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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 … | 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.| 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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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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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.| 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.| 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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| Ian Allison / International Business Times: |
Maersk and IBM pilot using blockchain tech to track global supply of shipping containers, aims to add 10M to this blockchain by end of year — A pilot involved the shipping of Schneider Electric goods from the Port of Rotterdam to the Port of Newark. — IBM and Maersk, the largest container …
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| 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.
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