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Sources: DOJ is pursuing a criminal case against Huawei for alleged trade secret theft from US business partners including T-Mobile; indictment is expected soon — Probe involves allegations that Huawei stole robot phone-testing technology from T-Mobile — Federal prosecutors are pursuing …
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Tweets: @nicole_hong, @nicole_hong, and @dnvolz
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft is planning to decouple Windows search and Cortana in the next major Windows 10 update, expected in April, so typed queries will be handled separately — Windows search is now free to get more powerful — Microsoft is making some big changes to Cortana in Windows 10.
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Tweets: @johnkoetsier and @bdsams
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Pew survey of 963 US Facebook users: 74% didn't know the company compiles lists of their interests and traits to target ads; 51% were uncomfortable with this — A study by the Pew Research Center suggests most Facebook users are still in the dark about how the company tracks and profiles them for ad-targeting purposes.
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Google to raise prices globally for G Suite on April 2; G Suite Basic will go from $5 to $6, G Suite Business will go from $10 per user per month to $12 — The G Suite price increases are the first in a decade. Google argues that the price increases reflect more value. G Suite Enterprise prices unchanged.
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| The Seattle Times: |
Microsoft pledges $500M to tackle housing crisis in Seattle: $475M for loans to housing developers over three years and $25M for resident services — The pledge is the largest in the company's 44-year history, and comes as Microsoft and other tech giants that have driven …
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Documents and eyewitnesses say T-Mobile execs have been frequently staying at Trump's D.C. hotel as VIPs as T-Mobile seeks approval for its $26B Sprint merger — Last April, telecom giant T-Mobile announced a megadeal: a $26 billion merger with rival Sprint, which would more than double T-Mobile's value …
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| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Snap CFO Tim Stone resigned after a dispute with management over pay, going around CEO Evan Spiegel to ask Snap's board for a significant raise — - Stone went around Spiegel to seek pay bump, people say — Executive also sought promotion to Khan's former strategy job
Tweets: @sarahfrier and @selina_y_wang
| Heather Kelly / CNN: |
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| Brandon Gomez / CNBC: |
Niantic, the company behind Pokémon Go, raises $245M Series C led by IVP at a $4B valuation and says it's working on Harry Potter games — Augmented reality developer Niantic said Wednesday it has raised $245 million in a Series C funding round led by venture capital firm IVP.
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Trump signs the OPEN Government Data Act, asking federal agencies to default to making data public when possible and publishing it in a machine-readable format — The federal government produces one hell of a lot of data, but despite desultory lurches towards usability there's little guarantee …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Fiserv is buying payments giant First Data in a $22B all-stock deal; Fiserv's CEO Jeffery Yabuki will become CEO of the combined entity — While we will continue to see a lot of consolidation among smaller startups in the area of financial technology, or fintech, there are also some much bigger combinations … | Yogita Khatri / CoinDesk: |
Binance launches fiat-to-crypto exchange on the island of Jersey, letting European users trade Bitcoin and Ethereum against the pound and euro — Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by adjusted trading volume, has launched a new fiat-to-crypto exchange on the island of Jersey, a British self-governing dependency.
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| Jan Wolfe / Reuters: |
Match Group and IAC seek $250M damages in a countersuit against Tinder founder Sean Rad, alleging he copied company files and other proprietary information — (Reuters) - Online dating company Match Group Inc (MTCH.O) and its parent company IAC/InterActiveCorp (IAC.O) have filed a lawsuit against Sean Rad … | Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Following AT&T and T-Mobile, Sprint says it will stop selling customers' real-time location data to third-parties but didn't provide a timeframe — After AT&T and T-Mobile said they would stop selling their customers' phone location data to third parties, Sprint followed suit.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
SuperData: revenue from digital games rose to $110.7B in 2018, up 11% YoY, with mobile making $61.6B; the top free-to-play game was Fortnite, earning $2.4B — Digital games and interactive media grew 13 percent to $119.6 billion in 2018, partly on the strength of Epic Games' Fortnite …
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Sources: Lenovo is partnering with Verizon to reintroduce the Motorola Razr phone with a foldable screen, at a price starting at ~$1,500 — Motorola seeks to revive flip phone that was dethroned by the iPhone a decade ago — The Motorola Razr phone is making a comeback.
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Tweets: @shiraovide, @mcwm, @mgsiegler, and @stevekopack
| Nick Summers / Engadget: |
Unity updates ToS so that any third-party software, like Improbable's SpatialOS, can be used with its game engine, following last week's fracas — Everything is back to normal. Sort of. — Unity has had a change of heart. The company is updating its Terms of Service so that any third-party software …
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| Paresh Dave / Reuters: |
Facebook says it will extend its stricter political ad rules to India, Nigeria, Ukraine, and the EU ahead of upcoming elections in the next few months — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc told Reuters on Tuesday that it would extend some of its political advertising rules and tools …
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NYC-based Sonrai Security, which helps companies manage cloud data, raises $18.5M Series A led by Polaris Partners and TenEleven Ventures — Sonrai Security, a NYC-based Cloud Data Control company, raised $18.5m in Series A funding. — The round was led by Polaris Partners and TenEleven Ventures …
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Indian education unicorn Byju's acquires Osmo, which develops interactive play apps that tie into custom hardware, for $120M — Weeks after it raised a massive $540 million funding round, Indian education unicorn Byju's is on the M&A path. The company announced today it has snapped up U.S-based Osmo … | Akanksha Rana / Reuters: |
NY-based Infor, a provider of software licenses to companies via the cloud, raises $1.5B from Koch Equity and Golden Gate Capital, follows early 2017 $2B raise — (Reuters) - Cloud technology company Infor Inc said on Wednesday it received an investment of $1.5 billion from shareholders …
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TechCrunch, PE Hub Blog, and SiliconANGLE
| Matthew Gault / Motherboard: |
DoD IG says the DoD faces challenges in managing cybersecurity risk, with 266 recommendations on cyber threats dating back to 2008 still open as of Sept. 2018 — A new report from US military watchdogs outlines hundreds of cybersecurity vulnerabilities. — The Department of Defense is terrible at cybersecurity.| Rachel Yang / Variety: |
Roku says it is removing two Infowars channels on its platform after criticism from users and a rebuke from some Sandy Hook families — Roku has taken the Infowars channel off its platform after the streaming device faced criticism for carrying the controversial program hosted by right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
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Tweets: @roku, @oliverdarcy, @jason_kint, @slpng_giants, @jank0, @alexeheath, @paul__walsh, @mgsiegler, @jaredlholt, @shortformernie, and @jacknicas
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo announces it will use Apple Maps to power map and address-related searches, using Apple's MapKit JS framework — Apple's MapKit JS has a big, new user — DuckDuckGo has spent the last few years making the case that it's the search engine …
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