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Facebook rolls out redesigned Notes with options for images, captions, other formatting after testing with small group last month — Updates for Facebook Notes — We're rolling out an update to make notes on Facebook more beautiful and customizable. Notes are now an even better … | Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Google has dominant position in EU and US mobile OS markets, but doesn't hold monopoly power — Is Android a monopoly? — A report from Bloomberg this morning suggests that US antitrust regulators are looking into whether Google has engaged in anticompetitive practices with its Android operating system.
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Sources: YouTube finalizing plans to bundle Music Key and ad-free videos for $10/month, could launch at end of October — YouTube Is Prepping Its Subscription Launch: Two Services, One Price — YouTube, which spent the first 10 years of its life as a free service, is getting ready to start selling tickets.| Joanna Sugden / Wall Street Journal: |
Study on global salaries of mid-career level IT staff finds Switzerland offers best salaries at $171K/year, Bulgaria worst at $25K/year — What IT Professionals Earn Around the World — Information technology professionals continue to be one of India's most competitive exports.
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Atlassian has filed for a US IPO; the software-tool maker is valued at over $3B privately — Australian Software-Tools Maker Atlassian Planning U.S. IPO — Company is valued at over $3 billion privately and expects to debut on U.S. markets by year-end — At least one more billion-dollar startup … | Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
What to expect from Google's September 29 event: unveiling of Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, 2nd gen Chromecast, and Chromecast Audio, plus Android Marshmallow launch date — Google Nexus announcement: 5 things to expect at Tuesday's event — Apple, Samsung, Sony, and Motorola all unveiled new phones over the past two months.| Atavist: |
The Atavist abandons native apps to focus on web, saying apps have poor discovery, slow approval, tech limitations, smaller readership — Goodbye, Native Mobile Apps — When we concocted the ideas that would become Atavist and The Atavist Magazine, in 2010, we did so amidst a frenzy …
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BlackBerry and Android: Expanding Our World — There has been a lot of buzz regarding BlackBerry launching an Android smartphone. For those restraining excitement until rumors became reality - the day has come. — I confirmed today that the slider phone we very briefly unveiled earlier … | Ina Fried / Re/code: |
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Deezer IPO filing shows firm spends 75%+ of revenue on rights holders, doesn't generate revenue from 40.2% of subscribers — Deezer's IPO Filing Shows Both Potential and Problems — The financial information in Deezer's filing for a public stock offering provides rare transparency … | Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Samsung opens its 1.1M-square-foot office in San Jose that can fit up to 2K workers — Samsung opens doors on new Silicon Valley offices — The South Korean company has built a 1.1 million square foot campus in San Jose, California — about 12 miles from rival Apple's headquarters.| Ryan Gallagher / The Intercept: |
GCHQ debuted a program called Karma Police seven years ago to track the browsing habits and communications of “every visible user on the Internet” — From Radio to Porn, British Spies Track Web Users' Online Identities — THERE WAS A SIMPLE AIM at the heart of the top-secret program …
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Sources: Square to file for IPO in the next two weeks — Payments startup Square plans to file an S-1 document for its initial public offering within the next two weeks, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation. — The San Francisco-based company earlier this summer submitted …
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