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Atlassian acquires popular team productivity app Trello for $425M, with $360M in cash and remainder in stock, in its largest acquisition to date — Australian software maker Atlassian has taken one of the leading independent players in collaboration software off the board as it looks …
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Phil Schiller reflects on iPhone's launch, the debate around opening it up with the App Store, the importance of iPod in reaching non-Apple customers, more — A reporter there for the creation gets Apple's exclusive take on the “Jesus Phone"'s 10th birthday. — Why do a phone?
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Sources: Facebook to start testing mid-roll video ad format and, like YouTube, share 55% of the revenue with video publishers — Mark Zuckerberg has been building a video empire. Time to turn it into a business. — Facebook wants to show more ads to people who watch its videos …
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Sources: Amazon's AWS cloud division quietly acquires AI security startup harvest.ai for around $20M — Natasha Lomas, Ingrid Lunden and Ron Miller — Jan 9, 2017, 9:34 amJan 9, 2017, 9:34 am — Amazon Web Services appears to be ramping up its security chops.
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Microsoft and Qualcomm invest in Israeli cybersecurity firm Team8, bringing its total raised to $92M+, other investors include Cisco, AT&T, and Nokia — The venture arms of Microsoft (MSFT.O) and Qualcomm (QCOM.O) have invested in Team8, an Israeli creator of cybersecurity start-ups …
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| Bob Bryan / Business Insider: |
Alibaba's Jack Ma meets with Trump, talks about US/China relations and having US products sold on the platform, as Alibaba tweets pledge to create 1M US jobs — Jack Ma, the founder and chairman of Alibaba Group, met with President-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower on Monday.| Nate Raymond / Reuters: |
Coin.mx bitcoin exchange operator pleads guilty to conspiracy to commit bank fraud and operate unlicensed money transmitting firm, in case tied to JPMorgan hack — A Florida man pleaded guilty on Monday to charges that he conspired to operate an illegal bitcoin exchange … | Matthew Strauss / Pitchfork: |
Nielsen: US on-demand music streaming up 76% to 250B+ streams in 2016, becoming the dominant form of music consumption with 38% of the market — Streaming consumption beat digital sales for the first time in history, according to new Nielsen report — It's official: according … | Wall Street Journal: |
Tencent's WeChat unveils Mini Program, an app platform for the chat app, deflects comparisons to an app store, saying there's no centralized app repository — China's WeChat saluted Apple on the iPhone's 10th anniversary—just as it unveiled a new app platform that could challenge Apple in the decade to come.
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| Christopher Zara / Backchannel: |
How the “safe harbor” provision of the 1996 Telecommunications Act allowed the modern internet to flourish, and why it's under attack — How “safe harbor” turned into a protector of privilege. — For Airbnb, suing American cities had become something of a monthly ritual.
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Memex 1.1 and The Guardian. Tweets: @vogelelaw, @backchnnl, @backchnnl, @backchnnl, @backchnnl, and @ma_franks. See also Mediagazer
| Andrew J . Hawkins / The Verge: |
Waymo says it is now producing all self-driving tech in house, with big cost savings, will deploy Chrysler minivans this month in Mountain View and Phoenix — Now with all-new tech produced in-house — Waymo, the self-driving car startup spun-off from Google late last year …
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TechCrunch, Bloomberg, PCWorld, Digital Trends, BGR, 9to5Google, Ubergizmo, Silicon Valley Business …, Wall Street Journal, SiliconANGLE, Vanity Fair, TechEye, Computerworld, MacRumors, Tech Times, Engadget, ABC News, TechCrunch, NBC Bay Area, Slashdot, Reuters, BuzzFeed, Forbes, Recode, USA Today, and Business Insider
Tweets: @pkedrosky and @ow
| Bérénice Magistretti / VentureBeat: |
Fugue raises $41M Series D led by NEA to expand its cloud infrastructure management software beyond AWS — Cloud infrastructure startup Fugue (formerly known as Luminal), announced today a funding round of $41 million. — Founded in 2013, Fugue offers a software product that builds, operates, and maintains cloud infrastructure.
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