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Best 2017 Black Friday deals on smart home devices, fitness trackers, TVs, audio, gaming, computers, cameras, drones, and mobile devices — Shep McAllister, Jillian Lucas, Erica Offutt, Corey Foster, and Shane Roberts — You don't need to stand in line at the crack of dawn or risk …
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| Cat Zakrzewski / Wall Street Journal: |
Pokémon Go developer Niantic raises ~$200M Series B led by Spark Capital with participation from Founders Fund, Meritech, Javelin Venture Capital, and others — Series B led by Spark Capital is secured as company prepares to release a ‘Harry Potter’ title
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Facebook confirms it's testing a Snapchat-like streak feature in Messenger that shows how many consecutive days users have been chatting with friends — Streaks aren't just for Snapchat, anymore. — Facebook is now testing a version of a similar feature in Messenger, the company confirmed with Mashable.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Adobe: Thanksgiving day e-commerce sales were $2.87B, up 18.3% YoY, with 46% of all traffic to sites coming from smartphones — Black Friday, the day after a quiet Thanksgiving Thursday, traditionally has been thought of as the start of the holiday sales season, but the rise of e-commerce …
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| Ilya Khrennikov / Bloomberg: |
Yandex and Uber receive approval from national antitrust regulator to merge their ride sharing businesses in Russia; merger expected to close in January 2018 — Yandex, Uber to combine taxi businesses in January 2018 — Joint venture shouldn't restrict users, drivers using rivals
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| Hamza Shaban / Washington Post: |
Uber faces investigations by 5 US state AGs and at least 3 potential class actions, and has been contacted by FTC over recently disclosed hack and $100K ransom — After Uber revealed that it paid hackers $100,000 to keep quiet about stealing the personal information of 57 million customers and drivers … | Giles Turner / Bloomberg: |
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Ajit Pai's proposal to kill net neutrality argues the FCC should not have tried to stop Comcast from blocking BitTorrent in 2008 — This is what happens when you're honest about killing net neutrality — FCC Chairman Ajit Pai released his proposal to kill net neutrality today …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat debuts new ad formats allowing advertisers to post Promoted Stories in Stories tab and AR Trial Ads for placing interactive objects in a camera view — Snap Inc's stock tanked after missing revenue expectations by $30 million last quarter, so Snapchat is looking to win over businesses with immersive new ads formats.| Valentina Za / Reuters: |
Workers at Amazon's main distribution hub in Italy and at six German distribution centers strike on Black Friday over pay disputes — MILAN (Reuters) - Workers at Amazon's main distribution hub in Italy are planning their first ever strike for Friday, trade unions said …
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| Jane Wakefield / BBC: |
UK authorities change advertising rules for ISPs, requiring that stated speeds are achieved by 50% of users at peak times, up from 10% — Broadband firms will no longer be able to advertise their fast net services based on the speeds just a few customers get, from May next year.
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| Laura He / South China Morning Post: |
China's largest private courier, SF Express, bought two Boeing 747-400 Freighters on Alibaba's eBay-like platform Taobao for ~$49M after offline auctions failed — Courier SF Express emerged as the winning bidder in what's believed to be first major aviation sale of its kind by online auction in China
Tweets: @juansotolongo and @paulpage
| Eliot Brown / Wall Street Journal: |
Dow Jones VentureSource: 516 new US venture funds raised since 2013, with 133 in 2016 and 87 so far in 2017; firms raised $44B in 2016, most since dot-com crash — Silicon Valley lures unusual mix of prospectors, despite fears too much money is chasing too few good ideas
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