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Flipkart raises $1.4B from Tencent, eBay, and Microsoft at $11.6B post-money valuation, down from its $15.2B valuation in May 2015, and acquires eBay India — India's largest e-commerce marketplace Flipkart has announced a $1.4 billion fundraise from new investors Tencent …
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| Nate Lanxon / Bloomberg: |
Minecraft is adding a new marketplace with its own currency this spring, where creators can monetize their original content — Microsoft Corp. is adding a new marketplace — and a brand new currency — within the video-game Minecraft, opening up the opportunity for businesses to sell …
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| New York Times: |
Hackers breach Dallas warning system, repeatedly sounding all of the city's 156 emergency sirens — Officials in Dallas said the city's warning system was hacked late on Friday night, disrupting the city when all 156 of its emergency sirens sounded into the early hours of Saturday morning.
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| Hilary Osborne / The Guardian: |
UK payday lender Wonga says personal data of up to 270K customers may have been stolen in a data breach — Personal details from hundreds of thousands of accounts may have been illegally accessed, admits payday lender — More than a quarter of a million customers of payday loan firm Wonga …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Foxconn indicates a preliminary bid for Toshiba's chip business of about $27B; SK Hynix Inc. and chipmaker Broadcom also make bids — Toshiba Corp. and the Japanese government want to sell the company's semiconductor business to a domestic buyer, but foreign bidders are proving … | Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft to buy Kubernetes container-orchestration vendor Deis — Containers, containers, containers: Microsoft is buying Deis, a San Francisco-based Kubernetes orchestration specialist for an undisclosed amount. — Microsoft is buying Kubernetes container-orchestration specialist Deis for an undisclosed amount.
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| Beth Elderkin / Gizmodo: |
LiveJournal updates terms of service to conform with Russian law, which limits political and pro-LGBTQ talk, after relocating servers from US to Russia in Dec. — LiveJournal, a blog community that's hosted a lot of science fiction authors and fans (including George RR Martin) …
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| Pan Yue / China Money Network: |
Volkswagen invests $180M in Chinese AI startup Mobvoi's Series D, to create a 50:50 joint venture with a voice operated rear-view mirror as an initial product — In a further sign of China's technological advancement, Volkswagen Group China, a subsidiary of German automotive giant Volkswagen Group … | Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg: |
A look at professional hackathon competitors who subsist on winnings from hackathon events held by corporations like IBM, Amazon, and Microsoft — Peter Ma looked around his San Francisco condo and realized he'd won everything in it. His flat-screen TV, home theater system, 3D printers … | Economist: |
Shenzhen, home to companies like Huawei and DJI, challenges the “copycat China” myth as it becomes a global hub of innovation in hardware and manufacturing — ON A RECENT weekend several hundred academics and lawyers gathered in a hotel ballroom in Shenzhen for a discussion on …
Tweets: @janchip and @kimmaicutler
| Violet Blue / Engadget: |
Cancellation of FCC's ISP privacy rules drives Virtual Private Network adoption, but VPNs can have privacy issues of their own — If you're most people, you just found out about the FCC's internet privacy rules by way of their untimely demise. Thanks to the FCC's new chief, Congress … | Jay Greene / Wall Street Journal: |
Data center arms race: top cloud computing firms Amazon, Alphabet, and Microsoft spent a combined $31.5B in 2016 on capital expenses and leases, up 22% from '15 — Top three cloud-computing firms have spent $31.5 billion in 2016 on capital expenses and leases
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