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December 26, 2016, 10:00 AM

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Mishaal Rahman / xda-developers:
How the shutdown of Cyanogen services and the forking of CyanogenMod to Lineage OS will affect one of Android's most stable custom distributions  —  The King is Dead, Long Live the King!  —  Cyanogen Inc. has finally delivered a bullet to the brain - of CyanogenMod.
Jon Russell / TechCrunch:
Cyanogen announces it will stop issuing Cyanogen-supported nightly builds and shut down all services for the OS, on December 31  —  It's been a rocky few months for Cyanogen, the ambitious startup that aimed to build a better version of Android than Google.
Ken Yeung / VentureBeat:
Four-year-old Israeli AR startup Cimagine Media acquired by Snap for $30M to $40M, to become Snap's Middle East R&D center, according to Israeli news report  —  Snap has reportedly made an investment in augmented reality, purchasing Israeli-based startup Cimagine Media in a deal that's …
Pew Research Center:
Report: 79% of US consumers have shopped online, up from 22% in 2000, while 51% have shopped using a mobile phone, 15% buy something online weekly  —  Americans are incorporating a wide range of digital tools and platforms into their purchasing decisions and buying habits, according to a Pew Research Center survey of U.S. adults.
Ina Fried / Recode:
Jawbone says Fitbit is no longer seeking to block sales of its products  —  Of course, Jawbone isn't selling that many fitness trackers these days either.  —  Jawbone said Saturday that one part of its legal battle with Fitbit has been resolved.  —  In a statement to Recode …
Taylor Soper / GeekWire:
CB Insights report: top 5 companies most likely to have an IPO in 2017 are Qualtrics, Blue Apron, Zuora, Okta, and Pluralsight, among 369 firms in pipeline  —  There will be more tech companies going public in 2017 than this year.  —  That's the takeaway from CB Insights' fifth annual Tech …
Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg:
China's “Uber for trucks” Huochebang raises $115M at $1B valuation from Tencent, others  —  Tencent-backed Huochebang raised $115 million for expansion  —  IFC, All-Stars Investment co-led the new funding round  —  Truck Alliance Inc., an Uber-type service for trucks known …
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google algorithm change appears to be moving Holocaust-denial and other controversial sites down in search results  —  Several days after Google put a search ranking change into place, the first page of results for “did the holocaust happen” now appears to be entirely free of denial sites.

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