Here s what s on the Wednesday menu.
Pandora buying Ticketfly, a Ticketmaster competitor, for $450 million. Pandora shares are down about 4.5 percent.
Former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo s new job: Consulting for HBO comedy Silicon Valley.
Facebook makes foray into home-repair matchmaking, striking a partnership with startup Pro.com.
ICYMI: Verizon and AOL tie-up is merging the former s mobile phone-tracking supercookie with the latter s ad-tracking network to match users online habits with their offline details, raising privacy and security concerns.
Google Lunar X Prize: Israeli team advances in contest to send spacecraft to moon, signs deal with SpaceX.
Also ICYMI: Lawrence Lessig says he has raised $1 million for his presidential campaign. (WSJ; our previous coverage)
California outlaws using info from smart TVs to target ads.
G.E. to spin off new energy technologies in one company called Currents.
Photo: Dick Costolo, former CEO of Twitter, in 2013. (Kristopher Skinner/Bay Area News Group)
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