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Google acquires Fly Labs, maker of video editing iOS apps, to join its Photos team — Google Acquires Fly Labs To Join Its Photos Team — Today, Google acquired Fly Labs to join its Google Photos team. The company aimed to help people edit videos and photos and it sported 3 million downloads over the past 18 months.
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PageFair anti-ad-blocking service was hacked a week ago, temporarily pushing malware to visitors of over 500 sites including the Economist — A prominent ad-blocker-blocker served malware to Economist readers — One of the web's most prominent ad-blocking tools has been serving malware to Economist readers.| Fortune: |
Square sets IPO price range at $11-13 per share, at a valuation up to $4.19B, well below its last private round — Square sets IPO price range, would be valued below last private round — Payments company Square this morning filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission …
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| Mike Prospero / Tom's Guide: |
BlackBerry Priv review: most elegant BlackBerry design to date, BlackBerry default apps are decent, but display is dim, poor performance compared to competition — BlackBerry Priv Review: A New Hope … BlackBerry wants to give you the best of both worlds. But has the world already passed this brand by?| Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Garett Sloane / Digiday: |
Sources: Instagram is testing ads that use 3D Touch and Apple Pay — Instagram's testing new ads that drive sales — Instagram doesn't want to be just a platform for pretty brand photos. It wants to prove it can drive sales, developing new ads that showcase a variety of product offerings …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple debuts Shopping category on the App Store, helping spotlight apps that use Apple Pay and were formerly in the Lifestyle category — Apple Debuts A New “Shopping” Category On The App Store — Confirming earlier reports, Apple today is debuting a new category to its App Store …
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Forbes, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Pocketnow, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Apple Developer, Refinery29, iDownloadBlog.com, Refinery29 and iPhone Hacks
| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
E-commerce startup Gumroad lays off most of its staff after failing to realize rapid growth, says it will stay in business — Layoffs Hit Gumroad As The Payments Startup Restructures — San Francisco startup Gumroad, which lets people sell products directly to consumers by way of quick and simple links …
Tweets: @amyhoy
| Yuri Kageyama / Associated Press: |
Toyota to set up new artificial intelligence research and development company in Silicon Valley, will invest $1B over 5 years — Toyota invests $1 billion in artificial intelligence in US — TOKYO (AP) — Toyota is investing $1 billion in a research company it's setting up in Silicon Valley …
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ZDNet, New York Times, Toyota Global Newsroom, Reuters, New York Times, BetaBoston, Quartz, ABC News, Dice Insights, Bloomberg View, International Business Times, The Hill, Tech Insider, PCWorld, Re/code, BGR, Engadget, Fortune, Bloomberg Business, Gizmodo, Wired.co.uk and Guardian. Tweets: @cnbcnow
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
FCC will not to force Google, Facebook, others to honor “Do Not Track” requests — Websites can keep ignoring “Do Not Track” requests after FCC ruling — Petition to impose Do Not Track requirements rejected by commission. — Websites will not be forced to honor consumers' … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Famo.us lays off some of its staff after raising $31M and failing to create a business model around its open source Javascript rendering engine — $30M Later, Struggling JavaScript Platform Famo.us Pivots — Famo.us' 15 minutes of open source fame have come to an end.| Jack Nicas / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: US task force to recommend simple, free registration of recreational drones weighing over 250gm — U.S. Task Force to Recommend Drone Registration, Sources Say — Proposal envisions simple, free registration of recreational drones weighing more than nine ounces| Mike Fleming / Deadline: |
Gamergate film based on Zoe Quinn's memoir in the works from Amy Pascal's production company — Amy Pascal Wins Zoe Quinn's Gamergate Memoir ‘Crash Override’ — EXCLUSIVE: Amy Pascal's Pascal Pictures has won a bidding battle for Crash Override: How To Save The Internet From Itself …
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