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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.
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| 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. It has laid off staff …
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| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Report: Snap acquired four-year-old Israeli AR startup Cimagine Media for $30M to $40M — Snap has reportedly made an investment in augmented reality, purchasing Israeli-based startup Cimagine Media in a deal that's said to be worth between $30 million and $40 million.| Aaron Tilley / Forbes: |
Apple publishes an artificial intelligence paper for the first time, after recently promising to open up its AI research — Earlier this month, Apple made a splash when it told the artificial intelligence research community that the secretive company would start publishing AI papers of its own.
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MacRumors, arXiv.org e-Print archive, iPhone in Canada Blog, and iDownloadBlog.com. Thanks:@aatilley
| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Apple's patent battle with Nokia escalates rapidly: Nokia now suing Apple over 40 patents in 11 countries as Apple adds Nokia as defendant in antitrust suit — Yesterday, Apple's antitrust lawsuit in the Northern District of California against certain Nokia privateers (patent assertion entities … | 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 … | Alene Tchekmedyian / Los Angeles Times: |
California AG Kamala Harris files new criminal charges against Backpage.com CEO and two controlling shareholders, accusing them of pimping and money laundering — Carl Ferrer, from left, James Larkin and Michael Lacey were charged in a pimping case in connection with international classified ad website Backpage.com.| Diana Goovaerts / Wireless Week: |
Dutch regulator rules that T-Mobile's “zero rating” music streaming service is illegal; T-Mobile says it will appeal, will offer service until court verdict — Dutch regulators on Friday said T-Mobile must end its offer of zero-rated music streaming because the practice violates that country's net neutrality regulations.
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| 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.| 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 … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Chinese connected device OS maker Thundersoft buys Rightware, a Helsinki-based automotive system UI developer, for $68M — Thundersoft, a company out of China that designs operating systems for drones and other connected devices, has made an acquisition to drive deeper into automotive technology …
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