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A16z Led a $3.1 Million Round in Aftermarket Autonomous Car Company, Comma.ai — George Hotz is a famed hacker turned software engineer who recently made waves for retrofitting an Acura with homemade software that enabled the otherwise standard vehicle to semi-autonomously drive down a highway.| Michael D. Shear / New York Times: |
The White House is undergoing its first major IT overhaul in over a decade, now has improved WiFi and color printers, allows employees to use iPhones, more — Technology Upgrades Get White House Out of the 20th Century
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Apple faces opposition from India's largest phone brands in its push to import and sell used iPhones in the country to gain market share — Apple's Push to Flood India With Used iPhones Ignites Backlash — Apple seeks again to import and sell used phones into India| Alison Griswold / Quartz: |
Zero tech companies went public in the US in Q1 2016, which hasn't happened since Q1 2009 during the recession — Zero tech companies went public in the US in Q1 2016, which hasn't happened since Q1 2009 — The US market for tech IPOs has totally frozen over.| David Ruddock / Android Police: |
LG G5 review: inferior to Galaxy S7 in almost every way; modular design and accessories, wide-angle camera feel more like gimmicks than useful features — LG G5 Review: A Bit Of A Mess, Frankly — LG is a company whose smartphone products have gone from bottom of the barrel to highly competitive in under four years.| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
CockroachDB just raised $20 million from Benchmark, Index, and GV — CockroachDB a New York-based open-database company that aims to keep the applications of its enterprise customers up and running, even when their data centers and cloud infrastructure suddenly go offline, has raised $20 million in Series A1 funding.| Eugene Kim / Business Insider: |
Inside the development of Amazon Echo: early Echo team members recount company's ambitions for the device and the challenges they faced — The inside story of how Amazon created Echo, the next billion-dollar business no one saw coming — When Amazon executive Dave Limp first saw the pitch …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft game chief Phil Spencer on openness, HoloLens, and Xbox 1.5 — Microsoft has had its fair share of criticism about its platform strategy. Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games, recently blasted Microsoft's commitment to an open Windows platform. HoloLens may not do much for games … | Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Netflix throttling itself isn't a net neutrality problem, FCC chair says — Wheeler disappoints Netflix critics who called for investigation. — Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler said yesterday that he has no plans to investigate Netflix for throttling its own video streams … | Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Study finds that of 108M DMCA takedown requests, 99.8% targeted Google search, 28% of all requests are “questionable”, Google likely removes more than it should — 28% of Piracy Takedown Requests Are “Questionable” — In recent years copyright holders have overloaded Google …
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| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Peter Thiel's other fund, Mithril Capital Management, is raising $600M according to SEC filing, sources say it's already oversubscribed and may reach $1B — Peter Thiel's other fund, Mithril Capital Management, raises $600 million — Peter Thiel is having a good month.
Tweets: @jasonlk
| Newley Purnell / Wall Street Journal: |
Garena, a Singapore-based gaming, e-commerce, and payments company, raises $170M at about $3.75B valuation — Singapore's Garena Raises New Funds, Valuing It at $3.75 Billion — Investors plow in a fresh $170 million, despite falling valuations for less-successful U.S. startups
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