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Sources: Microsoft has agreed to acquire GitHub; the deal could be announced as soon as Monday — - Companies are said to plan announcement as soon as Monday — San Francisco-based startup was valued at $2 billion in 2015 — Microsoft Corp. has agreed to acquire GitHub Inc. …
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Leaked 30-second video of macOS 10.14 shows Apple News app for Mac, a dark mode, and Xcode 10 — Developer Steve Troughton Smith today tweeted photos of macOS 10.14 with some very juicy details about Apple's upcoming operating system. The OS is very clearly sporting a fresh new dark theme …
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Tweets: @stroughtonsmith, @stroughtonsmith, @mgsiegler, @iansherr, @badlogicgames, and @ishanagarwal24
| James McLeod / Financial Post: |
CEO of Kik, which had an $100M ICO, talks about the limits of blockchain tech and why Kik is building own blockchain, a hybrid of Ethereum and Stellar, for Kin — 'What does blockchain do at the end of the day? It allows you to have a database that's trustless.
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CCN, Token Economy, and CryptoGlobe
Tweets: @derose, @_kevin_pham, @powtoken, and @philcrypto77
| David Meyer / ZDNet: |
German court rules that country's intelligence service BND can spy on the traffic flowing through Frankfurt's De-Cix, world's largest internet exchange point — Vital internet hub, De-Cix in Frankfurt, has lost its fight against German intelligence services' mass surveillance.| Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco: |
How optimistic investors bid up Bitcoin ahead of futures' debut last year, but new derivatives enabled pessimists to bet against Bitcoin, crashing the price — Galina Hale, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Marianna Kudlyak, and Patrick Shultz From Bitcoin's inception in 2009 through mid-2017, its price remained under $4,000.| Glyn Moody / Techdirt: |
German court throws out ICANN's lawsuit against EPAG, a Tucows-owned registrar that stopped collecting WHOIS data because of GDPR — from the who-is-whois-for? dept — The EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has only just started to be enforced, but it is already creating …
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| Ronan Glon / Digital Trends: |
Fiat Chrysler's five year plan: level 3 autonomy coming to most models by 2021, car sharing and in-car purchases for movie tickets, parking, and more in 2019 — The cloud of negativity surrounding autonomous and semi-autonomous cars isn't stopping Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) …
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| Adrianne Jeffries / New York Magazine: |
How Right Media, a New York-based adtech company, built the first internet ad exchange in 2005 and gave birth to programmatic advertising — In celebration of New York Magazine's 50th anniversary, this series, which will continue through October 2018, tells the stories behind key moments that shaped the city's culture.
Tweets: @profcarroll, @adrjeffries, @jarroddicker, and @nigelpclarkson
| CoinDesk: |
CEO of Ground X, Kakao's blockchain subsidiary, talks about dapps, ICOs, and how he plans to bring decentralization to Korea's dominant mobile messaging service — Both proponents and opponents of new technology tend to come up with extreme (or overly romantic) theories about it.| Wall Street Journal: |
Behind AWS CEO Andy Jassy's strategy for expanding the cloud platform by building new features and services that sometimes compete with partners on the platform — The giant's cloud-computing business offers a look inside its model for expanding. Some partners praise the unit's chief …
Tweets: @chupchap, @mdudas, @wsjtech, @hkanji, and @spicergerard
| Yimian Wu / China Money Network: |
Filing reveals Alibaba's financial affiliate Ant Financial has invested $321M in Chinese bike-sharing firm HelloBike at a $1.47B valuation — Alibaba's financial services unit Ant Financial has invested RMB2.06 billion (US$321 million) in bike sharing firm Hellobike, valuing the latter …
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| Mark Davis / Kansas City Star: |
Sprint CFO Michel Combes becomes the CEO, as Marcelo Claure becomes executive chairman to mostly focus on the approval of the merger with T-Mobile — Sprint has a new CEO starting today. But with the T-Mobile merger looming, Michel Combes may be job hunting soon. — Combes has landed on his feet in tight spots before.
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