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Sources: Wal-Mart is in talks to buy online retailer Jet.com; one source says Jet.com could be valued at up to $3B in private markets — Jet.com launched one year ago and raised more than $500 million — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is in talks to buy online discount retailer Jet.com Inc. …
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Time Warner buying 10% of Hulu for $583M, will join Hulu's new pay TV service, says Time Warner CFO during earnings call — This TV package is different from the rest. — After months of talks, Time Warner is buying a chunk of Hulu, the web TV service. — The deal means Time Warner … | Christina Cacioppo / Dropbox Blog: |
Dropbox's collaborative document editor Paper reaches open beta, launches on iOS and Android — We built Dropbox Paper to help fast-moving teams create collaborative docs and share important information. It's a big part of how we're reimagining the way people work together.
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Windows 10 Anniversary Update starts rolling out today via Windows Update or manual download — Starting today the Windows 10 Anniversary Update will begin rolling out for our customers around the world*. The Windows 10 Anniversary Update is full of new features and innovations …
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| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Privacy International releases a searchable database of 500+ surveillance companies, Surveillance Industry Index, including company brochures and export data — The surveillance industry is notoriously secretive and opaque. But on Tuesday, activists at Privacy International released … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Inside Area 404, Facebook's 22K square foot hardware lab at its Menlo Park HQ, built to avoid outsourcing delays and cut time from concept to working prototype — This is where Facebook will prototype its solar drones, Internet-beaming lasers, VR headsets, and next-gen servers.
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Apple says 27% of new hires in US last year were underrepresented minorities, up 6% since 2013, wage gap closed for females and minorities; progress still slow — Cupertino, Calif — Faculty and students from historically black colleges crowded onto Apple's campus this week …
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YouTube Kids app now supports YouTube Red subscription service features in the US, Australia, and New Zealand, including offline viewing, ad-free videos — Back in October we launched YouTube Red, a paid membership that makes everything you love about YouTube even better …
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Obama administration is mulling designating the election system as critical infrastructure, which would trigger significant new cybersecurity investments by DHS — Jeh Johnson said the Obama administration is considering ways to further protect the system from a cyber attack.
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Telegram says only publicly available data collected in attack on Telegram in Iran, accounts not accessed — Certain people checked whether some Iranian numbers were registered on Telegram and were able to confirm this for 15 million accounts. As a result, only publicly available data … | Cliff Kuang / Co.Design: |
Airbnb's in-house innovation lab “Samara” for experimental hospitality projects launches with a “community center” to attract tourists to little-traveled towns — Airbnb announces a brand-new innovation lab called Samara, whose first project is a novel community center in Japan.
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Sources: Grab raising $600M+ round led by Didi Chuxing and Softbank, and raising $400M separately — China's Didi Chuxing and SoftBank Group Corp. are leading a new round of funding in top Southeast Asian ride-sharing service Grab that could top $600 million, according to people familiar with the deal.
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| Charles Bovaird / CoinDesk: |
Hong Kong-based Bitcoin exchange Bitfinex hacked, roughly 120K bitcoins worth $60M+ stolen; Bitcoin down almost 20% — The price of bitcoin fell sharply today exacerbating an already existing decline as global market participants reacted to news that one of the largest digital currency exchanges had been hacked.
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