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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
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 …
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| Matthew Haag / New York Times: |
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.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
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 …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
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.
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
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.
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| Brian Armstrong / The Coinbase Blog: |
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.
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| Gavin Baker / @gavinsbaker: |
[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/...
| Twitter: |
Twitter globally expands Promoted Trend Spotlight ads, which puts a banner with a GIF or image atop Explore content for a user's first two visits in a day — Put your brand at the center of conversation where the power of video meets the premium real estate of the Explore tab: Introducing Promoted Trend Spotlight
Tweets: @maddy_bayer, @brianpoliakoff, and @mattnavarra
| Bloomberg: |
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
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| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
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
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| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
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