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Nvidia to buy Mellanox Technologies, which makes chips and other hardware for data center servers, for $6.9B — - Mellanox holders offered $125-per-share in all-cash deal — Graphics chipmaker trying to further embed itself in servers — Nvidia Corp. agreed to buy chipmaker Mellanox …
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TechCrunch, NVIDIA Newsroom, Inquirer, Business Insider, Bloomberg, Financial Times, Reuters, and bit-tech.net
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
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 … | 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.| 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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The Daily Beast, CNN, Manchikoni, United States District Court, SiliconANGLE, Engadget, ZDNet, and DataBreaches.net
Tweets: @themarinatimes, @verge, @donie, @rtv6, @jason_kint, and @kpoulsen
| 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 …
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| 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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Inquirer, The Hacker News, SiliconANGLE, SecurityWeek, Forbes, SlashGear, PYMNTS.com, Resecurity, The Daily Dot, Engadget, and Citrix Blogs
Tweets: @0x2ae, @malwareyoda, @j_opdenakker, @supersteak, @mikeloss, @kennwhite, @katefazzini, and @briankrebs
| 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 … | Min Jeong Lee / Bloomberg: |
Messaging app Kakao's cryptocurrency subsidiary Ground X raises $90M via a private coin offering to develop paid services on its network — - Ground X plans to raise similar sum starting on Tuesday — Kakao mulling launching services on unit's blockchain platform
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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 …
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Forbes, 9to5Mac, The Verge, and Digital Trends
Tweets: @engadget, @chrisiptw, @armondhammer, @dens, @martinsfp, @pathu, @antoniocasilli, @parismartineau, @db, and @jbillinson
| Dana Thomas / New York Times: |
Profile of Morin Oluwole, the global head of luxury for Facebook and Instagram, who helps brands like Louis Vuitton and Dior target customers on the platform — Morin Oluwole heads the social media giant's advisory operation for Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior and others.
Tweets: @profcarroll, @jason_kint, @kayodea, and @counternotions
| 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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Mashable India tech, Times of India, Zee Business, NASDAQ.com, Times of India, Telegraph India, CNN, Infosurhoy, NDTV.com, The Economic Times, TechCrunch, and Android Police
Tweets: @asdthebrand and @siddarthpaim
| Mary Loritz / EU-Startups: |
Berlin-based FRIDAY, which offers digital car insurance with kilometer accurate billing, monthly terminability, and paperless administration, raises €75M — Berlin-based insurtech startup FRIDAY has raised €114 million in a combination of media-for-equity and equity financing.Sponsor Posts
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