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Intel to offer Thunderbolt 3 protocol specification to chipmakers royalty free next year and integrate Thunderbolt into its CPUs — Nearly two years ago, Intel gave a major boost to Thunderbolt, its zippy hardware interface, by embracing USB-C, the do-it-all port that will eventually eat the world.| Jessica Toonkel / Reuters: |
Sources: Facebook signs deals with Vox, BuzzFeed, others for video content, paying up to $250K/episode for longer shows it will own, $10-35K for shorter shows — Facebook Inc (FB.O) has signed deals with millennial-focused news and entertainment creators Vox Media, BuzzFeed, ATTN … | Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Google, IBM, and Lyft debut Istio, an open source tool for managing microservices from different vendors on cloud platforms — Istio gives developers a vendor-neutral way to connect, secure, manage, and monitor networks of different microservices on cloud platforms.
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Sources: SoftBank has taken a $4B stake in Nvidia, representing an equity holding of 4.9%, which is just under the amount requiring a regulatory disclosure — Stake represents 4.9 percent of total outstanding shares — Holding seen moving into SoftBank's $93 Billion Vision Fund
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft now uses Git to develop Windows, along with its open source Git Virtual File System to help manage the ~300GB repository — Microsoft today announced that virtually all of its engineers now use the Git version control system to develop its Windows operating system.
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Facebook redesigns Trending Topics pages to make it easier for users to discover alternate news sources, rolling out first to iPhone users in US — Redesigned Trending Results Page — Starting today, we're introducing a redesigned Trending results page, which is the page you see when you click …
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| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
Imzy, a “nicer Reddit” founded in 2016 by former Reddit employees, to shut down on June 23, having raised $11M — Imzy, a Utah-based startup that wanted to create a friendlier online community—a “nice Reddit”—said on Wednesday that it's shutting down just two years after its founding …
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| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Microsoft says its Xbox Game Pass streaming service will launch on June 1 for $9.99/month, offering 100+ Xbox One and Xbox 360 games — Today Microsoft revealed that its new Xbox One game subscription service will be available on June 1st. Called Game Pass, the service was first announced …
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Tweets: @zhugeex and @majornelson
| Charlie Savage / New York Times: |
Draft legislation from the White House, which has circulated among several congressional committees, would allow US to track and destroy domestic drones — The Trump administration is asking Congress to give the federal government sweeping powers to track, hack and destroy any type of drone …
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White House, Slate, The Verge, and Mashable
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Collaboration platform Smartsheet raises $52M Series F led by existing investor Insight Venture Partners at a $800M valuation — Cloud-based communication and collaboration platforms are the name of the game today in enterprise software, and now one of the still-independent leaders in that space …
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PE Hub Blog, TECHSEEN, FinSMEs, SiliconANGLE, The Seattle Times, VentureBeat, and GeekWire. Tweets: @sachinrekhi
| Tim Peterson / Marketing Land: |
Pinterest rolls out Promoted Video ads, muted by default, that play automatically in users' feeds, search results, and within Related Pins galleries — After introducing click-to-play video ads last summer, Pinterest is adding the autoplay variety to people's feeds and search results.
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Recode, Digital Trends, TechCrunch, Adweek, and Mashable
| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Q&A guide to Initial Coin Offerings, a tool to trade cryptocurrencies with liquid value for future cryptocoins, that explores the process, legality, more — Over the last month, it's been hard to miss talk in the media and on social channels about initial coin offerings, or ICOs. What are they?
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