Bloomberg pays $80,000 to back Canonical's Ubuntu Edge smartphone project

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$80,000 buys 100 devices for Bloomberg - but Canonical still needs just over $23.5m to go into production with 14 days left

Canonical has claimed its first corporate backer for its Ubuntu Edge smartphone after Bloomberg, the financial news giant, signed up to the $80,000 "Enterprise 100" package. Canonical has resort...

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