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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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Tweets: @jakemcgraw, @atlassian, @danielpunkass, @marshallk, @rachelking, @bijan, @jaimenovoa, @alexrkonrad, @anildash, and @makesideproject
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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Marketing Land, AppleInsider, Engadget, CNET, TechCrunch, SlashGear, and Mashable
Tweets: @joshconstine, @charlesarthur, and @mikeisaac
See also Mediagazer| Andrew J . Hawkins / The Verge: |
Waymo says it is now producing all self-driving tech in house, with big cost savings, will deploy Chrysler minivans this month in Mountain View and Phoenix — Now with all-new tech produced in-house — Waymo, the self-driving car startup spun-off from Google late last year …
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Tweets: @pkedrosky and @ow
| 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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| Brian McCullough / Internet History Podcast: |
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| Washington Post: |
Uber launches Movement, a website to share its aggregated travel times data for cities, starting with Washington, Boston, Manila, and Sydney — SAN FRANCISCO — The combative ride-hailing giant Uber is extending an olive branch to cities — in the form of data that transit wonks have coveted for years.
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Tweets: @conormyhrvold, @mikeisaac, and @lizzadwoskin
| Matthew Strauss / Pitchfork: |
Nielsen: US on-demand music streaming up 76% to 250B+ streams in 2016, becoming the dominant form of music consumption with 38% of the market — Streaming consumption beat digital sales for the first time in history, according to new Nielsen report — It's official: according …
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| Tova Cohen / Reuters: |
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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| Bob Bryan / Business Insider: |
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.| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
LG threatens to put Wi-Fi in every appliance it introduces in 2017 — You can also use a camera to save you the trouble of opening your fridge. — In the past few years, products at CES have increasingly focused on putting the Internet in everything, no matter how “dumb” the device in question is by nature.
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VentureBeat, InvestorPlace, The Next Web, and Digital Trends
Tweets: @erratarob, @arstechnica, @arstechnica, and @annarussett
| Steve Ragan / CSO: |
Esports community ESEA hacked, as 1.5M records, including users' names, phone numbers, and PSN/Xbox/Steam IDs, leak after alleged attempt to extort $50K failed — More than a million players have been affected by this incident — E-Sports Entertainment Association (ESEA) …
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TwitLonger, SlashGear, Silicon Republic, Office of Inadequate Security, and reddit
| Christopher Zara / Backchannel: |
How the “safe harbor” provision of the 1996 Telecommunications Act allowed the modern internet to flourish, and why it's under attack — How “safe harbor” turned into a protector of privilege. — For Airbnb, suing American cities had become something of a monthly ritual.
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The Guardian and Memex 1.1. Tweets: @vogelelaw, @backchnnl, @backchnnl, @backchnnl, @backchnnl, and @ma_franks. See also Mediagazer
| Tim Ingham / Music Business Worldwide: |
SoundCloud's filing in UK: losses up 30.9% to $52M while revenues grew 21.6% to $22M in 2015; Universal, Sony, and Warner now own stakes in SoundCloud — SoundCloud's losses grew faster than its revenues in 2015 - with the company now admitting that, should its subscription service flop, its funding may run dry this year.| TechCrunch: |
Sources: Amazon's AWS cloud division quietly acquires AI security startup harvest.ai for around $20M — Natasha Lomas, Ingrid Lunden and Ron Miller — Jan 9, 2017, 9:34 amJan 9, 2017, 9:34 am — Amazon Web Services appears to be ramping up its security chops.
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