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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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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| 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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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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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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Microsoft and Qualcomm invest in Israeli cybersecurity firm Team8, bringing its total raised to $92M+, other investors include Cisco, AT&T, and Nokia — The venture arms of Microsoft (MSFT.O) and Qualcomm (QCOM.O) have invested in Team8, an Israeli creator of cybersecurity start-ups …
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| Mitchel Broussard / MacRumors: |
Tencent's WeChat unveils Mini Program, an app platform for the chat app, deflects comparisons to an app store, saying there's no centralized app repository — Popular Chinese mobile app company WeChat [Direct Link] congratulated Apple on ten years of the iPhone earlier this morning …
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Coin.mx bitcoin exchange operator pleads guilty to conspiracy to commit bank fraud and operate unlicensed money transmitting firm, in case tied to JPMorgan hack — A Florida man pleaded guilty on Monday to charges that he conspired to operate an illegal bitcoin exchange … | Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Activehours raises $22M Series A led by Matrix Partners to take on the payroll industry with its quick and free paycheck-processing service — What if you didn't have to wait every two weeks to receive a paycheck? — What if you could be wired the money you earned almost immediately after a shift?
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Alibaba's Jack Ma meets with Trump, talks about US/China relations and having US products sold on the platform, as Alibaba tweets pledge to create 1M US jobs — Jack Ma, the founder and chairman of Alibaba Group, met with President-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower on Monday.
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| Tas Bindi / ZDNet: |
Baidu and state-owned BAIC Motor Corp form strategic partnership, say their self-driving cars will hit roads in limited trials by end of 2017, more — Baidu and BAIC have formed a strategic partnership that will see the companies collaborating on the advancement of autonomous vehicles in China.
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