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Sources: Apple phasing out in-house iAd sales team as it updates platform to be more automated — Apple Steps Back From Its iAd Advertising Business — Six years after launching its advertising platform, Apple is moving to phase out its in-house iAd sales team in favor of a new publisher-driven system.| Akin Oyedele / Business Insider: |
GoPro to cut 7% of staff, will take restructuring charge of $5M-$10M, reports weak Q4 revenue guidance for 2015; stock down over 22% after hours — GoPro cuts jobs and warns its sales are a disaster — GoPro shares are crashing to all-time lows after the company said it is cutting about 7% of its staff and sales are not great.| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Samsung strikes deal to produce Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820 processor — Samsung announced today that it's begun mass production of chips using the 2nd generation of its 14nm process, the technology that will power both the company's own Exynos 8 Octa processor and that of a major rival: Qualcomm.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft buys Skype for Business management technology from Event Zero — Microsoft is acquiring assets from Event Zero, an Australian vendor of management software for Skype for Business — its first purchase of 2016. — Microsoft is acquiring assets from Australia-based Event Zero … | Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
GoPro entertainment head Zander Lurie to become SurveyMonkey CEO, replacing Bill Veghte, who was there for six months — Lurie Departs GoPro to Take CEO Job at SurveyMonkey — Zander Lurie has left GoPro, where he headed its entertainment efforts, to become CEO of survey startup SurveyMonkey.| Gaurav Seth / Windows Blog: |
Microsoft open-sources ChakraCore, a standalone version of the JavaScript engine that powers its Edge browser — ChakraCore GitHub repository is now open — In a December 2015 talk at JSConf US, we announced that we would be open-sourcing the key components of the Chakra JavaScript engine that powers Microsoft Edge.
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All Skype for Windows users get real-time translation — Skype today announced that its Skype Translator tool is now built directly into its main app for all Windows users. This means Skype for Windows users no longer need a separate app to translate conversations in seven languages … | Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
British digital health startup Babylon raises $25M Series A, source says at “significantly higher than” $100M valuation — Babylon, The U.K. Digital Doctor App, Scores $25M To Develop AI-Driven Health Advice — Hot on the heels of PushDoctor's $8.2 million Series A …
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SoundCloud strikes licensing deal with Universal Music that includes tracks from labels and artists, and also user-generated content and remixes — SoundCloud strikes licensing deal with Universal Music — The deal was announced this afternoon (although leaked in the New York Post yesterday) …
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Google Maps for Android adds new Driving Mode that predicts your destination based on your location history, recent searches, and time of day — Google Maps for Android's new Driving Mode guesses where you want to go — Google today released an update to Google Maps for Android that includes a new feature: Driving Mode.
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Yahoo settles e-mail privacy class-action: $4M for lawyers, $0 for users — Company won't stop scanning e-mail for ads, but plaintiffs now seem unbothered. — In late 2013, Yahoo was hit with six lawsuits over their practice of using automated scans of e-mail to produce targeted ads.| Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg Business: |
Venture capital firms raised $28.2B last year, down from $31.1B in 2014; number of VC funds closed decreased 13% from 2014 to 2015 — Tech Funding Slowdown Hits Venture Capital Firms — The number of venture funds that closed last year decreased 13 percent.Sponsor Posts
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