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Google says Diane Greene will step down as Google Cloud CEO in early 2019, will be replaced by Oracle's former president of product development Thomas Kurian — Diane Greene, who was hired three years ago to build Google's cloud-computing business, is being replaced in that job by former Oracle executive Thomas Kurian.
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Sources: Microsoft to release a disc-less Xbox in 2019 that will cost $200 or less, will let users trade in discs for digital game downloads — In the wake of the news that Sony will not be attending E3 next year, Microsoft's hardware plans for 2019 will likely be a huge win for the brand and for gamers.
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How Definers provided reporters with ammunition to suggest senators grilling Sheryl Sandberg were hypocritical for criticizing Facebook — SAN FRANCISCO — A small firm called Definers Public Affairs brought the dark arts of Washington's back-room politics to Silicon Valley when …
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Sheryl Sandberg says allegations that she and Zuckerberg hid info about Russian interference are untrue, claims she didn't know Facebook hired Definers — I want to address some of the claims that have been made in the last 24 hours. — On a number of issues - including spotting …
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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
Verizon's My Numbers app lets users add up to four additional numbers with separate voicemail and text messaging boxes on a single phone for $15/mo per number — The service is $15 a month per number — Carrying multiple phones for personal and business uses might be over for Verizon Wireless users.
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| Dave Michaels / Wall Street Journal: |
SEC settles with Paragon Coin and CarrierEQ, which agree to start filing audited financial reports and refund investors of 2017 ICOs who want their money back — Agreements require startups to comply with investor-protection rules — WASHINGTON—Two startups that raised money …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Amazon will now allow AWS account owners to set the default access setting for all of their account's S3 buckets as non-public to prevent accidental data leaks — New settings will prevent accidental S3 bucket leaks —if customers take the time to apply them.
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| Christina Farr / CNBC: |
Alphabet's Verily says it's pausing its glucose-sensing contact lens project because, after four years of study, lenses didn't gauge blood sugar levels reliably — - In a show of transparency, Verily posted a blog post on Friday explaining why it is hitting the pause button on its glucose-sensing contact lens.
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Microsoft is testing ads in the Windows 10 Mail app; Microsoft says it's an experimental feature never intended to be tested broadly and is being turned off — Update: Microsoft's head of communications claimed on Twitter that ads on the Mail app were “never intended” to be tested broadly …
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| Liam Tung / ZDNet: |
Microsoft is now accepting 64-bit ARM apps for the Microsoft Store, updates Visual Studio to support recompiling Win32 apps to run natively on ARM devices — Developers can now recompile Win32 apps to run natively on Windows 10 on Arm devices. — With new Lenovo and Samsung Windows 10 …
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Canaan, a maker of bitcoin mining hardware, let its application for a Hong Kong IPO to raise at least $400M lapse — HONG KONG (Reuters) - Canaan Inc, one of the world's leading cryptocurrency mining equipment makers, has let its application for a Hong Kong IPO of at least $400 million lapse …
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Amazon announces Wake-on-Lan Controller, which enables Alexa to switch on devices over Wi-Fi or ethernet when they can not be woken up via the cloud — Have a smart device with a sleep mode that would normally prevent it from power toggling remotely? Amazon today announced Wake-on-Lan Controller …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
BlackBerry to acquire cybersecurity firm Cylance, which provides an AI-based advanced threat detection platform, for $1.4B in cash — The rumors, it seems, were true — BlackBerry is acquiring cybersecurity startup Cylance in an all-cash deal worth $1.4 billion.| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Pirate Studios raises $20M for its self-service music studios that offer recording, live streaming, and cloud software that handles mixing and mastering — Pirate Studios, the music technology company that operates fully automated and self-service 24 hour music studios, has secured $20 million.| Deirdre Bosa / CNBC: |
Sources: Airbnb recognized “substantially more” than $1B in Q3 revenue, on track to report EBITDA profits for 2018, and earned $100M on $2.6B in revenue in 2017 — - A source told CNBC the company is on track to be profitable for the second straight year, as measured by earnings before interest … | Mike Minotti / VentureBeat: |
Sony says it has sold 86.1M PlayStation 4 units and 777.9M copies of software for the console since its launch five years ago — Sony revealed today that the PlayStation 4 has sold over 86.1 million systems. The info came in a blog post celebrating the console's fifth anniversary.| Brian Crecente / Variety: |
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