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Major spam group River City Media left 1.4B email addresses, combined with real names, IPs, and often physical addresses, exposed online — Today we release details on the innerworkings of a massive, illegal spam operation. The situation presents a tangible threat to online privacy … | Valentina Palladino / Ars Technica: |
Fitbit unveils Alta HR with heart rate monitoring, available at the end of March for $150; Alta HR, Blaze, and Charge 2 get improved sleep tracking — This might be the tracker you want to wear both day and night. — Fitbit's thin Alta tracker dropped around this time last year, and the company is already making an update to it.| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Snap's stock closed at $23.77, down over 12% in its third full day of trading and below its first-day opening price of $24 — Welcome to the public markets, Snapchat. — Welcome to the public markets, Snapchat. — Stock for Snap, the company behind Snapchat, fell more than 12 percent Monday, just its third full day of trading.| Bradford Cross: |
AI predictions: bots go bust, fewer machine learning acquihires, AI is cleantech 2.0 for VCs, MLaaS dies again, full stack vertical AI startups actually work — With AI in a full-fledged mania, 2017 will be the year of reckoning. Pure hype trends will reveal themselves to have no fundamentals behind them.
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Y Combinator opens registrations for its free ten-week Startup School online course featuring guest lectures, group office hours, and a Slack community — We're excited to announce our new online Startup School, with classes beginning on April 5. Anyone can sign up at StartupSchool.org …
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Twitch co-founder Justin Kan leaves partner role at Y Combinator to launch his own startup incubator program called Zero-F — Serial entrepreneurJustin Kan, best known for co-founding Twitch, Justin.tv and Socialcam, has left his position as a partner at Y Combinator to start his own startup incubator program.
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Consumer Reports will begin assessing cyber security and privacy safeguards when scoring products, publishes first draft of standards for the new testing — Consumer Reports, an influential U.S. non-profit group that conducts extensive reviews of cars, kitchen appliances and other goods … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Identity management firm Okta acquihires Stormpath, which provides identity and user management services to developers, acquires license to use Stormpath's tech — Okta, the $1.2 billion identity management startup for enterprises that some tip for an IPO this year, has made an acquisition …
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How GV's 2013 investment of $258M in Uber, now regarded as a great success, began a complex and tense relationship between Alphabet and Uber that's since soured — When Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] was raising venture capital in 2013, it was one of the hottest deals around …
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Twitter says move from chronological to algorithmic timeline has upped engagement in key metrics including retweets and likes, but doesn't say by how much — What do you see when you open Twitter? Until a year ago, the answer was straightforward: With minor exceptions …
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How an image of Chuck Schumer and Putin made it from Reddit to Trump's Twitter account in less than 24 hours — Twenty hours. That's about how long it took for a picture to make its way from the depths of Reddit to the Twitter account of the president of the United States.| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Jay Z's Roc Nation announces ARRIVE, to provide startups with “brand services, business development, advisory and capital” — Jay Z's new venture capital firm Arrive, has arrived - the rap and business mogul has been planning the launch for awhile, according to reports that surfaced in February …
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