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Sources: SoftBank is considering renewing T-Mobile US merger talks in April, may cede control of Sprint — Japan's SoftBank Group Corp is prepared to give up control of Sprint Corp to Deutsche Telekom AG's T-Mobile US Inc to clinch a merger of the two U.S. wireless carriers, according to people familiar with the matter.
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YouTube will discontinue 30-second unskippable ads in 2018 — Starting next year, YouTube will stop allowing the 30-second unskippable ad and will focus instead on shorter formats. 358 Share13 Tweet27 Share60 Share4 image: http://cached.imagescaler.hbpl.co.uk/ resize/scaleWidth/743/offlinehbpl … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Beepi, a used car marketplace that raised $150M, shuts down and is selling off assets after efforts to sell the startup to Fair.com and DGDG broke down — Yet more developments for Beepi, the used car marketplace that had raised $150 million but then went bust …
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Sources: GM plans to deploy thousands of self-driving Chevrolet Bolts in test fleets in 2018, most of them in partnership with Lyft — General Motors Co plans to deploy thousands of self-driving electric cars in test fleets in partnership with ride-sharing affiliate Lyft Inc, beginning in 2018 …
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HTC to exit entry-level phone market this year but will continue to support current models; its focus is shifting to high-end, high-margin devices — HTC plans to exit the entry-level phone market moving forward and will instead focus its handset portfolio on high-margin devices.
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Sources: Apple will start assembling iPhone SE in India at contract manufacturer Wistron's plant in Bengaluru starting April — NEW DELHI: Apple will kick off its India manufacturing plans by initially assembling 3-4 lakh units of its iPhone SE model at the Karnataka plant being set …
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
SaaS integration startup MuleSoft files for $100M IPO; MuleSoft was valued at $1.5B in its latest VC round — MuleSoft, a SaaS integration company valued at $1.5 billion by venture capitalists, this morning filed for an initial public offering. — The deal: San Francisco-based MuleSoft plans … | Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Facebook just changed its mission, because the old one was broken — With great power comes long letters — Facebook used to repeat its mission statement so often that most tech reporters could recite it from memory: “to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected.”| Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook: |
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| Sam Shead / Business Insider: |
Niklas Zennström's London-based VC firm Atomico, which is focused on European tech startups, closes its fourth fund at $765M — Atomico has raised a $765 million (£613 million) fund to invest in European technology startups, shrugging off any concerns that Brexit has made it harder …
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Lytro raises $60M Series D from Blue Pool Capital, Foxconn, Qualcomm Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, NEA, GSV, others to bring light field VR technology to Asia — Lytro may have had some setbacks in 2016, but it appears to be onto something. Investors have noticed the potential …
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TetraVue raises $10M Series A from Bosch, Samsung, Foxconn, others to bring high-density 3D flash LIDAR technology to self-driving cars — Series A funding led by Robert Bosch and Nautilus to bring high-density flash lidar to self-driving cars. — California-based TetraVue is the latest developer …
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Spotify-backed Soundtrack Your Brand, which streams music to businesses, raises $22M Series C led by Balderton Capital and Stockholm-based Industrifonden — A Swedish startup that wants to bring music streaming to businesses has raised $22 million (£17.5 million) …
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