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Sources: Apple plans to use drones, add new indoor navigation features to improve Maps; it acquired startup Indoor.io last year to help build its indoor mapping — Company gets FAA approval to use drones for data collection — Apple acquired startup Indoor.io for interior mapping project
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AngelList has acquired Product Hunt; sources say the deal is worth around $20M — Product Hunt will continue to operate as a standalone site. — AngelList, the company that helps investors find startups to invest in, has acquired Product Hunt, the company that lets people share and discover new products posted by other users.
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Report: Fitbit to acquire Pebble, will shutter company over time; source says deal is worth $34-40M, below Citizen's $740M 2015 offer, Intel's $70M 2016 offer — November 30, 2016Dec 1, 2016, 10:37 am — It looks consolidation is acoming to the wearables space with Fitbit set …
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Amazon debuts AWS Shield, its Cloudflare competitor, to protect against DDoS attacks, and offers two tiers; basic version will be on by default — A little more than a month after a massive online assault took down Reddit, Netflix, Twitter and other major online properties …
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Amazon debuts AWS X-Ray, which helps developers debug distributed code by showing a graph of processes to identify bottlenecks and see performance of functions — Amazon today is rolling out a tool to help developers dive deep into their existing applications to diagnose each element …
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HMD Global completes 10-year deal with Nokia to bring Nokia-branded devices to market; HMD says new smartphones are coming in the first half of 2017 — It's been a rough decade or so for Nokia's smartphone business. In 2011, then-CEO Stephen Elop famously described the company's situation as a …
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Sources: Saudi Arabia hit by series of state-sponsored cyberattacks against government agencies; digital evidence suggests attacks emanated from Iran — @MichaelRileyDC More stories by Michael Riley — Multiple attacks emanated from Iran, digital evidence suggests| Julie Bort / Business Insider: |
Zenefits ordered to stop offering free insurance software in Washington state, will offer software for $5 per user per month instead — It's been two steps forward and one step back for troubled startup Zenefits and its legal problems after it admitted earlier this year …
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Plex Media Player, previously a subscriber-only offering, is now available for all users; Kodi add-on launches for Plex Pass subscribers — Plex and Kodi are two of our favorite home theater apps, and now you can get both of them together. Plex just announced its new Kodi add-on so you can include your Plex library in Kodi.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon Prime members can now subscribe to HBO and Cinemax for $15 and $10 per month respectively — The great cord-cutting revolution continues today with the news that HBO and Cinemax are now available to Amazon Prime subscribers for $15 and $10 per month, respectively.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Osterhout Design Group raises $58 million for augmented reality smartglasses — The Osterhout Design Group has raised $58 million to develop new generations of mobile augmented reality and virtual reality smartglasses. — That's a big round for the seasoned company, and it shows that the race …
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Lenovo's Moto says it doesn't plan on releasing a new smartwatch in the near future — Don't expect a new Moto 360 any time soon — Moto today confirmed that it will not be releasing a new smartwatch for the launch of Android Wear 2.0, due early next year.
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