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SEC filing: Marissa Mayer, Yahoo co-founder David Filo, and four others to leave Yahoo board after Verizon sale; remaining business to be renamed Altaba Inc. — Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is resigning from company's board of directors, Yahoo announced in a filing with the SEC on Monday.
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See also Mediagazer| Dona Sarkar / Windows Blog: |
Microsoft debuts latest Windows 10 preview; new features include lower blue light settings for night usage, tile folders, Edge web payments, and tab preview bar — Hello Windows Insiders! — Today we are excited to be releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 15002 for PC to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring.
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| Robert Scoble / Facebook: |
Source at Zeiss says Apple and Carl Zeiss AG are working on AR, mixed reality glasses that may be announced this year — Exclusive news: Apple and Zeiss working together on augmented reality optics. — For the nerds who were at CES and not paying attention to all my posts.
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| Andrew Dalton / Engadget: |
FDA warns St. Jude's Merlin@home transmitters used in monitoring pacemakers, other cardiac devices are vulnerable to hacking; OTA fix started going out Monday — According to a cybersecurity notice from the Food and Drug Administration, certain pacemakers and cardiac devices are currently vulnerable to hacking.| Paul Sandle / Reuters: |
Snapchat to make London its international HQ, will book sales in countries where it has no local presence in UK, will not route them through lower tax regimes — Messaging app Snapchat said it would make London the home of its international operations, delivering another vote of confidence …
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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Atlassian acquires popular team productivity app Trello for $425M, with $360M in cash and remainder in stock, in its largest acquisition to date — Australian software maker Atlassian has taken one of the leading independent players in collaboration software off the board as it looks …
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Thanks:@alexrkonrad| Steven Levy / Backchannel: |
Phil Schiller reflects on iPhone's launch, the debate around opening it up with the App Store, the importance of iPod in reaching non-Apple customers, more — A reporter there for the creation gets Apple's exclusive take on the “Jesus Phone"'s 10th birthday. — Why do a phone?
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| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
Sources: Facebook to start testing mid-roll video ad format and, like YouTube, share 55% of the revenue with video publishers — Mark Zuckerberg has been building a video empire. Time to turn it into a business. — Facebook wants to show more ads to people who watch its videos …
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See also Mediagazer| Tom Korosec / Bloomberg: |
Trial in $2B ZeniMax lawsuit against Oculus over intellectual property in Rift began on Monday in Dallas — ZeniMax alleges Facebook acquisition Oculus stole technology — Zuckerberg may testify in $2 billion Dallas trial over goggles — Facebook Inc. bet early on virtual reality …
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Tweets: @gamerlaw, @bryanrieger, and @business
| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
Fitbit acquires European luxury smartwatch maker Vector for an undisclosed sum; no new products will be developed using the Vector name — Well this is a relatively fast exit. In March last year a brand new smart watch brand appeared, hoping to offer something different.
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Sources: Alphabet in talks to sell the Skybox Imaging satellite business it bought for $500M less than three years ago to Planet Labs — Planet Labs may buy Skybox and gain new employees from deal — Alphabet curbs plans for global internet satellite network| TechCrunch: |
Sources: Amazon's AWS cloud division quietly acquires AI security startup harvest.ai for around $20M — Amazon Web Services appears to be ramping up its security chops. TechCrunch has learned that the e-commerce giant's cloud services group has quietly acquired cyber security firm harvest.ai.
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