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5 lessons Silicon Valley can learn from Robert Scoble
Hats equal money: 1,500 Steam community creators have earned more than $57M making items
Comcast is sorry that it changed one customer’s name to ‘Asshole’
Even as it grows globally, Facebook’s North American revenues grew fastest
ZTE announces $250 dual-SIM Blade S6 smartphone
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How Adobe is embedding its marketing cloud into thousands of mobile apps — and soon more
Your prison lover can now say ‘Be mine’ on Valentine’s Day with e-cards
Facebook says 69% of its ad revenue now comes from mobile
Facebook passes 1.39B monthly active users, 890M daily active users, and half a billion mobile-only users
Facebook mobile ad sales boost better than expected Q4 revenue of $3.85B
Meta grabs $23M to keep riding the wave of augmented reality excitement (thanks, Microsoft)
I Am Bread will make your yeasty dreams come true on iOS
China passes the U.S. as the world’s largest source of spam, again
Entrepreneur and Media Mogul Arianna Huffington Joins Payoff’s Board of Directors
Bill Gates says humanity should fear robots. Microsoft’s research chief disagrees
This is what Bill Gates thinks of Microsoft’s HoloLens
Araxid pulls in $12.5M to bring its database clean-up platform to other verticals
EA stock price surges as Wall Street falls in love with its PS4, Xbox One sales and more
GitHub paid 33 security researchers $50,100 in 2014 via bug bounty program, doubles maximum payout to $10,000
Facebook’s external advertising network has more than reach — it has customer loyalty
Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place
Move over, Google. Amazon just launched an email service
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Mobile Summit: Top-tier speaker line-up announced
Facebook now loads images 15% faster on iOS, cuts Android errors by 8%
FTC fines TracFone $40 million for throttling ‘unlimited’ data plans
Microsoft revamps photos in OneDrive with curation, albums, and search improvements
Slack buys YC-backed Screenhero to launch new screen sharing feature
Civilization IV’s lead designer wants you to financially ruin your enemies
Facebook wants to own your Super Bowl Sunday
DataRPM Adds Dr. Amr Awadallah (Cloudera Cofounder and CTO) as Investor and Super Advisor
Startup accelerator Techstars launches third, $150M venture fund
Spotify is coming to PlayStation soon, as Sony pulls the plug on its own music-streaming service
Messaging app Kik passes 200M users
Israel attracts more investment from China with new $102 million VC fund from Singulariteam
Dragon’s Dogma Online will be three times bigger than Dragon’s Dogma
Marketers: Think tech has changed your job already? Brace yourself
Google Play’s download dominance over Apple grew in 2014
Fingerprint acquires kids’ mobile game companies Scribble Press and Cognitive Kid
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