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Hardware maker Supermicro says review by an outside investigations firm found no evidence of any malicious chips in its current or older motherboards — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Computer hardware maker Super Micro Computer Inc told customers on Tuesday that an outside investigations firm …
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| Scott Moritz / Bloomberg: |
Verizon writes down the value of its AOL and Yahoo acquisitions by $4.6B in filing, amid tough competition in the digital advertising industry — Verizon Communications Inc. slashed the value of its AOL and Yahoo acquisitions by $4.6 billion, conceding that tough competition for digital advertising …
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| Abigail Geiger / Pew Research Center: |
Pew: one in five US adults say they frequently get their news from social media, surpassing the number who get theirs from print (16%) for the first time — Social media sites have surpassed print newspapers as a news source for Americans: One-in-five U.S. adults say they often get news via social media …
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| Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter: |
Instagram says it is testing “creator account” profiles with specialized tools like analytics and DM filtering, rolling out more widely next year — A small group of high-profile Instagram users are testing the new “creator account” profiles, which offer tools tailored to influencers.
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| Robert D. McFadden / New York Times: |
Evelyn Berezin, who designed and built the first true word processors around 1970 as the founder and president of Redactron, has died at 93 — Evelyn Berezin, a computer pioneer who emancipated many a frazzled secretary from the shackles of the typewriter nearly a half-century ago by building …
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| Kate Rooney / CNBC: |
Plaid, which makes tools to let other apps connect to users' bank accounts, raises $250M Series C led by Mary Meeker, source says at a $2.65B valuation — - The San Francisco-based company announced its latest $250 million funding round led by venture capital veteran Mary Meeker, who is also joining Plaid's board.
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Report: Uber operations manager sent 890-word email to execs with serious concerns about autonomous program just days before an Uber vehicle killed a pedestrian — Solutions that could have prevented collision were proposed — An 890-word email was sent to Uber's executives …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
LogDNA, which helps devs assess log data, raises $25M Series B led by Emergence Capital with participation from YC and Alexis Ohanian's firm Initialized Capital — Developers have to contend with a firehose of log data every day — terabytes, in some cases.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google to shut down consumer version of Google+ in Apr. 2019 instead of Aug. and retire Google+ APIs within 90 days, after finding API bug impacting ~52.M users — After discovering another security issue potentially impacting 52.5 million users, Google today announced that the consumer version …
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| Recode: |
Recap of Pichai's testimony before Congress, where he said Google had 100+ people working on a Chinese search engine at one point but has no plans to launch it — Here's what we learned when the search giant's CEO answered questions from the House Judiciary Committee.
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Latest recommendations for EU's Article 13 seek to appease both the legacy copyright industries and the tech companies without actually addressing key concerns — As we've been discussing the “Trilogue” negotiations between the EU Commission, EU Council and EU Parliament over the EU's Copyright Directive …
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| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Design collaboration startup InVision raises $115M Series F at a $1.9B valuation, led by Spark Capital, bringing total funding to $350M — The design collaboration startup now sees $100 million in annual recurring revenue... “The screen is becoming the most important place in the world,” says InVision CEO and founder Clark Valberg.| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Dell votes to buy back VMware tracking stock and go public again, to trade on NYSE beginning December 28 under the symbol DELL — Dell just announced that it has agreed to buy back the VMware tracking stock from the EMC acquisition. The company confirmed the buy-back price of $120 per share for a total of $23.9 billion.
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SiliconANGLE, Business Insider, Dell Technologies, ZDNet, The Register, Xconomy, and Silicon Valley Business …. Tweets: @mgsiegler
| Kate Clark / TechCrunch: |
Used car marketplace Vroom has raised $146M Series G led by automotive retailer AutoNation — Vroom has raised $146 million in Series G funding, an expansion to a $30 million investment we reported in early September. U.S. automotive retailer AutoNation led the round for the startup …
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| Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: |
Sources say Japanese firms hold stakes worth at least $13B combined in US ride-hailing startups: SoftBank holds 15%+ of Uber and Rakuten 10%+ of Lyft — - SoftBank holds more than 15% of Uber, Rakuten over 10% of Lyft — The stakes would be worth at least $13 billion combined
Tweets: @ericnewcomer and @jonrussell
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Four years after launching in the US, Apple brings Apple Pay to Germany with 15 supported banks and services — Apple's mobile payment technology has finally launched in Germany, some four years after it debuted in the U.S. — On its newly launched Apple Pay website for Germany …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook is testing search ads in its search bar and Marketplace in the US and Canada, directly competing with Google's AdWords — It's an ad duoply battle. Facebook is starting to test search ads in its search bar and Marketplace, directly competing with Google's AdWords.| Kate Clark / TechCrunch: |
Sidecar, which was early ride-hailing player, is suing Uber, alleging that tactics like sending “fraudulent ride requests” were used against it — Sidecar, an early player in the ride-hailing business, is suing Uber, claiming the billion-dollar business “stifled competition … | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
AppOnboard, which offers a tool for app developers to let users try their app before they buy, raises $15M Series B led by Breakaway Growth — AppOnboard scored a big deal with Google earlier this year when the partners announced AppOnboard's tech would be used to bring playable demos directly …
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TechCrunch and AdExchanger
| Tom McKay / Gizmodo: |
An overview of responses to Jack Dorsey's tone-deaf tweets about a trip to Myanmar that failed to mention the region's genocide, which social media enabled — Jack Dorsey, CEO of social media platform Twitter—the company now emblazoned in the public eye as one of the primary mouthpieces …
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