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Uber to buy up to 24K SUVs from Volvo equipped with autonomous technology in a non-exclusive deal from 2019 to 2021; Uber will add its own self-driving tech — STOCKHOLM/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Uber plans to buy up to 24,000 self-driving cars from Volvo, marking the transition of the U.S. firm …
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| Uber Newsroom: |
Uber adds live location sharing with drivers, expands its Beacon program to New York, San Francisco, and Chicago, and adds in-app Uber credit gifting — Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmailMore sharing options — When the holiday season gets going, so do you.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
AWS launches AWS Secret Region for US intel agencies and their partners working with “secret” classified data, to complement its air-gapped Top Secret Region — Amazon today announced that its AWS cloud computing service now offers a new region that's specifically designed …
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
OnePlus 5T review: outstanding combination of specs and design for $500, but it runs Android Nougat and doesn't have water resistance or MicroSD card support — OnePlus' $500 wonder makes us question why we'd ever pay $800 for a smartphone. — After launching the OnePlus 5 earlier this year …
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Tweets: @ajbrewer, @ajbrewer, @backlon, and @dcseifert
| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
After a bug bounty hunter shared evidence with DJI that it had left customer data exposed online, the company called him a hacker and threatened him with CFAA — A bug bounty hunter shared evidence; DJI called him a hacker and threatened with CFAA. — DJI, the Chinese company that manufactures …
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| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
FanDuel CEO and co-founder Nigel Eccles is leaving to start an esports company — FanDuel's board is getting an overhaul, too. — FanDuel CEO and co-founder Nigel Eccles is leaving the company and stepping down from its board, where he was chairman. — Eccles, who's been CEO since …
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| Bloomberg: |
Source: US Department of Justice is poised to sue AT&T to block merger with Time Warner — AT&T will face an antitrust suit over its Time Warner deal, Bloomberg News reports. — The Justice Department plans to brief media later today on a U.S. antitrust announcement, though didn't specify what the announcement will be about.
Tweets: @stevekovach
| Ernie Smith / Motherboard: |
A look at PLATO, a 1960s-era networked platform of computers for education, a precursor to modern Internet concepts including forums and instant messaging — How the PLATO system, a pre-internet online platform that first came to life at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in the 1960s …
Tweets: @anildash and @engineeringatil
| Liana B. Baker / Reuters: |
Marvell Technology has agreed to acquire Cavium for about $6B, as it seeks to expand in the networking equipment sector — (Reuters) - Chipmaker Marvell Technology Group Ltd (MRVL.O) has agreed to acquire smaller peer Cavium Inc (CAVM.O) for around $6 billion, as it seeks to expand … | Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Pixvana raises $14M Series A led by Vulcan Capital, with Microsoft and Cisco among investors participating, for its VR production platform SPIN Studio — What better way to pitch a virtual or augmented reality startup idea than to strap a bunch of headsets on the heads of venture capitalists …
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Tencent becomes the first Chinese tech firm valued over $500B after its share price more than doubled in last 12 months — Tencent has become the first Chinese company to be valued at more than $500 billion. — Shares of the 19-year-old company, which is listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange …
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| Matt Marshall / VentureBeat: |
Health IQ, which uses an online quiz to screen customers with healthy lifestyles and offer them lower life insurance rates, raises $34.6M Series C led by a16z — Health IQ, a startup that collects data to let health-conscious people save an average of $1,238 a year on their life insurance premiums … Sponsor Posts
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