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Sources: Uber looking to raise up to $2.1B in round valuing company at $62.5B with investments from Tiger Global, T. Rowe Price, others — Uber Raises Funding at $62.5 Billion Valuation — The ride-hailing company is said to seek $2.1 billion in a new funding round.
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple's Swift programming language is now open source — As promised earlier in the year, Apple's Swift team has now posted source code for the Swift compiler and standard library functions and objects. Open-sourcing Swift is a big win for the developer community as it means Swift …
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| Carlos Hernandez / Official Google Blog: |
Google releases Cardboard Camera app for making 3D panoramas on Android that can be viewed in Cardboard VR headsets — Step inside your photos with Cardboard Camera — With Google Cardboard, you can take amazing trips to faraway places and feel like you're actually there.
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
KGI: 4-inch iPhone resembling iPhone 5S with A9 chip, curved glass edges, Apple Pay, and more, to launch early 2016 — New A9-Based 4-Inch iPhone Expected to Launch Early 2016 With Apple Pay and Colorful Metal Casing — KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has issued a research note corroborating rumors …
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| Noah Kulwin / Re/code: |
Venerated VC Michael Moritz Opens Mouth, Inserts Foot on Question About Hiring Women — There are jarringly few women who work in the venture capital industry. Almost 80 percent of VC firms have never appointed a woman to represent them on the board of a portfolio company.
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Facebook expanding Live Video to all users starting with small selection of US iOS users, rolls out photo and video collages on iPhone, Android coming in 2016 — Facebook begins testing live video streaming for all users — Four months after introducing live video streaming for celebrities …
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| Lance Whitney / CNET: |
Ford releases software update with Siri Eyes-Free support for 5M Sync-equipped vehicles sold since 2011 — Ford Sync car owners to get Apple's Siri Eyes-Free — The automaker is rolling out an update to its Sync-enabled cars that will let drivers turn on the Siri voice assistant with the touch of a button.| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Yahoo revamps Messenger with group messaging, ability to unsend and like messages, send GIFs, and more, now available on iOS, Android, and the Web — Yahoo finally relaunches Messenger as an app aimed at families and groups — When Marissa Mayer became CEO of Yahoo in 2012 …
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| Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook: |
Zuckerberg and Chan chose LLC for Chan Zuckerberg Initiative for flexibility, won't get tax benefit associated with traditional foundation — I want to thank you all for your heartwarming congratulations on Max's birth and on starting the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. This whole community has been so loving and supportive.
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| Suzanne Woolley / Bloomberg Business: |
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google adds two mobile ad formats: Trial Run ads that let users try apps for a minute without downloading and Interactive Interstitial swipeable ads — Google Brings Its App Streaming Technology To Mobile Ads — Last month, Google introduced a new way for web searchers to find the information they want … | Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
CloudFlare rolls out support for faster HTTP/2 protocol to all users in effort to spur wider adoption — A major internet backbone company is about to make a lot of websites load much faster — In February, web engineers released a way to move information over the web.
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| Sarah Jeong / Motherboard: |
Hunter Moore, former operator of revenge porn website IsAnyoneUp.com, sentenced to two and a half years in prison by federal district judge, must pay $2K fine — Revenge Porn King Gets Two Years In Prison — On Wednesday, Hunter Moore was sentenced to two and a half years in prison …
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