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Code/red: Apple Plans to Announce Wearable in SeptemberCode/red: Apple Plans to Announce Wearable in September
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Plus, big iPads, bigger hard drives and Steve Jurvetson’s Elon Musk mancrush.

By John Paczkowski
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Snapchat Valuation Reaches $10 Billion After Kleiner Perkins CommitmentSnapchat Valuation Reaches $10 Billion After Kleiner Perkins Commitment
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What’s better than $3 billion?

By Kurt Wagner
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All Wet: Tech ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Supercut VideoAll Wet: Tech ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Supercut Video
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Splish splash, I was taking a bath ...

By Kara Swisher
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A Snapchat Explainer for Non-MillennialsA Snapchat Explainer for Non-Millennials
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Kids these days.

By Lauren Goode
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Social Network Sobrr Deletes Your Drunken Debauchery After a DaySocial Network Sobrr Deletes Your Drunken Debauchery After a Day
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A solution for those hell bent on documenting a night they’ll soon want to forget.

By Kurt Wagner
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China’s Alibaba Is Not Investing in SnapchatChina’s Alibaba Is Not Investing in Snapchat
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Poof.

By Kara Swisher
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Messaging, Video, Atomization: The Key Social Media Trends I’ll Be Watching for Re/codeMessaging, Video, Atomization: The Key Social Media Trends I’ll Be Watching for Re/code
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Private messaging, targeted ads and specific new mobile apps are some of the most important trends in social media right now.

By Kurt Wagner
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Code/red: New From Sony -- DualShock EarningsCode/red: New From Sony -- DualShock Earnings
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Plus Amazon’s BS e-book math, Robbie Bach’s new gig, that stupid Tim Draper song and grilling with lava.

By John Paczkowski
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Investment in LA Tech Has Nearly Tripled in Five YearsInvestment in LA Tech Has Nearly Tripled in Five Years
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By Nellie Bowles
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#Mustreads From Other Sites: Surviving on Soylent, Hackers Steal the Nasdaq#Mustreads From Other Sites: Surviving on Soylent, Hackers Steal the Nasdaq
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One bold journo tried living on Soylent for a month. Equally bold: Hackers stole the Nasdaq.

By Noah Kulwin
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Vanity Fair Comes to San Francisco to Quiz the New Establishment at New ConfabVanity Fair Comes to San Francisco to Quiz the New Establishment at New Confab
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What do Bob Iger, Jonathan Ive, Evan Spiegel and Sophia Amoruso have in common?

By Kara Swisher
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Facebook Aims to Slingshot Ahead of Snapchat with Latest AppFacebook Aims to Slingshot Ahead of Snapchat with Latest App
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The second project from its creative labs is another app designed to quickly share photos and videos with a group of friends.

By Ina Fried
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A Very Short History of LA TechA Very Short History of LA Tech
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Let’s hope history doesn’t repeat itself in the region.

By Nellie Bowles
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Three LA Boys: Snapchat’s Evan Spiegel, Tinder’s Sean Rad and Whisper’s Michael HeywardThree LA Boys: Snapchat’s Evan Spiegel, Tinder’s Sean Rad and Whisper’s Michael Heyward
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This trio of young LA tech entrepreneurs grew up together, running around Beverly Hills and Pacific Palisades.

By Nellie Bowles
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The Sprawling, Booming LA Tech Scene Is Having a MomentThe Sprawling, Booming LA Tech Scene Is Having a Moment
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In Part One of this LA Stories series, Nellie Bowles has kale shakes with engineers and sits in freeway traffic, chatting up venture capitalists on Bluetooth.

By Nellie Bowles
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The Winners and Losers at Apple’s WWDC KeynoteThe Winners and Losers at Apple’s WWDC Keynote
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Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

By Eric Johnson
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Stanford Condemns Snapchat CEO’s Sexist EmailsStanford Condemns Snapchat CEO’s Sexist Emails
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Irony alert: Ephemeral messaging startup CEO’s past has caught up to him.

By Mike Isaac
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Look at This! We’re Uploading and Sharing a Staggering 1.8 Billion Photos a Day.Look at This! We’re Uploading and Sharing a Staggering 1.8 Billion Photos a Day.
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Courtesy of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Snapchat. Which one of these things is not like the other?

By Peter Kafka
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The Right Response to the “Right to Delete”The Right Response to the “Right to Delete”
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Why can’t technology do more to ensure that certain types of recorded data decays or becomes less accessible with time?

