DigitalOcean offers Y Combinator startups $250 thousand in cloud credits
Microsoft launches Azure IoT Hub service out of public preview on February 4
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Facebook never wanted to host your app: The real reasons it shut down Parse
GoPro forecasts revenue below estimates, names new CFO
Internal Revenue Service hit with hardware failure; Where’s My Refund currently unavailable
Justin.tv creator returns to his roots on Snapchat
Cisco is buying Internet of Things cloud service Jasper for $1.4B
Apple or Alphabet unseats Alphabet or Apple as most valuable company on Earth
Instagram now allows 60 second video ads, but you still only get 15 seconds
Microsoft details Edge features coming in 2016: Extensions, accessibility, performance, and web standards
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Congratulations to the SwiftKey team on its acquisition by Microsoft
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Totspot raises $1.5 million for its second-hand fashion marketplace
Intel increased minority hiring by 31% in 2015 and has 100% parity in pay by gender
YouTube Red teases first original show and 3 movies, debuting February 10
Funding Daily: Recruitment startup Sonovate raises $22 million
Adblock Fast disappears from Google Play days after launch
College career network Handshake raises $10.5 million for university expansion
Square’s guide to supporting female engineers goes open source
Google is giving its high-speed Fiber Internet away for free to public housing residents
Square’s Apple Pay card reader now available at Apple retail stores
OpenMethods Secures $5 Million Investment to Expand Its Business of Enabling Omni-Channel Contact Centers
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MapR Awarded Patent for Converged Data Platform
After School, the anonymous social app for young students, raises $16.4 million
Predictive Leader Infer Increases Upsell Revenue 5X Quarter-over-Quarter
Fitbit’s first foray into fashion: $130 Alta wearable launches next month
Index Ventures closes fresh $550 million fund for seed and venture investments in U.S., E.U., and Israel
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Super Bowl provocateur GoDaddy grows up, gets personalized
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Why Amazon could be about to open 400 physical bookstores
Future Motion raises $3.2 million for its one-wheeled skateboard
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CEO Marissa Mayer gets a chance to make one last stand at the less-than-OK Yahoo Corral
Expensify eyes Europe for growth as the fintech startup launches its first hub outside the U.S.
Microsoft confirms it has acquired SwiftKey, creators of the predictive mobile keyboard app
Torrents Time lets anyone launch their own web version of Popcorn Time
Microsoft has reportedly acquired mobile keyboard company SwiftKey for around $250M
Yahoo to lay off 15% of its workforce as part of ‘aggressive strategic plan’
Salesforce unveils Field Service Lightning, a new cloud service launching in Q2 2016
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