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| Brian Barrett / Wired: |
How Corning is working to create truly bendable, ultra-thin glass, as Samsung and others announce folding phones with plastic polymer screens — Foldable phones like Samsung's Galaxy Fold and Huwaei's Mate X are coming, whether you're ready or not. In fact, they're coming whether they're ready or not.
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| Whitson Gordon / iFixit: |
2018 MacBook Pros include a longer screen cable, a part prone to fail on earlier models, requiring screen replacements, an issue Apple never acknowledged — In 2018, a number of MacBook Pro users—with models from 2016 onwards—discovered a serious design flaw that causes the screen to fail … | Bloomberg: |
Russia is pushing “Sovereign Internet”, a draft law designed to create a single command post from which data flows can be managed across Russian cyberspace — When anti-government protests erupted on Russia's side of the Caucasus Mountains in October, authorities did something … | Washington Post: |
T-Mobile acknowledges that its executives' patronage of Trump's Washington hotel, spending ~$195K, increased sharply after announcement of merger with Sprint — T-Mobile's patronage of President Trump's Washington hotel increased sharply after the announcement of its merger with its Sprint last April …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Echo owners can now ask Alexa to control their Roku devices via a new skill, months after a similar capability came to Google Assistant-powered devices — Roku this morning announced its devices will now be compatible with Amazon's Alexa. Through a new Roku skill for Alexa …
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| Aliya Ram / Financial Times: |
Report: 40% of 2,830 AI startups in Europe do not use AI programs in their products; ~8% of EU startups were AI companies in 2018, up from ~3% in 2015 — Two-fifths of Europe's artificial intelligence start-ups do not use any AI programs in their products, according to a report that highlights the hype around the technology.
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
A look at how Spotify plans to crack the podcast market: making it easier to find podcasts, investing in creation tools, exclusive original content, and more — Spotify has been on a media blitz to hype up its plans. Most everyone involved in the deals, including Spotify CEO Daniel Ek …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple acquired the patent portfolio of failed smart home security startup Lighthouse AI, including those related to visual authentication, late last year — Apple has recently acquired a handful of patents from Lighthouse AI, a defunct home security camera company.| Megan Wollerton / CNET: |
August View wireless video doorbell unveiled with 1440p recording, 24/7 live video streaming, and rechargeable battery, available for $230 from March 28 — August just introduced a new device to its lineup — the $230 August View. Available in the United States beginning March 28 …
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers find that ~400 servers running unpatched Docker instances are also cryptojacked, after a flaw was found last month in runC, a command line utility — Hundreds of vulnerable and exposed Docker hosts are being abused in cryptojacking campaigns after being compromised with the help …
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| Jessica Davies / Digiday: |
The Financial Times has acquired a majority stake in Amsterdam-based tech blog and events company The Next Web — The Financial Times has bought a controlling stake in consumer publisher The Next Web, marking its first acquisition in continental Europe. — The FT didn't disclose the terms …
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
The servers running social robot Jibo, which had raised ~$76M in total and shipped to the public in 2017 for $899, are being shut down forever — RIP, Jibo — The servers running Jibo, a connected home robot, are about to be shut down, and the robot has started informing its owners with a bittersweet message.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Comedian Miel Bredouw's fight with Barstool Sports after they posted her video without credit shows how Twitter's copyright system can hurt creators — “It's insane to me that the platform is allowing them to do this.” — Earlier today, Los Angeles-based writer and comedian Miel Bredouw claims …
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| New York Times: |
Amazon's hard bargaining helps it squeeze as much as possible out of cities, but the NYC pullout exposed its limited experience building community relationships — SEATTLE — When Texas officials pushed Amazon to pay nearly $270 million in back sales taxes in 2010, Amazon responded by closing …
Tweets: @alinaselyukh, @nickconfessore, and @ron_miller
| Stefanie Eschenbacher / Reuters: |
Amazon and Mexico's central bank are working on CoDi, a mobile payments system that lets consumers make payments using QR codes; testing begins this month — MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's central bank is in talks with Amazon.com Inc to launch a new government-backed mobile payment system …
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| Tom Cardoso / Globe and Mail: |
Google to ban political ads in Canada ahead of federal election, says complying with new ad transparency rules required by Bill C-76 would be too challenging — Google is banning political advertising on its platforms ahead of the Canadian federal election because of new ad transparency rules …
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Engadget, Beyond Search, TechSpot, Mashable, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Reuters
Tweets: @annemariebridy, @tonyromm, @daphnehk, @baekdal, and @colettod
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
SoundCloud now offers SoundCloud Go+ subscriptions to students for $5/mo., a discount of 50%; it's the last major streaming service to offer student pricing — SoundCloud wants to make its streaming music service more affordable to a key demographic: younger users who generally spend … | Kate Clark / TechCrunch: |
Eargo, a direct-to-consumer smart hearing aid manufacturer, raises $52M Series D, bringing total raised to $135M, and says it has 20,000 users — Eargo wants to become the ultimate consumer hearing brand. — The company's small and virtually invisible direct-to-consumer hearing aids …
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Business Wire and FinSMEs
| Jack Ellis / Tech in Asia: |
Chinese social network YY has acquired Singapore-based social media startup Bigo in a deal worth US$1.45B; YY was lead investor in Bigo's $272M round last June — Chinese social network YY has acquired Singapore-based social media startup Bigo in a deal worth US$1.45 billion.
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YY Inc. - IR Site, DealStreetAsia, TechNode, China Money Network, and TechCrunch
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
SurveyMonkey acquires Amsterdam-based website and app survey company Usabilla for $80M in cash and stock — SurveyMonkey announced today that it has acquired Usabilla, an Amsterdam-based website and app survey company, for $80 million in cash and stock. — Zander Lurie, CEO at SurveyMonkey …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
San Jose-based Functionize raises $16M Series A from Canvas Ventures to automate software testing with AI — Functionize, a San Jose, California-based startup developing a cloud-based platform that autonomously susses out software bugs, today announced that it has raised $16 million in series …
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FinSMEs and PE Hub Blog
| Nate Lanxon / Bloomberg: |
Barclays to merge its bPay and Pingit mobile payments products after bPay struggled to gain users — - BPay launched wearable band, key fob in 2014 for payments — U.K. banks are having to defend competition from Apple, Monzo — Barclays Plc is preparing to merge …
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Patently Apple, PYMNTS.com, and Finextra Research Headlines
| Josh Horwitz / Reuters: |
Chinese e-commerce company JD.com launches Joybuy, a store offering simple consumer electronics, on Alphabet's Google Express shopping site — SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese e-commerce company JD.Com Inc has launched a store on Google Express, the online shopping site owned by the search engine of Alphabet Inc.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
US mobile bank Chime raises $200M Series D led by DST Global, valuing its business at $1.5B — San Francisco-based mobile banking startup Chime announced this morning it has raised an additional $200 million in Series D financing led by DST Global, valuing its business at $1.5 billion.
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