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Apple confirms Shazam acquisition; sources say deal was for about $400M, and Snap and Spotify also expressed interest — 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; two are on iOS and two on Android, called Storyboard, Selfissimo!, Scrubbies — Google today is launching a trio of new photo apps - a part of new series of what it has dubbed photography “appsperiments.” (Get it?| 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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| 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: @ahess247, @mattrosoff, @kantrowitz, and @mattmcgee
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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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| 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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| 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
| Danny Crichton / TechCrunch: |
LiDAR autonomous sensor startup Ouster announces $27M Series A led by auto powerhouse Cox Enterprises — Angus Pacala has had a lifelong passion for autonomous cars going all the way back to high school. A little more than a decade ago, he followed the launch of the DARPA Grand Challenge …
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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.| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Google's Home Max smart speaker goes on sale for $399 — Google's biggest speaker is shipping right now at Best Buy and Verizon. — The biggest Google Home is finally on its way to stores. The $399 Google Home Max was announced at Google's October 4th hardware event alongside the Google Home Mini … | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Menlo Security, which blocks malware using its cloud-based isolation platform, raises $40M Series C — Cybersecurity startup Menlo Security has closed a $40 million series C round of funding from American Express Ventures, Ericsson Ventures, HSBC, JPMorgan Chase, General Catalyst …
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SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, and SecurityWeek
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Paris asks Airbnb to delist ~1,000 properties not registered with the city amid new regulations; currently only ~11,000 of ~65,000 apartments are registered — Paris authorities are cracking down on illegal holiday rentals — The city of Paris on Monday threatened to take Airbnb to court …
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