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Under pressure from ACLU, Facebook updates its platform policies to explicitly prohibit devs from using Facebook or Instagram data in surveillance tools — In response to pressure from the American Civil Liberties Union, Color of Change and the Center for Media Justice …
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PlayStation Now's streaming library to expand with PlayStation 4 games this year, with a private beta rolling out in coming weeks to existing PS Now subscribers — PlayStation Now, Sony's game-streaming service for PlayStation 4 and Windows PC, will finally receive some more current games later this year.
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Intel to buy Mobileye, maker of chip-based camera systems for semi-automated driving, for $15.3B at $63.54 a share, a 34% premium to its Friday closing price — Deal marks latest investment by a technology company in the future of self-driving cars — Intel Corp. on Monday said it struck …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Marissa Mayer to get $23M severance package; Thomas McInerney, former CFO of Barry Diller's IAC, to take over as CEO of Altaba following Verizon deal close — Marissa Mayer, who is set to lose her job as Yahoo CEO following the closing of the Verizon acquisition of the internet company's operating businesses … | Micah Singleton / The Verge: |
Pandora debuts premium on-demand music streaming service for $10 per month; invites will start rolling out to existing users March 15 — Just over 15 months after Pandora acquired key assets from Rdio, and three months after it announced its plans, the company is ready to launch its full-fledged …
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| Jason Cipriani / ZDNet: |
Samsung to provide monthly security updates instead of quarterly for unlocked Galaxy phones in US — For owners of unlocked Galaxy devices, the news of monthly security updates is welcome news. — According to Samsung Mobile Security, the company has worked through “challenges” …
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Sources: Citrix hires Goldman Sachs to find buyers including private equity firms but interest has been limited — Cloud-services company said to reach out to buyout firms — Citrix spun off GoTo business after pressure from Elliott — Citrix Systems Inc. is working with advisers …
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| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
Okta files for IPO, looking to raise $100M, and discloses fiscal 2016 loss of $76.3M, up from $59.1M in 2015 — Okta, a provider of cloud-based tools for business to manage employee access of software and devices, has filed for a $100 million IPO. — Offering details: The San Francisco …
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Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky says the company is about halfway through a “two-year process” to go public — For Airbnb, going public has always been thought of as a “two-year process,” and the company is about halfway through that process, Chief Executive Brian Chesky said at a luncheon hosted …
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Exiled Turkish businessman Hakan Uzan buys niche luxury smartphone maker Vertu for $61.2M — The scion of an exiled and secretive Turkish business dynasty has bought the British smartphone maker Vertu, which targets the wealthy buyers with handsets costing up to £40,000.
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| Andrew Liptak / The Verge: |
Google's Area 120 startup incubator debuts Uptime, a group video messaging app for iOS, currently invite only, that lets you watch and share videos with friends — Experiments! — Last year, Google opened a startup incubator called Area 120, which was designed to let employees us …
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Huawei Watch 2 review: looks good, dust and water-resistant, but feels cheap, and priced too high, making it a poor successor to original — Huawei built up a lot of good will over the past two years, only to let it slide in 2017. — The original Huawei Watch was a go-to choice … Sponsor Posts
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