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LinkedIn plunges 40% in early trading, erases $10B in market cap — LinkedIn shares plummet 20% on lower guidance — CNBC's Julia Boorstin reports a disappointing cut in guidance at LinkedIn. — Shares of LinkedIn plunged as much as 40 percent at the market open Friday … | Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
LinkedIn says it has acquired Connectifier, a job candidates search tool; some of the Connectifier team “freely pursuing their next adventure” — LinkedIn acquires recruiting startup Connectifier — LinkedIn today announced in its earnings statement that it has acquired Connectifier …
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Apple to update iPhone trade-in program to give credit for units with damaged displays, will offer screen protector installation — Apple launching new broken iPhone upgrade, screen protector installation programs — Apple is gearing up to launch a pair of new retail initiatives centered around …
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| Chris Coyne / Keybase: |
Keybase debuts an open-sourced filesystem with end-to-end encryption that ties users' identities from across services to make sharing easy, now invite only — The Keybase filesystem — Big news, everyone. — Alpha releases of the Keybase app are starting to come with a cryptographically secure file mount.| Miles Brignall / Guardian: |
“Error 53” fury mounts: iPhone 6 users claim iOS 9 installation bricks phones with Touch ID sensors repaired by third parties — ‘Error 53’ fury mounts as Apple software update threatens to kill your iPhone 6 — housands of iPhone 6 users claim they have been left holding …
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Macworld, MacRumors, ZDNet, Inquirer, The Next Web, Cult of Mac, 9to5Mac, iLounge, International Business Times, Redmond Pie, Pocketnow, App Advice, Forbes, BGR, BetaNews, iPhone Hacks, Ubergizmo, AppleInsider and iMore. Tweets: @beechv35pilot
| Chris Kohler / Wired: |
Nintendo's Quality of Life sleep tracking device, planned for release in March, shelved indefinitely — Nintendo Puts Its Sleep-Tracking Gizmo on Hold Indefinitely — Nintendo will sleep on its so-called “quality of life” health tracking device, it said this week.| Lucian Constantin / PCWorld: |
Vulnerabilities in Netgear's ProSafe network management system could lead to remote code execution with system privileges, arbitrary file download — Serious flaws found in Netgear's NMS300 network management system — The flaws could lead to remote code execution with system privileges and arbitrary file download
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
AltspaceVR, an app that allows multiple users to meet in virtual spaces, launches on Gear VR — AltspaceVR Social Platform Launches On Samsung Gear VR — Virtual reality can sometimes appear like it's a pretty isolating platform. Visually, people experiencing VR certainly …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Rocket Internet Sells Food Startups In Spain, Italy, Brazil, Mexico For $140M To Just Eat — The takeout shakeout continues apace. Since going public in 2014, Rocket Internet has been trying to simplify and reorganize the tangle of e-commerce startups funded and grown by the Berlin-based incubator … | Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Epic's Unreal Editor now allows game developers to create environments through a VR headset — The Unreal Engine now lets you build games inside virtual reality — Epic's Unreal Engine has supported making virtual reality games for some time. Now, it supports making games in virtual reality too.
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UnrealEngine, Co.Design, Ars Technica, Kotaku, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, VRFocus, Engadget, The Next Web, Digital Trends and VentureBeat. Tweets: @gamesbeat
| Rob Lewis / Techvibes Global News: |
Visa opens up its global payments network to developers with launch of Visa Developer — Visa Opens its Global Network with Launch of Visa Developer — Today in San Francisco Visa announced the launch of Visa Developer, a milestone that transforms the world's largest retail payments network …
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BetaKit, Engadget, Quartz, Mashable, ResearchBuzz, Gizmodo, Visa Developer Blog, ProgrammableWeb.com, The Next Web, iTnews and Ubergizmo. Tweets: @brianroemmele
| Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg Business: |
General Catalyst Raises $845 Million Venture Fund — Firm announces eighth fund, bringing total to $3.75 billion — General Catalyst has invested in Airbnb, Stripe, Snapchat — General Catalyst Partners, a backer of technology startups such as Snapchat Inc. and Stripe Inc. …
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