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| Ruth Reader / VentureBeat: |
Square debuts at $11.20 per share, is trading up more than 40% — Today Square began trading at $11.20 a share on the New York Stock Exchange, up slightly from its $9 pricing last night. The stock is currently up 32 percent from market open. — Square's public offering has been the subject of much discussion.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Square pays $93M penalty to investors like Rizvi Traverse, J.P. Morgan, and others, thanks to ratchet clause in its 2014 round — Square Pays $93 Million Penalty to Some Investors in IPO — Square Inc. will have to give some investors additional shares valued at $93 million …
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| Fortune: |
Square prices IPO at $9 per share, below $11-$13 range, valuing company at $2.9B — Square prices IPO at just $9 per share, valued at $2.66 billion — Jack Dorsey's payment company disappoints. Square, the payment technology company founded and led by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Tinder Owner Match Group Debuts On Nasdaq At $13.50/Share, Up 12.5% — After a bizarre interview from one of its executives on the day of its IPO pricing, today Match Group, owner of the popular Tinder dating app, listed as a public company, spinning out from its parent IAC.| Noah Kulwin / Re/code: |
On Eve of IPO, Match Group Disavows Tinder CEO Sean Rad's Disastrous Interview — This morning, the Internet collectively pointed and laughed at Tinder CEO Sean Rad for giving a trainwreck of an interview to the London Evening Standard. In the article, Rad confused the definition of sodomy …
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| Reuters: |
Starboard asks Yahoo to sell core business instead of Alibaba stake — Activist investor Starboard Value LP asked Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O) to drop plans to sell its stake in Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd (BABA.N) due to tax concerns, and instead urged the company to sell its core search and display advertising businesses.| Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: |
iFixit Apple Pencil teardown reveals twin emitters to measure angle & orientation, logic board folded in half — No new Apple tech survives long without being taken apart by iFixit, and the Apple Pencil is no exception. Apple didn't make it easy, however, with iFixit having to resort …
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| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Amazon quietly turned on two-factor authentication a few weeks ago after private beta — It's time to secure your Amazon account with two-factor authentication — Relying solely on passwords to secure important accounts may be outdated, but until they're gone for good your best alternative …
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| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
YouTube to pay legal fees for a few video creators who are targets of unfair DMCA takedown demands — YouTube to Pay Fees for Some Video Makers to Fight Takedowns — WASHINGTON — Since its inception, YouTube has been embroiled in long and bitter battles over copyright infringement.
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Zerodium publishes hack price list: cracking an Android or Windows Phone could cost $100K, but expect to pay $500K to crack iOS — Here's a Spy Firm's Price List for Secret Hacker Techniques — The trade in the secret hacker techniques known as “zero day exploits” has long taken place in the dark …
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| Cleve R. Wootson Jr / The Charlotte Observer: |
Operator of two sites specializing in pirated music, RockDizMusic.com and RockDizFile.com, gets three years in prison and must pay $48K restitution — Music piracy case sends Charlotte man to federal prison for 3 years — Rocky Ouprasith ran the nation's second largest illegal music file-sharing site
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
iFixit gives modular Fairphone 2 a rare 10 out of 10 for repairability [Updated] — It's bulky and its specs are almost two years old, but it's easy to pop open. — iFixit's teardowns are handy disassembly guides, and they're great for confirming just what hardware is included inside our gadgets …
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| Jimmy Westenberg / Android Authority: |
Google Play Store to display “ad-supported” label for all apps containing ads starting in early 2016 — Google Play Store app listings in 2016 will let users know if any app contains ads — Listings in the Google Play Store will soon be much more upfront about whether or not they feature advertising.Sponsor Posts
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