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Oracle will acquire electronic medical records company Cerner for $28.3B, or $95 per share, in an all-cash deal, its biggest acquisition yet — - Enterprise software giant Oracle will acquire electronic medical records company Cerner. — Enterprise software giant Oracle …
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| Nick Statt / Protocol: |
Microsoft's Phil Spencer says the success and growth of games like Minecraft show the ingredients required for the metaverse to shed its dystopian roots — When Phil Spencer thinks about the tech and gaming industries' newfound obsession with the metaverse, the Xbox chief's mind goes to Minecraft.
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The FCC settles with AT&T, Verizon, Intrado, and CenturyLink over failed 911 calls during network outages in 2020; the companies will pay $6M collectively — The companies will pay a total of $6 million — The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has reached settlements with AT&T …
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Social gaming startup Rec Room raises $145M led by Coatue at a $3.5B valuation, up from $1.25B in March, and says it has 37M players, up from 2M in March — On the heels of Roblox hitting it big with its platform for user-created gaming content, another startup has landed a major round …
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Airlines begin preparing for potential FAA flight limits in up to 46 large American metro areas, as a new 5G wireless service is set to go live on January 5 — Carriers are taking steps to prepare for potential FAA flight limits when a new 5G wireless service goes live Jan. 5
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| Brian Sozzi / Yahoo Finance: |
Rocket Companies, a consumer finance-focused holding company, will pay $1.275B in cash to acquire personal finance app Truebill, which has ~2.5M members — Rocket Companies CEO Jay Farner wasn't kidding around when he told Yahoo Finance Live in November he was on the hunt for acquisitions …
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Profile of Bret Taylor, made co-CEO of Salesforce and chairman of Twitter last month, who joined Salesforce in 2016 after stints at Google and Facebook — Promotions to co-CEO of Salesforce and chairman of Twitter have turned the Silicon Valley entrepreneur into one of tech's highest-profile executives
Tweets: @yoda and @amy_e_weaver
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Investigation details China's social media propaganda machine, which uses private contractors to generate content to sculpt opinion on Facebook and Twitter — Register accounts on foreign social media platforms — 按月报单 价| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Spotify, Meta, and Netflix find Gen Z elusive in a way TikTok never has; Spotify says Gen Z accounts for the majority using its Blend playlist feature — Good afternoon from Puerto Rico. Hope you all are staying safe out there. Hollywood is celebrating the good news of a record-breaking weekend … | Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
The UK's National Crime Agency shares 585M+ compromised passwords, found during an investigation, with Have I Been Pwned, after the FBI started sharing in May — The UK National Crime Agency has shared a collection of more than 585 million compromised passwords it found during an investigation … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Zepto, which offers a “10-minute” grocery delivery service in five Indian cities, raises a $100M Series C led by YC Continuity Fund at a $570M valuation — Zepto, a Mumbai-based startup that operates a 10-minute instant grocery delivery service, has more than doubled its valuation …
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Bloomberg, Entrackr, The Economic Times, and Tech in Asia
Tweets: @geoff_ink, @refsrc, @anmolm_, and @ycombinator
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Leaked docs: Facebook has not developed Finnish-language automated moderation for hate speech and other content, and employs just 11 moderators based in Berlin — A data leak reveals Facebook is unable to control hate speech in minority languages like Finnish.
Tweets: @rmac18
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Turing, which uses AI to source, evaluate, hire, onboard, and then manage engineers remotely, raises an $87M Series D, valuing the startup at $1.1B — When it comes to engineering talent in the world of tech, demand continues to outpace supply, a predicament so acute that by 2030 … | Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: |
Alibaba suspends China's biggest shopping celebrity Huang Wei from Taobao after she was fined ~$210M for tax evasion, in a blow to Alibaba's livestream shopping — Alibaba hit hard after Viya fined $210m for under-reporting income from internet promotions — China's biggest online shopping … Sponsor Posts
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