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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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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, The AI Blog, ZDNet, TechCrunch, On MSFT, Tom's Hardware, and MSPoweruser. Tweets: @stevecla
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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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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).| 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.| 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 …
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| 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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| Leslie Hook / Financial Times: |
Profile of Uber's Chief Brand Officer Bozoma Saint John as she tries to restore the company's tarnished image — At a company full of challenging jobs, Bozoma Saint John surely has one of the toughest. As chief brand officer at Uber, her task is to try to get people to love a business … | Clare O'Connor / Forbes: |
New York-based luxury fashion e-tailer Moda Operandi raises $165M for international expansion, bringing the total raised to $300M+ — Luxury online fashion retailer Moda Operandi has raised $165 million in growth capital as it increases its footprint in sought-after Middle Eastern …
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PYMNTS.com, New York Times, Fashion News India …, New York Business Journal, Fashionista, and NewsCenter.io. Tweets: @nytfashion
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Facebook appears to have quietly killed its Ticker feature, which displayed a real-time feed of friends' activity — As Facebook continues to tinker with its layout and services to spur more interactions and engagement, it seems that not even the most well-known or oldest features are spared.
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Fortune, iPhone in Canada Blog, Search Engine Journal, TechSpot, and Engadget
| Stan Higgins / CoinDesk: |
Blockchain startup Circle's subsidiary CENTRE raises $20M in an ICO under SAFT framework for a platform that aims to connect digital wallets like Alipay, Venmo — A subsidiary of blockchain startup Circle created to build an ethereum payments network has raised $20 million in a Simple Agreement for Future Tokens (SAFT) sale.| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
Naspers, Innova Capital invest $82M more into Movile for its Latin American food delivery business, iFood, bringing total raised by Movile to $250M+ — To hear Naspers and the Latin American marketplace developer Movile tell it, food is the thing to make a company king in international markets.
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The Next Web, StartupWorld, and FinSMEs
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German startup Idagio raises €8M Series A for its paid classical music streaming service, which currently lists about 140,000 recordings — Idagio, a classical music streaming service, has raised €8 million in a Series A round from Tengelmann Ventures, Mülheim/Ruhr, btov Partners, and a number of angel investors.| Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle: |
A look at how self-driving vehicles, including cars and trucks, may positively affect the economy by creating new jobs and opportunities — Millions of people drive for a living; autonomous technology could make their work obsolete — Millions of people drive for a living; autonomous technology could make their work obsolete
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