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KKR's Internet Brands to acquire WebMD in $2.8B deal, for $66.50 per share, which is a 20% premium to Friday's closing price — - Prior to the acquisition WebMD ran a five-month auction and solicited bids from more than 100 companies and private-equity firms.
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai appointed to Alphabet board of directors as its 13th member — Google CEO Sundar Pichai, who has led the company for the past two years, is joining the board of directors of Alphabet, Google's parent company said on Monday. — The more represents a vote of confidence … | Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Grab raises $2B from SoftBank and Didi Chuxing, which says the round could expand by $500M, to help defeat Uber in SE Asia; source: Grab valuation now over $6B — Grab, the ride-hailing company competing with Uber in Southeast Asia, has pulled in $2 billion of new financing … | Samuel Gibbs / The Guardian: |
Microsoft Paint, first released with Windows 1.0 in 1985, to be “removed or deprecated” in the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update; Paint 3D to remain — Long-standing basic graphics editing program, used throughout childhoods since the 1980s, has been marked for death
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Microsoft designs new AI chip for next version of HoloLens, which will let mixed reality goggles recognize speech and images on device instead of the cloud — New HoloLens processor will let mixed reality goggles recognize speech and images — Tech companies are keen …
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| Yi Shu Ng / Mashable: |
China forces citizens in Xinjiang, a Muslim-majority region, to put spyware on their phones; locals who don't install the Android app could face 10 days in jail — China has ramped up surveillance measures in Xinjiang, home to much of its Muslim minority population, according to reports from Radio Free Asia.| Alyssa Hertig / CoinDesk: |
As BIP 91 activates, paving the way for scaling of Bitcoin, Jeff Garzik, lead developer of the SegWit2x network upgrade, talks about what's next for Bitcoin — Jeff Garzik has been accused of a lot of things of late. — Since taking the lead on turning the Segwit2x scaling agreement into code … | Tom Hancock / Financial Times: |
BingoBox already has more than a dozen Amazon Go-like unmanned shops open in China, plans to have almost 200 more by the end of August — Wide use of mobile payments propels country's vendors past the likes of Amazon Go — Read next … Like other convenience stores across China …
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| Amy Feldman / Forbes: |
Recruiting software provider Lever raises $30M Series C, bringing the total raised to $62M — Sarah Nahm cofounded Lever five years ago to rethink recruiting for the digital age. The San Francisco-based recruiting software company helps its customers not only track resumes …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Instagram is pushing restaurants to be kitschy, colorful, and irresistible to photographers — When it came time to design their first restaurant, Media Noche, San Francisco entrepreneurs Madelyn Markoe and Jessie Barker found themselves lacking inspiration.
Tweets: @daveambrose, @hels, @fromedome, and @caseynewton
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Sensor Tower: mobile game revenues grew 32% YoY to $12.2B in Q2 as Asian titles, like Honor of Kings, surged — EXCLUSIVE: — Mobile gaming revenue grew 32 percent from a year ago to $12.2 billion in the second quarter, according to mobile measurement firm Sensor Tower.
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| Paula Dwyer / Bloomberg: |
Some economists say US tech giants are becoming harmful monopolies, need to be broken up; regulators need to consider alternatives to classic antitrust theory — Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook may be contributing to the U.S. economy's most persistent ailments.
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