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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
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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| Shannon Liao / CNN: |
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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| Financial Times: |
As France announces new rules that make it easier for startups to grant stock options to employees, a look at stock option taxation in other European countries — Emmanuel Macron likes to style himself as a different kind of politician. Fittingly for a former banker … | Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Documents reveal that Avast has sold its users internet browsing data, through a subsidiary called Jumpshot, to clients like Pepsi, Google, and Microsoft — An antivirus program used by hundreds of millions of people around the world is selling highly sensitive web browsing data …
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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 …
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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.| 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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New York Times, Neowin, Analytics Insight, The Guardian, and Quartz
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| Gary Marcus / The Gradient: |
A critical look at OpenAI's GPT-2 text generation AI and why the knowledge acquired by systems like the GPT-2 has been superficial and unreliable — OpenAI's GPT-2 has been discussed everywhere from The New Yorker to The Economist. What does it really tell us about natural and artificial intelligence?
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Iguazio, which develops a platform for developing, deploying, and managing AI applications at scale, raises $24M led by INcapital Ventures — AI adoption levels are higher than they've ever been in the enterprise. According to a January survey conducted by Gartner, corporate use of AI grew 270% over the past four years.
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| Romita Majumdar / Livemint: |
Mumbai-based Bizongo, an online B2B marketplace for packaging, raises $30M Series C led by Switzerland-based hedge fund Schroder Adveq — - The funds will be deployed to ramp up technology, expand into newer sectors like pharma packaging, and increase Bizongo's penetration across India, says CEO Aniket Deb
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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: |
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
US mobile app subscription revenue jumped 21% in 2019 to $4.6B across the top 100 subscription apps in the Google Play and App Store — Outside of in-app purchases in mobile games, subscription revenue from non-game apps helped to boost 2019's mobile consumer spend — a figure …
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| 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 … Sponsor Posts
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