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More than 2K Google employees, including Sundar Pichai and Sergey Brin, across eight campuses stop work to protest Trump's executive order banning 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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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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Streaming media app Plex acquires news video startup Watchup; Watchup 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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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| Kate Conger / TechCrunch: |
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 … | 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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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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Dropbox takes Paper, its Google Docs competitor, out of beta for global launch and tests new features including a project organization tool with task management — In 21 languages around the world — Dropbox's latest tool for businesses, a piece of collaborative editing software called Paper, is launching globally today.
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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 …
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Razer acquires Nextbit, maker of Robin smartphone; Nextbit will stop selling Robin phones but will continue providing support for six months — Robin phones will see software support for the next year, but don't expect a sequel soon. — Josh Miller — Having hatched its cloud-based Robin phone …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Analytics firms and social media stars say Snapchat Stories view counts have plummeted between 15% and 40% since Instagram launched its Stories clone — Good enough and convenient. That's proved a winning strategy for Instagram's clone, according to a dozen analytics providers …
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WhatsApp testing feature to recall or edit sent messages that haven't been read, and sharing moving location in chats to help friends find one another easily — WhatsApp could soon introduce the ability to recall sent messages, easing the minds of people that regularly panic after sending texts by mistake.
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