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Sources: Dropbox has confidentially filed for an IPO, with Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan leading the listing; Dropbox was valued at $10B in 2014 — File-sharing company valued privately at $10 billion — Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan are said to lead potential listing
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House votes 256 to 164 to extend Section 702 FISA warrantless surveillance program for six years with minimal changes; bill now proceeds to the Senate — WASHINGTON — A yearslong effort by a bipartisan group of lawmakers to impose significant new privacy limits on the National Security …
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| Giles Turner / Bloomberg: |
Filings show Google quietly bought UK sound tech startup Redux, which turns surfaces like phone displays into speakers — Alphabet Inc.'s Google has quietly acquired a U.K. startup focused on technology that turns surfaces such as phone displays into speakers.
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Sources: in 2015-2016 Uber used “Ripley” tool to remotely shut down the company's devices and shield files and data from police raids in foreign countries — At least two dozen times, the San Francisco headquarters locked down equipment in foreign offices to shield files from police raids.
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| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Intel releases breakdown of performance slowdown on Windows 10 after Spectre and Meltdown patches: ~6% for 8th-gen CPUs, ~7% for 7th-gen, ~8% for 6th-gen — Your personal computers will be less than 10 percent slower after you install the Spectre/Meltdown fix, Intel has revealed in a blog post.
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| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Ripple partners with global payment company MoneyGram to pilot the use of XRP tokens on MoneyGram's network using Ripple's xRapid service — Ripple, a blockchain company and rival to bitcoin, on Thursday announced a tie-up with Dallas-based money transfer giant MoneyGram.| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Apple's China iCloud data migration includes international users whose country setting is set to China, raising concerns among users living temporarily in China — Apple's plan to migrate China-based iCloud user accounts to a local host on Chinese soil is already running into controversy …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Skype partners with Open Whisper Systems, which makes Signal, to begin testing of end-to-end encrypted “Private Conversations” — Secured using the same encryption standard behind the Signal app — Microsoft is testing a new feature for Skype: end-to-end encrypted chat conversations …
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| Harper Neidig / The Hill: |
More than 100 CEOs and company executives including Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, and Jeff Bezos sign open letter urging Congress to protect DACA — More than a hundred prominent chief executives are urging Congress to pass legislation to protect the young undocumented immigrants …
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| Emil Wallner / FloydHub Blog: |
A deep learning project to turn website design mockups into actual code shows how deep learning could change front-end development, increase prototyping speed — Within three years deep learning will change front-end development. It will increase prototyping speed and lower the barrier for building software.
Tweets: @emilwallner, @fchollet, @stevesi, @rstephens, @christianlanng, @feldman, @dalmaer, @brettking, @shibl, and @dpatil
| John Cook / GeekWire: |
Report: US VC funding hit $84B in 2017, most since the dotcom boom, across 8,076 deals, fewest since 2012; unicorns accounted for 23% of funding, 0.9% of deals — Venture capitalists were busy in 2017, pouring $84 billion into 8,035 companies across the U.S..| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Unbabel, which combines human and machine translation for 70+ languages, raises $23M Series B from Microsoft Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Samsung, others — Unbabel, a machine translation platform that uses humans to verify translated content, has raised $23 million in a series B round … | Lynnley Browning / Bloomberg: |
Expert: new US tax law loophole could give Apple, Microsoft, others a significant one-off tax break on foreign capital as their fiscal years begin before Jan. 1 — Microsoft, Cisco might also benefit from GOP bill ‘loophole’ — Law gives some firms edge in paring offshore cash tax tabSponsor Posts
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