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CrunchGear  16 hours ago:

Founders Fund Backs Its First Food Tech Startup, Hampton Creek Foods, With A $1M Investment -

Founders Fund, the firm founded by Peter Thiel and other PayPal executives, famously declared that it wants to back companies with big, ambitious visions (not just dinky web startups).
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TUAW  18 hours ago:

Apple releases Senate testimony as panel announces it avoided billions in taxes -

A Congressional panel has found that Apple avoided billions in taxes, the New York Times reports, thanks to an intricate network of subsidiaries throughout the globe.
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PaidContent  less than a day ago:

New York Times CEO calls digital pay model “most successful” decision in years -

In a speech to Columbia business school graduates, the CEO of the New York Times described the company's role in media disruption.
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GigaOm  less than a day ago:

New York Times CEO calls digital pay model “most successful” decision in years -

In a speech to Columbia business school graduates, the CEO of the New York Times described the company's role in media disruption.
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Boy Genius Report  less than a day ago:

Angry Tumblr users flee to WordPress as Yahoo announces $1.1 billion acquisition -

After a number of newspapers and blogs wrote about Yahoo’s now-confirmed $1.1 billion acquisition of popular blogging platform Tumblr, users were angry.
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CrunchGear  less than a day ago:

Mobile Payment Startup Payvia Buys Mogreet To Add Messaging-Based Marketing To Its Payment Platform -

Some more consolidation afoot in the worlds of mobile marketing and mobile payments: Payvia, one of the many startups working in the area of carrier-based mobile billing, is buying Mogreet, a mobile marketing company that delivers campaigns via text, video and picture messaging services.
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TechCrunch  less than a day ago:

Alteryx Raises $12M For Data Analytics Platform That Shapes Data Into Apps -

Alteryx has raised $12 million for its business intelligence service designed for data analysts to build tools out of their own internal data and that from third parties.
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CNET News  less than a day ago:

Google: America's third political party -

At last weeks I/O conference, Google's Larry Page didn't speak like a CEO. He spoke like a politician.
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Mashable  2 days ago:

Report: Yahoo Board Approves Tumblr Acquisition -

Yahoo's board of directors has approved a $1.1 billion acquisition of blogging platform Tumblr, according to a breaking news alert from The Wall Street Journal.
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Cellular News  3 days ago:

Original iPhones Nearly Came with Intel Inside -

The first Apple iPhone very nearly came with an Intel processor, the company's outgoing CEO has revealed in an interview.
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Electronista  4 days ago:

Yahoo schedules press event for May 20, topic 'something special' -

Yahoo is holding a "product-related" event on May 20. The New York City event will see CEO Marissa Mayer speaking on an undisclosed topic for about an hour at 5PM EST, which the company calls in an mass email "something special.
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IntoMobile  4 days ago:

Samsung Galaxy S4 sales top 10 million -

The Galaxy S4 launched in late April and has become the fastest selling smartphone in Samsung’s history.
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Boy Genius Report  4 days ago:

New LED display tech could revolutionize wearable devices like Google Glass -

Google Glass might not be the next iPad, but future versions of wearable computing devices like Glass are widely expected to be the next major consumer electronics revolution.
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iLounge  5 days ago:

News: Cook talks Apple’s taxes ahead of Senate testimony -

Apple CEO Tim Cook has spoken out on the company’s tax practices prior to his scheduled testimony at a Senate hearing next Tuesday.
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CrunchGear  5 days ago:

Pebble Nabs $15M In Funding, Outs PebbleKit SDK And Pebble Sports API To Spur Smartwatch App Development -

Get ready for a whole lot more Pebble. The smartwatch company just announced several software enhancements for the Pebble and a $15M Series A led by Charles River Ventures.
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Silicon Alley Insider  5 days ago:

See? A Year Later, No One Cares About Facebook's IPO Flop -

A year ago tomorrow, Facebook went public.

It was one of the most breathlessly anticipated public offerings in history.
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TechCrunch  5 days ago:

Social Analytics Startup Awe.sm Hires Former CBSi And AOL Exec Fred McIntyre As CEO -

Social analytics startup Awe.sm has been growing quickly and getting a lot of interest from brands that want to use its platform for measuring the effectiveness of their social media campaigns.
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Advertising Age  6 days ago:

CBS Upfront: The Ad Age Live Blog Replay -

After Jimmy Kimmel called CBS "smug" at yesterday's ABC upfront, CBS Corp. CEO Les Moonves joked that he'd try to be gracious this time around -- but that it's hard.
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CrunchGear  May 14 13 :

Rushmore.fm Wants To Fix The Music Industry, Ex-Virgin Group Online Boss Named As CEO -

Rushmore.fm, a new London-based startup founded by Fictive Kin and Betaworks, is de-cloaking somewhat today with what sounds like the rather lofty but noble mission to fix the music industry.
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Advertising Age  May 14 13 :

Parenting and Babytalk Magazines Shut Down in Sale to Meredith -

Bonnier Corp. has sold Parenting, Baby Talk and Conceive magazines to Meredith Corp., which will close them and begin sending their subscribers its own parenting and baby magazines instead, the companies said on Tuesday.
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