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CFTC says it is in very early talks with Facebook to understand if its upcoming cryptocurrency falls under the US regulator's jurisdiction — Facebook has begun talks with the top US derivatives regulator over its plans for a digital currency, in a sign of how the world's largest social media platform …
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| Bloomberg: |
Infineon to acquire Cypress Semiconductor for $23.85 per share, valuing the company at €9B, at about 33% premium to its Friday closing price of $17.82 — - The proposed acquisition values Cypress at about $10 billion — Semiconductor players are wrestling with slowing growth
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| Niraj Chokshi / New York Times: |
Report: 52% of parents vs. 39% of teens said they spend too much time on their phones, up from 29% of parents and down from 61% of teens in 2016 — The kids are all right. But the parents? — Since 2016, adults have grown much more concerned about the time they spend on mobile devices …
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Wall Street Journal, Axios, Common Sense Media, TechRadar.com, Thrive Global, New York Post, Telegraph, MarketWatch, Quartz, CNET, EdSource, Common Sense Media, and 9to5Mac
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| Marianna Tzabiras / IFEX: |
Caller ID and spam blocking app Truecaller can endanger journalists by revealing their phone numbers, even if journalists never use the app — While TrueCaller may have laudable intentions, the privacy implications for people who end up in their database raise concerns.
Tweets: @ifex and @arictoler
| Alex Johnson / NBC News: |
NBC officially launches NBC News Now, a free streaming news service with 8 hours of programming every weekday, expects to have it running 24/7 by 2020 — The service, which doesn't require cable service authentication, is intended to go round-the-clock by next year.
Tweets: @dcnorg
| Anne Kauranen / Reuters: |
Report: Finland-based IoT service company Uros says it had sales of €1.3B, up 171% YoY, and profits of €120M, up 845% YoY in 2018 — HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finland's Uros, a little known Internet of Things services company, saw its sales soar 171% to 1.31 billion euros last year …
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
YouTube, Snapchat, Gmail, Discord, and many other services were down throughout US during a major Google Cloud service outage, now resolved after 4+ hours — YouTube, Snapchat, Gmail, Nest, Discord, and a number of other web services suffered from major from outages in the US today.
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| Nick Bilton / Vanity Fair: |
Former Facebook execs, who are mostly just expressing remorse now, should speak out more forcefully and use their Facebook riches to promote reform there — The Facebook co-founder has made enemies—very rich enemies—of many of his former partners, who are now speaking out.
Tweets: @vanityfair, @buzz, @jessefelder, and @marycypsy
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
TaniGroup, which operates a B2B platform for Indonesian farmers to sell their produce direct to 400 SMBs that cater to 10,000 consumers, raises $10M Series A — In 2016, former World Bank analyst Eka Pamitra teamed up with five friends to start a business that would help farmers in their native Indonesia.| Brenda Goh / Reuters: |
IEEE says it has lifted restrictions on employees of Huawei and its subsidiaries in participating in papers' peer reviews, after clarification from the US DOC — SHANGHAI (Reuters) - The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) said on Monday curbs on employees of Huawei Technologies … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
WorldRemit, which helps immigrants and migrant workers abroad send money back home, raises $175M Series D, source says at a $900M+ valuation — The value of remittances globally continues to rise, and today a startup that has built a business targeting money transfers into emerging markets … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Sitetracker, a project and physical asset management platform with clients like Alphabet and Verizon, raises $10M, extending the $24M Series B it raised in 2018 — How does a telecom, retailer, or utility company keep tabs on multimonth projects spanning dozens or thousands of sites?Sponsor Posts
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