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Ultimate Software Group, which makes HR management software for the cloud, to be bought by an investor group led by PE firm Hellman & Friedman for about $11B — (Reuters) - Ultimate Software Group Inc said on Monday it agreed to be bought by an investor group led by private equity firm Hellman & Friedman for about $11 billion.
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| Jez Corden / Windows Central: |
Microsoft will announce Xbox Live SDK, which will enable cross-platform play on iOS, Android, Switch, Xbox, and Windows PCs, at GDC 2019 — At GDC 2019, Microsoft is set to debut a new cross-platform development platform with the goal of bringing Xbox Live support to games on Android, iOS …
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| Aaron van Wirdum / Bitcoin Magazine: |
Chainalysis: two hacker groups are responsible for almost 60% of publicly reported cryptocurrency hacks and stole around $1B to date — Two “prominent professional hacking groups” are responsible for the majority of publicly reported hacks of cryptocurrency exchanges and other cryptocurrency organizations … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Researcher finds “admin@kremlin.ru” backdoor accounts on 2,000+ exposed MongoDB databases that handle financial transactions of businesses operating in Russia — “Admin@kremlin.ru” account spotted on thousands of Russian-linked, internet-exposed MongoDB databases.
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| Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat: |
London-based Mimiro, previously known as ComplyAdvantage, which uses AI to detect and analyze the risk of potential financial crimes, raises $30M Series B — Mimiro announced today that it has raised $30 million to fuel global expansion of its financial risk analysis platform.
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| Jonathan M. Gitlin / Ars Technica: |
From Alexa and Nuance to personal assistants that learn your moods, an overview of the AI-driven features that major auto companies plan to roll out soon — From Alexa and Nuance to personal AI helpers that learn your moods, it's happening. — LAS VEGAS—Like it or not … | Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
UK-based startup Bud, which connects banks to fintechs and other financial service providers, raises $20M Series A with backing from HSBC, Goldman Sachs, others — Bud, the U.K. fintech that helps banks connect their apps and data to other fintech companies and financial service providers … | Edmund Lee / New York Times: |
How Locast, a free streaming service for local TV with about 60K users in several major US cities, is hoping to avoid Aereo's legal fate — Want to watch the Super Bowl and other network TV for free? A start-up called Locast will let you, and (so far) the big broadcasters aren't trying to stop it.| Aaron Pressman / Fortune: |
Profile of Intel's new CEO Bob Swan, who joined the company in 2016 as CFO, after stints as finance chief at GE divisions, COO and CEO of Webvan, and eBay's CFO — Intel spent seven months searching for a new chief executive only to end the process right where it had started.| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Huawei Honor View 20 review: hole-punch display is a clear upgrade over most notches, but the new Magic UI is a letdown and the 48MP camera is mediocre — Coming to the View 20 from the Google Pixel 3 XL, which has 4GB of RAM and sometimes over-aggressive power optimizations, the new Honor phone feels luxuriously speedy.| apenwarr: |
The ecosystem of targeted ads and recommendation algorithms based on profiling users is broken, because tracking users is easy but analyzing data is difficult — I don't mind letting your programs see my private data as long as I get something useful in exchange. But that's not what happens.
Tweets: @slightlylate
| Andy / TorrentFreak: |
Report: Russian pirates found a new business model, sharing ripped TV and movies via private CDNs with streaming sites that monetize the CDNs' streams via ads — With the popularity of torrent sites on the wane in Russia, an interesting business model for mass streaming is thriving in the region.
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