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SAP announces it will buy user experience management platform Qualtrics, which had planned to go public later this month, for $8B — SAP on Sunday night announced that it will purchase Qualtrics, a U.S.-based maker of survey software that had been expected to go public this week, for $8 billion in cash,
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| Bloomberg: |
Profile of Qualtrics CEO Ryan Smith, who resisted taking VC money for over a decade before finally agreeing to deals with Accel and Sequoia Capital — - SAP is paying $8 billion in cash for Ryan Smith's Qualtrics — Utah-based software company had been planning to go public
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Sources: Samsung to launch the flagship Galaxy S10 in February, while Galaxy S10 with 5G support and its foldable phone called Galaxy F will launch in March — Samsung Electronics Co. plans to launch its first foldable smartphone in March, along with a fifth-generation (5G) network-powered Galaxy S10, industry sources said Monday.| Vibhuti Sharma / Reuters: |
Apple's main supplier for Face ID tech, Lumentum, has slashed its revenue forecasts by about 17%; Apple's stock drops ~5% amid concerns of weak iPhone sales — (Reuters) - Apple Inc (AAPL.O) shares fell to their lowest in more than three months on Monday as the main supplier for its Face ID technology … | Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Netflix execs talk about plans to boost international growth, want to experiment with lower-priced subscriptions in countries with lower per-capita income — - Streaming service wants to experiment with prices, CEO says — Service has announced 17 new shows from five Asian countries
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A look at the tug of war between the data driven tech team and the relationship-oriented Hollywood team at Netflix — As the company plunges deeper into originals, its L.A. wing is doing the once-unthinkable: overriding the metrics — Netflix Inc.'s executives were torn.
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| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Sources: Imran Khan, formerly second-in-command at Snap, is working on a new e-commerce startup due to launch next year — Khan plans to launch a new shopping platform in 2019. — Imran Khan, who spent the past four years as the top business executive at Snapchat's parent company, Snap …
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Smart speakers changed audio consumption habits and boosted sales of smart home devices, but hopes for adoption in areas like shopping have not panned out yet — Until we invent something that wouldn't be possible without voice, we're just repurposing online content for our ears.| Reuters: |
Regulatory filing shows SoftBank Group seeks to raise ~$21B in an IPO for its Japanese mobile telecom unit on December 19 on the Tokyo Stock Exchange — TOKYO (Reuters) - SoftBank Group Corp's domestic telecoms unit on Monday received approval to list on the Tokyo Stock Exchange …
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Clearbanc, which provides $5K to $10M loans to startups for online marketing in exchange for revenue share, says it has raised $70M in seed and Series A rounds — Selling equity to buy Facebook and Google ads is a bad deal for startups. Clearbanc offers a fundraising alternative.| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Framer, an Amsterdam-based UI prototyping platform, raises $24M Series B led by Atomico, with Accel and AngelList participating — Dutch design prototyping startup Framer has raised $24 million in a series B round of funding led by Atomico, with participation from Accel and AngelList.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Kofax to acquire Nuance's imaging division for $400M as it continues building up its AI-based tools for automating repetitive or mundane back-office tasks — Some consolidation and subsequent divestment are in play in the worlds of imaging and voice recognition.
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| Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at nascent efforts to stream video games, as latency seems set to drop even lower with the proliferation of data centers and 5G rolling out — By making game consoles unnecessary, streaming could dramatically broaden the videogame market — Technology giants are trying to bring …
Tweets: @saraheneedleman
| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
BlaBlaCar will offer a bus service and is acquiring Ouibus, the bus division of France's national railway company SNCF, and also announces $114M in new funding — French startup BlaBlaCar is announcing plans to acquire Ouibus, the bus division of France's national railway company SNCF.| Eliot Brown / Wall Street Journal: |
Report: 1,594 US startups received initial VC funding in the first 9 months of 2018, down 40% from 2015, while median seed round was $2M, ~4X the 2013 average — The result is a big increase in the size of some early-stage investments and valuations — It has been a fast ride … | David Manners / Electronics Weekly: |
Infineon to acquire Dresden-based Siltectra for €124M, will use startup's Cold Split technology to split wafers, thus doubling the number of chips on them — Infineon has bought Siltectra of Dresden, a start-up with an innovative technology (Cold Split) to process crystal material efficiently and with minimal loss of material.
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Tech.eu and Compound Semiconductor
| CoinDesk: |
A look at the heated debate raging in the Bitcoin Cash community ahead of the contentious hard fork that may split the cryptocurrency's blockchain on Nov. 15 — “Do not come crying when you are bankrupt.” — Lobbed at those bitcoin cash enthusiasts supporting Bitcoin ABC …
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Tweets: @poloniex, @proffaustus, @pt, @whalepanda, @zooko, @ljxie, @alistairmilne, and @el33th4xor
| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Facebook agrees to cooperate with France in an informal examination of its content moderation practices and give the government access to its internal processes — Facebook and the French government are going to cooperate to look at Facebook's efforts when it comes to moderation.
Tweets: @mikeelgan and @romaindillet
| Daniel Oberhaus / Motherboard: |
Researchers warn so-called “perceptual” ad blockers, which aim to visually recognize ads on a page to block them, are ineffective and create new attack vectors — Perceptual ad blockers will come out on the losing side in the war against internet advertisers and expose users …
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