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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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 … | 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.
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Uber unveils SPOT, a LED color-coded lighting system that helps passengers and drivers find one another easily, available in Seattle only for now — Uber color coding experiment promises smoother pickups — If you've ever used a ridesharing service, you've probably had that moment where you had to guess which car was your ride.
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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.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: YouTube seeks streaming rights for TV shows and movies to support its new subscription service Red — YouTube Seeks Streaming Rights to TV Shows, Movies — Efforts come as YouTube looks to bolster $9.99-a-month subscription service called Red — YouTube is seeking streaming rights …
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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 … | Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed: |
Facebook adds Buy Tickets button which lets users purchase concert tickets from small group of venues, artists, and promoters without leaving Facebook — In Latest Commerce Move, Facebook Brings Concert Ticketing To Its Platform — Facebook is starting to sell concert tickets directly through its event pages.| 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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Uber rivals Lyft, Didi, Ola, GrabTaxi partner on tech and services; from Q1, people can use their local apps to order from alliance firms when in other markets — Lyft, Didi, Ola And GrabTaxi Partner In Global Tech, Service Alliance To Rival Uber — As Uber ramps up its business globally …
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| Suzanne Woolley / Bloomberg Business: |
How the Chan Zuckerberg LLC differs from a charitable trust: may lobby, can turn a profit, allowed to form joint ventures, avoids 5% annual spending rule — Four Reasons the Facebook Fortune Is Going Into an LLC — A for-profit charity is highly unusual, but it comes with big advantages.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
BlueStacks hits over 109M downloads, 1B apps used per month, now supports multiple simultaneous Android apps on Windows — BlueStacks hits a billion apps used per month and launches new mobile platform — In 2011, BlueStacks was a small company when it debuted its virtualization platform … | Moxie Marlinspike / Open Whisper Systems: |
Open Whisper Systems releases Signal Desktop in beta, available through Chrome Web Store, links to Android devices only for now — Signal Desktop — Today we're making the Signal Desktop beta available. Signal Desktop brings the trusted private messaging experience of Signal to the desktop … Sponsor Posts
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