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Redfin closes at $21.70, up 44%+ on its first day of trading, after raising $138M in an IPO — Redfin is not exactly a household name in the world of consumer tech - it's a residential real-estate brokerage built on the Internet - but it's the closest thing the tech IPO market has to a hero as we enter the second half of 2017.| Bloomberg: |
Huawei CEO confirms full-screen display on upcoming Mate 10, as company reports Q2 results, and says it is giving up on very low-end devices — It aims to ship as many as 150 million smartphones in 2017 — The Chinese firm chalked up $42 billion in first-half revenue| David Gewirtz / ZDNet: |
iRobot clarifies CEO's comments, says it never intended to sell Roomba data, will only share data with other smart home devices with customer's permission — Exclusive: Are Roomba vacuum cleaners spying on you? Will iRobot sell your home's mapping data? iRobot's CEO sets the record straight.| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
Katie Couric is ending her Yahoo show and departing Oath, but will work with Oath case-by-case for projects — But the longtime TV news star will still work with the company on a project basis — Katie Couric is ending her Web interview show for Yahoo, Oath confirmed after Recode contacted the company about the development.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Anonymous social app Whisper lays off 14 of its 71 employees; source says revenues were $1.3M in June, firm will have $100K in free cash flow in August — Startups are dying all over the place as last year's investment cool-off leads many to run out of cash.| Tim Peterson / Marketing Land: |
Twitter is testing a subscription service that automatically promotes advertisers' profiles and up to first 10 tweets a day for $99 per month — For a monthly fee, Twitter would promote up to 10 tweets a day in addition to running month-long Promoted Account ads.| Johana Bhuiyan / Recode: |
GM's Cruise Automation hires Didi's Charlie Miller and Uber's Chris Valasek, the security researchers who had previously hacked into moving jeeps — Miller left Didi after just four months. — Noted security experts Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek — famed for remotely hacking a Jeep … | Laura Stevens / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon quarterly profit fell 77% last quarter despite sales growth as it spent on new warehouses, delivery capacity, data centers, and hiring — Amazon.com Inc. AMZN -1.68% said quarterly profit fell 77% even as sales jumped, a sign of the high cost of its increasing dominance of retail.| Amazon.com: |
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Baidu reports Q2 profits of $654M, up 83.5% YoY on about $3.1B revenue, as Chinese search firm recovers from advertising restrictions and trims expenses — (Reuters) - Chinese internet search engine provider Baidu Inc has reported a jump in quarterly earnings, recovering from a string … | AltspaceVR Inc: |
AltspaceVR, a social platform for virtual reality, to shut down August 3 due to “unforeseen financial difficulties” — It is with a tremendously heavy heart that we let you all know that we are closing down AltspaceVR on August 3rd, 7PM PDT. The company has run … | Dustin Volz / Reuters: |
US House committee asks 22 US agencies for documents about Kaspersky Lab dating from 2013, including risk assessments, names of contractors, subcontractors — LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - A U.S. congressional panel this week asked 22 government agencies to share documents on Moscow-based cyber firm Kaspersky Lab …
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
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Zoho Books introduces the Landlords edition in the UK — Managing rental properties in the UK has long involved a messy mix of spread-out receipts, manual spreadsheets, and end-of-year tax scrambles.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
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