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Xbox One Offers Voice Controls, New Kinect, Original Content, TV Integration, NFL Partnership

The news from Microsoft’s Xbox: A New Generation Revealed event.
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Bebo Founders Go Analog With Exclusive Battery Club in San Francisco

One way to spend your millions: Build a private clubhouse, with no oversharers welcome.
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Durango on the Horizon: Here’s What’s Interesting About Microsoft’s New Xbox

A preview of things to come at today’s Xbox: A New Generation Revealed event.
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How Many Users Does Tumblr Really Have?

Yahoo says it acquired 300 million new users yesterday. But, for now, the number advertisers care about will be much smaller.
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Pizza is an obvious candidate for 3D printing because it can be printed in distinct layers, so it only requires the print head to extrude one substance at a time.

– From a description of Anjan Contractor’s 3-D food printer, by Christopher Mims on Quartz

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Accel Leads $9.4 Million Round for Affiliate, App Marketing Tracker HasOffers

HasOffers, a four-year-old company that helps companies track their affiliate marketing programs, has raised its first outside funding, a $9.4 million round led by Accel Partners, along with angels including RealNetworks founder Rob Glaser. The company also offers a service that lets app developers track installs and other engagement metrics they can attribute to advertisers.

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Discovery Startup Newsle Raises $1.65 Million

Newsle, a news discovery startup, announced Monday that it had raised a $1.65 million Series A round of venture capital. The round was led by American City Business Journals, a subsidiary of Advance Publications, with participation from Maveron, DFJ, Transmedia Capital, and angels investors Launny Steffens and Rockwell Schnabel. Newsle lets users find published articles that mention their contacts or people they’ve chosen to follow on the service.

Yes, Yahoo Is Going to Run More Ads on Tumblr, Says Marissa Mayer

You’re not surprised, right?
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AOL Has Mulled Launching “Bling Thing,” a New Subscription Commerce Business

Does the world really need another subscription commerce business? AOL is weighing that very question.
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