Pinterest Makes Pins More Than Pretty Pictures

Pinterest brings information from the rest of the Web deeper into its site, like any good emerging social platform.
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Silver Lake Finally Announces New $10.3 Billion Tech-Focused Fund

Silver Lakes Partners, the high-profile private equity which has been a big player in the tech space, has finally closed a new $10.3 billion large-cap technology investment fund. The firm said its Silver Lake Partners IV Fund was oversubscribed, surpassing a $7.5 billion target. Silver Lake now manages over $23 billion and is involved in a range of digital deals — most prominently of late, in the private takeover of Dell Computer.

Why Lady Gaga Isn’t Ditching the CD (Video)

Hint: She likes to sell albums. Gaga manager Troy Carter explains at D: Dive into Media.
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Zynga Rejiggers Comp in a Bid to Retain Top Execs and Tie to Performance

Money makes the world go around, but can it turn around the online gaming giant?
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Mango Health App That Games Taking Meds Launches With Target Partnership

San Francisco-based Mango Health — a new mobile app aimed at allowing people to manage their personal health by tracking medications and nutritional supplements they take — is launching after a 16-week pilot program and a strategic deal with retail giant Target. The app rewards users with gift cards or allows them to make charitable donations for correctly following their medical regimens by using game design principles. Consumers can also check for interactions between medications, supplements and foods, and get dosage reminders. Mango has raised $3.1 million in seed funding from venture firms First Round Capital, Floodgate and Baseline Ventures, as well as angel investors Mark Pincus and Keith Rabois.

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Best Buy Makes Price-Matching Policy Permanent

Looking for ways to combat “showrooming,” Best Buy has confirmed that it will make its holiday price-matching promotion permanent. Best Buy said it is taking effect on March 1, and that it is also reducing its return policy to 15 days from 30 days, Bloomberg reports. Other retailers, including Target, have taken similar steps to keep customers from looking for cheaper prices on Amazon when in the store.

eBay Contends That Sales Tax Proposal Will Hurt Small Businesses

EBay is against a bill that would require more online retailers, like Amazon, to pay local taxes.
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Amazon’s Love Note to Senate Backs Sales-Tax Proposal

Amazon thanked the U.S. Senate today for a proposal that could put to rest the company’s long-standing sales-tax issues.
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With New Gifts Launch, Facebook Wants You to Put it on “The Card”

Facebook jumps into real-world, physical gift cards with a new product.
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The Next Step for Computing: The Storage Fabric

The storage fabric consists of the ability to access data nearly anywhere at any time, as well as a superstructure of hardware, software and services to deliver and manage it.
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Walmart Fires the Kindle