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  Groupon Acquires OrderUp Food Delivery Service

  TechCrunch - Lucas Matney

  Groupon appears to be readying itself to expand into food delivery and take on services like GrubHub. Today, the company announced its acquisition of food-delivery service OrderUp and detailed its plans to expand into the $70 billion sector. Founded in 2009, the Baltimore-based OrderUp is live in 40 …

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  Doppler Labs just raised $17 million to create earbuds that don't play music but let you customize how the world sounds around you — and we gave them a listen

  Insider Business - Nathan McAlone

  Doppler Labs CEO Noah Kraft says his office isn't intentionally loud, but the blaring car horns that drift up from the SoHo street below serve as a constant reminder that the world isn't always sound-optimized. Kraft and his team hope to change that with new wireless earbuds he calls the first step …

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  Reddit's most powerful members are holding the site hostage

  The Verge - Rich McCormick

  The Verge is about technology and how it makes us feel. Founded in 2011, we offer our audience everything from breaking news to reviews to award-winning features and investigations, on our site, in video, and in podcasts.

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  This lion will make you smile

  The Verge - Chaim Gartenberg

  This is a WebGL experiment, designed using three.js, a Javascript 3D library for cross-browser web 3D graphics. More importantly, it's an adorable lion just waiting for you to click on a fan for him. Watch him follow your mouse, eyes wide in excitement. Then, at the press of a button, a smile of …

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  The Ask Me Anything subreddit is back, but the moderators still sound pissed

  The Verge - Loren Grush

  Reddit’s Ask Me Anything subreddit, r/IAmA, is back online again, after the site’s moderators switched the section into private mode overnight. The subreddit was one of many to go private yesterday — including r/videos, r/gaming, r/science, and more — as a protest over the firing of Reddit Director …

• http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/US-household-wealth-reaches-new-high-of-nearly-6321304.php

  

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  Jun 11, 2015