Sources: SoftBank Vision Fund has walked away from investing in several startups, months after submitting term sheets and saying closing delays were temporary  —  SoftBank Vision Fund has walked away from investing in several startups, months after submitting term sheets worth hundreds …

Samsung debuts Galaxy Chromebook with a 13.3-inch 4K AMOLED display that rotates 360-degrees, 10th-gen i5 CPU, and S-Pen, available in Q1 starting at $999  —  At $999, it's expensive for a Chromebook, anyway  —  The Samsung Galaxy Chromebook is one of the nicest pieces of laptop hardware I've touched in a very long time.

Amazon expands Fire TV Edition to soundbars, car infotainment systems, set-top boxes, and more, and says Fire TV platform now has over 40M MAUs  —  It was only a few months ago that Amazon took the wraps off over 20 new Fire TV devices to fill out its growing portfolio, including a refreshed Fire TV Cube …

Ring adds a privacy dashboard to its app to let owners manage third-party services and whether local police can make requests to access video from their cameras  —  One place to manage security and privacy features  —  Ring has announced that it is adding a new privacy dashboard …

Roku launches the Roku TV Ready program, which will let third parties release products that are easy to set up and allow users to control them with one remote  —  Amazon's Fire TV isn't the only connected TV platform aiming to reach more screens by way of new partnerships.

Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are expected to have a combined 20,000 workers in New York City by 2022, mostly concentrated along Manhattan's West Side  —  Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google will soon have 20,000 workers in New York City, many in offices on the West Side.

Report: GCHQ is investigating the possibility that the London Stock Exchange outage in August may have been due to a cyberattack, not a software update glitch  —  UK officials are worried that a London Stock Exchange outage in August wasn't just the glitch that many suspected.

Sources: Insight Venture Partners has agreed to buy Israeli IoT security company Armis for between $800M and $1.2B  —  Earlier on Monday, Calcalist reported that Armis had been negotiating its acquisition by a leading U.S. investment firm according to a company valuation of between $800 million and $1.2 billion, citing two sources

[Thread] As post-IPO prices of some unicorns decline, “guaranteed” returns for late stage private investors, unable to sell shares for months, prove illusory  —  1) Investor fear and the absence - temporary or permanent - of the Vision Fund likely creates more attractive late stage opportunities vs. the last 5 years. Market is semi-frozen, deals are breaking, converts are taking a long time and there are good companies that need funding. https://twitter.com/...

HP wins $439M after federal judge triples a jury's 2019 award against Quanta Storage for damages in a scheme to inflate the price of optical disk drives  —  - Company accused Quanta, other disk drive makers of collusion  — Taiwan's Quanta was the only company not to settle with HP

As AB5 takes effect, Uber added features in California like allowing drivers to be favorited, in its apparent attempt to claim that drivers are independent  —  The ride-hailing giant launched a new version of its app for its California drivers, its latest attempt to push back on a new law aimed …

BigID, which helps monitor and protect enterprise customers' data, raises $50M Series D, four months after a $50M Series C, bringing its total raised to $144M  —  Almost exactly 4 months to the day after BigID announced a $50 million Series C, the company was back today with another $50 million round.

Crypto in 2020s: at least one blockchain will reach 1B users, a separate world of fully-decentralized, little-regulated crypto-to-crypto innovation will emerge  —  Yesterday I recapped the last decade in crypto.  Today, let's look ahead to the future and what I think will happen in the 2020s.