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Confirmed: Pinterest raises $100 million from Japan's Rakuten, previous backers (Robin Wauters/The Next Web)
techmeme.comRobin Wauters / The Next Web : Confirmed: Pinterest raises $100 million from Japan's Rakuten, previous backers — After we broke the news that visual bookmarking and curation site Pinterest was about to announce a big funding round, with AllThingsD following up with the ...
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Facebook's IPO: Should we jump in? - Arizona Daily Star
news.google.comThe Hindu Facebook's IPO: Should we jump in? Arizona Daily Star AP Wondering what Facebook's upcoming initial public offering of stock means for you? The Post's business editors turned to our investment columnist Barry Ritholtz for some plain talk on the stock sale: Q. I'm ...
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First 'ring of fire' eclipse visible in US in nearly 20 years; also can be ... - Washington Post
news.google.comAFP First 'ring of fire' eclipse visible in US in nearly 20 years; also can be ... Washington Post LOS ANGELES Sunrises and sunsets often dazzle, but they'll have a special ring to them in a few days for people in the western United ...
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Verizon To End Unlimited Data For Upgraders - KGTV San Diego
news.google.comUSA TODAY Verizon To End Unlimited Data For Upgraders KGTV San Diego NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Verizon Wireless is planning this summer to begin forcing smartphone customers with unlimited data plans to switch to tiered plans when they upgrade, the company's chief financial officer told ...
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Google revamps search 'Knowledge Graph' to provide instant answers - Telegraph.co.uk
news.google.comTelegraph.co.uk Google revamps search 'Knowledge Graph' to provide instant answers Telegraph.co.uk Google is to add more context to search results, in a bid to understand 'what you mean' and provide instant answers. By Matt Warman, Consumer Technology Editor The changes, which roll out in America ...
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Ahead of Facebook I.P.O., a Skeptical Madison Ave. (DealBook)
techmeme.comDealBook : Ahead of Facebook I.P.O., a Skeptical Madison Ave. — With Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg has created a seemingly perfect home on the Web, one where people feel comfortable chatting with friends, playing games, sharing photos and videos, listening to music and revealing the ...
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The Rise of Europe's Private Internet Police (Rebecca Mackinnon/Foreign Policy)
techmeme.comRebecca Mackinnon / Foreign Policy : The Rise of Europe's Private Internet Police — Activists are fighting to rein them in. — In 2005, Peter Mahnke, a resident of the English town of St. Margaret's, Middlesex, set up a community website. For the past ...
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Fotolia scores $300m in equity, debt financing from PE firm KKR in exchange for 50% stake (Robin Wauters/The Next Web)
techmeme.comRobin Wauters / The Next Web : Fotolia scores $300m in equity, debt financing from PE firm KKR in exchange for 50% stake — First stock imagery site Shutterstock files for a $115 million IPO, and now rival Fotolia is selling 50 percent (note: ...
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Palantir Technologies Nabs $56M In New Funding, SEC Filing Shows (Colleen Taylor/TechCrunch)
techmeme.comColleen Taylor / TechCrunch : Palantir Technologies Nabs $56M In New Funding, SEC Filing Shows — Palantir Technologies, the big data analysis company founded in 2004 by a team of ex-PayPal employees including Peter Thiel, has raised $56 million in new funding, according to ...
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Move things with your mind: BrainGate robotic arm is controlled by brain waves (Meghan Kelly/VentureBeat)
techmeme.comMeghan Kelly / VentureBeat : Move things with your mind: BrainGate robotic arm is controlled by brain waves — Technology often comes together at the intersection of useful, important, and mind-boggling when it helps someone in need. Today BrainGate announced an invention that encompasses ...
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Bloglovin, a prettier take on RSS and Tumblr, gets Betaworks investment (Ki Mae Heussner/GigaOM)
techmeme.comKi Mae Heussner / GigaOM : Bloglovin, a prettier take on RSS and Tumblr, gets Betaworks investment — When Mattias Swenson, Patrik Ring and their three co-founders first decided to launch a startup out of high school, the plan was to work on it ...
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Path CEO Dave Morin Joins Eventbrite Board (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
techmeme.comSarah Perez / TechCrunch : Path CEO Dave Morin Joins Eventbrite Board — Path co-founder and CEO Dave Morin is joining the board of the event ticketing startup Eventbrite, the company is announcing today. The news of the appointment follows what has been, so ...
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Toyota Just Turned the Nintendo DS into a Navigational System (Brian Ashcraft/Kotaku)
techmeme.comBrian Ashcraft / Kotaku : Toyota Just Turned the Nintendo DS into a Navigational System — If Japan uses the Nintendo DS in schools, then why not in cars? Toyota's newest Smart Navi car navigational system enables drivers to turn the Nintendo DS into ...
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Google launches Schemer app for the iPhone (Janko Roettgers/GigaOM)
techmeme.comJanko Roettgers / GigaOM : Google launches Schemer app for the iPhone — Google's social team has had a lot of love for iOS lately: Just days after rolling out a revamped iPhone app for Google+, the company now released an iOS app for ...
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Rocket caught copying Fab code in Nigerian push (David Meyer/GigaOM)
techmeme.comDavid Meyer / GigaOM : Rocket caught copying Fab code in Nigerian push — In recent days, Berlin clone factory Rocket Internet has had a register-your-interest page up for its new Nigerian site, Sabunta. It's a clothing store and, once launched, it will probably ...
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T-Mobile USA's latest restructuring: net loss of 350 jobs (Chris Ziegler/The Verge)
techmeme.comChris Ziegler / The Verge : T-Mobile USA's latest restructuring: net loss of 350 jobs — The most recent organizational shift announced by T-Mobile USA CEO Philipp Humm to his employees this week will result in a net loss of 350 jobs, the company ...
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Pinterest set to announce new funding at $1 billion valuation, with an eye on ecommerce (Drew Olanoff/The Next Web)
techmeme.comDrew Olanoff / The Next Web : Pinterest set to announce new funding at $1 billion valuation, with an eye on ecommerce — There's been considerable speculation that social media sensation Pinterest is preparing to raise additional funding as it marches towards dominating a ...
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Retina MacBook screens: Already here - and pricey (Josh Lowensohn/CNET)
techmeme.comJosh Lowensohn / CNET : Retina MacBook screens: Already here — and pricey — A pixelated MacBook screen. — (Credit: CNET) — Apple is said to be on the verge of rolling out new high-resolution displays for its computers that, up until now, have ...
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Pakistan seeks $5,000 transit fee for each NATO container
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