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US federal judge rules that a pair of allegedly fraudulent ICOs fall under securities laws, allowing the criminal case to proceed to trial next year — A U.S. federal judge has ruled that a pair of reportedly fraudulent initial coin offerings fall under securities laws.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple's iPhone event will be live streamed on Twitter for the first time — Apple's iPhone press event will be live streamed on Twitter for the first time, TechCrunch has confirmed. This news backs up an earlier report from last month, which claimed Apple would expand the ability to watch …
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RiskIQ report on British Airways data breach links it to Magecart group, active since 2015, which used tactics similar to their recent Ticketmaster breach — ON FRIDAY, BRITISH Airways disclosed a data breach impacting customer information from roughly 380,000 booking transactions made between August 21 and September 5 of this year.
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Opendoor acquires Open Listings, which automates much of the home sales process, in its first acquisition as sources say funding from SoftBank is imminent — Opendoor, a four year-old, San Francisco-based company, has from the outset intended to make it possible to buy and sell residential real estate with a few key strokes.
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Packet, a New York City-based bare metal cloud hosting startup that is taking on rivals like AWS and Azure, raises $25M Series B led by Third Point Ventures — In a world where large hyperscale companies like Amazon, Microsoft and Google dominate the public cloud, it would seem foolhardy …
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A look at the rising prevalence of Amazon ads, as report suggests share of Amazon product page views that come from sponsored ads has roughly doubled YoY to 8% — Amazon-sponsored product ads have been around since 2012. But lately, as the company has invested in growing its advertising business, they've become more aggressive.| Kevin Maney / BREAKER: |
Q&A with Chris Dixon on a decentralized internet, bitcoin's block size debate, the Ethereum network, Andreessen Horowitz's crypto fund, future investments, more — Chris Dixon, arguably the most prominent venture capitalist focusing on blockchain, is friggin' tall.| Reuters: |
Japan-based Renesas, the second-biggest supplier of chips used in cars, has agreed to buy US-based wireless chip maker Integrated Device Technology for ~$6.7B — TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese chipmaker Renesas Electronics Corp (6723.T) said on Tuesday it had agreed to buy U.S. peer Integrated … | Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Facebook deploys new AI system called Rosetta to extract text in real time from 1B+ images and video frames daily — People online tend to communicate not just with words, but also with images. For a platform like Facebook with over 2 billion monthly active users, that means a plethora … | Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Source: Google's location privacy practices are under investigation in Arizona, in probe initiated by the AG a week after a bombshell report about the practice — Google's alleged practice of recording location data about Android device owners even when they believe they have opted … | Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
In arguments before the EU's top court, the EU's executive arm joined Google and free-speech advocates to oppose expanding the “right to be forgotten” beyond EU — European Commission argued that a global application would stretch privacy laws beyond their intended scope
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
7-Eleven says that Apple Pay and Google Pay will be accepted at most of its 10,000+ US locations by the end of September — 7-Eleven today announced that Apple Pay and Google Pay are accepted at nearly all of its 10,000+ locations across the United States, following a rollout that began in August.| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
eBay open sources HeadGaze, an ARKit-based tool that uses the iPhone X's TrueDepth camera to help visually impaired users interact with apps via head movements — eBay has lifted the lid on new technology that helps physically impaired users interact with their iPhone X screen through head movements.
| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
Amazon says sales from Amazon Business, its business-to-business platform that launched in 2015, hit an annualized rate of $10B globally — - Business-to-business platform launched three years ago — Customers include schools, hospitals and corporations| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Tinder debuts globally its curated Top Picks feature, which groups prospective matches into categories like “foodie”, for Tinder Gold subscribers — Earlier this summer, Tinder began testing a new feature that surfaces a curated list of your best potential matches, called “Top Picks.”
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VC firm Felicis Ventures says it will earmark 1% of every investment for “founder development”, including therapy sessions, leadership coaching, and more — Startup culture has long conditioned entrepreneurs to project a public image of “crushing it” at all costs.| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Today's smart home is better described as a remote-controlled home; more data and better interoperability between IoT devices is needed for a truly “smart” home — Today you can have a fully connected home complete with sensors to monitor temperature, humidity, air quality …
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Investigation: hackers have disabled security features of India's Aadhaar enrollment service with a ~$35 software patch, making it possible to create fake IDs — Skilled hackers disabled security features of Aadhaar enrolment software, circulated hack on Whatsapp
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Alibaba teams up with Mail.ru, MegaFon, and the Russian Direct Investment Fund to launch a joint venture valued at ~$2B focused on gaming, shopping, and more — Alibaba is doubling down on Russia after the Chinese e-commerce giant launched a joint venture with one of the country's leading internet companies.| Daniel Funke / Poynter: |
How several fact-checking sites around the world approach harassment and death threats following partnerships with Facebook to stem misinformation — The PDF file is 299 pages long. It has a table of contents, infographics and a statement of intent. And it has extensive details …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
PayPal debuts Funds Now, instant payouts for sellers on its platform, following similar functionality brought by rivals like Stripe — PayPal, now with 19.5 million businesses and 250 million customers using its payment rails to sell and buy goods and services, is today taking the wraps off … | Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Beijing-based PingCAP, which makes MySQL-compatible distributed database TiDB, raises $50M Series C and plans an expansion into North America — PingCAP, the company behind MySQL-compatible distributed database TiDB, said today that it plans its global operations after raising a $50 million Series C …
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Q&A with the co-creator of Anatomy of an AI System artwork that maps three central processes powering an Amazon Echo: material resources, human labor, and data — Welcome to the ‘Anatomy of an AI System’ — That the modern world is a complex place will not have escaped your notice.
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| Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss / Reuters: |
NY regulator approves its first stablecoins; the digital currencies, strictly pegged to US dollar on a one-to-one basis, come from Paxos and Winklevoss' Gemini — NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York state's Department of Finiancial Services on Monday approved Gemini Trust Company's …
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| Sebastian Blanco / Forbes: |
Impossible Aerospace emerges from stealth with $9.4M Series A led by Bessemer and Airbus, unveiling US-1, a $7,500 US-made drone claiming 2-hour flight time — The question that Impossible Aerospace wanted to answer was: “What happens if you take the electric vehicle revolution and apply it to other industries?”
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