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Sources: Goldman Sachs is in talks with Apple to offer financing to Apple gadget shoppers, using its retail point-of-sale financing arm Marcus — Wall Street firm would lend to shoppers buying expensive Apple gadgets — As Apple Inc.'s AAPL 4.18% investment bank, Goldman Sachs GS 3.85% Group Inc … | Wall Street Journal: |
Snapchat is launching a tool to let TV networks pipe snippets of live broadcasts directly into the app, starting this Saturday with NBC's Olympics coverage — Deal could forge closer ties between traditional TV networks and Snapchat's parent company Snap Inc. — Georgia Wells and Benjamin Mullin| Snap Investor Relations: |
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| Olivia Zaleski / Bloomberg: |
Inside the battle among Airbnb investors and executives over whether to remain private or IPO; sources say founders and early employees cashed ~$350M of equity — Investors and executives disagreed over when to take the home-rental company public. The stay-private crowd is winning.
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| Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed: |
Russian trolls posed as black activists on Tumblr and generated hundreds of thousands of interactions with anti-Hillary Clinton, pro-Bernie Sanders content — Tumblrs run by Russian trolls generated hundreds of thousands of interactions with anti-Hillary Clinton, pro-Bernie Sanders content.
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| Theodore Schleifer / Recode: |
SoftBank's technology funds, the $100B Vision Fund and $6B Delta Fund, have already invested ~$40B of their $106B target; Vision Fund has invested in 26 firms — They said it couldn't be done. — Longtime Silicon Valley hands are still aghast that an investing firm can find … | Peter Kafka / Recode: |
Streaming service ESPN Plus launching next month at $4.99/mo; sources say it won't have ESPN cable channels' content, which still requires ESPN subscription — How much would you pay for sports you weren't watching on TV? — Want to pay for a subscription to ESPN without paying for a subscription to other cable channels?
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Microsoft updates its Cortana app for iOS with native iPad support, two years after releasing it for iPhone — Microsoft today updated its Cortana app for iOS with native iPad support. The design looks essentially the same as the iPhone version, but with an interface optimized …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft is offering OneDrive for Business for free to select businesses for the length of their existing contracts with Google/Box/Dropbox, for up to 3 years — Microsoft has a new OneDrive-for-Business compete offer for organizations which currently use some of its rivals' cloud storage services.| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
New York-based Mirror raises $13M from Spark Capital and others for building an at-home mirror-like device that can stream live or on-demand fitness classes — The health club industry generates around $83 billion in revenue globally each year, according to figures from the International Health …
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Pornhub says it's banning AI-generated fake porn videos because they're “nonconsensual”, yet such “deepfake” videos are still available via site search results — In its search of a platform that will host fake porn videos of celebrities created with a machine learning algorithm …
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BitMEX Research looks at the history of Ripple, its company disputes, and says the technology behind its distributed consensus system is essentially centralized — Abstract: In this piece, we briefly look over the history of Ripple and examine various disputes between the founders and partner companies … | Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Netgear says it will spin off its Arlo security camera wing into a standalone business by the second half of 2018 and is planning an IPO for Arlo — Netgear announced this afternoon that it plans to spin off its Arlo wing into a standalone business. The networking hardware giant's board …
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NETGEAR, Inc., Digital Trends, SiliconANGLE, Fortune, Multichannel News, The Register, ZDNet, Engadget, and Silicon Valley Business …. Tweets: @benbajarin
| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
A pollster Facebook hired in April '17, who quit after 6 months, says his role was to measure Zuckerberg's approval ratings and track speeches amid US tour — Why Tavis McGinn quit after six months — Tavis McGinn applied for a job at Facebook last year hoping to work in market research.
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple says a “processing error” meant ad spend and install data for Search Ad Basic users was sent to the wrong developers — Apple today apologized after sending incorrect information to some iOS developers using its Search Ads Basic service yesterday.| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Alphabet names Dinesh Jain, former COO of TWC, as CEO of Access, its high-speed internet unit that includes Fiber; Jain is Access' third CEO in under two years — Another new CEO at Access as Alphabet struggles to figure out the future of Google Fiber — Google parent company Alphabet …
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Silicon Valley Business …, Google Fiber Blog, Engadget, Business Insider, Bloomberg, and 9to5Google. Tweets: @mattrosoff
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
UK government announces labor market reforms to aid gig economy workers, including ensuring holiday and sick pay and raising fines for employer mistreatment — The UK government has announced a package of labor market reforms to respond to changes in working patterns including those driven …
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Engadget, CNET, Sky News, The Independent, Financial Times, Reuters, The Independent, BBC, HuffPost UK, and The Guardian
| Alfred Lee / The Information: |
Sources: in Q3 2017, Spotify made €1B in revenue, putting it on track for €4B in full year revenue, up 40% YoY, and had an operating loss between €70M and €90M — Spotify generated a billion euros ($1.2 billion) in revenue in the third quarter of 2017, according to two investors briefed on the numbers.| Bernadette Tansey / Xconomy: |
Car auction firm KAR buys San Francisco-based Stratim, a fleet management software service formerly known as Zirx — With an eye toward a greater role in the future of mobility services, the big Indiana used-car auction company KAR announced Wednesday it acquired Stratim …
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