linux operating system on its Azure cloud computing platform. — The alliance, which will be detailed in a webcast later today …
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| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: facing cash crunch, Jet.com close to completing $550M round at $1.55B post-money valuation, after discussing valuation as high as $3B this past summer — Facing Cash Crunch, Retailer Jet.com Racing to Complete Funding Round — Investment would prevent the e-commerce startup from running out of money by the end of the year
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| Jacob Demmitt / GeekWire: |
Expedia to acquire HomeAway for $3.9B in cash and stock, challenging Airbnb … Bellevue, Wash.-based travel giant Expedia announced on Wednesday that it is acquiring Airbnb competitor HomeAway for $3.9 billion worth of cash and stock. — The boards of both companies have approved the deal … | Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle: |
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| Jacob Demmitt / GeekWire: |
Fast-growing online marketplace OfferUp announces it has raised $90M in total to date and its users have sold $2.9B worth of merchandise so far in 2015 — Fast-growing OfferUp breaks silence with $90M in funding, goes after Craigslist … OfferUp — one of the Seattle area's most valuable …
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Thanks:@toddbishop| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google says over 19K organizations are testing or using Android For Work; Blackberry will support Android for Work, match Google's patch schedule — Google Says Over 19K Organizations Are Now Testing Or Using Android For Work — Google today announced that over 19,000 organizations … | Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Dropbox hits 150K paying business customers, with 50K joining this year — Dropbox, a company that provides free and premium version of a cloud file sync and sharing service, now boasts more than 150,000 paying business customers, cofounder and chief executive Drew Houston said today.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Google and India's Lava to launch new low-cost smartphone as part of revamped Android One scheme with relaxed requirements on features, price, more — Alphabet's Google to Try Again With Low-Cost Smartphone for India — Indian phone makers said Android One hardware requirements made it tough to differentiate devices
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft begins accepting signups for Cortana for iOS beta in US and China — Microsoft opens up its Cortana for iPhone beta — Microsoft is getting ready to let iPhone users test a version of Cortana for iOS. The software maker has been steadily testing the app over the past six months internally …
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Circle with Disney is a $99 device that pairs with a WiFi network to give parents control over what internet content kids can access and when — ‘Circle With Disney’ Locks Down Kids' Devices From Afar — In 2013, Jelani Memory joined the ranks of Kickstarter hopefuls with Circle, a device to help families manage screen time.
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Bitcoin economy: price is at highest level of the year, transaction volume increasing, becoming more international, growing number of Bitcoin ATMs — The growing Bitcoin economy, in 5 charts — Bitcoin hasn't received the kind of hype in 2015 that it has in previous years.| Jeremy Kirk / PCWorld: |
Many US businesses are still running XcodeGhost-infected Apple apps — A new version of XcodeGhost has also appeared that tries to defeat defenses built into iOS 9 — Dozens of U.S. enterprises are still using Apple mobile apps seeded with malware for a clever hacking scheme revealed last month known as XcodeGhost.Sponsor Posts
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