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Colin Kroll, the CEO, co-founder of HQ Trivia and co-founder of Vine, has died at 34; police source says a drug overdose is suspected — Colin Kroll, the CEO and co-founder of HQ Trivia, has died of an apparent drug overdose ... TMZ has learned. — Law enforcement sources tell TMZ …
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Robinhood deletes tweets about launching checking and savings accounts, scrubs the page from its website, and now calls the offering a “cash management” program — After a backlash around the marketing of its newest product, Robinhood Financial LLC has rebranded the service …
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Leaked report prepared for US Senate provides exhaustive analysis of Russian disinformation campaign to support Trump during 2016 election and up to mid-2017 — The report, a draft of which was obtained by The Washington Post, is the first to study the millions of posts provided … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
PlanetScale, a database-as-a-service startup based on tech that helped scale YouTube, exits stealth, has raised $3M seed from prominent tech executives in April — Database legends emerge with a new startup — When the former CTOs of YouTube, Facebook and Dropbox seed fund a database startup … | Bloomberg: |
With EU governments increasingly concerned about Huawei, telecoms including UK's BT, France's Orange, and Deutsche Telekom are reconsidering the use of its gear — - BT and Deutsche Telekom among companies distancing themselves — Europe is the equipment maker's biggest market outside China
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Tencent's Blade security team finds SQLite vulnerability that affects thousands of apps, including Google Home and Chromium open-source browser engine — New ‘Magellan’ vulnerability will haunt the app ecosystem for years to come. — A security vulnerability in the massively popular …
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A secured lender is selling off assets, including AR/VR patent portfolio, of Osterhout Design Group, the maker of R-9 and other smartglasses — Osterhout Design Group (ODG) may be dead before mass shipping its R-9 augmented reality glasses, with an asset sale planned for January focused on the AR company's patent portfolio.
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| Cambridge Judge Business School: |
Study: crypto asset service providers have 139M total users and at least 35M identity-verified users whose growth nearly doubled in first three quarters of 2018 — Findings by the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance describe the evolution of an industry that saw big growth in 2017.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Synthace, the developer of Antha OS for automating laboratory processes for biological experiments, raises $25.6M Series B led by Horizons Ventures — U.K.-based startup Synthace wants to automate laboratory processes with a programming language designed for biological experiments, and it's getting the financial backing to do it.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Latticework, which is working on a consumer focused $550 NAS device called Amber and a cloud backup platform, has raised a $13M seed round — It seems nary a week goes by without a breach that compromises millions of personal files. On Monday, Google revealed that it will shut down its social network …
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| Klint Finley / Wired: |
A year after FCC's vote to repeal net neutrality rules, there have been no big changes in how ISPs and mobile carriers provide their services — IT'S BEEN ONE year since the Federal Communications Commission voted to gut its net neutrality rules. The good news is that the internet isn't drastically different than it was before.| Jeanine Poggi / Ad Age: |
Hulu is launching a new private programmatic marketplace for advertisers to buy its on-demand and TV inventory; the marketplace won't replace upfront deals — Hulu is further automating advertising on the streaming platform with a new private programmatic marketplace.Sponsor Posts
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