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Inside game streaming wars, where Ninja reportedly got paid $20M to $30M to move to Mixer and streamers with 10K concurrent views on Twitch can get $10M+ offers — New York (CNN Business)When Jeremy Wang started streaming on Twitch in 2016, he was an unknown twenty-something with a few coding internships under his belt.
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With the launch of Razr pre-orders, Motorola released a video “Caring for razr”, which says “Screen is made to bend; bumps and lumps are normal” — Pre-sale begins today — Today's the day that the Motorola Razr is available for pre-sale for $1499, exclusively on Verizon.
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| Eric Niiler / Wired: |
Profile of BlueDot, which uses AI to sift through news reports in 65 languages to detect and warn about infectious disease outbreaks like Wuhan Virus — The BlueDot algorithm scours news reports and airline ticketing data to predict the spread of diseases like those linked to the flu outbreak in China.
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| Monica Nickelsburg / GeekWire: |
The protest of Amazon's business practices by 340+ staff openly challenges Amazon after two employees say they were threatened with firing over climate activism — Amazon employees are responding to threats of termination for their climate advocacy by intentionally violating the company's corporate communications policy.| Amazon Employees for Climate Justice: |
Amazon employees share their views on Amazon's global impact, from climate change to “enabling Palantir and ICE to surveil and separate” families at the border — 357 Amazon employees gave one or more quotes below. … — Michael Sokolov, Principal Engineer
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| Angela Strange / Andreessen Horowitz: |
Fintech startups tackling every layer of banking stack, from core tech to KYC/AML, enable startups and companies like Apple to start adding financial services — This is an abbreviated version of a presentation I gave live at the a16z Summit in November 2019. You can watch a video version on YouTube.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Vine co-founder Dom Hofmann launches Byte, a Vine-like short-form video app, on iOS and Android, aims to start its partner program to pay creators “soon” — Two years after Vine's co-founder Dom Hofmann announced he was building a successor to the short-form video app, today Byte makes its debut on iOS and Android.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Currencycloud raises $80M Series E from Visa, BNP Paribas, and others for cross-border payment APIs that have transferred $50B+ and are used by ~350 companies — Sending money from one country to another — either because you are a business paying someone for a service … | Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
Appeals court reverses a lower court and reinstates a suit challenging constitutionality of sex-trafficking law FOSTA, finding plaintiffs have standing to sue — Judges Found Plaintiffs Have Standing to Sue — SAN FRANCISCO-A lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of FOSTA … | Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Unito, whose tool helps teams communicate between different workplace productivity software suites, raises $10.5M Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners — Startup productivity tools have never been better, but that's led to employees being more passionate than ever about the tools that they want to use themselves.
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| Times of India: |
India-based Pine Labs, which offers POS services, raises an undisclosed round from Mastercard; source: the $100M-$150M round values the company at $1.5B-$1.6B — BENGALURU: Point-of-sales (PoS) services provider Pine Labs has raised a new round of funding from the global card network major Mastercard.| Elizabeth Culliford / Reuters: |
An overview of nine leading US presidential candidates' positions on Big Tech, with Warren and Sanders leading the charge to break up big tech companies — Republican President Donald Trump's administration has also stepped up its scrutiny of Big Tech, conducting a wide-ranging probe … Sponsor Posts
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