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Tinder co-founders and eight former and current execs sue parent firm IAC, alleging they are owed billions because the startup's valuation had been depressed — Co-founders of Tinder and eight other former and current executives of the popular dating app are suing the service's current owners …
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A look at the proliferation of startup fundraising “mega-rounds” of $100M+, of which there were a record 273 last year and even more projected for this year — Start-ups raising $100 million or more from investors used to be a rarity. Now, this scale of fund raising is commonplace.| Nicholas Thompson / Wired: |
Q&A with Oscar CEO Mario Schlosser on how health care data can transform the industry as Alphabet invests $375M in the provider, following Capital G and Verily — IN THE LATE 1990s, two graduate students named in Stanford's computer science department set out to organize the world's information.
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| Kate Conger / New York Times: |
Uber appoints Matt Olsen, former general counsel for the NSA, as its CSO, replacing Joe Sullivan, who left last year amid controversial handling of data breach — Last November, Uber's new chief executive, Dara Khosrowshahi, penned an apologetic note to riders and drivers explaining … | Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk: |
Square announces it now lets customers buy and sell Bitcoin via its Cash App in all 50 US states — Mobile payments firm Square now lets customers buy and sell bitcoins via its Cash App in all 50 U.S. states. — The company - which was co-founded by Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey …
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Quiz game HQ Trivia debuts an Apple TV app as it hopes to return to growth; its mobile apps' store rankings and concurrent viewers have slid in recent months — HQ Trivia's app store ranking has continued to sink the past three months, but it's hoping a new version on your television could revitalize growth.
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Cybersecurity startup Exabeam, which uses machine learning and big data to mitigate threats, raises $50M Series D led by Lightspeed Venture Partners — Exabeam, a cybersecurity startup that leverages big data, machine learning, and analytics to detect and respond to cyber threats …
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A look at how China is compiling a global registry of Uighurs to better surveil those who live outside the country, including in the US — A major human rights crisis is unfolding in northwestern China, according to the United Nations, which said last week that there were credible reports … | Stacy Cowley / New York Times: |
To fight fraud, banks and retailers use behavioral biometrics to build millions of user profiles by tracking how they type, swipe, tap when using sites and apps — When you're browsing a website and the mouse cursor disappears, it might be a computer glitch — or it might be a deliberate test to find out who you are.
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| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
As it refreshes its brand, a look at the past, present, and future of Evernote, which started in 2002 and has 225M registered users worldwide — “Why the hell are we here today?” — Chris O'Neill, Evernote's CEO, is addressing an audience made up of the company's employees in a tent pitched … Thanks:@mariedomingo
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Instagram Stories are as good, if not better, than Snapchat's, but that may present a short-term problem for Facebook as users spend less time on News Feeds — This is hardly the first Stratechery article about Facebook to start with Snapchat. The “camera company” née social network … | Nicholas Confessore / New York Times: |
How a few activists, concerned by the lack of regulation of US internet firms' data collection practices, led an effort that resulted in CA's new privacy bill — Facebook and Google made billions mining personal data, and fought off anyone who threatened to stop them. Then came a challenge in their own backyard.
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| Ryan Smith / AnandTech: |
NVIDIA unveils Turing GPU architecture, says it includes AI-based capabilities and real-time ray tracing, and announces Quadro RTX GPUs that will ship Q4 2018 — Moments ago at NVIDIA's SIGGRAPH 2018 keynote presentation, company CEO Jensen Huang formally unveiled the company's much awaited (and much rumored) Turing GPU architecture.
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