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Sources: SoftBank offers to buy secondary Uber shares at $48B valuation, 30% below Uber's recent $69B valuation, and will also invest $1B+ at $69B valuation — The price is 30% below Uber's last primary round, people say — A slate of investors has agreed to sell shares for the deal
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
WeWork agrees to acquire Meetup, the New York-based social network that helps organize offline meetings; source says deal is valued at ~$200M — WeWork has agreed to acquire Meetup, a New York-based social network that helps organize offline meetings around common interests.
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| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Airbnb launches payment splitting for group trips for up to 16 people on a single reservation — In February of this year, Airbnb acquired social payments startup Tilt. Today, the fruits of that acquisition are being passed along to Airbnb users. — Starting now, Airbnb users …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Adobe: US Cyber Monday sales hit record-breaking $6.59B, with purchases on smartphones also breaking a record with $1.59B in sales — Cyber Monday is off to a flying start for online shopping in the US. As of 7am Pacific, $840 million has been spent, up 16.9 percent on Cyber Monday 2016.| Danny Westneat / The Seattle Times: |
A look at some of the plans submitted by 238 municipalities in Amazon's HQ2 contest, offering big tax breaks, free land, and special access to public resources — A review of some of the bids to woo Amazon's HQ2 to other cities and states shows it's not all about the money.
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| Cho Mu-Hyun / ZDNet: |
Samsung buys South Korean AI startup Fluenty, which specializes in conversational AI, most likely to boost its Bixby virtual assistant — Samsung Electronics has acquired South Korean AI startup Fluenty in a likely effort to boost its Bixby virtual assistant.
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Canalys: VR headset shipments pass 1M for first time in Q3 with Sony, Oculus, and HTC taking the top three spots, shipping 490K+, 210K, and 160K respectively — Palo Alto, Shanghai, Singapore and Reading (UK) - Monday, 27 November 2017 — Virtual reality headset shipments are showing no signs of slowing … | Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft says it will refocus on enhancing search via the Windows taskbar, after dropping support for its Microsoft Graph-powered Delve app on Windows 10 — Microsoft seems to be rethinking how it handles search in the brave, new Microsoft 365 world — Some time recently …
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| Corbin Davenport / Android Police: |
YouTube Go, a lightweight YouTube app designed for slower internet connections, leaves beta; available in India, Indonesia, and other select countries — Earlier this year, Google released ‘YouTube Go,’ a super-lightweight version of the YouTube app tailored for developing countries.
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| Mark Di Stefano / BuzzFeed: |
Facebook and Twitter say they will respond to UK requests for information about possible Russian meddling in Brexit and UK general election within weeks — US social media giants have said they're ready to cooperate with a UK probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 EU referendum.| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
French startup Doctolib, an online booking platform for medical practitioners, raises $42M, making it one of the best-funded health startups in Europe — French startup Doctolib is raising money for the second time in the past twelve months. The company is building a sort of Salesforce … | Noah Kulwin / VICE News: |
YouTube says it has terminated 270+ accounts, taken down 150K+ videos, removed ads from ~2M videos over past week as it purges content that endangers children — For the second time in less than a year, major advertisers are fleeing YouTube after finding their ads were paired with offensive content — this time, directed at children.
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Gizmodo, The Verge, 9to5Google, Mashable, BuzzFeed, Tech Times, NPR, Silicon Valley Business …, and BuzzFeed. Tweets: @tomgara
| Yimian Wu / China Money Network: |
China's top on-demand trucking apps Huochebang and Yunmanman, both valued at $1B, have agreed to merge — After years of explosive growth, China's vast sharing economy is entering consolidation mode. The latest merger news comes from Chinese Uber-like truck logistics leaders Yumanman and Huochebang …
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