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Nokia and Xiaomi sign a business collaboration agreement and multi-year patent deal, which includes cross-licensing for cellular standard essential patents — The deal will give the companies access to a wider pool of patents and equipment. — Nokia and Xiaomi have signed …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon confirms Voicebot's analysis: Alexa has over 15K skills, up from 10K in February; Voicebot says Google Home has 378 voice apps and Cortana has 65 — Amazon's Alexa voice platform has now passed 15,000 skills — the voice-powered apps that run on devices like the Echo speaker, Echo Dot, newer Echo Show and others.
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Android Police, ARC, Mashable, PYMNTS.com, Engadget, Seeking Alpha, and GeekWire
Tweets: @dannysullivan, @azeem, @sameer_singh17, and @benedictevans
| Luke Parker / Brave New Coin: |
South Korea's largest cryptocurrency exchange, Bithumb, was hacked; info of some users accessed and later used in phishing attacks to steal funds from accounts — The largest bitcoin and ether exchange in South Korea by volume, Bithumb, was recently hacked.
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Yonhap News Agency, Digital Trends, Motherboard, BBC, TechSpot, Virtual Mining Bitcoin News, CoinDesk, Fortune, Neowin, Help Net Security, BetaNews, SecurityWeek, The Hacker News, Security Affairs, Business Insider, Silicon Republic, Cointelegraph.com News, HackRead, and DataBreaches.net
Tweets: @ourielohayon and @cryptosqueeze
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat finally lets users attach links to all Snaps and adds voice filters and backdrop editing tool — Snapchat is breaking its long-standing ‘no links’ rule today while also providing some novel new creative tools to keep it one step ahead of Instagram.| Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: |
Alibaba launches Tmall Genie, a voice assistant-controlled speaker for Chinese customers, available in limited beta — Tencent, Baidu also developing their own home assistants — The Tmall Genie will sell for 499 yuan during its trial period — The competition in digital speaker-assistants …
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| Timothy W. Martin / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Samsung is developing a voice-activated smart speaker powered by its digital assistant Bixby, internally code-named Vega, with release date TBD — Samsung is developing a voice-activated speaker powered by its digital assistant Bixby, joining a proliferating arms race in tabletop devices …
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The Korea Herald, BBC, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, The Verge, Droid Life, Gotta Be Mobile, Investor's Business Daily, Consumerist, TechCrunch, PYMNTS.com, International Business Times, Gizmochina, ValueWalk, Recode, Softpedia News, TWICE, Engadget, Ubergizmo, TechSpot, AppleInsider, PhoneDog.com, CNET, Digital Trends, Android Authority, iPhone in Canada Blog, Redmond Pie, Neowin, SlashGear, Mashable, 9to5Mac, 9to5Google, Fone Arena, BGR, Business Insider, MacRumors, TalkAndroid.com, Android Beat, iDownloadBlog.com, The Next Web, Cult of Mac, GeekWire, Inquirer, and Seeking Alpha. Tweets: @wsj
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Ticketmaster unveils ticketing app that uses Lisnr tech to send data over audio between devices, for ticket-less check-ins and tracking locations of users — Ticketmaster will soon be able to admit you to live events and track your movement using nothing more than a discrete digital audio broadcast from your smartphone.| Meng Jing / South China Morning Post: |
Baidu forms alliance with 50+ partners for its Apollo self-driving vehicle platform, including 12 Chinese car makers, Ford, Bosch, Nvidia, and Microsoft Cloud — Baidu, the operator of China's largest search engine, said it has formed what it claims to be one of the world's largest …
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New regulations in China require at least two “auditors” to vet all audiovisual content posted online to ensure it adheres to “core socialist values” — China's latest maneuvre in a sweeping crackdown on internet content has sent a chill through a diverse community of filmmakers … | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
NotPetya malware-linked hackers empty BTC wallet, ask for 100BTC for private decryption key in attempt to reset narrative that it's ransomware, not wiperware — Whoever is in control of the NotPetya bitcoin wallet has moved around $10,000 of funds, and a mysterious group has offered to unlock all of the ransomed files.
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The Verge, The Guardian, Forbes, BBC, Mashable, Ubergizmo, Pastebin, and Security Affairs
| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Lyft says it's had 48 straight months of ride growth, is on track for 350M rides this year, and completes 1M rides a day, a milestone Uber announced in Dec. '14 — Lyft, which is only available in the U.S., just announced it's hit one million rides a day. Uber announced one million rides worldwide in December 2014.
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The Verge, Business Insider, and Lyft Blog
| Chad Bray / New York Times: |
Vantiv to acquire British payment processing company Worldpay in a deal valued at $10B; Worldpay accounts for 42% of all retail transactions in Britain — LONDON — Worldpay Group, the British payment processing company, said on Wednesday that it had agreed in principle to be acquired by Vantiv …
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