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Twitch debuts Pulse, a Twitter-like service where broadcasters can share videos, images, and text with their friends and followers — This is what disruption looks like — Whenever I wonder what will eventually happen to Twitter, which is something I think about literally every day …
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Major spam group River City Media left 1.4B email addresses, combined with real names, IPs, and often physical addresses, exposed online — Today we release details on the innerworkings of a massive, illegal spam operation. The situation presents a tangible threat to online privacy … | Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Media rendering firm Thinkbox announces that it has been acquired by Amazon, to join AWS — Amazon Web Services has acquired Thinkbox Software, which makes technology used by media and entertainment architects and engineers to manage render farms — large systems for processing computer-generated graphics and video.| Valentina Palladino / Ars Technica: |
Fitbit unveils Alta HR with heart rate monitoring, available at the end of March for $150; Alta HR, Blaze, and Charge 2 get improved sleep tracking — This might be the tracker you want to wear both day and night. — Fitbit's thin Alta tracker dropped around this time last year, and the company is already making an update to it.| Bradford Cross: |
AI predictions: bots go bust, fewer machine learning acquihires, AI is cleantech 2.0 for VCs, MLaaS dies again, full stack vertical AI startups actually work — With AI in a full-fledged mania, 2017 will be the year of reckoning. Pure hype trends will reveal themselves to have no fundamentals behind them.
Tweets: @psychemedia, @treehcapital, @besvinick, @omrvp, and @stevesi
| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
IBM, Salesforce announce strategic AI partnership where Salesforce customers will gain access to Watson services, and IBM will use Einstein internally — IBM's Watson is about to get cozy with Salesforce's Einstein. — IBM's Watson is about to get cozy with Salesforce's Einstein.
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Snap's stock closed at $23.77, down over 12% in its third full day of trading and below its first-day opening price of $24 — Welcome to the public markets, Snapchat. — Welcome to the public markets, Snapchat. — Stock for Snap, the company behind Snapchat, fell more than 12 percent Monday, just its third full day of trading.| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Twitch co-founder Justin Kan leaves partner role at Y Combinator to launch his own startup incubator program called Zero-F — Serial entrepreneurJustin Kan, best known for co-founding Twitch, Justin.tv and Socialcam, has left his position as a partner at Y Combinator to start his own startup incubator program.| Reuters: |
How GV's 2013 investment of $258M in Uber, now regarded as a great success, began a complex and tense relationship between Alphabet and Uber that's since soured — When Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] was raising venture capital in 2013, it was one of the hottest deals around …
Tweets: @byjulialove
| Jim Finkle / Reuters: |
Consumer Reports will begin assessing cyber security and privacy safeguards when scoring products, publishes first draft of standards for the new testing — Consumer Reports, an influential U.S. non-profit group that conducts extensive reviews of cars, kitchen appliances and other goods … | NASDAQ.com: |
MuleSoft sets range for its IPO at $12 to $14 a share, which at midpoint of range would raise $169M and give company a fully diluted market value of $1.8B — MuleSoft, which provides a platform that connects SaaS, mobile and on-premise APIs, announced terms for its IPO on Monday.| Will Oremus / Slate: |
Twitter says move from chronological to algorithmic timeline has upped engagement in key metrics including retweets and likes, but doesn't say by how much — What do you see when you open Twitter? Until a year ago, the answer was straightforward: With minor exceptions …
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