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SEC filing: Marissa Mayer, Yahoo co-founder David Filo, and four others to leave Yahoo board after Verizon sale; remaining business to be renamed Altaba Inc. — Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is resigning from company's board of directors, Yahoo announced in a filing with the SEC on Monday.
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See also Mediagazer| Robert Scoble / Facebook: |
Source at Zeiss says Apple and Carl Zeiss AG are working on AR, mixed reality glasses that may be announced this year — Exclusive news: Apple and Zeiss working together on augmented reality optics. — For the nerds who were at CES and not paying attention to all my posts.
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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
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| Dona Sarkar / Windows Blog: |
Microsoft debuts latest Windows 10 preview; new features include lower blue light settings for night usage, tile folders, Edge web payments, and tab preview bar — Hello Windows Insiders! — Today we are excited to be releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 15002 for PC to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring.
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| 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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| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
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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See also Mediagazer| Andrew Dalton / Engadget: |
FDA warns St. Jude's Merlin@home transmitters used in monitoring pacemakers, other cardiac devices are vulnerable to hacking; OTA fix started going out Monday — According to a cybersecurity notice from the Food and Drug Administration, certain pacemakers and cardiac devices are currently vulnerable to hacking.
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| Paul Sandle / Reuters: |
Snapchat picks London for its international HQ — Messaging app Snapchat said it would make London the home of its international operations, delivering another vote of confidence in Britain's technology credentials as the country prepares to leave the European Union.
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Sources: Alphabet in talks to sell the Skybox Imaging satellite business it bought for $500M less than three years ago to Planet Labs — Planet Labs may buy Skybox and gain new employees from deal — Alphabet curbs plans for global internet satellite network| Tom Korosec / Bloomberg: |
Intellectual property lawsuit by ZeniMax Media against Oculus began Monday with jury selection in Dallas — ZeniMax alleges Facebook acquisition Oculus stole technology — Zuckerberg may testify in $2 billion Dallas trial over goggles — Facebook Inc. bet early on virtual reality … | TechCrunch: |
Sources: Amazon's AWS cloud division quietly acquires AI security startup harvest.ai for around $20M — Amazon Web Services appears to be ramping up its security chops. TechCrunch has learned that the e-commerce giant's cloud services group has quietly acquired cyber security firm harvest.ai.
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| Tova Cohen / Reuters: |
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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