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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Sources: SoftBank Vision Fund has walked away from investing in several startups, months after submitting term sheets and saying closing delays were temporary — SoftBank Vision Fund has walked away from investing in several startups, months after submitting term sheets worth hundreds …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Samsung debuts Galaxy Chromebook with a 13.3-inch 4K AMOLED display that rotates 360-degrees, 10th-gen i5 CPU, and S-Pen, available in Q1 starting at $999 — At $999, it's expensive for a Chromebook, anyway — The Samsung Galaxy Chromebook is one of the nicest pieces of laptop hardware I've touched in a very long time.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon expands Fire TV Edition to soundbars, car infotainment systems, set-top boxes, and more, and says Fire TV platform now has over 40M MAUs — It was only a few months ago that Amazon took the wraps off over 20 new Fire TV devices to fill out its growing portfolio, including a refreshed Fire TV Cube … | Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
YouTube officially rolls out changes to children's content on its main site following FTC settlement and also begins running promotions for YouTube Kids — ‘These changes will have significant impact’ — YouTube executives have warned creators over the last few months that changes …
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Ring adds a privacy dashboard to its app to let owners manage third-party services and whether local police can make requests to access video from their cameras — One place to manage security and privacy features — Ring has announced that it is adding a new privacy dashboard …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
HappyHotel, a Japanese site for booking rooms in “love hotels”, says hackers breached its servers and may have accessed users' real names, addresses, and more — The 2010s decade ends with a major security breach at a search engine for finding love hotels across Japan.| Faiz Siddiqui / Washington Post: |
As AB5 takes effect, Uber added features in California like allowing drivers to be favorited, in its apparent attempt to claim that drivers are independent — The ride-hailing giant launched a new version of its app for its California drivers, its latest attempt to push back on a new law aimed … | Chris Velazco / Engadget: |
Samsung debuts Galaxy S10 Lite and Note 10 Lite, with 6.7" screens, 4,500mAh batteries, and three rear cameras including ultra-wide; price and availability TBA — We're at that weird point in the week where CES simultaneously has and hasn't started, and it's already becoming clear Samsung isn't sticking to business as usual in 2020.| Bloomberg: |
A look back at cyber attacks on US organizations that were attributed to Iranian hackers, as some fear an increase in such attacks after Soleimani assassination — - Digital warfare likely among Iran's options for retribution — Cyberfeud between Iran and U.S. dates back more than a decade| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Roku launches the Roku TV Ready program, which will let third parties release products that are easy to set up and allow users to control them with one remote — Amazon's Fire TV isn't the only connected TV platform aiming to reach more screens by way of new partnerships.
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Digital Trends, Axios, iPhone in Canada Blog, Yahoo Finance, GeekWire, Android Authority, The Verge, The Verge, and CNET
| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
Facebook updates Privacy Checkup tool, the first significant update since its creation in 2014 that makes it a more convenient central hub for privacy settings — At CES 2020, Facebook plans to show off an innovative new concept for the company: privacy . It will have a booth at the tech show …
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| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Sources: Insight Venture Partners has agreed to buy Israeli IoT security company Armis for between $800M and $1.2B — Earlier on Monday, Calcalist reported that Armis had been negotiating its acquisition by a leading U.S. investment firm according to a company valuation of between $800 million and $1.2 billion, citing two sources
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| Gavin Baker / @gavinsbaker: |
[Thread] As post-IPO prices of some unicorns decline, “guaranteed” returns for late stage private investors, unable to sell shares for months, prove illusory — 1) Investor fear and the absence - temporary or permanent - of the Vision Fund likely creates more attractive late stage opportunities vs. the last 5 years. Market is semi-frozen, deals are breaking, converts are taking a long time and there are good companies that need funding. https://twitter.com/...
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