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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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Tweets: @katie_roof, @mmurph, and @benbajarin
| 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 … | Bloomberg: |
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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Microsoft Docs, SiliconANGLE, Windows Central, The AI Blog, TechCrunch, eWeek, cloudblogs.microsoft.com, ZDNet, On MSFT, Tom's Hardware, and MSPoweruser. Tweets: @stevecla
| 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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Android Police, TechCrunch, Engadget, The Verge, SiliconANGLE, The Next Web, and Paul Thurrott
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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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Reuters, AppleInsider, The Verge, 9to5Mac, Gizmodo, iMore, ValueWalk, Digital Trends, Crowdfund Insider, iPhone Hacks, MacRumors, Mashable, Inquirer, Cult of Mac, and Fortune
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
| 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 …, Axios, and Bloomberg
Tweets: @msantoriesq, @msantoriesq, @valkenburgh, @thestalwart, @carnage4life, and @reformedbroker
| Wall Street Journal: |
US bitcoin futures start trading on CBOE, a week ahead of futures rollout at rival CME Group; bitcoin's price climbed ~8% in first seven minutes of trading — Exchange provider's website experienced outages from heavy traffic — The first bitcoin futures started trading Sunday …
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Slate, The Guardian, International Business Times, Bloomberg, Reuters, Business Insider, Vanity Fair, Cointelegraph.com News, NPR, CoinDesk, Reuters, CryptoCoinsNews, Forbes, Fortune, Crunchbase News, Bank Innovation, Neowin, Bitcoinist.com, Zero Hedge, SlashGear, The Next Web, CoinDesk, CoinSpeaker, Virtual Mining Bitcoin News, Seeking Alpha, Reuters, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, CNNMoney, Bloomberg, Cointelegraph.com News, TheStreet, The Merkle, Reuters, CoinDesk, TechCrunch, Cointelegraph.com News, Bitcoinist.com, Slashdot, Virtual Mining Bitcoin News, and Bloomberg
Tweets: @cboe, @satoshilite, @zerohedge, @wsj, and @smsfcoach
| 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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SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, Xconomy, and Forbes
| 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: @mattrosoff, @kantrowitz, and @mattmcgee
| 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 and TechCrunch
| Caroline Mimbs Nyce / The Atlantic: |
How a 2001 retreat in Snowbird, Utah led to the Agile Manifesto and Agile software development practices widely used across the industry — Snowbird, Utah, is an unlikely place to mount a software revolution. Around 25 miles outside Salt Lake City, Snowbird is certainly no Silicon Valley …
Tweets: @mimbsy
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