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LeEco calls off its $2B purchase of TV maker Vizio, instead forming “partnership” that brings Le app to some Vizio devices and Vizio products to China — LeEco is no longer buying Vizio. Today the companies jointly announced that “the merger agreement to acquire Vizio will not proceed due to regulatory headwinds.”
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TechCrunch, Variety, Ars Technica, Digital Trends, Consumerist, Droid Life, VentureBeat, Android Authority, Fortune, Android Police, Engadget, Axios, and Silicon Valley Business …
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| Selina Wang / Bloomberg: |
Source: LeEco missed its $100M US sales goal in 2016, generating less than $15M, will eliminate 175 of 475 jobs in US — Chinese tech firm falls far short of $100 million revenue goal — U.S. ambitions also hindered by collapse of deal to buy Vizio — Chinese technology conglomerate LeEco Inc …
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| Nate Lanxon / Bloomberg: |
Minecraft is adding a new marketplace with its own currency this spring, where creators can monetize their original content — Microsoft Corp. is adding a new marketplace — and a brand new currency — within the video-game Minecraft, opening up the opportunity for businesses to sell …
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Minecraft.net, Forbes, International Business Times, Microsoft, On MSFT, MacRumors, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Engadget, Kotaku, AppAdvice.com, Tom's Hardware, Android Police, Business Insider, TalkAndroid.com, The Next Web, iDownloadBlog.com, CNET, The Tech Portal, Inquirer, The Mac Observer, 9to5Mac, Tech Narratives, GeekWire, GamesIndustry.biz, TechSpot, New World Notes, The Verge, BBC, The Fire Hose, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @brianroemmele and @minecraft
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Sources: Comcast plans to debut an online video service offering hit shows from its NBCUniversal TV networks in the next 12 to 18 months — Service said to include NBC programs, perhaps SyFy, Bravo, USA — Regulatory restrictions hamstring cable giant until next year
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Engadget, BGR, GeekWire, Axios, The Verge, Fortune, Seeking Alpha, Tech Narratives, Consumerist, and Deadline. Tweets: @mhbergen
| Bart Jansen / USA Today: |
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai seeks to keep voice-call ban on planes, taking off the table a 2013 proposal to reverse it — WASHINGTON - Cell-phone calls will continue to be banned during airline flights, under an order the head of the Federal Communications Commission proposed Monday to stop considering whether to lift the ban.
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TechCrunch, Pew Research Center, MacRumors, Ars Technica, The Register, CNET, Motherboard, Reuters, Engadget, PCWorld, Axios, The Verge, Pocketnow, Droid Life, and Fortune
Tweets: @moorehn, @karlbode, @senmarkey, @zsims, and @jeffjohnroberts
| Aaron Pressman / Fortune: |
AT&T to acquire wireless carrier Straight Path in $1.6B deal for its spectrum, ahead of 5G push, paying almost 3x Straight Path's stock price — AT&T just settled the Wall Street debate over the value of high bandwidth airwave rights suitable for super-fast next generation wireless networks.| The Economic Times: |
Flipkart raises $1.4B from Tencent, eBay, and Microsoft at $11.6B post-money valuation, down from its $15.2B valuation in May 2015, and acquires eBay India — India's largest e-commerce marketplace Flipkart has announced a $1.4 billion fundraise from new investors Tencent …
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Flipkart, The Financial Express, PR Newswire, VentureBeat, GeekWire, The Tech Portal, SiliconANGLE, Tech in Asia, Tech Narratives, Trak.in, Neowin, Financial Times, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Livemint, BuzzFeed, Reuters, On MSFT, Firstpost, NDTV Gadgets 360, The Hindu, NDTV Profit, Huffington Post India, Quartz, Bloomberg Quint, ITworld.com, PE Hub Blog, Forbes India, Wall Street Journal, Mashable, The Tech Portal, Tech in Asia, and MediaNama
Tweets: @raju, @therajkundra, @_sachinbansal, @flipkart, @chandrarsrikant, @binnybansal, and @ettech
| Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times: |
At FBI's request, Spain arrests a visiting Russian, Peter Levashov, who infosec experts say is an e-mail spam kingpin known as Peter Severa — MOSCOW — He refused to meet business associates in person and never talked on the phone, preferring instead to communicate via encrypted messaging services.
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BuzzFeed, CNET, Ars Technica, Krebs on Security, Softpedia News, Cyberscoop, BBC, Reuters, SecurityWeek, and CSO
Tweets: @howelloneill, @mikeisaac, @briankrebs, and @andrewsweiss
| Jamie Feltham / UploadVR: |
AMD buys Nitero for low latency wireless streaming tech to make desktop VR headset cables unnecessary — Nitero, a company working in the increasingly prevalent wireless desktop VR sector, has just been acquired by AMD. — AMD is best known for its CPUs that power VR-ready PCs …
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AMD, PCWorld, TechCrunch, Engadget, Forbes, TechSpot, Tom's Hardware, Inquirer, The Tech Report, and CRN
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter now lets brands make “custom hearts” for Periscope live videos, declines to disclose pricing — Those little hearts you tap to signal to a live video's creator that you're enjoying the content might look a little different on Twitter in the future.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Symantec links alleged Vault7 CIA malware to hacking operation that attacked at least 40 targets in 16 countries across the Middle East, Europe, Asia, Africa — WikiLeaks dump identical to operation that has been hacking governments since 2011. — Malware that WikiLeaks purports belongs …
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Associated Press, Foreign Policy, Network World, Softpedia News, Mashable, CNET, Tom's Hardware, International Business Times, ZDNet, BetaNews, and Motherboard. Tweets: @wikileaks
| Jing Cao / Bloomberg: |
Source: Blue Apron had revenue of between $750M and $1B last year and was profitable in Q3 — The company has built an impressive high-tech operation but is spending heavily to lure customers who are always a bad experience away from bailing. — by — Jing Cao
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