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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft says it will invest $1B in OpenAI, beginning a partnership to jointly develop new AI technologies for the Azure cloud platform — Microsoft today announced that it would invest $1 billion in OpenAI, the San Francisco-based AI research firm cofounded by CTO Greg Brockman …
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Tweets: @jwangark, @codybrown, @paulg, @seanmmcdonald, @benedictevans, @tomwarren, @epro, @ghadfield, and @jwangark
| Washington Post: |
Leaked documents show Huawei secretly helped North Korea build its wireless 3G network, raising the question of whether it violated US export controls — Huawei Technologies Co., the Chinese tech giant embroiled in President Trump's trade war with China and blacklisted as a national security threat …
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| Stacy Cowley / New York Times: |
Equifax will pay at least $650M and potentially significantly more to end an array of state, federal, and consumer claims over the 2017 data breach — The credit bureau Equifax will pay at least $650 million and potentially significantly more to end an array of state, federal and consumer claims …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Profile of Jeff Williams, Tim Cook's heir apparent as CEO, who is broadly regarded as a strong choice for the top job within Apple — Jeff Williams co-created the Apple Watch and runs the company's global operations. Can he also handle design—and everything else?
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MacRumors, iMore, Cult of Mac, AppleInsider, iPhone Hacks, MacDailyNews, iDownloadBlog.com, 9to5Mac, Appleosophy, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @benedictevans, @kkiyer90, @markgurman, @markgurman, @thenickguy, @stroughtonsmith, and @markgurman
| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Inside FTC's 16-month Facebook probe that ended in a $5B fine; sources: FTC initially considered imposing more direct liability for Zuckerberg and a bigger fine — Almost as soon as Joe Simons took his seat at a Senate hearing last November, he found himself under political siege.
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Wall Street Journal, Digital Trends, and Mashable
Tweets: @tonyromm, @jeffjohnroberts, @jason_kint, @profcarroll, and @caseynewton
| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Uber is testing a $24.99/month subscription pass that includes a fixed discount on rides, free Uber Eats delivery, and free rides on JUMP bikes and scooters — Uber is actively testing a monthly subscription pass that combines rides, Eats, bikes and scooters.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Slack updates its desktop app for Windows and macOS, which is still built on Electron, claims it now launches 33% faster and uses 50% less RAM than before — Slack's desktop app has been rebuilt for Windows and macOS — Slack is unveiling a new version of its desktop app for Windows …
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Slack, slack.engineering, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, TechSpot, Thurrott, iPhone Hacks, SlashGear, Neowin, Cult of Mac, ZDNet, Engadget, OnMSFT.com, The Mac Observer, TidBITS, and Windows Central
Tweets: @slackhq, @relsqui, @johnnyrodgersis, @hayatohuseman, @acemarke, @sandofsky, and @felixrieseberg
| Jason D. Rowley / Crunchbase News: |
Commission-free trading app Robinhood raises $323M Series E led by DST Global at a $7.6B post-money valuation, has raised a total of $862M to date — Unless you were some hotshot finance person in the 1980s, you probably only recently started using your mobile phone to place trades.
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Under the Hood, TechCrunch, Reuters, CNBC, Silicon Valley Business …, CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, and The Block
Tweets: @alex and @themissal
| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Apple debuts watchOS 5.3, fixing Walkie-Talkie vulnerability, and iOS 12.4 with improvements to Apple News+ and a way to wirelessly migrate data to a new iPhone — A little over two months ago, Apple released the first beta versions of iOS 12.4 and watchOS 5.3 — late point releases for its 2018 iPhone …
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MacRumors, Macworld, MacRumors, Engadget, and Gotta Be Mobile
| Jay Greene / Washington Post: |
Microsoft settles with the SEC and the DOJ for $26M over potential bribery and corruption related to software sales in Hungary — The deal with the U.S. Justice Department and the SEC resolves claims the software giant violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple is in advanced talks to buy Intel's smartphone modem chip business in a deal valued at $1B+ covering staff and a portfolio of patents — Apple Inc. AAPL 2.29% is in advanced talks to buy Intel Corp. INTC 2.15% 's smartphone-modem chip business, according to people familiar with the matter … | Reuters: |
Frenzied trading debut of STAR Market, China's Nasdaq-style board, added $44B in market cap across 25 companies, 16 of which more than doubled their IPO prices — SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Trading on China's new Nasdaq-style board for homegrown tech firms hit fever pitch on Monday …
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CNBC, Nikkei Asian Review, The Next Web, Xinhua News Agency, TechCrunch, and South China Morning Post
Tweets: @baldingsworld, @chengevelyn, and @johndetrixhe
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Etsy to acquire Reverb, a marketplace for new and used musical instruments, in a cash deal worth ~$275M; Reverb raised nearly $50M from Max Levchin and others — Etsy has announced plans to acquire Reverb, a marketplace for new and used musical instruments, in a cash deal worth approximately $275 million.| Leigh Cuen / CoinDesk: |
Amid mounting regulatory pressures in the US, Circle says its Poloniex exchange will service non-US customers, ~70% of its users, out of a new Bermuda office — Due to mounting regulatory pressures in the United States, the crypto company Circle is moving the majority of its exchange operations offshore.| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
UK delays decision on Huawei, publishes a telecom supply chain review proposing a new framework for the industry to tighten security standards amid 5G rollout — Amid ongoing concerns about security risks posed by the involvement of Chinese tech giant Huawei in 5G supply …
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BBC, GOV.UK, ZDNet, New Statesman, The Guardian, The Guardian, and Notes from Silicon Valley
| Katie Roof / Wall Street Journal: |
Thumbtack announces it raised $150M in funding led by existing investor Sequoia Capital, valuing the company at $1.7B — Sequoia Capital led a $150 million investment, which values the local services marketplace at $1.7 billion — Thumbtack Inc.'s latest funding round values the business at $1.7 billion … | Arielle Pardes / Wired: |
Pinterest updates its search, so when users type in an anxiety-related query like “dealing with stress”, a box with mental health resources appears above pins — ON THE INCREASINGLY polarized internet, Pinterest often feels like the good place.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Confiant: two Hong Kong-based firms have been responsible for malicious ads with 100M+ impressions in 2019, including many shown via Microsoft's Windows 10 apps — Security firm tracks down malvertiser who deployed malicious ads in Outlook, Microsoft games, and the Microsoft News app.
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Wired, Nikkei Asian Review, FinSMEs, Forbes, and blog.confiant.com
Tweets: @uscybermag, @adam_k_levin, @jeromesegura, and @campuscodi
| Derek Thompson / The Atlantic: |
As matchmaking sites surpass friends and family for finding partners, the burden of finding a partner now rests solely on the individual and can be lonesome — My maternal grandparents met through mutual friends at a summer pool party in the suburbs of Detroit shortly after World War II.
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9to5Mac. Tweets: @dkthomp, @maggienyt, @amandamull, @theatlantic, @mckennapmoore, @tanayj, @jaredrsutton, and @olgakhazan
| Tom Simonite / Wired: |
US government tests find even top-performing facial recognition systems misidentify black people at rates 5-10 times higher than they do white people — FRENCH COMPANY IDEMIA'S algorithms scan faces by the million. The company's facial recognition software serves police in the US, Australia, and France.| Megha Mandavia / The Economic Times: |
ByteDance to set up a data center in India to store Indian user data locally, says its social app Helo has 50M MAUs and TikTok has 120M MAUs in the country — Several Parliamentarians, including Congress' Shashi Tharoor, BJD's Pinaki Misra and TDP's Jayadev Galla, have accused short-video app TikTok …
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