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Report: Mashable has agreed to sell itself to Ziff Davis for around $50M, a fraction of the site's $250M valuation less than two years ago — Digital-media firm Mashable has clinched a sale for the company — and it's not for a price that founder Pete Cashmore or investors including Turner were looking for.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Airbnb acquired adtech startup AdBasis on Nov. 13; AdBasis will be available to customers until Feb. 2018 and team will be brought into Airbnb — It looks like accessibility isn't the only thing that Airbnb wants to upgrade on its platform. On the same day that Airbnb announced that it acquired Accomable …
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Facebook rebrands Mentions, which was only available for verified accounts, as Creator app, opens it to all; app available on iOS now, and Android within months — Facebook wants to turn mindless, passive video consumption into “time well spent,” and now it's giving social media stars …
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| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Apple VP of diversity and inclusion Denise Young Smith is leaving; Christie Smith, who spent 17 years as a principal at Deloitte, will be taking over — Apple's first-ever vice president of diversity and inclusion, Denise Young Smith, is leaving Apple at the end of this year, TechCrunch has learned.
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Researchers find flaw in Amazon Key that lets any computer in WiFi range freeze and disable Cloud Cam; Amazon says a fix is coming later this week — WHEN AMAZON LAUNCHED its Amazon Key service last month, it also offered a remedy for anyone—realistically, most people …
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| Stan Higgins / CoinDesk: |
Coinbase announces Custody, a digital asset storage service for institutional clients with a minimum of $10M in deposits; early access product launching in 2018 — Cryptocurrency wallet and exchange startup Coinbase is launching a new storage service aimed specifically at institutional investors.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Google says it will require close content parity between AMP and original pages beginning February 2018 to discourage publishers from using AMP pages as teasers — Google is cracking down on link baiting — Google today announced a forthcoming update to its Accelerated Mobile Pages … | Lauren Hirsch / CNBC: |
Online personal shopping startup Stitch Fix raises $120M in downsized IPO listing, pricing 8M shares at $15 apiece, below expected 10M shares at $18-$20 — - Stitch Fix has touted its profitability, but its earnings recently took a hit from one-time items — Online personal shopping …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple Releases iOS 11.1.2 With Fix for Unresponsive iPhone X Display in Cold Temperatures — Apple today released iOS 11.1.2, the seventh official update to the iOS 11 operating system. iOS 11.1.2 comes just one week after Apple released iOS 11.1.1, an update that addressed a pesky and widespread autocorrect bug.| Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
AWS releases ONNX-MXNet, giving its support to the Open Neural Network Exchange introduced by Microsoft and Facebook earlier this year — The Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX) deep-learning format, introduced in September by Microsoft and Facebook, has a new backer following Amazon Web Services' decision … | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Vimeo adds support for HDR videos for all users, a year after YouTube added the same feature — Video-streaming company Vimeo has announced that it now supports high dynamic range (HDR) content. — HDR, for the uninitiated, is a technique used to enhance the contrast of colors …
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| Andrew Nusca / Fortune: |
Profile of Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, who cofounded the firm and has maintained its 70% share of the GPU market as competition and demand explode, driven by AI — The cofounder and CEO of semiconductor and software maker Nvidia saw the future of computing more than a decade ago … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Kaspersky Labs releases a more detailed report on how it obtained NSA-linked Equation Group source code in 2014 — Moscow-based AV provider challenges claims it helped Russian spies. — For almost two months in 2014, servers belonging to Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab received confidential …
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| Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
Williams-Sonoma acquires AR 3D imaging startup Outward for $112M in cash — The deal marks the first technology acquisition under CEO Laura Alber. — Williams-Sonoma, the home furnishings company that also owns the West Elm and Pottery Barn retailers, has agreed to acquire …
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