By Jules Polonetsky Omer Tene
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Do Entrepreneurs Get Better With Age?Do Entrepreneurs Get Better With Age?
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Is age really just a number among Silicon Valley CEOs?

By David DuPont
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Yahoo Buys and Makes Disappear Disappearing Message Startup BlinkYahoo Buys and Makes Disappear Disappearing Message Startup Blink
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Re/code on TV: Snapchat’s Privacy Bumbles and Apple’s Bid for BeatsRe/code on TV: Snapchat’s Privacy Bumbles and Apple’s Bid for Beats
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Re/code staff went on the airwaves to discuss last week’s big tech headlines.

By James Temple
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Mobile’s Trojan Horse: Third-Party PlatformsMobile’s Trojan Horse: Third-Party Platforms
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Customers’ mobile expectations have shifted, and if you aren’t there for them in the moment of need, they’ll find another service that is.

By Julie Ask
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Yahoo’s China Syndrome Now Morphs Into WWMD? (What Will Marissa Do?)Yahoo’s China Syndrome Now Morphs Into WWMD? (What Will Marissa Do?)
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Pro tip: Money still can’t buy happiness. (It can buy marshmallows, though.)

By Kara Swisher
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Snapchat Settles FTC Charges on False Promises of Disappearing MessagesSnapchat Settles FTC Charges on False Promises of Disappearing Messages
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Snapchat agrees to 20 years of monitoring of new privacy program to prevent future issues.

By Amy Schatz
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Snapchat Names New General Counsel to Fill Out Top RanksSnapchat Names New General Counsel to Fill Out Top Ranks
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More high-profile hires as the young startup starts to mature.

By Mike Isaac
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Code/red: Sprint’s T-Mobile Longshot and Box’s Bogus BuyersCode/red: Sprint’s T-Mobile Longshot and Box’s Bogus Buyers
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Plus, why David Chase should write Amazon’s press releases.

By John Paczkowski
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Snapchat Debuts Actual ChatSnapchat Debuts Actual Chat
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By Mike Isaac
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Five Fascinating Nuggets From This Giant Fred Wilson Q&AFive Fascinating Nuggets From This Giant Fred Wilson Q&A
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The well-known VC discusses Tumblr’s sale, Turntable’s flop, and Instagram’s challenger.

By Jason Del Rey
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Facebook Explores Anonymity FeaturesFacebook Explores Anonymity Features
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A tall order for the company that already knows all about you.

By Mike Isaac
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The Facebook Conditioning EffectThe Facebook Conditioning Effect
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What social networking has (and hasn’t) taught us about protecting our data.

By Nat Maple
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Predicting the Next Social Media HitPredicting the Next Social Media Hit
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We are wired for gossip, and it’s inevitable that products will arise to manipulate that basic impulse.

By Prerna Gupta
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The Boys of Benchmark, Part 2: Snapchat Is More Than Sexting and Other Investment TheoriesThe Boys of Benchmark, Part 2: Snapchat Is More Than Sexting and Other Investment Theories
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“The remote control to the world is now your phone.” Also: Bitcoin!

By Kara Swisher
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The Boys of Benchmark Talk About S.F.‘s Tenderloin, Diversity and Artisanal Venture Capitalism (Part One)The Boys of Benchmark Talk About S.F.‘s Tenderloin, Diversity and Artisanal Venture Capitalism (Part One)
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“We try to think of it as artisans practicing a craft.”

By Kara Swisher
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Is Start-Up Culture Derailing the MBA?Is Start-Up Culture Derailing the MBA?
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Building a startup from scratch, winding it up and letting it go is the new MBA.

By Mike Jones
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A Grand Theory of Snapchat, as Constructed by SnapchatA Grand Theory of Snapchat, as Constructed by Snapchat
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Every so often there are glimpses of method behind the Snapchat madness.

By Liz Gannes
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Snapchat Adds Rudimentary -- And Easily Bypassed -- Security FeatureSnapchat Adds Rudimentary -- And Easily Bypassed -- Security Feature
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Messaging App Wickr Touts Its Security With Big Bug BountyMessaging App Wickr Touts Its Security With Big Bug Bounty
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The company will pay as much as Microsoft or Google if flaws are found in its product -- up to $100,000.

By Ina Fried
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Snapchat Responds to Spam ComplaintsSnapchat Responds to Spam Complaints
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By Mike Isaac
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This Golden MomentThis Golden Moment
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