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Pandora shares down 6% after posting earnings
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Pandora made $80M in U.S. app store revenue in Q3, booting Netflix from the top grossing spot
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Blue Apron shares trade down 9% after disappointing earnings
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Dashlane universal password manager comes to Linux, Chromebook and Microsoft Edge
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Pusher launches Chatkit to make it easy for developers to add chat functionality
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Open source database startup MariaDB confirms $27M investment led by Alibaba
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HTC’s bigger, better and clearer U11 Plus won’t be coming to the U.S.
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Didi Chuxing will build its own electric vehicle charging network
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TransferWise announces whopping $280M investment as early shareholders cash in
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Coin offerings using celebrity glitter may not be golden, SEC warns
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Elon Musk says Tesla’s China factory could begin production in roughly three years
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How cities can harness the good — and avoid the bad — of the new mobility movement
In late September, London made headlines when it stripped popular ride-hailing app Uber of its license to operate in the city. The wall-to-wall coverage that followed the…
Reddit CEO talks taking site from ‘dystopian Craigslist’ to ‘the most human place on the internet’
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Tesla predicts production rate of 5K Model 3 cars per week by late Q1 2018
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Yelp beats earnings, but outlook is bad
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Fitbit beats analyst estimates but takes a net loss of $113 million in Q3
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CTrip Group snaps up travel search startup Trip.com
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Accel launches UC Berkeley mentorship program
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Google takes aim at medtech for Launchpad Studio’s first batch of AI-focused startups
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