Square prices IPO at $9 per share, below $11-$13 range, valuing company at $2.9B
Square prices IPO at just $9 per share, valued at $2.66 billion — Jack Dorsey's payment company disappoints. Square, the payment technology company founded and led by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey …
Amazon quietly turned on two-factor authentication a few weeks ago after private beta
It's time to secure your Amazon account with two-factor authentication — Relying solely on passwords to secure important accounts may be outdated, but until they're gone for good your best alternati...
Square debuts at $11.20 per share, is trading up more than 40%
Today Square began trading at $11.20 a share on the New York Stock Exchange, up slightly from its $9 pricing last night. The stock is currently up 32 percent from market open. — Square's public off...
Tinder CEO Sean Rad, in an interview on the eve of Match Group's IPO, wanders into very awkward territory
what's the word? I want to say Sodomy and Exchange Commission? http://www.sec.gov/... Kristian / @kristiancarter : Tinder's CEO is the kind of guy to group women into 6s, 7s and 8s http://www.standard...
Square pays $93M penalty to investors like Rizvi Traverse, J.P. Morgan, and others, thanks to ratchet clause in its 2014 round
Square Pays $93 Million Penalty to Some Investors in IPO — Square Inc. will have to give some investors additional shares valued at $93 million …
Operator of two sites specializing in pirated music, RockDizMusic.com and RockDizFile.com, gets three years in prison and must pay $48K restitution
Music piracy case sends Charlotte man to federal prison for 3 years — Rocky Ouprasith ran the nation's second largest illegal music file-sharing site
On Eve of IPO, Match Group Disavows Tinder CEO Sean Rad's Disastrous Interview
This morning, the Internet collectively pointed and laughed at Tinder CEO Sean Rad for giving a trainwreck of an interview to the London Evening Standard. In the article, Rad confused the definition ...
Starboard asks Yahoo to sell core business instead of Alibaba stake
Activist investor Starboard Value LP asked Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O) to drop plans to sell its stake in Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd (BABA.N) due to tax concerns, and instead urged the company to sell its core...
Google Play Store to display “ad-supported” label for all apps containing ads starting in early 2016
Google Play Store app listings in 2016 will let users know if any app contains ads — Listings in the Google Play Store will soon be much more upfront about whether or not they feature advertising.
Tinder Owner Match Group Debuts On Nasdaq At $13.50/Share, Up 12.5%
After a bizarre interview from one of its executives on the day of its IPO pricing, today Match Group, owner of the popular Tinder dating app, listed as a public company, spinning out from its parent ...
iFixit Apple Pencil teardown reveals twin emitters to measure angle & orientation, logic board folded in half
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iFixit gives modular Fairphone 2 a rare 10 out of 10 for repairability [Updated]
It's bulky and its specs are almost two years old, but it's easy to pop open. — iFixit's teardowns are handy disassembly guides, and they're great for confirming just what hardware is included insid...
Match prices IPO at $12 per share, at low end of range, valuing the company at about $2.9B
Alexei Oreskovic / Business Insider :
YouTube to pay legal fees for a few video creators who are targets of unfair DMCA takedown demands
YouTube to Pay Fees for Some Video Makers to Fight Takedowns — WASHINGTON — Since its inception, YouTube has been embroiled in long and bitter battles over copyright infringement.
Samsung unveils BRITECELL camera sensor technology with enhanced sensitivity in low light, likely to ship with Galaxy S7 next year
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Zerodium publishes hack price list: cracking an Android or Windows Phone could cost $100K, but expect to pay $500K to crack iOS
Here's a Spy Firm's Price List for Secret Hacker Techniques — The trade in the secret hacker techniques known as “zero day exploits” has long taken place in the dark …
Google's VirusTotal adds sandbox execution support for Mac OS X apps
Lucian Constantin / PCWorld :
Google's Compute Engine gets Custom Machine Types to let you tailor VM RAM and virtual CPU allotments
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch :
Carnegie Mellon denies FBI paid for Tor-breaking research, implies subpoena may have been used
Michael Mimoso / Threatpost :
Vine debuts an audio remix feature, so you can grab sound from other Vines to use in your own
Casey Newton / The Verge :
YouTube Kids app for iOS and Android is now available in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, and the UK
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India's ride-sharing company Ola raises $500M at $5B valuation to maintain its lead over Uber in the country
Jon Russell / TechCrunch :
Startup PlanGrid raises $40M round led by Tenaya Capital to digitize more of the construction industry's work
Ron Miller / TechCrunch :
Leaked Lyft financials show first half of year brought less revenue, higher losses, and fewer new customers than projected in Feb., with $96M spent on marketing
Bloomberg Business :
Andreessen Horowitz has raised $200M for a new fund for health software startups, focusing on digital therapeutics, cloud biology, and computational medicine
Tanya Lewis / Business Insider :
Bing for iPhone app redesign adds deep links, emphasizes app integration in search
Nathan Ingraham / Engadget :
Salesforce Q3 earnings beat expectations with $1.71B in revenue up 24% YoY, EPS of $0.21, with $8B in revenue projected for next fiscal year, stock up about 3%
Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet :
Neal Mohan, Google SVP for display and video ad business, is now head of product at YouTube, a newly created position
Tim Peterson / Ad Age :
ON Semiconductor to Buy Fairchild for $2.4 Billion in Cash
Tim Culpan / Bloomberg Business :
Online language education firm TutorGroup raises $200M in series C, valuing the company at $1B+
Sruthi Shankar / Reuters :
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