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Coinbase adds Civic, district0x, Loom Network, and Decentraland to its Coinbase Pro trading platform and is considering 27 other tokens — UPDATE, 12/7/18 18:00 UTC: Four hours after announcing the list, Coinbase Pro said it was launching support for Civic, District0x, Loom Network and Decentraland's tokens.
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Sources: Uber has confidentially filed for an IPO; filing indicates it could go public as soon as the first quarter of 2019 — The filing indicates a public listing could come in early 2019, pitting the ride-hailing service against rival Lyft — Uber Technologies Inc. filed paperwork confidentially …
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Canada's DOJ argues Huawei CFO committed fraud by misrepresenting a Huawei subsidiary as an independent company, tricking US banks into violating Iran sanctions — VANCOUVER, British Columbia — The reasons that the United States asked the Canadian authorities to arrest a top executive …
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Epic's PC and Mac games store, announced earlier this week, is live with Epic's own Fortnite and Unreal Tournament, Supergiant Games' Hades, with more to come — It's a busy week for Epic Games . Fresh from pushing out a major season 7 update for Fortnite, so the gaming giant has taken the wraps off its own games store.
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| Lux Alptraum / The Verge: |
Tumblr's initial embrace of pornography helped it grow users, but it has since been phased out following Yahoo acquisition — When censoring sex becomes preferable to acknowledging its existence — About a decade ago, I met up with Tumblr founder David Karp at a SoHo coffee shop.| Ali Tamaseb: |
An analysis of 195 startups with valuations over $1B, using 65 factors like founder background, industry sector, competition, and funding — I Spent 300 Hours Gathering Data On Billion-Dollar Startups and Here's 100 Charts You Shouldn't Miss — About 15 months ago, I embarked on a journey …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Apple acquired Platoon, a UK-based startup that uses analytics to source talent like musicians and writers to produce, distribute, and sell their work — Spotify has made some significant moves to bypass record labels and work directly with artists, and there are signs that Apple …
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| Dami Lee / The Verge: |
Amazon says Alexa can now better recognize context, such as playing the right song after an inaccurate request or launching a skill without hearing its name — Alexa will understand you meant to say, ‘Play Nice for What’ instead of ‘Good for What’ — In a developer blog post published today …
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| Louise Matsakis / Wired: |
Amazon robots caused bear repellent explosions both in 2018, when one punctured a can and hospitalized dozens, and 2015, when another ran over a can in Texas — Two dozen Amazon warehouse employees in New Jersey were hospitalized Wednesday, one in critical condition, after a robot punctured …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google has found three malicious ad network SDKs as part of Cheetah Mobile and Kika Tech ad fraud probe; sources: SDKs are from AltaMob, BatMobi, and YeahMobi — A few days ago, Google removed popular Cheetah Mobile and Kika Tech apps from its Play Store following a BuzzFeed investigation …
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Sources: Slack has hired Goldman Sachs to lead its IPO, expected in 2019, which it hopes will fetch a valuation of well over $10B — (Reuters) - Slack Technologies Inc, a provider of chat and direct messaging services for businesses, has hired investment bank Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N) … | Lauren Thomas / CNBC: |
Walmart to acquire the assets of Art.com, an online seller of art and wall decor which, a source says, was recently bringing in $300M in sales annually — - Marc Lore, head of Walmart's U.S. e-commerce business, has said the company could one day own upwards of 40 digitally native brands.
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