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Sources: Apple is in advanced talks to buy Intel's smartphone modem chip business in a deal valued at $1B+ covering staff and a portfolio of patents — Apple Inc. AAPL 2.29% is in advanced talks to buy Intel Corp. INTC 2.15% 's smartphone-modem chip business, according to people familiar with the matter …
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Flaw in Facebook's Messenger Kids let kids invite a parent-approved user into a group chat even if that user wasn't authorized to chat with others in the group — ‘We recently notified some parents... about a technical error,’ a Facebook representative said
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Commission-free trading app Robinhood raises $323M Series E led by DST Global at a $7.6B post-money valuation, has raised a total of $862M to date — Unless you were some hotshot finance person in the 1980s, you probably only recently started using your mobile phone to place trades.
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Pinterest updates its search, so when users type in an anxiety-related query like “dealing with stress”, a box with mental health resources appears above pins — ON THE INCREASINGLY polarized internet, Pinterest often feels like the good place.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Mobile bank MoneyLion, which provides both financial advice and access to loans, raises $100M Series C led by Edison Partners and Greenspring Associates — There's a new fintech startup in the U.S. that is inching closer to the unicorn status. New York City-headquartered MoneyLion …
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Uber is testing a $24.99/month subscription pass that includes a fixed discount on rides, free Uber Eats delivery, and free rides on JUMP bikes and scooters — Uber is actively testing a monthly subscription pass that combines rides, Eats, bikes and scooters.
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| Joe Tidy / BBC: |
Profile of Marcin Kleczynski, CEO and co-founder of Malwarebytes, who quietly grew the company in his dorm to a multi-million dollar/year business by graduation — The BBC's weekly The Boss series profiles different business leaders from around the world. This week we speak to Marcin Kleczynski … | Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Heap, which automates company analytics by collecting and organizing customer behavioral data, raises $55M Series C led by NewView Capital — Since co-founding Heap, CEO Matin Movassate has been saying that he wants to take on the analytics incumbents. Today, he's got more money to fund that challenge …
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Huawei has laid off more than 600 workers from its US-based research arm Futurewei, as a result of being put on a trade blacklist by the US government — SANTA CLARA, Calif./HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's Huawei Technologies laid off more than two-thirds of the 850-strong workforce …
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Slack updates its desktop app for Windows and macOS, which is still built on Electron, claims it now launches 33% faster and uses 50% less RAM than before — Slack's desktop app has been rebuilt for Windows and macOS — Slack is unveiling a new version of its desktop app for Windows …
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| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Apple debuts watchOS 5.3, fixing Walkie-Talkie vulnerability, and iOS 12.4 with improvements to Apple News+ and a way to wirelessly migrate data to a new iPhone — A little over two months ago, Apple released the first beta versions of iOS 12.4 and watchOS 5.3 — late point releases for its 2018 iPhone …
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| Leigh Cuen / CoinDesk: |
Amid mounting regulatory pressures in the US, Circle says its Poloniex exchange will service non-US customers, ~70% of its users, out of a new Bermuda office — Due to mounting regulatory pressures in the United States, the crypto company Circle is moving the majority of its exchange operations offshore.| Stacy Cowley / New York Times: |
Equifax will pay at least $650M and potentially significantly more to end an array of state, federal, and consumer claims over the 2017 data breach — The credit bureau Equifax will pay at least $650 million and potentially significantly more to end an array of state, federal and consumer claims …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft says it will invest $1B in OpenAI, beginning a partnership to jointly develop new AI technologies for the Azure cloud platform — Microsoft today announced that it would invest $1 billion in OpenAI, the San Francisco-based AI research firm cofounded by CTO Greg Brockman …
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| James B. Cutchin / Los Angeles Times: |
How US companies quietly acceded to Chinese government demands to add ID-tracking and playtime restriction systems to games like Fortnite and World of Warcraft — Last October, software developers at Riot Games in Santa Monica fielded an unusual request. As with other video game makers … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
CircleCI, which develops continuous delivery automation software, raises $56M Series D led by Owl Rock and Next Equity, bringing its total raised to $115.5M — San Francisco-based CircleCI, which develops continuous delivery automation software, today revealed that it closed … | Bloomberg: |
Alibaba opens up its online platform to US merchants for the first time; fruit and vegetable wholesaler Robinson Fresh and Office Depot among the first to join — - U.S. sellers can now target Alibaba.com's 10 million buyers — Alibaba wants to generate 50% of revenue from outside of China| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
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