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Apple confirms Shazam acquisition; sources say deal was for about $400M, and Snap and Spotify also expressed interest — Dec 11, 2017, 3:59 pmDec 12, 2017, 12:38 am — After we broke the story last week that Apple was acquiring London-based music and image recognition service Shazam, Apple confirmed the news today.
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Google launches three new photography apps for testing experimental technologies: Storyboard, Selfissimo!, and Scrubbies; two are on iOS and two on Android — Google today is launching a trio of new photo apps - a part of new series of what it has dubbed photography “appsperiments.” (Get it?
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Ex-Facebook VP of user growth and Social Capital CEO says social media is “destroying how society works” and leads to “no civil discourse, no cooperation” — ‘No civil discourse, no cooperation; misinformation, mistruth.’ — Another former Facebook executive …
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| John Voorhees / MacStories: |
Apple announces developers can now make their apps available for pre-order — You may recall that when Super Mario Run was announced in 2016, customers could request notification of its release, which was a first at the time on the App Store. Now, all developers can do something similar by offering their apps for pre-order.
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iMore, The Verge, AppleInsider, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, The Mac Observer, TouchArcade, and iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @rjonesy
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SEC chairman Jay Clayton releases statement on cryptocurrencies, says ICOs effective for raising funds “whether they represent offerings of securities or not” — SEC Chairman Jay Clayton — The world's social media platforms and financial markets are abuzz about cryptocurrencies and “initial coin offerings” (ICOs).
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Recode, TechCrunch, Business Insider, and The Verge
Tweets: @utahsecurities, @michaelarossa, and @mdudas
| Russell Holly / Android Central: |
AR Stickers launch inside the camera app on Pixel phones running Android 8.1, with animated Star Wars and Stranger Things characters, Foodmoji, more — Coming soon to a Pixel near you. — Alongside the update to Android 8.1, Google slipped in a feature originally shown off at the Pixel 2 launch event.
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Microsoft releases a free preview of its Quantum Computing Development Kit, which includes the Q# programming language, compiler, and simulator — Software giant releases a quantum programming language and simulator, but still has no working computer — In the race to commercialize …
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Tweets: @bloombergtv and @stevecla
| Stan Higgins / CoinDesk: |
Restaurant review startup Munchee halts ICO after SEC investigation, which said in cease-and-desist order that the firm's tokens were unregistered securities — A California-based company has refunded a $15 million initial coin offering following an investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
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U.S. Securities …, Bitcoin Magazine, and Bloomberg
Tweets: @msantoriesq, @msantoriesq, @thestalwart, @carnage4life, @reformedbroker, and @valkenburgh
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Internet pioneers and other tech luminaries including Tim Berners-Lee, Vint Cerf, and Steve Wozniak ask the FCC to cancel its vote repealing Net Neutrality — A group of early internet and computing pioneers have called on the Senate's FCC oversight committee to censure next week's net neutrality vote.| Serena Saitto / The Information: |
Sources: neighborhood social network Nextdoor has raised $75M in new funding at a valuation higher than previous round's $1.1B valuation in 2015 — Nextdoor, the social media platform for city neighborhoods, has raised $75 million at a valuation above the $1.1 billion level it reached …
Tweets: @sarahnemerson, @ahess247, @kantrowitz, @mattmcgee, and @mattrosoff
| Peter Rudegeair / Wall Street Journal: |
Financial-tech startup Affirm says it's raised $200M led by Singaporean sovereign-wealth fund GIC; source says at a valuation between $1.5B and $2B — Battling larger players getting into its core business of lending to consumers for retail purchases — Financial-technology startup Affirm Inc …
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An unofficial, knockoff version of the MyEtherWallet digital wallet app became the third most popular paid app in the finance category on the iOS App Store — An app masquerading as MyEtherWallet.com, one of the internet's most popular services for storing ETH and other crypto coins …
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Tweets: @myetherwallet and @pt
| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
YouTubers posting disturbing videos about kids earned hundreds of thousands of dollars from ads, say they chased a trend that YouTube's algorithm drove — According to estimates, accounts shut down for potential child endangerment content could've been netting over $500,000 a month.
Tweets: @cwarzel
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