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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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Thanks:@alexrkonrad| Steven Levy / Backchannel: |
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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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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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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Activehours raises $22M Series A led by Matrix Partners to take on the payroll industry with its quick and free paycheck-processing service — What if you didn't have to wait every two weeks to receive a paycheck? — What if you could be wired the money you earned almost immediately after a shift?
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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 — Popular Chinese mobile app company WeChat [Direct Link] congratulated Apple on ten years of the iPhone earlier this morning …
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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 … | 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.| Tas Bindi / ZDNet: |
Baidu and state-owned BAIC Motor Corp form strategic partnership, say their self-driving cars will hit roads in limited trials by end of 2017, more — Baidu and BAIC have formed a strategic partnership that will see the companies collaborating on the advancement of autonomous vehicles in China.
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Airbnb led $13M funding round in restaurant-booking app Resy, its largest investment to date, to expand beyond home-sharing and become travelers' one-stop shop — Airbnb led a $13 million funding round in restaurant-booking app Resy Network Inc.| 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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