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Airbnb has raised $100 million in funding, still valued at $25.5 billion

Last night, Airbnb announced that it has raised another $100 million in funding, which brings the startup's total funding to $2.34 billion, and brings its value to $25.5 billion. As...

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Snapchat now sells additional photo lenses for $0.99

Snapchat's never-ending quest to find a way to monetize its massive userbase has led it to do some pretty interesting stuff, but it's most-recent idea is probably the most standard, unoriginal...

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This startup will pay you back for your surge-priced Uber ride

With billions of dollars in funding and the single most extensive ride-sharing network on the planet, Uber is an absolute behemoth, and there's no way a ride-sharing startup like Gett...

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Android is becoming a major security concern for Facebook

Android's openness is both its biggest strength and its biggest weakness. While this openness makes it easily accessible to companies that're developing their own mobile devices, it also makes it so that...

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Facebook’s head of security wants passwords to just die already

The worst part about passwords isn't the fact that they're annoying and tedious, it's the fact that there's no alternative way to keep your accounts secure... yet. Numerous companies and organizations...

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Russia wants to put astronauts on the moon again

The space race may have ended with America's victory decades ago, but that doesn't mean Russia has lost interest in space travel. In fact, the country is more interested in...

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Facebook wants to be the new Craigslist with Local Market

Facebook is really interested in e-commerce, and it's approaching the market from a number of different angles in order to find out what works. The company's most recent foray into...

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Wikimedia’s anti-NSA lawsuit has been dismissed by a judge

You may remember that lawsuit that Wikimedia and a handful of other organizations filed against the NSA for its mass surveillance programs earlier this year, the one that claimed that...

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Ex-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer now owns 4% of Twitter’s shares

Steve Ballmer is many things: a former CEO of Microsoft, the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, and now, the owner of 4% of Twitter's stock. This was first revealed...

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Amazon might release an online television service before Apple does

Rumors about Apple's online television service have been popping up for months, and was initially expected to launch sometime this fall, but apparently discussions with content providers aren't moving as quickly as...

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