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More than 2K Google employees across eight campuses, including Sundar Pichai and Sergey Brin, stopped work to protest Trump's executive order on immigration — Google employees in offices around the world staged a walkout on Monday afternoon in protest of President Donald Trump's executive …
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Nintendo reports $569M profit as Pokémon game sales get off to a good start, beats analyst estimates though revenue was down 22% YoY — Nintendo only takes a fraction of the revenue from Pokémon Go, the smash hit game of 2016, but its popularity has certainly boosted …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Streaming media app Plex acquires news video startup Watchup, which will now be integrated into the Plex app, with an expected launch of Q2 2017 — In recent months, streaming media app Plex has expanded its focus from offering tools to organize and stream your home media collection of photos …
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| Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
Walmart drops membership fee for its free two-day shipping program on purchases of $35 or more, discontinuing its $49/year ShippingPass program — The only catch is a $35 order minimum. — If Walmart.com is ever going to put a dent in Amazon's dominance, this will have to be the starting point.
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American Civil Liberties Union joins Y Combinator's winter batch of startups, giving access to mentoring and Demo Day — The American Civil Liberties Union will learn how to turn the $24 million it raised over the weekend into growth and progress with help from top Silicon Valley startup accelerator Y Combinator.
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| Heather Somerville / Reuters: |
Uber strikes deal with Daimler to add self-driving Mercedes-Benz to Uber's fleet — Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] has signed another deal with a major automaker as the popular ride service accelerates efforts to build out one of the world's first fleets of autonomous vehicles.
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Facebook to begin a limited trial of Delegated Recovery, a system for recovering third party accounts that aims to obviate email's role in that process — Getting locked out of your account sucks. Almost everyone has experienced the frustration of forgetting a password … | Bloomberg: |
Recent presentation for Capital One investors shows 81% of the firm's $690M in loans for taxi medallions are at risk of default as a result of ride-sharing apps — Ride-sharing apps are distressing traditional cab companies (and their debt). — by — Shahien Nasiripour| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
SoundHound raises $75M from NVIDIA, Samsung Catalyst Fund, and others, to expand its voice-enabled AI everywhere — SoundHound has been around for 10 years and, before today, had raised around $40 million in financing as it's worked to build a massive conversational AI platform.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
CB Insights Report: 3,358 tech exits in 2016 from 3,260 M&A exits and 98 IPOs, down 4% over 2015; 25 unicorn “births”, down by 68% — As we kick off 2017 with a surprise acquisition of what was planned to be the first big IPO of the year — Cisco snapping up AppDynamics for $3.7 billion …
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| Claire Boston / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft completes $17B bond sale, will use proceeds for repayment of debt used to help fund its acquisition of LinkedIn — Tech giant will use proceeds to refinance short-term debt — Credit graders maintain AAA rating on Microsoft debt — Microsoft Corp. found ample demand …
| Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg: |
Some Snapchat users obsessively snap back and forth with friends to keep the streak of snaps alive, often for hundreds of days — The photo sharing app is dangerously addicting, and that's by design. — by — Abby Rogers, a 15 year-old from California's Bay Area, recently took extreme measures to help a buddy in Michigan.| Scott Rosenberg / Backchannel: |
How Paper fits into the enterprise strategy at Dropbox, which is now on pace for $1B+ in annual revenue, according to CEO Drew Houston — To recapture its mojo, the decacorn is expanding from your file cabinet to your office. — Dropbox became a darling company of the cloud computing startup wave by keeping users' files in sync.
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