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Interview with Sen. Warren on her plan to break up big tech, including Apple, which she says shouldn't both run the App Store and distribute its own apps in it — Under Warren's plan, Amazon would not be able to sell Amazon Basics products on the Amazon retail store, Google would not be able … | Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
France overhauls French Tech Visa program, which now has no diploma requirements, accepts employee's immediate family, and is generally less onerous to acquire — The French government has unveiled a complete overhaul of the French Tech Visa for employees working for a tech company.| Liana B. Baker / Reuters: |
Source: Nvidia has outbid Intel for Mellanox and could announce a deal to acquire the Israeli chip maker for $7B+ in cash as early as Monday — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Chipmaker Nvidia Corp is nearing a deal to acquire peer Mellanox Technologies Ltd for more than $7 billion in cash, a person familiar with the matter said on Sunday.| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Facebook sues two Ukrainian developers for enticing 60K+ users to install browser extensions that scraped personal info and injected ads into their News Feeds — Facebook has sued two Ukrainian men for allegedly using quiz apps to scrape Facebook users' private data and inject advertisements into their News Feeds.
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Appen, a crowdsourced data annotation startup, is acquiring rival Figure Eight for $175M in cash upfront and up to $125M more based on this year's performance — Appen just announced that it's acquiring Figure Eight in an all-cash deal that sees Appen paying $175 million upfront … | Dennis Schaal / Skift: |
Source: Airbnb is paying a little more than $400M for HotelTonight, with about half in cash and half in stock — So how much is Airbnb shelling out to acquire HotelTonight? The deal price was a little more than $400 million, with about half in cash and half in stock … | NBC News: |
Researchers who claim to have discovered the Citrix breach say Iran-linked hackers stole at least 6TB of data, may have first gained access 10 years ago — The hackers are believed to have penetrated the software giant Citrix years ago and have remained inside the company's computer network ever since.
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| Chris Ip / Engadget: |
How Foursquare, which tracks the location of millions via their smartphones and has 100K+ clients including Snapchat and Uber, makes sure its data isn't misused — It seems counter-intuitive that, in the thick of a backlash against Big Tech's data privacy abuses, Dennis Crowley … | Dennis Crowley / Foursquare Intersections: |
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| Manish Singh / VentureBeat: |
Google launches Bolo, an Android app for school children in India to improve reading and vocabulary skills in Hindi and English, using speech recognition — Google, which already dominates India's smartphone, search, and online video market, today launched a learning app for primary school children …
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Tweets: @asdthebrand and @siddarthpaim
| Katia Moskvitch / WIRED UK: |
Inside CERN's quest to build a reliable quantum computing device, as it'll need 50-100 times more computing power to process Large Hadron Collider data by 2026 — Quantum computers could help explain some of the most fundamental mysteries in the universe and upend everything from finance to encryption …
Tweets: @turiciencia
| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
Tesla is dealing with the failure to achieve full self-driving by shifting goalposts, as it continues using its customers as unpaid safety drivers for its tech — Tesla just shifted the goalposts for “full self-driving” technology. — An overhaul to Tesla's Autopilot webpage might represent …
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| Savannah Dowling / Crunchbase News: |
An overview of telemedicine startups in the US, ranging from urgent care to fertility, that have raised significant capital over the past few years — Sick of that drive to the doctor's office and the anxiety that comes from waiting in their office as you grumble at the amount of time and cash …
Tweets: @paige_sandhu
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