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Sources: Amazon is interested in buying Sprint's prepaid brand Boost Mobile, which T-Mobile and Sprint have already pledged to sell to get their merger approved — (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc is interested in buying prepaid cellphone wireless service Boost Mobile from U.S. carriers T-Mobile US Inc …
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| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Foursquare buys location analytics service Placed from Snap, raises $150M led by Raine Group; Placed reportedly raised $13.4M before Snap acquired it in 2017 — Foursquare just made its first acquisition. The location tech company has acquired Placed from Snap Inc on the heels …
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Investigation: US universities, foundations, and retirement plans back funds that invest millions in Chinese surveillance tech companies Megvii and SenseTime — Millions of dollars from US university endowments, foundations, and retirement plans have helped fund two billion-dollar Chinese …
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Uber reports Q1 revenue of $3.1B, up 20% YoY, gross bookings of $14.65B, up 34%, net loss of $1.01B; Uber Eats revenue grew 31% to $239M, gross bookings up 108% — KEY POINTS — The company reported total revenue of $3.10 billion, at the top end of its preliminary estimates for the quarter.
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| Mehedi Hassan / Thurrott: |
Report: Spotify is working on a new “Social Listening” feature that lets multiple people add songs to a play queue to listen to them together — Spotify is taking its Spotify Connect features to the next level with social integration. The company is working …
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| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
A deep dive into the 233-page antitrust ruling against Qualcomm, which said the company's aggressive licensing tactics had strangled competition for modem chips — We did a deep-dive into the 233-page ruling declaring Qualcomm a monopolist. — In 2005, Apple contacted Qualcomm … | Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: |
Intuit says it is acquiring Origami Logic, an Accel-backed marketing analytics startup that has raised over $64M in funding, in a deal expected to close Q4 2019 — Financial software powerhouse Intuit Inc. today announced that it's buying Origami Logic Inc., an Accel-backed marketing analytics startup.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says devs can now bring Win32 games to the Microsoft Store, a shift away from the store's previous Universal Windows Platform requirement for games — It's been a long time coming — Microsoft had a dream with Windows 8 that involved universal Windows apps that would span across phones …
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| Megan Graham / CNBC: |
Amazon to buy Sizmek's Ad Server and Dynamic Creative Optimization units after the adtech company filed for Chapter 11 in March — KEY POINTS — Sizmek Ad Server and Sizmek DCO will operate separately from Amazon Advertising for the time being, Amazon said.| FinSMEs: |
BabbleLabs, which wants to use AI to improve speech quality, accuracy, and personalization in voice apps, raises $14M Series A — BabbleLabs, a San Jose, Calif.-based speech technology startup, raised $14m in Series A financing. — The round was co-led by Dell Technologies Capital and Intel Capital …
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| Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Kiwibots, the “parallel autonomy” food delivery bots popular with students at UC Berkeley, are remotely piloted by workers in Colombia who are paid $2/hour — Karis Tang, age 2½, squealed with excitement when she saw a Kiwibot rolling through Sproul Plaza at UC Berkeley.
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| Danny Palmer / ZDNet: |
Report: ~2.3B files, including sensitive info like credit card and medical data, are exposed via publicly accessible online file storage servers, up 50% YoY — Digital Shadows research finds that the number of exposed files — including sensitive information — has risen by 50 percent compared with last year.
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Google's new policies for Chrome extensions and Drive API will limit the ability of extensions and 3rd party apps to access personal data, starting this summer — AFTER YEARS OF issues with rogue Chrome extensions, hijacks, and malware, Google announced a slew of new policies Thursday to ensure the little browser applets are secure.
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| Dani Deahl / The Verge: |
In the age of music streaming, missing, bad, or inconsistent song metadata is estimated to have left billions on the table unpaid to artists and musicians — Recently, a musician signed to a major indie label told me they were owed up to $40,000 in song royalties they would never be able to collect.| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Dell reports Q1 net income of $329M on revenue of $21.9B, up 3% YoY, below analyst estimates of $22.24B, as server and networking revenue fell 9% YoY to $4.2B — The company cited slower demand in China and large enterprise opportunities. Earnings in the quarter were better than expected, but sales fell short.Sponsor Posts
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