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How IP mapping service MaxMind locating 600M IP addresses to the geographic center of the US led to trouble for one Kansas resident — How an internet mapping glitch turned a random Kansas farm into a digital hell — An hour's drive from Wichita, Kansas, in a little town called Potwin …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
U.K.'s Daily Mail Explores Bid for Yahoo Backed by Private Equity — Potential bid could take one of two forms, sources say — The parent company of the Daily Mail, the British newspaper and global tabloid website, is in talks with several private-equity firms about a possible bid for Yahoo Inc. …
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| Mark Bergen / Re/code: |
Google Fiber drops free internet option for new subscribers in Kansas City, now starts plans at $50 per month — Google Fiber is ending a free-Internet offer in its first city — When Google Fiber first arrived, it came with a compelling pitch: Pay a one-time construction fee, and you get Internet access for free after that.
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| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
With 60K home WiFi routers preordered, Luma raises $12.5M Series A from Accel, Amazon, others — Amazon Invests in Luma, a New Home WiFi System — It's been a year since we were introduced to Eero, a home Wifi solution that promised to improve coverage by using multiple access points.
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Re/code, GeekWire, PE HUB, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, Tech News Today, Atlanta Business Journal, Forbes, Luma, VentureBeat, FierceCIO News and StrictlyVC. Tweets: @omal
| Reuters: |
After Daimler confirmed talks with Amazon and Microsoft about investment in HERE, Bosch says it is considering buying a stake, too — Bosch considers stake in digital mapping company HERE — Auto supplier Bosch [ROBG.UL] said on Friday it was in talks with high-definition digital maps company HERE … | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
FBI says hacking group has accessed US government networks to steal data since at least 2011 — FBI Says a Mysterious Hacking Group Has Had Access to US Govt Files for Years — The feds warned that “a group of malicious cyber actors,” whom security experts believe to be the government …
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| Hannah Kuchler / Financial Times: |
Pinterest rolls out Promoted Pins outside the US, first in the UK, where MAUs are up 50% YoY to 10M, then in other English-speaking markets later this year — Pinterest sharpens focus on expansion with promoted pins in UK — Pinterest has started selling Promoted Pins in the UK … | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Strategy Analytics: 12.8M VR units will be sold in 2016 for $895M; 77% of revenue will go to Oculus, HTC, Sony; 87% of units will be smartphone-based VR devices — VR headsets to generate $895M in revenue in 2016 — Market researcher Strategy Analytics said it expects global virtual … | Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
Goldman Sachs leads a $30 million round for Persado's AI-based, automated copywriting service — Sometime today you're going to read a marketing message that was probably written by Persado's software — and if you haven't, Goldman Sachs has led a $30 million investment into the company to make sure you will soon.
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| Nikkei: |
Hitachi's Emiew3 humanoid robot is smaller and faster than Softbank's Pepper, speaks four languages, set for release in 2018 — Hitachi readying robotic rival to SoftBank's Pepper — TOKYO — The android moves at a top speed of 6kph. In just a few years, it will provide customer service in airports …
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The Next Web, Hitachi Global, Engadget, Gizmag, Wall Street Journal and Tech Times. Tweets: @cisco_mobile
| George Dvorsky / Gizmodo: |
Doctors used data collected by a Fitbit Charge HR to decide whether to reset a patient's heart rate with electrical cardioversion — This Dude's Fitness Tracker May Have Just Saved His Life — A 42-year-old man from New Jersey recently showed up in an emergency ward following a seizure.
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PCWorld, BuzzFeed, SlashGear, Engadget, Ars Technica, Slate, Popular Mechanics, The Huffington Post, TechnoBuffalo, Mashable and USA Today
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| Gabriel Avner / GeekTime: |
Twiggle raises $12.5M Series A led by Naspers for its AI powered e-commerce search engine — Twiggle raises $12.5M in Series A to bring human language context to e-commerce search — Israeli search revolutionaries Twiggle announced on Thursday that they have closed their Series A funding round …
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