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Didi Chuxing merging with Uber China; Uber China investors get a 20% stake of the combined business, which sources say has a $35B valuation — Uber Technologies Inc. will merge its China business with Didi Chuxing, the dominant ride-hailing service in the country, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Didi Chuxing to acquire UberChina — Combined resources to promote healthy development of the rideshare industry — Didi Chuxing today announced a strategic agreement with Uber under which Didi Chuxing will acquire all assets of UberChina—including its brand,business operations and data—for operation within mainland China.
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Source: Uber to invest $500M into its own global mapping project — Uber is preparing to pour $500m into an ambitious global mapping project as it seeks to wean itself off dependence on Google Maps and pave the way for driverless cars. — The San Francisco-based transportation company …
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Google has shipped 30M Chromecasts since launch in 2013, 5M in the past two months — On an earnings call earlier this week where Alphabet announced $21.6 billion of revenue in Q2 2016, Google CEO Sundar Pichai responded to questions regarding Google's own strategies, including hardware.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Chinese consortium led by Giant to buy Playtika, a virtual goods social casino game company, for $4.4B — Niantic Labs' John Hanke will be delivering a fireside chat for AR/VR day (augmented reality/virtual reality) at GamesBeat 2016. Get a ticket here! — A consortium of Chinese companies led … | Yancey Strickler / The Kickstarter Blog: |
Study: Kickstarter has created 8.8K companies, 29.6K full-time jobs, and $5.3B for project owners and their communities — A new study by the University of Pennsylvania provides the first comprehensive look at how the Kickstarter community impacts the creative economy. The study finds that Kickstarter projects have:| Hillary Clinton 2016: |
Clinton campaign: DNC's data analytics program we used was breached; no evidence hackers accessed internal systems — Hillary for America Spokesman Nick Merrill released the following statement on news reports regarding cyber hacks targeted at the campaign: “An analytics data program maintained by the DNC …
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| Jeffrey Rodman / Backchannel: |
Polycom's co-founder Jeffrey Rodman recounts the early days of his $2B company — Polycom's co-founder on the best investment he ever made, and why thinking small is a big idea … was March of 1991 and Polycom co-founder Brian Hinman and I were on yet another urgent trip to buy components.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Cybersecurity startup PhishMe, which helps employees spot phishing attacks, raises $42.5M Series C from Paladin Capital Group and Bessemer Venture Partners — PhishMe, a cybersecurity startup that helps companies thwart phishing attacks among other targeted malware, has closed …
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| Fred Wilson / AVC: |
Blockchain technology and crypto-tokens enable new business models for creating open protocols, financed by the tokens protocol creators retain at launch — Protocols are a geeky topic. It's way more interesting to talk about applications. People will go on and on about why they like gmail or some other email application.
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| Michael Andronico / Tom's Guide: |
Axon 7 review: ZTE's best phone to date with good build quality, fast performance, and a useful and clean MiFavor 4.0 UI, but OnePlus 3 offers more for $399 — The term “affordable flagship” is inescapable these days, thanks to a crop of low-cost unlocked devices that can hold their own among the iPhones and Galaxies of the world.
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| Sean Michael Kerner / eWeek: |
Google has issued patches for 115 Android Stagefright-related flaws since vulnerability was made public a year ago — On July 27, 2015, news broke about Stagefright, a vulnerability in Android. A year later, it's clear that Stagefright has had a major impact on the mobile security world …
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