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Marcus Hutchins, who helped stop WannaCry, arrested by FBI after Def Con; DoJ indictment accuses him of helping spread Kronos banking trojan in 2014-2015 — Marcus Hutchins arrested over his alleged role in creating Kronos malware targeting banks — Marcus Hutchins, the 23-year-old British …
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Emails and interviews show Uber bought 1,000+ faulty Hondas, which were subject to recall, in Singapore and leased them to drivers; one vehicle caught fire — Chasing breakneck growth, the ride-hailing giant bought Honda SUVs in Singapore subject to a recall—then one caught fire
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Facebook moves entire translation backend to neural networks, built on Caffe2, to handle 4.5B+ translations per day, says it's seen ~11% increase in accuracy — Facebook announced today that it has started using neural network systems to carry out more than 4.5 billion translations …
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Sources: Google was interested in buying Snap for $30B+ in early 2016, around Snap's Series F; source says Snap talked with Google about buyout just before IPO — We keep hearing that Google floated an offer of at least $30 billion to buy Snap in early 2016.
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| Becky Peterson / Business Insider: |
Coinbase reverses course after August 1 hard fork, says it will begin supporting Bitcoin Cash by January 1, 2018 — The cryptocurrency online exchange Coinbase has decided to support the new bitcoin cash, days after a user exodus temporarily brought its website to a halt.
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Google says it will rank better-performing apps, like those that use less battery or crash less often, higher in the Play Store — Google today announced it's rolling out a change to its Play Store so that better-performing apps - meaning those that experience fewer crashes and those that don't drain …
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| Joe Maring / 9to5Google: |
LastPass unveils family plan pricing at $48/year, doubles premium tier to $24/year, removes unlimited sharing, more from free version — Last month, LastPass announced that it would soon be introducing a new “Families” plan for sharing passwords, bank account info, and other sensitive data among family members.
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Yelp says GrubHub is acquiring its Eat24 delivery service for $287.5M; reports Q2 revenue of $208.9M, up 20% YoY; stock up 18%+ after hours — Two huge pieces of news today from Yelp, the company that shows up first in your Google search for a restaurant: first, GrubHub …
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Mamoon Hamid, co-founder of Social Capital, joins Kleiner Perkins as a general partner — - Venture firm Kleiner Perkins just poached Mamoon Hamid from Social Capital, a 6-year-old venture fund he co-founded. — The move follows a spate of departures at Kleiner Perkins over the last week … | Julie Bort / Business Insider: |
Profile of Twitter COO Anthony Noto, described as a divisive “war time” CEO as Dorsey runs two companies, who plans focus on live video to fix Twitter's woes — - Anthony Noto, COO of Twitter, and former Goldman Sachs banker, is leading the company through challenging times.| Anya George Tharakan / Reuters: |
Activision Blizzard announces Q2 profit of $243M on $1.42B revenue, says it has delivered $1B of in-game revenues — (Reuters) - Activision Blizzard Inc raised its full-year adjusted revenue and profit forecasts for the second time on Thursday, as the videogame publisher benefits … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn is rolling out a free service to pair users with mentors — LinkedIn, the Microsoft-owned social network for the working world with over 500 million users, has put a lot of effort into new areas of business like content, education and bringing on new users in emerging markets … | Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal: |
TrackR, which helps users find lost items using its Bluetooth devices, raises $50M Series B led by Revolution Growth with participation from Amazon's Alexa Fund — Revolution leads Series B funding to help startup hone its indoor-location tech — Where's that missing set of keys? TrackR can tell you.| TechCrunch: |
GoPro beats Q2 targets with $297M revenue, up 34% YoY, vs. $269M expected, as the company commits to fixing software, supply chain issues — Aug 3, 2017, 1:29 pmAug 3, 2017, 2:30 pm — GoPro is flying high and mighty after releasing its 2017 second-quarter earnings.
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