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Nvidia to buy Mellanox Technologies, which makes chips and other hardware for data center servers, for $6.9B — - Mellanox holders offered $125-per-share in all-cash deal — Graphics chipmaker trying to further embed itself in servers — Nvidia Corp. agreed to buy chipmaker Mellanox …
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Appen, a crowdsourced data annotation startup, is acquiring rival Figure Eight for $175M in cash upfront and up to $125M more based on this year's performance — Appen just announced that it's acquiring Figure Eight in an all-cash deal that sees Appen paying $175 million upfront …
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Facebook sues two Ukrainian developers for enticing 60K+ users to install browser extensions that scraped personal info and injected ads into their News Feeds — Facebook has sued two Ukrainian men for allegedly using quiz apps to scrape Facebook users' private data and inject advertisements into their News Feeds.
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| Dana Thomas / New York Times: |
Profile of Morin Oluwole, the global head of luxury for Facebook and Instagram, who helps brands like Louis Vuitton and Dior target customers on the platform — Morin Oluwole heads the social media giant's advisory operation for Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior and others.
Tweets: @profcarroll, @jason_kint, @kayodea, and @counternotions
| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
France overhauls French Tech Visa program, which now has no diploma requirements, accepts employee's immediate family, and is generally less onerous to acquire — The French government has unveiled a complete overhaul of the French Tech Visa for employees working for a tech company.| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
Tesla reverses course, says it will keep more stores open than previously planned, and will raise vehicle prices by ~3% worldwide after March 18 — - Tesla CEO Elon Musk told employees in an e-mail late Sunday night that the company would be shifting its sales plans yet again.
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| NBC News: |
Researchers who claim to have discovered the Citrix breach say Iran-linked hackers stole at least 6TB of data, may have first gained access 10 years ago — The hackers are believed to have penetrated the software giant Citrix years ago and have remained inside the company's computer network ever since.
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| Chris Ip / Engadget: |
How Foursquare, which tracks the location of millions via their smartphones and has 100K+ clients including Snapchat and Uber, makes sure its data isn't misused — It seems counter-intuitive that, in the thick of a backlash against Big Tech's data privacy abuses, Dennis Crowley …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Interview with Sen. Warren on her plan to break up big tech, including Apple, which she says shouldn't both run the App Store and distribute its own apps in it — Under Warren's plan, Amazon would not be able to sell Amazon Basics products on the Amazon retail store, Google would not be able … | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Researchers find Box enterprise cloud storage accounts leaking sensitive data like prices for donated body parts and backdoor passwords to city water works — Security researchers have found dozens of companies inadvertently leaking sensitive corporate and customer data because staff … | Min Jeong Lee / Bloomberg: |
Messaging app Kakao's cryptocurrency subsidiary Ground X raises $90M via a private coin offering to develop paid services on its network — - Ground X plans to raise similar sum starting on Tuesday — Kakao mulling launching services on unit's blockchain platform
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