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Sources: Intel is working with advisors to consider options in response to Broadcom's pursuit of Qualcomm, including an acquisition offer for Broadcom — Tech giant working with advisers on evaluating deal and other possible acquisitions — Intel Corp. INTC 2.86% is considering a range …
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Waymo is piloting self-driving trucks on highways in Atlanta region for carrying cargo bound for Google's data centers starting next week — Waymo's mission has always been to make it safe and easy for people and things to move around. So far, the focus has mostly been on people …
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| Scott Soshnick / Bloomberg: |
Facebook gets exclusive rights to stream 25 MLB afternoon games, making MLB first league to air season games solely on Facebook; sources say price ~$30M-$35M — First time a major U.S. league has given Facebook exclusivity — Most games will be on Wednesday afternoons; MLB will produce
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| Paul Ford / Bloomberg: |
Bitcoin and ICOs are in 1999-like bubble; they'll crash but will produce the next Google and Facebook and all the great and scary things the internet gave us — The true believers won't stop until they've remade the world. Some of it will be thrilling. Some of it will keep us up at night.
Tweets: @riskreversal, @fintechfrank, @ahmed, @felixgillette, @brendancbyrne, and @ameliasbrain
| David Carnoy / CNET: |
Bose shows off glasses with audio-based AR tech and sets up a $50M fund to back a new audio AR platform for wearables — OK, so this is weird, and not what we were expecting when Bose told us it was making a new product announcement at this year's SXSW: It's creating an augmented-reality platform.
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| Chris Bing / Cyberscoop: |
Research: some of the biggest ISPs in Turkey, Egypt serve redirect links to malware infected software for users downloading apps from vendors like Opera, Avast — An expansive and ongoing computer espionage campaign spread across Egypt, Turkey and Syria has been powered by technology developed …
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| Brad Abrams / The Keyword: |
Google updates Assistant with better media playback, subscriptions for Actions, and lets third-party vendors add custom Assistant commands to their devices — While I typically use my Google Assistant to play music, control my lights and set timers, it's easy to dream about what else could be possible …
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| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
Santa Monica-based Bird, Travis VanderZanden's controversial electric scooter rental startup, raises $100M Series B at $300M valuation; Bird raised $15M in Feb. — Update: Bird confirmed our reporting with an announcement of the close of the round. Index Ventures and Valor Ventures led the funding.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Facebook strikes a licensing deal with Warner Music, the last major label holdout, to use Warner's music in videos and messages on Facebook — Just weeks after signing a large licensing deal with leading indy label representative ICE, Facebook has continued its march into the world of music … | Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg: |
Palantir and Raytheon win a decade-long $876M army contract; Palantir won a lawsuit over the army's bidding practices before the contract was awarded — Billionaire investor Peter Thiel got a fresh victory in Washington. His data-mining startup, Palantir Technologies Inc. …
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Qualcomm names independent director Jeffrey Henderson as non-executive chairman, replacing executive chairman Paul Jacobs, who will stay on the board — In letter to U.S. lawmakers, Broadcom argues a combined company 'strongly supports America's national security interests'
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Report: Snap CEO Evan Spiegel sent a company-wide note to employees several months ago outlining goal to break even in 2018 — Snap CEO Evan Spiegel sent a company-wide note to employees “several months ago” outlining a zealous goal to break even in 2018, according to The Information.
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