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U.K.'s Daily Mail Explores Bid for Yahoo Backed by Private Equity — Potential bid could take one of two forms, sources say — The parent company of the Daily Mail, the British newspaper and global tabloid website, is in talks with several private-equity firms about a possible bid for Yahoo Inc. …
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How IP mapping service MaxMind locating 600M IP addresses to the geographic center of the US led to trouble for one Kansas resident — How an internet mapping glitch turned a random Kansas farm into a digital hell — An hour's drive from Wichita, Kansas, in a little town called Potwin …
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| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
With 60K home WiFi routers preordered, Luma raises $12.5M Series A from Accel, Amazon, others — Amazon Invests in Luma, a New Home WiFi System — It's been a year since we were introduced to Eero, a home Wifi solution that promised to improve coverage by using multiple access points.
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Re/code, GeekWire, PE HUB, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, Tech News Today, Atlanta Business Journal, Forbes, Luma, VentureBeat, FierceCIO News and StrictlyVC. Tweets: @omal
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Google Fiber drops free internet option for new subscribers in Kansas City, now starts plans at $50 per month — Google Fiber is ending a free-internet offer in its first city — When Google Fiber first arrived, it came with a compelling pitch: Pay a one-time construction fee, and you get internet access for free after that.
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PCWorld, DSLreports, ZDNet, Ars Technica, TechnoBuffalo, Mashable, Gizmodo, SlashGear, TalkAndroid.com, Tech Times, Digital Trends, Android Central, 9to5Google and Engadget. Tweets: @drpizza
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After Daimler confirmed talks with Amazon and Microsoft about investment in HERE, Bosch says it is considering buying a stake, too — Bosch considers stake in digital mapping company HERE — Auto supplier Bosch [ROBG.UL] said on Friday it was in talks with high-definition digital maps company HERE … | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
FBI says hacking group has accessed US government networks to steal data since at least 2011 — FBI Says a Mysterious Hacking Group Has Had Access to US Govt Files for Years — The feds warned that “a group of malicious cyber actors,” whom security experts believe to be the government …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Strategy Analytics: 12.8M VR units will be sold in 2016 for $895M; 77% of revenue will go to Oculus, HTC, Sony; 87% of units will be smartphone-based VR devices — VR headsets to generate $895M in revenue in 2016 — Market researcher Strategy Analytics said it expects global virtual … | Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
Goldman Sachs leads a $30 million round for Persado's AI-based, automated copywriting service — Sometime today you're going to read a marketing message that was probably written by Persado's software — and if you haven't, Goldman Sachs has led a $30 million investment into the company to make sure you will soon.| George Dvorsky / Gizmodo: |
Doctors used data collected by a Fitbit Charge HR to decide whether to reset a patient's heart rate with electrical cardioversion — This Dude's Fitness Tracker May Have Just Saved His Life — A 42-year-old man from New Jersey recently showed up in an emergency ward following a seizure.
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Twiggle raises $12.5M Series A led by Naspers for its AI powered e-commerce search engine — Twiggle raises $12.5M in Series A to bring human language context to e-commerce search — Israeli search revolutionaries Twiggle announced on Thursday that they have closed their Series A funding round …
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Tech.eu, TechCrunch, MediaPost, NoCamels News Flash, Bloomberg, Globes Online and VentureBeat
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Personal sharing shifts from Facebook to more intimate audiences on Snapchat and Instagram — Facebook Wants You to Post More About Yourself — Staff said to call lack of intimate sharing ‘context collapse’ — Facebook tries prompting more personal types of posting
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AdExchanger, Ubergizmo, ROUGH TYPE, Digital Trends, Tech Times, Business Insider, The Information, Social Media Today and Washington Post
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How skilled attackers are using newly evolved crypto-ransomware to turn every network intrusion into a potential payday — OK, panic—newly evolved ransomware is bad news for everyone — Crypto-ransomware has turned every network intrusion into a potential payday.
Tweets: @thepacketrat and @chrispirillo
| Mark Bergen / Re/code: |
Mobile search and ad startup Quixey replaces founding CEO Tomer Kagan with veteran exec Mark Lazar after raising $60M and missing sales targets last year — Mobile Startup Quixey Names New CEO Amid Sales Struggle, Leadership Churn — Quixey, a mobile search and advertising startup … Sponsor Posts
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