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Square sets IPO price range at $11-13 per share, at a valuation up to $4.19B, well below its last private round — Square sets IPO price range, would be valued below last private round — Payments company Square this morning filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission … | Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
PageFair anti-ad-blocking service was hacked a week ago, temporarily pushing malware to visitors of over 500 sites including the Economist — A prominent ad-blocker-blocker served malware to Economist readers — One of the web's most prominent ad-blocking tools has been serving malware to Economist readers.
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Toyota to set up new artificial intelligence research and development company in Silicon Valley, will invest $1B over 5 years — Toyota invests $1 billion in artificial intelligence in US — TOKYO (AP) — Toyota is investing $1 billion in a research company it's setting up in Silicon Valley … | Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
With a good physical keyboard and enhanced security, the Android-powered Priv is the first recommendable BlackBerry in years — BlackBerry Priv Review: BlackBerry May Win You Back With Android — It finally happened: a modern-looking BlackBerry with a modern operating system
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Full text of Trans-Pacific Partnership released, gets criticized by Internet privacy and consumer groups for threatening digital rights — TPP Trade Agreement Slammed For Eroding Online Rights — Measures agreed to in an international trade treaty between Pacific Rim countries threaten …
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| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Sources: Google seeking partners to co-develop chips to bring more uniformity and new features to Android phones, and better compete with Apple — With Apple in Mind, Google Seeks Android Chip Partners — Google recently talked with some microchip makers about developing chips based …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Survey finds significant portion of popular apps send user personal information like email and location to Apple, Google, and other third parties — User data plundering by Android and iOS apps is as rampant as you suspected — Most commonly shared data for Android is e-mail addresses; for iOS, it's GPS data.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Sweden's Anoto Buys Digital Pen Maker Livescribe For $15M — The writing is on the wall for more consolidation in the world of startups... both literally and figuratively. Today Anoto, a digital writing company based out of Sweden, announced that it would acquire longtime partner Livescribe …
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| Jack Nicas / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: US task force to recommend simple, free registration of recreational drones weighing over 250gm — U.S. Task Force to Recommend Drone Registration, Sources Say — Proposal envisions simple, free registration of recreational drones weighing more than nine ounces| Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes: |
ProtonMail pays hackers ransom of $6K in Bitcoin to end DDoS attack — ProtonMail Pays Crooks $6,000 In Bitcoin To Cease DDoS Bombardment — ProtonMail is getting its first taste of life as an entity known to criminals looking for a quick, easy payday. — Throughout most of yesterday … | Marty Swant / Adweek: |
Facebook debuts two new ad tools for businesses to better understand and target nearby consumers — Facebook's New Tools Let Merchants Tailor Ads for Nearby Consumers — While Facebook yesterday revealed that its advertising sales increased 45 percent year over year to $4.3 billion in the third quarter …
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| Jessica Guynn / USA Today: |
Twitter SVP Alex Roetter pledges faster progress on diversity after ex-employee Leslie Miley publicly criticized company's efforts to improve diversity — Twitter engineering chief pledges ‘faster progress’ on diversity — SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter's senior vice president of engineering Alex Roetter …
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