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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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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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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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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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Motorola Droid Turbo 2 review: truly shatterproof display, battery life of 36-40 hours, but low light camera results are inconsistent; high price starts at $624 — Motorola Droid Turbo 2 review — I'm biking through Brooklyn when the Droid Turbo 2 slips from my hand and smacks the pavement.| 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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FCC rejects petition to require services like Google, Facebook, YouTube, Pandora, Netflix, and LinkedIn 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.| 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 …
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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 … | Reuters: |
Sources: Verizon weighs $10B sale of enterprise assets, which include the business formerly known as MCI and Terremark, its data center unit — Exclusive: Verizon weighing $10 billion sale of enterprise assets - sources — Verizon Communications Inc (VZ.N) is exploring a sale …
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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.Sponsor Posts
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