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Facebook Launching Mobile Ad Network At F8 Conference — Lots of people have wanted Facebook to build an ad network for a long time. — Here it comes. Facebook will take the wraps off its plans for a mobile ad network at its “F8″ developer conference in San Francisco at the end of the month …
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| Brad Smith / The Official Microsoft Blog: |
Microsoft to complete acquisition of Nokia Devices and Services business on Friday — The Nokia Devices and Services acquisition close date — The following post is from Brad Smith, General Counsel & Executive Vice President, Legal & Corporate Affairs, Microsoft.
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Apple and Google offer promotional boost to games in exchange for exclusivity — Apple, Google Vie to Offer Exclusive Game Apps — The Battle for Mobile Dominance Is Spreading to the Most Lucrative Genre of Apps: Videogames — A long-running battle between Apple Inc. and Google Inc …
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Square discussed possible sale to Google, Apple, and PayPal, recorded loss of $100M in 2013 — Mobile-Payments Startup Square Discusses Possible Sale — Company Faces Wider Loss, Less Cash; Google Considered Potential Acquisition — With losses widening and cash shrinking …
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Apple Tries to Clean Up Its Carbon-Spewing Ways With New Data Centers — On a stunning cloudless day in the Nevada desert, Lisa Jackson stands with her back to an array of advanced solar cells, peering across a low chain link fence at NV Energy's Fort Churchill Power Generating plant just a few hundred years away.
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| Erin Griffith / Fortune: |
Birchbox raises $60M in Series B round, values beauty e-commerce company at $485M — Exclusive: Birchbox banks $60 million — The Series B round values the beauty ecommerce company at $485 million. — FORTUNE — Two years ago, “stuff in a box” was all the rage among startups.
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| David Carr / New York Times: |
Aereo Case Will Shape TV's Future — Throughout America's business history, the victories and spoils went to the visionaries who made all manner of things — actual things like cars, pharmaceuticals and entertainment. — But more and more, many of the splashy business victories …
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Microsoft and Motorola Solutions sign patent licensing agreement covering Android and Chrome OS — Microsoft and Motorola Solutions today announced a patent licensing agreement that will allow the companies to share technology. While the duo didn't reveal too many details …
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| David Streitfeld / New York Times: |
Settlement imminent in anti-poaching class action lawsuit against tech companies — In Silicon Valley Thriller, a Settlement May Preclude the Finale — SAN FRANCISCO — After years of legal skirmishes, four leading Silicon Valley companies are scheduled to go on trial next month on claims of conspiring to keep their employees down.
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| Michael Sokolove / New York Times: |
David Cohen: the Comcast EVP in charge of avoiding antitrust questions raised by TWC merger — Comcast's Real Repairman — One morning late last month, David L. Cohen took a seat in a conference room atop Comcast's corporate headquarters in Philadelphia, the tallest building in the city … | Chris Stokel-Walker / The Verge: |
How Ukraine's Readdle built a business on unglamorous apps like Scanner Pro and PDF Expert — The app men of Odessa — How a Ukrainian software firm found success outside Silicon Valley — “Uh guys, I think we took a wrong turn somewhere.” — Denys Zhadanov, the 25-year-old marketing manager …
Tweets: @tselyuko, @michelesolla, @readdle and @stokel
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