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Source: General Motors will pay more than $1B for Cruise Automation, which raised just over $18M from investors including Spark and YC — GM Buying Self-Driving Tech Startup for More Than $1 Billion — General Motors GM this morning announced that it will acquire Cruise Automation …
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| Sarah Buhr / TechCrunch: |
GM buys self-driving car kit startup Cruise, plans to use tech to make driverless cars — General Motors (GM)announced today it plans to snap up Cruise Automation, a San Francisco-based startup making sensors that turn regular vehicles into ones that can drive themselves, for an undisclosed sum.| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Instacart cuts commissions for couriers by 50%, reduces fees per drop-off to $1.50 from $4 in SF, LA, and some other metro areas — Grocery-Delivery Startup Instacart Cuts Pay for Couriers — Instacart is the latest on-demand startup to try to contain costs in a tighter funding environment| Alison Griswold / Quartz: |
Behind Instacart's recent struggles, which show why certain industries won't fit the on-demand model — Inside Instacart's fraught and misguided quest to become the Uber of groceries — The changes Instacart outlined were grim. — Fees for customers were increasing.
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| Alex Hern / Guardian: |
DOJ says it could make Apple turn over iOS source code and signature if it doesn't cooperate with court order, citing Lavabit case as precedent — FBI ‘could force Apple to hand over private key’ — A legal filing implies that Department of Justice has a plan B, which involves demanding the company's electronic signature
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| Jacob Pramuk / CNBC: |
In new filing, DOJ accuses Apple of raising tech barriers that prevent execution of warrant; Apple calls DOJ “desperate”, plans to reply by March 15 — DOJ: Apple ‘deliberately’ made hurdles to FBI probe — The Justice Department on Thursday filed its latest response to Apple …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Yahoo announces plans to kill off Games, Livetext, Boss, and more regional sites — If you can't sell them, kill them. — Yahoo today announced its Q1 2016 progress report, highlighting the closure of several products and regional sites. As shared in its last earnings call … | Syed Zain Al-Mahmood / Wall Street Journal: |
Hackers tried to steal nearly $1B from Bangladesh's central bank, got away with $81M — Bangladesh Central Bank Found $100 Million Missing After a Weekend Break — Interviews with Bangladeshi officials depict a cyberheist spanning at least four countries
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Wire, the messaging app backed by Skype's Janus Friis, gets video calls and message encryption — It's been more than 15 months since Wire entered the competitive messaging app fray with the promise to build a Skype for the modern age — a promise given real credence by the backing of Skype cofounder Janus Friis.
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Bloomberg Business, Reuters, iPhone in Canada Blog, Wire News and PanARMENIAN.Net
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| Ryan Smith / AnandTech: |
AMD XConnect provides driver-level support for external Thunderbolt 3 graphics cards, starting with the Razer Core — More on AMD's XConnect Tech: Thunderbolt 3 for External Radeons — Last night AMD issued a driver update that brought support for a new technology, XConnect.
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AMD Community, TechSpot, Maximum PC, VR World, HotHardware, Tom's Hardware, ExtremeTech, PCWorld, Inquirer, Digital Trends, Ars Technica UK and The Tech Report. Thanks:@iancutress
| Danny Palmer / ZDNet: |
Verisign: The number of DDoS attacks increased 85% in Q4 2015, compared to Q4 a year ago — DDoS attacks: Getting bigger and more dangerous all the time — Number of recorded DDoS attacks has almost doubled in a year, warns report. — Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) …
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Krebs on Security and The Next Web
| Eugene Kim / Business Insider: |
Sources: Slack is raising $200M at a nearly $4B valuation led by Thrive Capital — Slack, a 2-year-old messaging platform, is raising $200 million at nearly a $4 billion valuation led by Thrive Capital — Slack, the startup that Silicon Valley can't get enough of, is all but done with a fresh new round of financing.Sponsor Posts
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