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Microsoft acquires Pittsburgh-based Avere Systems, a file storage vendor for Windows and Linux, will integrate its technology with Azure cloud — Microsoft plans to integrate Avere's file system and caching technologies for Windows and Linux clients with its Azure cloud.
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| Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter: |
Spotify faces new copyright lawsuit from Wixen Music that suggests up to 21% of Spotify songs are unlicensed; plaintiff seeks $1.6B+ in damages — Wixen Music Publishing files a new lawsuit that also covers music from Rage Against the Machine, The Doors, Steely Dan and many others.
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Sources: Spotify confidentially filed IPO documents with the SEC at the end of December; indications are the company wants to list in Q1 — Music streaming giant Spotify confidentially filed IPO documents with the SEC at the end of December, Axios has learned from multiple sources.| Joon Ian Wong / Quartz: |
Ripple, NEM, Ardor, Stellar, and Dash topped the list of best-performing cryptoassets in 2017; Bitcoin's value rose 1,318% during 2017 vs. 36,018% for Ripple — Bitcoin's value grew by more than 1,000% in 2017, but that wasn't enough to even place it among the 10 best-performing cryptoassets of the year.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Roku launches licensing program for manufacturing partners to use its voice assistant with smart speakers, smart soundbars, and other home audio systems — Roku, which sells the most popular brand of streaming media players in the U.S., is now aiming to carve out a niche for itself as the voice control platform for home entertainment.
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Security issues arising from design flaw in Intel CPUs will need OS fix that will slow down Windows, Linux, macOS machines; Intel to provide more details soon — Other OSes will need an update, performance hits loom — A fundamental design flaw in Intel's processor chips has forced …
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| iFixit: |
iMac Pro teardown: RAM, dual SSDs, CPU are modular, but GPU is soldered in place and many key components aren't accessible, earning a 3/10 repairability score — Tools Featured in this Teardown — Introduction — We dropped $4,999 to get our hands on the hot new space gray Magic Mouse …
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| Davey Alba / BuzzFeed: |
Logan Paul debacle highlights YouTube's content moderation problem, as experts say Paul's video isn't something AI moderation could catch on its own — Logan Paul attends The Thinning Meet & Greet during the 2016 New York Comic Con. — YouTube has a content crisis — again.
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Apple buys buddybuild, an app development service with about 40 employees based in Vancouver, and will roll its product into Xcode — Apple continues to ramp up its efforts to court developers by making it easier to create and iterate their apps for its platforms.
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| Rob Copeland / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Thiel's Founders Fund bought $15-$20M in bitcoin, now worth hundreds of millions, spread across multiple funds, one of which began investing in mid-'17 — Founders Fund, the venture-capital firm co-founded by Peter Thiel, has bought large sums of bitcoin that are now worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Quartz, Silicon Republic, CoinDesk, PYMNTS.com, Cointelegraph.com News, Bitcoinist.com, Vanity Fair, Business Insider, The Hill, Fortune, Virtual Mining Bitcoin News, Silicon Valley Business …, Crowdfund Insider, and CNBC
Tweets: @saraheneedleman, @joonian, @mdudas, @eringriffith, @wsj, @eringriffith, @shiraovide, and @eringriffith
| Anita Balakrishnan / CNBC: |
US blocks sale of money transfer service MoneyGram to Alibaba's Ant Financial; Ant Financial will pay a $30M termination fee for the deal breakup — - The U.S. government failed to approve a multimillion-dollar merger between MoneyGram and Ant Financial, an affiliate of Alibaba.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Reports: China's Didi is in talks to buy Brazil's ride-hailing service 99 in deal that values it at $1B — A year ago, Didi made a big move into Brazil when it laid down over $100 million to take a stake in 99, a local competitor to Uber in the app-based ride hailing market.Sponsor Posts
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