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SEC: Roku files for up to $100M IPO; Roku had $399M revenue in fiscal 2016, up 25% from 2015 — Streaming device company Roku filed for a public offering on Friday, looking to raise up to $100 million. — Roku has benefited from the explosive popularity of over-the-top TV platforms like Netflix …
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| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
A challenge for Roku's IPO: Netflix and YouTube are huge on Roku, but they don't make Roku any money — The streaming video box company wants to be a streaming video services company. But someone has to pay them for that. — Roku has spent the last few years fighting for your living room … | Kerry Flynn / Mashable: |
Sources describe how some Instagram employees are selling account verification through intermediaries for thousands of dollars, but process is getting harder — “I mean if Mashable wants to pay for it, I can get you a blue check over night," reads a recent Twitter direct message.| Ben Arnold / NPD Group: |
900K totally wireless headphone units were sold in US in 2017; AirPods accounted for 85% of dollar sales in the US — So far, 2017 has been a great year for headphones. Through July, U.S. dollar sales and average prices increased 22 percent, and 18 percent, respectively, over the same period a year ago.
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| Corinne Reichert / ZDNet: |
Huawei announces Kirin 970 smartphone chipset bound for the upcoming Mate 10, with a dedicated neural processing unit — Huawei's Kirin 970 smartphone chipset features mobile artificial intelligence with a dedicated neural processing unit, an 8-core CPU, and a 12-core GPU, along with 5.5 million transistors.
| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Access to stolen contact info of Instagram users sold for $10 per search via a now-offline site; Instagram now says non-verified users may have been impacted — Selena Gomez was first. Who's next? — A bug that exposed users' contact information affected a far greater number of accounts than Instagram originally said.
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| Tony Romm / Recode: |
Seven months after inauguration, the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology still has no members; Trump admin says it'll resume work soon — Months later, there's still no one sitting on the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
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| Amanda Lee / South China Morning Post: |
At a KFC outlet in Hangzhou, China, Alipay launches “Smile to Pay”, the first commercial system to use facial recognition to identify payers — Ant Financial, which operates the Alipay electronic payment platform used in Alibaba's Taobao and Tmall online shopping sites …
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| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
Qualcomm announces C-V2X chipset focused on handling vehicle-to-vehicle, vehicle-to-infrastructure, and vehicle-to-pedestrian communications — Qualcomm's 9150 C-V2X chipset and reference design should bring automakers one step closer to deploying the communications systems needed for fully autonomous vehicles.| Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo: |
How publishers' extreme reliance on various Google services gives Google effective monopoly power, stifles criticism, and sometimes results in unexpected losses — An unintended effect of Google's heavy-handed attempt to silence Barry Lynn and his Open Markets program at New America …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft's Windows 10 Fall Creators Update will begin rollout to mainstream users worldwide starting October 17 — Microsoft will begin rolling out the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update on October 17. Here's what to expect. — Microsoft officially confirmed on September 1 …
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| Brian Crecente / Rolling Stone: |
Jury awards iLife Technologies $10M in damages after finding that Nintendo's Wii infringed on iLife's motion-sensing accelerometer patents; Nintendo will appeal — Nintendo says it will fight verdict — A jury in Dallas, Texas today awarded $10 million to iLife after finding that Nintendo … Sponsor Posts
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