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Fitbit files for $100M IPO, revealing $132M net income in 2014, plans to trade on NYSE under symbol FIT — Fitbit files for $100 million IPO, shows big profits — Fitbit, a maker of fitness tracking devices that is being challenged by Apple's AAPL new watch product, has filed for a $100 million IPO.
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Sources: Yelp is exploring a sale; shares soar over 18% after news — Yelp Is Exploring a Sale — Company has $2.9 billion market value — Business-reviews website Yelp Inc. is exploring a sale, according to people familiar with the matter. — The San Francisco-based company … | New York Times: |
Sources: Uber has submitted a bid for Nokia's HERE mapping service, for as much as $3B — Uber Joins the Bidding for Here, Nokia's Digital Mapping Service — Uber is best known for allowing people to book a taxi through its smartphone application. But the fast-growing company has far broader ambitions.
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Spotify in talks with companies that make content for YouTube and traditional media firms for new web video service — Spotify Laying Plans to Enter Web Video Business — Closely-held streaming service has been reaching out to companies that make content for YouTube
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Flickr redesigns on web and mobile, launches auto-upload feature and unified search with image recognition — Flickr redesigns web and mobile apps to create a powerhouse in online photo storage — When Marissa Mayer became Yahoo's CEO in 2012, she was greeted with a viral internet campaign …
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
AT&T customers with unlimited data using LTE now throttled only when network is congested, instead of when they go over 5GB/mo — AT&T finally ramps down throttling of unlimited LTE customers — Facing lawsuit, AT&T now throttles 4G customers only when network is congested.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Zero-Fee Stock Trading App Robinhood Nabs $50M From NEA To Go Global — In case you thought paying $7 to $10 to trade a stock in the US was bad, it costs $65 in Australia. So now that its zero-fee stock trading app is thriving stateside with hundreds of thousands of users … | Wall Street Journal: |
US federal appeals court rules NSA's bulk collection of telephone metadata is not authorized by Patriot Act — Appeals Court Rules NSA Phone Program Not Authorized by Patriot Act — ACLU lawsuit argued the data collection should be stopped because it violates Americans' privacy rights
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| Ginny Marvin / Marketing Land: |
Google study finds 5.5% of unique visitors to Google sites had some form of injected ads, affecting more than 3000 advertisers — Google Study Exposes “Tangled Web” Of Companies Profiting From Ad Injection — Ad injector network makes victims of millions of users and more than 3,000 advertisers, including major brands, study finds.
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Google Online Security Blog, PC Magazine, The Next Web, AndroidHeadlines.com, The Verge, AdAge, AdExchanger, BuzzFeed, ABC News, Consumerist, Wall Street Journal, Forbes and 9to5Google. Tweets: @fredericl
| Andrew Hampp / Billboard: |
Source: Sony removes music by Adele, Hozier, Kelly Clarkson, and others from SoundCloud due to “lack of monetization opportunities” — Sony Pulls Hozier, Adele, Miguel, Others From SoundCloud In Licensing Impasse — Sony Music has removed original recordings from the SoundCloud pages … | Craig Hockenberry / furbo.org: |
Apple hasn't fixed or even acknowledged widely-reported networking issues on OS X Yosemite and iOS 8 related to discoveryd — discoveryd Clusterf**k — I usually keep things fairly clean on this site. I have a simple metric: would I be embarrassed if my Mom read this post?
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Actively exploited WordPress bug puts millions of sites at risk — XSS vulnerability allows attackers to take full control of unpatched sites. — Millions of websites running WordPress are at risk of hijacking attacks thanks to a vulnerability that is actively being exploited in the wild …
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Sucuri Blog, eWeek, ZDNet, Help Net Security, Digital Trends, The Register, WordPress Tavern and SecurityWeek
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
T-Mobile and BlackBerry end awkward feud with launch of BlackBerry Classic — After a contentious year that temporarily splintered their business relationship, T-Mobile and BlackBerry are on solid ground once again. The Uncarrier plans to launch the BlackBerry Classic later this month …
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| Carmel DeAmicis / Re/code: |
Accel and DJI Will Partner on Special Fund Focused on Drones — The deal to fund drone company DJI's recent $75 million investment round, which valued it at $8 billion according to a Re/code source, was competitive. Startup investment firm Accel, best known for its early call on Facebook, ultimately led the round.
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