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| Tad Friend / New Yorker: |
A profile of Marc Andreessen and Andreessen Horowitz — Tomorrow's Advance Man — Marc Andreessen's plan to win the future. At his firm, Andreessen Horowitz, the venture capitalist routinely lays out “what will happen in the next ten, twenty, thirty years.”
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Thanks:@waqasaday| Wall Street Journal: |
NASDAQ to test system based on blockchain technology for NASDAQ Private Market, its marketplace for pre-IPO trading, may extend it to stock market if successful — A Bitcoin Technology Gets Nasdaq Test — Pilot to take place in fledgling Nasdaq Private Market| Wall Street Journal: |
IDC: China Q1 smartphone shipments fall for the first time in 6 years, down 4.3% YoY, with Apple the largest vendor by market share — China's Smartphone Market Slows Down — With 90% of Chinese already owning a smartphone, handset makers look to win over ‘upgraders’
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| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
All about Microsoft's Edge Browser: Extensions, high performance asm.js, and no more ActiveX — And no chance of open source any time soon. — Microsoft has spent the past few days talking about the new browser formerly known as Project Spartan: what it will do, what it won't do, and what it won't do yet but will do soon.
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| Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
How are there so many unicorns? Survey of 37 unicorns by Silicon Valley legal firm shows liquidation preferences protecting investors in 100% of funding deals — Here's One Thing All the Billion-Dollar Unicorns Have in Common — They're called unicorns — young companies valued at $1 billion or more …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple announces new environmental initiatives for China, plans to expand its renewable energy projects to manufacturing facilities in the region — Apple announces new environmental initiatives for China: responsibly managed forests, solar for manufacturing
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
iOS slips to 72% enterprise share in Q1 2015, Android hits 26%, and Windows Phone stays flat at 1% — Entering into 2015, Apple continues to rule the mobile enterprise space. iOS lost just 1 percentage point over the last quarter, dipping to 72 percent of global device activations in Q1 2015.| Ariana Eunjung Cha / Washington Post: |
As fitness wearables and sensors become more pervasive, important questions remain about privacy and the usefulness of health data tracking — From the instant he wakes up each morning, through his workday and into the night, the essence of Larry Smarr is captured by a series of numbers …
| Shannon Pettypiece / Bloomberg Business: |
Report: Cyber attacks costs US healthcare system $6B annually; nearly 90% of healthcare providers were hit by breaches in the past two years — Rising Cyber Attacks Costing Health System $6 Billion Annually — A rise in cyber attacks against doctors and hospitals is costing …
| David Scheltema / Make: |
Next Thing Co. unveils CHIP, a $9 Raspberry Pi competitor with 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8 CPU, 512MB of RAM, 4GB of storage, running Debian Linux — Next Thing Co. Releases “World's First” $9 Computer — Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) — Snuggly situated in an industrial section of Oakland …
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| John McDuling / Quartz: |
Q&A with Google Ventures' Bill Maris on conflicts of interest, life sciences investments, international investments, and more — What it's like to run Google's $2 billion venture capital fund — When Google's co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, decided to set up a venture-capital fund …
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