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Microsoft and Google detail new Spectre and Meltdown flaw, Variant 4, that uses a different method to extract info; Intel says patch coming within weeks — Intel said it will soon release updates to fix newly revealed vulnerabilities. — Intel has disclosed a new variant of its widespread Spectre …
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| Nico Grant / Bloomberg: |
Adobe announces $1.68B deal to buy Magento Commerce alongside a $8B common stock buyback program through 2021 — - Company also announces $8 billion share repurchase plan — Acquisition will help it compete against Salesforce, Oracle — Adobe Systems Inc. agreed to buy e-commerce company Magento …
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TechCrunch, Business Wire, CNBC, Reuters, Adobe Blog, ZDNet, Light Reading, PYMNTS.com, MarketWatch, Adobe Newsroom, Investor's Business Daily, Axios, and Seeking Alpha. Tweets: @willoremus. Thanks:@sameerpatel
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Photos is adding a new star-shaped Favorites button for your own photos starting today, and a heart-shaped Like button coming next week for shared photos — Twitter swapped out its Favorite star icon for an appreciation-focused heart icon instead, but Google Photos is embracing both icons with an update rolling out now.| Jeff Grubb / VentureBeat: |
Epic Games, maker of popular Fortnite, commits $100M over next 12 months to prize pools for the game's competitions, dwarfing other games' esports prize money — Epic Games had $100 million burning a hole in its proverbial pocket, and the company has decided to use that cash to begin building …
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| Michael D. Shear / New York Times: |
Barack and Michelle Obama sign multiyear deal with Netflix to produce TV shows and films for the streaming service, from scripted series to documentaries — WASHINGTON — Former President Barack Obama formally announced on Monday a multiyear production deal with Netflix in which he and the former …
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| Paul Thurrott / Thurrott.com: |
Acer to pre-install Alexa on its PC lineup, starting with Spin 5 laptops, and roll the feature out to compatible Acer models over the next few weeks — Acer announced this morning that it is the first to ship notebook PCs preinstalled with Amazon Alexa. It won't be the last.
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| Mark Hachman / PCWorld: |
Facebook and Qualcomm partner to develop high-speed Terragraph WiFi for cities, will begin field trials in 2019 using 60GHz technology from Qualcomm — Facebook's plan to connect neighborhoods and businesses wirelessly, known as Terragraph, will begin field trials in 2019 using 60GHz technology …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft launches SharePoint Spaces so users can view company content in mixed reality and says that 400K organizations now use SharePoint, up about 100% YoY — Microsoft today unveiled its latest vision for a mixed reality (MR) world with the launch of SharePoint Spaces …
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Microsoft 365 Blog, The Verge, ZDNet, MSPoweruser, GeekWire, Windows Central, and Neowin
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China, signaling thaw with US over trade, approved sale of Toshiba's lucrative microchip unit last week to a consortium led by Bain Capital — Chinese officials have finally approved Toshiba's sale of a majority stake in its lucrative microchip unit to an American-led group …
Tweets: @nytimes
| Tara Francis Chan / Business Insider: |
Chinese state-run media says the country's social credit system has blocked people from taking over 11M flights and 4M train trips; full rollout coming by 2020 — - The social credit system in China has blocked people from taking more than 11 million flights and 4 million train trips.
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| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Researcher Karan Saini finds a bug in Comcast's website that leaks Xfinity users' info, including home address where the router is located and Wi-Fi credentials — Exclusive: A bug in Comcast's website leaks sensitive customer information. — A bug in Comcast's website used … | Ben Fox Rubin / CNET: |
Amazon debuts Marketplace Appstore, to provide 3rd-party tools for pricing, inventory, and advertising to professional sellers, rolling out in North America — Amazon is creating another app store, but it's not for consumers. — Instead, the online retail giant will for the first time put … | Sara Salinas / CNBC: |
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin urges DOJ to review monopolies in tech after a 60 Minutes segment about Google's monopoly in search — - Mnuchin acknowledged that antitrust matters don't fall under his jurisdiction, but said someone ought to be looking. — His comments come on the heels of a …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram is testing a mid-feed alert that tells users they are caught up on all new posts from the past 48 hours — Without a chronological feed, it can be tough to tell if you've seen all the posts Instagram will show you. That can lead to more of the compulsive, passive … | Politico: |
Sources: Trump has rebuffed efforts to improve security around his phone use, has gone as long as five months without having phone checked by security experts — The president has kept features at risk for hacking and resisted efforts by staff to inspect the phones he uses for tweeting.| Chris Bing / Cyberscoop: |
Inside Project Indigo, the quiet info-sharing program between banks and US Cyber Command that helps the government respond quickly to online attacks — A secret information sharing agreement between the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC) …
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New York Times, PaymentsSource, PYMNTS.com, and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check. Thanks:@gregotto
| M.G. Siegler / 500ish Words: |
Twitter risks ostracizing its longtime and more influential users by killing its native Mac app twice and squeezing 3rd-party apps to death via API changes — Twitter's old habits die hard — The new Tweetbot for Mac is good. Very good, even. But it's just short of great.| Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
As companies flood EU residents' inboxes ahead of GDPR rollout, experts say many of those consent emails are unnecessary and some may be even illegal — Many firms have the required consent already; others don't have consent to send a request — The vast majority of emails flooding inboxes across Europe … | Mark Scott / Politico: |
European Parliament President says Mark Zuckerberg's meeting with MEPs on Tuesday will be livestreamed — Turnaround comes after plans for a closed-door meeting with the Facebook chief and select MEPs prompted widespread criticism. — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's meeting with MEPs …
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Recode, TechCrunch, USA Today, The Hill, International Business Times, Mashable, BetaNews, Ubergizmo, The Verge, Engadget, Silicon Republic, Quartz, TechSpot, CNET, Reuters, Fortune, 9to5Google, Fast Company, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, Financial Times, BBC, and Bloomberg. Tweets: @ep_president
| Julie Bort / Business Insider: |
Sales automation startup Outreach raises $65M Series D led by Spark Capital, CEO says at $500M valuation, with SAP's Sapphire Ventures joining as a new investor — - The hot Seattle startup Outreach has raised another $65 million, bringing its total investment to $125 million at a valuation …
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| Nitasha Tiku / Wired: |
After last week's Google resignations, a look at how big tech firms' employees feel about their employers' defense contracts, from indifference to activism — FOR MONTHS, A growing faction of Google employees has tried to force the company to drop out of a controversial military program called Project Maven.| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
HMD Global, developer of Nokia-branded phones, raises $100M round led by Swiss VC firm Ginko Ventures at a valuation of $1B+ — HMD Global, the so-called “home of Nokia phones,” has raised $100 million in a round of funding led by Swiss VC firm Ginko Ventures, with participation …
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HMD Global, Thurrott.com, Android Police, Android Authority, Gizmochina, TechCrunch, CNET, and Android Central
| Technology Startups News: |
Cuebiq, a US location intelligence and consumer insights firm, raises $27M Series B with Nasdaq Ventures, Tribeca Venture Partners, Goldman Sachs participating — Cubeiq is a business intelligence company that provides its clients with consumer behavior and trend insights.Sponsor Posts
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