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| Julie Verhage / Bloomberg: |
Robinhood deletes tweets about launching checking and savings accounts, scrubs the page from its website, and now calls the offering a “cash management” program — After a backlash around the marketing of its newest product, Robinhood Financial LLC has rebranded the service … | Julie Verhage / Bloomberg: |
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
PlanetScale, a database-as-a-service startup based on tech that helped scale YouTube, emerges from stealth, had raised $3M seed from tech luminaries last April — Database legends emerge with a new startup — When the former CTOs of YouTube, Facebook and Dropbox seed fund a database startup … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Latticework, which is working on a consumer focused $550 NAS device called Amber and a cloud backup platform, has raised a $13M seed round — It seems nary a week goes by without a breach that compromises millions of personal files. On Monday, Google revealed that it will shut down its social network … | Brian Merchant / Gizmodo: |
The recklessness of Uber and Tesla in their development of autonomous cars risks alienating a public already wary of self-driving vehicles — Autonomous vehicles were supposed to make driving safer, and they may yet—some of the more optimistic research indicates self-driving cars could save tens …
Tweets: @nigelcameron
| Klint Finley / Wired: |
A year after FCC's vote to repeal net neutrality rules, there have been no big changes in how ISPs and mobile carriers provide their services — IT'S BEEN ONE year since the Federal Communications Commission voted to gut its net neutrality rules. The good news is that the internet isn't drastically different than it was before.| Jeanine Poggi / Ad Age: |
Hulu is launching a new private programmatic marketplace for advertisers to buy its on-demand and TV inventory; the marketplace won't replace upfront deals — Hulu is further automating advertising on the streaming platform with a new private programmatic marketplace.| Annie Pei / CNBC: |
Intel extends partnership with esports company ESL in $100M deal to provide tech, including high-powered CPUs and 5G, for esports events worldwide through 2021 — - Intel and esports company ESL have extended a long-standing partnership, signing a three-year, $100 million deal designed …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Synthace, the developer of Antha OS for automating laboratory processes for biological experiments, raises $25.6M Series B led by Horizons Ventures — U.K.-based startup Synthace wants to automate laboratory processes with a programming language designed for biological experiments, and it's getting the financial backing to do it.
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| Klint Finley / Wired: |
Data shows GraphQL, a Facebook-developed open source data query language, has seen a sharp rise in adoption among JavaScript developers over the past two years — THE CODE THAT runs the web is a melting pot of programming languages and technologies. JavaScript, the most popular language on the web …
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| Daniel Oberhaus / Motherboard: |
How Jolla's Sailfish has survived as an independent mobile OS by targeting government and enterprise sectors in Russia and China which are wary of Google — Alternative mobile operating systems have come and gone over the years, but only Sailfish has survived the iOS and Android duopoly.
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| Peter H. Frank / CapitalWatch: |
China-based online consumer lending platform 360 Finance closes flat on its first day of trading in US after raising $51M in its IPO — In the midst of a rough market, 360 Finance Inc. (Nasdaq: QFIN) held its own today as the company completed its initial public offering at $16.50 per share …
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| Aisha Hassan / Quartz: |
Profile of MindGeek, which owns 9 of the top 15 porn sites worldwide, has 125M visits per day, and whose bandwidth use exceeds that of Facebook or Amazon — The biggest and perhaps best source of data about what people like to watch on the internet and what they would pay for doesn't come … Sponsor Posts
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Zoho Meeting: Evolution through 2018 — This year ends on a high note for Zoho Meeting. Our greatest joy has been delivering great features that have improved the way our users conduct webinars and online meetings.
Zoho Meeting: Evolution through 2018 — This year ends on a high note for Zoho Meeting. Our greatest joy has been delivering great features that have improved the way our users conduct webinars and online meetings.
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
PlanetScale, a database-as-a-service startup based on tech that helped scale YouTube, emerges from stealth, had raised $3M seed from tech luminaries last AprilFind
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Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:
Latticework, which is working on a consumer focused $550 NAS device called Amber and a cloud backup platform, has raised a $13M seed roundFind
5 hours ago
Klint Finley / Wired:
A year after FCC's vote to repeal net neutrality rules, there have been no big changes in how ISPs and mobile carriers provide their servicesFind
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Jeanine Poggi / Ad Age:
Hulu is launching a new private programmatic marketplace for advertisers to buy its on-demand and TV inventory; the marketplace won't replace upfront dealsFind
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Annie Pei / CNBC:
Intel extends partnership with esports company ESL in $100M deal to provide tech, including high-powered CPUs and 5G, for esports events worldwide through 2021Find
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Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:
Synthace, the developer of Antha OS for automating laboratory processes for biological experiments, raises $25.6M Series B led by Horizons VenturesFind
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Peter H. Frank / CapitalWatch:
China-based online consumer lending platform 360 Finance closes flat on its first day of trading in US after raising $51M in its IPOFind
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