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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Ming-Chi Kuo: USB-C on 2018 iPad Pro, Touch ID on 2018 MacBook, EKG and ceramic backs on all Apple Watch Series 4 models, and more — Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has issued a new research note today, obtained by MacRumors, that outlines several predictions about Apple's upcoming products …
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| Evan Osnos / New Yorker: |
Profile of Mark Zuckerberg, who is at the center of a debate about the moral character of Silicon Valley, as he tries to fix Facebook before it breaks democracy — The most famous entrepreneur of his generation is facing a public reckoning with the power of Big Tech.| Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss / Reuters: |
NY regulator approves its first stablecoins; the digital currencies, strictly pegged to US dollar on a one-to-one basis, come from Paxos and Winklevoss' Gemini — NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York state's Department of Finiancial Services on Monday approved Gemini Trust Company's …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft announces Azure DevOps, which will succeed Visual Studio Team Services, and Azure DevOps Server, the successor of Team Foundation Server — Microsoft today announced Azure DevOps, the successor of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS, formerly Visual Studio Online) and Azure DevOps Server … | Mark Wycislik-Wilson / BetaNews: |
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| Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
Carnegie Mellon's Andrew Moore to join Google Cloud as new head of AI later this year, as current leader Fei Fei Li returns to Stanford — After an interesting year for Google Cloud's artificial intelligence group, Andrew Moore, dean of computer science at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon Wear 3100 Platform for Android smartwatches with a quad-core A7 processor, 4G LTE, and an ultra-low power coprocessor — After a series of false starts and missed forecasts, the smartwatch market has finally started to come into its own.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Snap's Chief Strategy Officer Imran Khan is leaving the company after four years, sources say to start his own investment firm — Earlier today, Snap made some waves when it announced that Imran Khan, its chief strategy officer, was stepping down from his role to pursue other opportunities.
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| Erin Griffith / New York Times: |
Pinterest now has 250M MAUs, saw user growth of 27% and revenue growth of 50% YoY, but sources say its steady approach has frustrated some investors, employees — SAN FRANCISCO — Ben Silbermann does not enjoy being interviewed. He isn't a fan of speaking at tech industry conferences.| Mike Dano / FierceWireless: |
AT&T names Samsung, Ericsson, Nokia as its 5G equipment suppliers, same as all other top US carriers, and expands its list of upcoming 5G markets to 19 cities — AT&T announced Monday morning that Samsung, Ericsson and Nokia would supply its 5G network equipment.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Intel acquires San Jose-based NetSpeed Systems, which it had invested in previously, for better tools to make system-on-a-chip designs — Intel today is announcing another acquisition as it continues to pick up talent and IP to bolster its next generation of computing chips beyond legacy PCs.
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| Saheli Roy Choudhury / CNBC: |
Alibaba announces Jack Ma will remain executive chairman for a year, and CEO Daniel Zhang will take over as chairman on September 10, 2019 — - Alibaba said on Monday that CEO Daniel Zhang will take over as chairman of the board in a year, succeeding current executive chairman Jack Ma.
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| Michael del Castillo / Forbes: |
Lightyear, a for-profit subsidiary of Stellar Development Foundation, acquires Chain, a Visa and Citi-backed startup making blockchain tech for finance industry — The for-profit subsidiary of the Stellar Development Foundation has purchased Chain, a venture backed blockchain startup …
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Reuters, CoinDesk, Bloomberg, Yahoo! Finance, The Next Web, Crypto Briefing, Bitsonline, and PYMNTS.com. Tweets: @forbesinvestor
| Dami Lee / The Verge: |
Samsung debuts SmartThings tracker with LTE for real-time location tracking, geofencing alerts, more; coming Sept. 14 for $99 with AT&T, $5/mo. after first year — Samsung is releasing a SmartThings tracker that's powered by LTE-M (instead of Bluetooth) to help you find stuff.
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| Lynn La / CNET: |
OnePlus says its OnePlus 6T flagship will have a fingerprint reader in the display, likely making it the first phone widely available in the US with the feature — The upcoming OnePlus 6T will feature an in-display fingerprint reader, the company confirmed to CNET.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Atrium LTS, Twitch co-founder Justin Kan's legal technology services startup, raises $65M from a16z — Twitch's Justin Kan returns to pwn law firms — Let the computers do the legal busy work so attorneys can focus on complex problem solving for their clients.
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PCWorld, Business Insider, Forbes, Andreessen Horowitz, atrium, Silicon Valley Business …, and Axios
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Sources: Citigroup developed Digital Asset Receipts or DARs, similar to regulated ADRs, but for crypto, where bank holds asset and issues receipt for investor — - Citigroup has created what it's calling a Digital Asset Receipt or DAR, thought to be the most direct way to invest … | Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
TransferWise says it now has 4M+ users, revenue for year ending March 2018 hit £117M, up from £66M YoY, and it made a profit of £9.5M, up from loss of £520K YoY — - TransferWise reported an annual post-tax net profit of $8 million for the fiscal year ending March 2018.
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| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Uber hires Coca-Cola veteran Rebecca Messina as its first chief marketing officer — Uber announced today that it has hired Coca-Cola veteran Rebecca Messina to serve as its chief marketing officer. Messina is the first person to hold that title at Uber and will work with its international marketing teams …
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| Barney Thompson / Financial Times: |
On Tuesday, a top EU court will decide if the EU's “right to be forgotten” regulations should apply worldwide and what type of information should be delisted — Europe's top judges are being asked to decide the limits of the “right to be forgotten” — a person's ability to demand … | Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat: |
Evaneos, which connects tourists with a list of local travel agencies to book personalized trips, raises $81M Series D led by Partech and Level Equity — Online travel marketplace Evaneos announced it has raised $81 million in venture capital as the Paris-based company seeks to push outside Europe.
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