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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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| Angus Crawford / BBC: |
BBC investigates Facebook's failure to remove sexualized images of children; Facebook reports BBC journalists to UK's National Crime Agency — Facebook has been criticised for its handling of reports about sexualised images of children on its platform. — The chairman of the Commons media committee …
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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 … | Andrew Brust / ZDNet: |
Confluent, the company behind open source streaming data project Apache Kafka, raises $50M Series C round led by Sequoia Capital — Confluent, the company behind open source streaming data project Apache Kafka, closes a Series C round that more than doubles its total financing.
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| Elena Cresci / The Guardian: |
DoNotPay, a free bot service for appealing parking tickets, can now help refugees fill out asylum applications for the US, Canada, and the UK — ‘Robot lawyer’ DoNotPay is giving free legal aid to refugees seeking asylum in US and Canada, and asylum support in UK
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| Kelly J. O'Brien / Boston Business Journal: |
CA Technologies announces it will acquire cybersecurity firm Veracode for $614M in cash — Burlington security software company Veracode will be acquired by CA Technologies for $614 million in cash, the companies announced Monday. — The acquisition is expected to close in the first quarter of 2018.
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Samsung Pay goes live in India, supports Paytm wallets, MasterCard or Visa debit and credit cards from Axis, HDFC, ICICI, SBI, and Standard Chartered banks — After teasing the launch of Samsung Pay in India last month and then letting users sign up for an early access program last week … | 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.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google's smarter, A.I.-powered translation system expands to Russian, Hindi, and Vietnamese — Last fall, Google introduced a new system for machine-assisted language translations, Google Neural Machine Translation system (GNMT), which takes advantage of deep neural networks to translate entire sentences …
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| 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.
| 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.| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
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.
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