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Mark Zuckerberg says he's “concerned” about President Trump's executive orders on immigration, affirms support for “Dreamers” — My great grandparents came from Germany, Austria and Poland. Priscilla's parents were refugees from China and Vietnam.
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LeakedSource, a site that sold access to a database of 3.1B+ compromised account passwords, taken offline after alleged police raid — LeakedSource garnered criticism for actively cracking the passwords it sold. — LeakedSource, a legally and ethically questionable website that sold access …
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| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
Sources: Snap to publicly file for IPO late next week, which would lead to likely March IPO — The social communications company's current valuation is $25 billion, said sources. — According to sources, Snap Inc. plans to publicly file for its much-anticipated initial public offering late next week.| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Tesla files suit against former Autopilot director, says he took proprietary information and tried to poach staff for his new self-driving car startup Aurora — Tesla has sued former employee Sterling Anderson, who acted as Director of its Autopilot Programs for just over a year, for breach of contract.
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| Supantha Mukherjee / Reuters: |
Microsoft's market value tops $500B for the first time since 2000, after its Q2 earnings beat analyst expectations — Microsoft Corp's (MSFT.O) market capitalization topped $500 billion for the first time since 2000 on Friday, after the technology giant's stock rose following another quarter … | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
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Twitter should roll out a tab highlighting the best tweets, similar to “While You Were Away”, and should have realized how awful the new “Explore” tab is — A rant about Twitter's new ‘Explore’ tab — Look, it's hard to roll out changes to any product, let alone one with hundreds of millions of users.| Reuters: |
Toshiba says it is looking to sell a minority stake in its memory chip business unit to offset an imminent multi-billion dollar writedown — Toshiba Corp (6502.T) said it will sell a minority stake in its memory chip business as it urgently seeks funds to offset an imminent multi-billion dollar writedown …
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Alibaba's Ant Financial buys US-based international money transfer service MoneyGram for $880M, an 11.5% premium to MoneyGram's Wednesday closing price — Ant Financial, the Alibaba affiliate controlled by billionaire Jack Ma, is close to sealing a deal to buy U.S. money-transfer service … | Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
KDE Slimbook is a 13-inch Linux laptop with Intel Core i5 or i7 CPU, up to 16GB RAM and a 500GB SSD, running KDE Neon, priced from $780 — Ships with the Linux-based KDE Neon OS — KDE is one of the bigger Linux projects out there, and today the dev team behind it announced …
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Recode's Ina Fried joins Axios Media, founded by Politico alumni, as chief tech correspondent — Axios Media — a new media venture founded by former Politico executives — is beefing up its tech team with the new hiring of longtime reporter Ina Fried as its chief tech correspondent in San Francisco.
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Apple to close Luxembourg branch as it transfers its international iTunes business to Ireland on February 5 — Apple has assigned a definitive date to the planned relocation of its international iTunes assets, saying the iTunes Store, Apple Music, the App Store and iBooks Store businesses … | Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
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