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Thiel speaks out on defending Trump while not supporting some policies like Muslim ban with religion test, says close business relationships are still intact — It was a lot. — Billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel is a vocal and financial supporter of Donald Trump; he is also the man who helped bankrupt Gawker media.
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| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
GIF search engine Giphy raises $72M in new funding, now has a valuation of about $600M according to the WSJ, bringing total raised to just short of $151M — Giphy, the NY-based search engine and platform for GIFs, has raised $72 million in funding led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Institutional Venture Partners and China Media Capital.
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Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, Tubefilter and tech.co
Tweets: @dannysullivan, @alex, @rolfewinkler, @anildash and @eringriffith
| Alex Sherman / Bloomberg: |
CenturyLink to buy Level 3 Communications for $34B in cash, stock deal, which values Level 3 at 42% above its stock price before reports of acquisition surfaced — CenturyLink Inc. agreed to buy Level 3 Communications Inc. for about $34 billion cash and stock in a deal that will create … | Milen Dzhumerov / milen.me: |
Apple's apparent disinterest in supporting users with compute-intensive and memory-intensive applications risks alienating developers across all its platforms — It has taken me some time to collect my thoughts on the state of the Mac platform. My feelings have been developing over several years …
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blog.pinboard.in, owensd.io, Michael Tsai, owensd.io, CNET, Quartz, Fortune, The Loop, Accidental Tech Podcast, Slanted Viewpoint, Stephen Foskett, Pack Rat, Hackaday and CNET
Tweets: @peteaj, @bradyanderson, @terrorobe, @altimor, @milend, @stevesi and @kidguru
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft PowerApps and Flow to be generally available November 1 — Microsoft's PowerApps and Flow development tools will be generally available on November 1, not coincidentally the same day that Dynamics 365 goes on the company's price list. — Microsoft will be making PowerApps and Flow … | Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft EVP of Windows and Devices Terry Myerson talks Windows 10 priorities, VR headsets, Surface hardware goals, Windows Mobile, and more — Microsoft Executive Vice President of Windows and Devices Terry Myerson talks to ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley about Windows 10 Creators Update, VR headsets, Surface, Windows Mobile and more.
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The Verge, Windows Central, Pocketnow, MSPoweruser, WinBeta, VRFocus, UploadVR and MobileSyrup.com
| Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: |
Postmates raises $141M in a round led by Founders Fund, at share price same as last round; the company is now valued at about $600M — Bastian Lehmann spent most of this year becoming acquainted with the feeling of rejection. The co-founder and chief executive officer of Postmates Inc …
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Fortune and Business Insider. Tweets: @aprilolanoff, @sarahfrier, @nelliebowles, @basti and @caseynewton
| Brenna Hughes Neghaiwi / Reuters: |
Swiss rail's 1,000+ ticket machines will allow users to purchase bitcoins using francs in two-year test from November 11 — Switzerland's national railways firm SBB is branching out next month with the launch of a new service on its ticket machines to sell bitcoins, the web-based digital currency.| Joseph Rosensteel / Unauthoritative Pronouncements: |
Apple TV: the only streaming media device without HDR above $90, and an app lacking integration with Netflix or cable providers, needs a total strategy revamp — The accessibility video at the start of Apple's October 27th event was the best thing in the event.
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iMore, Matt Mullenweg and Michael Tsai
Tweets: @steipete, @mike_hogan, @stanlemon, @zkahn94, @rberger and @siracusa
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How OPPO became number one smartphone vendor in China and number four worldwide via savvy marketing and sales tactics — Chinese smart phone company OPPO doesn't believe in subtle marketing. — It has built a massive network of 320,000 retail outlets across China and other parts of Asia … | Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Clarifai raises $30M from Menlo Ventures, Union Square Ventures, Lux Capital, and others for its AI-based image and video search API — Matt Zeiler grew up in a Canadian farming community — but fast forward a few decades and he's now running a startup that's looking to bring the same kinds …
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New York Business Journal, VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal and PRWeb
| Tom Mendelsohn / Ars Technica: |
Sweden's Supreme Administrative Court rules that all drone cameras count as surveillance devices and can only be used with special filming permit — Only cops and users with special filming permits can attach cams to drones. — Cameras attached to drones fall foul of Sweden's strict surveillance laws … | Jamie Feltham / UploadVR: |
Starbreeze, maker of the StarVR headset, says it has acquired Belgian visual effects studio Nozon for about $7.75M — Over the past few months Starbreeze's StarVR headset has gone from an industry oddity to a genuine contender in the location-based VR scene.
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Starbreeze, Engadget and TechCrunch
| Kia Kokalitcheva / Fortune: |
Vine co-founders Rus Yusupov and Colin Kroll launch Hype, a live broadcasting app that lets users add music and animations to their videos — As Twitter continues its attempts to get its business back on track, the company announced on Thursday that it's shutting down Vine, a short-form video service it acquired in late 2012.
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