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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
A look at Travis Kalanick's risk taking, from his early startups to Uber, which once led Tim Cook to threaten Kalanick with app removal for breaking store rules — Travis Kalanick's drive to win in life has led to a pattern of risk-taking that has put his ride-hailing company on the brink of implosion.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitch launching an invite-only affiliate program allowing non-partnered channels to earn revenue, starting with chat-based “Cheering with Bits” tipping feature — On the heels of yesterday's news about expanded subscription options for partners, video streaming site Twitch today …
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| Sheera Frenkel / BuzzFeed: |
How Russian hacking evolved: simple credit card schemes in the '90s, takeover by organized crime in the '00s, and now joint criminal and government hacker teams — SAN FRANCISCO — Just past 8 a.m. on March 14, police trod quietly through the snow to the double-fronted doors of Karim Baratov's lavish home in Ancaster, Ontario.| Economist: |
How Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu fight for dominance in China while trying to expand abroad — Tencent is leading the acquisition spree, with Alibaba a close second — THERE was a time, not that long ago, when China's big internet companies were dismissed by investors in Silicon Valley …
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Amazon building new business pillars in AI, next-gen logistics, and enterprise cloud, a deep dive into firms's M&A, investment, jobs, patent, other data shows — Seattle-based Amazon is doubling down on AWS and its AI assistant, Alexa. It's seeking to become the central provider for AI-as-a-service.| The Verge: |
How the H-1B visa program has become a gateway for companies to replace US tech staff with foreign workers earning less and receiving fewer benefits — In the summer of 2014, Craig Diangelo thought he was on the path to an easy retirement. A veteran of the tech industry, Diangelo got his start as a Cobalt programmer in the 1970s.| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
CyberGRX, a startup that vets third-party suppliers on their cybersecurity practices, raises $20M Series B led by Bessemer — CyberGRX believes it has solved a security problem that has long vexed many companies: How to ensure that third-party suppliers don't provide a way for hackers to attack their networks?
| Nicole Perlroth / New York Times: |
Russian hacker Roman Seleznev sentenced to 27 years for theft, sale of 2M+ CC numbers resulting in $170M+ in losses, the longest hacking-related sentence in US — Federal prosecutors have yet to capture or convict the foreign computer criminals believed to be behind the hackings of big retailers like Target and Neiman Marcus.| Mark Suster / Both Sides of the Table: |
As MakeSpace announces $30M Series C, a look at the logistics tech underlying the on-demand storage service — Just over a year ago I wrote about how MakeSpace had raised $17.5 million in capital to build out its operations in 4 cities: New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago and Washington D.C … | Caroline O'Donovan / BuzzFeed: |
Waymo filing: during deposition this week, Uber engineer “was forced to admit” that Uber was working on a second, more Waymo-like Lidar and hid it from court — An Uber self-driving Volvo drives in Pittsburgh Friday, March 17, 2017. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
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| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Groq, a stealth startup founded by Google Tensor Processing Unit project engineers and Chamath Palihapitiya, has raised $10.3M — Google has slowly been pulling back the curtain on homegrown silicon that could define the future of machine learning and artificial intelligence.
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Electronics Weekly, SlashGear, Axios, and Investor's Business Daily. Tweets: @semil. Thanks:@mattrosoff
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple hired two executives who worked on satellites at Google, held talks with Boeing about investment or partnership in Boeing's satellite venture — The iPhone maker has recruited a pair of top Google satellite executives for a new hardware team, according to people familiar with the matter.
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