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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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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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| Ruth Reader / VentureBeat: |
Square debuts at $11.20 per share, is already trading up 32% — 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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| 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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| 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your Amazon account with two-factor authentication — Relying solely on passwords to secure important accounts may be outdated, but until they're gone for good your best alternative …
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| 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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| Jimmy Westenberg / Android Authority: |
Google Play Store to add 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.| 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.
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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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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google's Compute Engine gets Custom Machine Types to let you tailor VM RAM and virtual CPU allotments — Google Launches Custom Machine Types For Its Cloud Platform — Google launched a new way of buying virtual machines in its cloud today. — No matter whether you choose the Google Cloud Platform …
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| Lucian Constantin / PCWorld: |
Google's VirusTotal adds sandbox execution support for Mac OS X apps — Google-owned VirusTotal starts analyzing Mac malware in a sandbox — The service now extracts behavioral information from scanned Mac executable files — VirusTotal, the most widely used online file-scanning service … | Adnan F. / SamMobile: |
Samsung unveils BRITECELL camera sensor technology with enhanced sensitivity in low light, likely to ship with Galaxy S7 next year — Samsung reveals BRITECELL camera technology at its Investors Forum — At the Samsung Electronics 2015 Investors Forum the company talked … | Dan Froomkin / The Intercept: |
Unencrypted smartphone likely used by Paris attacker reveals messages were sent in the clear over SMS — Signs Point to Unencrypted Communications Between Terror Suspects — In the wake of the Paris attack, intelligence officials and sympathizers upset by the Edward Snowden leaks … | Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
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