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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
LeEco calls off its $2B purchase of TV maker Vizio, instead forming “partnership” that brings Le app to some Vizio devices and Vizio products to China — LeEco is no longer buying Vizio. Today the companies jointly announced that “the merger agreement to acquire Vizio will not proceed due to regulatory headwinds.”
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Tweets: @jank0, @dcseifert, @jank0, and @laurengoode
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Symantec links alleged Vault7 CIA malware to hacking operation that attacked at least 40 targets in 16 countries across the Middle East, Europe, Asia, Africa — WikiLeaks dump identical to operation that has been hacking governments since 2011. — Malware that WikiLeaks purports belongs …
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Symantec, Associated Press, Foreign Policy, Network World, Softpedia News, Mashable, CNET, Tom's Hardware, ZDNet, BetaNews, and Motherboard. Tweets: @wikileaks
| Nate Lanxon / Bloomberg: |
Minecraft is adding a new marketplace with its own currency this spring, where creators can monetize their original content — Microsoft Corp. is adding a new marketplace — and a brand new currency — within the video-game Minecraft, opening up the opportunity for businesses to sell …
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Minecraft.net, Forbes, International Business Times, Microsoft, The Mac Observer, TalkAndroid.com, On MSFT, MacRumors, The Next Web, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, iDownloadBlog.com, Engadget, Kotaku, AppAdvice.com, Tom's Hardware, Android Police, CNET, Business Insider, GeekWire, The Tech Portal, Inquirer, 9to5Mac, Tech Narratives, GamesIndustry.biz, New World Notes, TechSpot, The Verge, The Fire Hose, BBC, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @brianroemmele and @minecraft
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Comcast plans to debut an online video service offering hit shows from its NBCUniversal TV networks in the next 12 to 18 months — Service said to include NBC programs, perhaps SyFy, Bravo, USA — Regulatory restrictions hamstring cable giant until next year
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Engadget, BGR, GeekWire, The Verge, Axios, Fortune, Seeking Alpha, Tech Narratives, Consumerist, and Deadline. Tweets: @mhbergen
| The Economic Times: |
Flipkart raises $1.4B from Tencent, eBay, and Microsoft at $11.6B post-money valuation, down from its $15.2B valuation in May 2015, and acquires eBay India — India's largest e-commerce marketplace Flipkart has announced a $1.4 billion fundraise from new investors Tencent …
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Tweets: @raju, @therajkundra, @_sachinbansal, @flipkart, @chandrarsrikant, @binnybansal, and @ettech
| Aaron Pressman / Fortune: |
AT&T to acquire wireless carrier Straight Path in $1.6B deal for its spectrum, ahead of 5G push, paying almost 3x Straight Path's stock price — AT&T just settled the Wall Street debate over the value of high bandwidth airwave rights suitable for super-fast next generation wireless networks.| Bart Jansen / USA Today: |
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai seeks to keep voice-call ban on planes, taking off the table a 2013 proposal to reverse it — WASHINGTON - Cell-phone calls will continue to be banned during airline flights, under an order the head of the Federal Communications Commission proposed Monday to stop considering whether to lift the ban.
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TechCrunch, Pew Research Center, Ars Technica, MacRumors, The Register, CNET, Motherboard, Engadget, Reuters, Computerworld, The Verge, Axios, Pocketnow, Droid Life, and Fortune
Tweets: @moorehn, @senmarkey, @zsims, @jeffjohnroberts, and @karlbode
| Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times: |
At FBI's request, Spain arrests a visiting Russian, Peter Levashov, who infosec experts say is an e-mail spam kingpin known as Peter Severa — MOSCOW — He refused to meet business associates in person and never talked on the phone, preferring instead to communicate via encrypted messaging services.
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BuzzFeed, CNET, Ars Technica, Krebs on Security, Cyberscoop, Softpedia News, BBC, Reuters, SecurityWeek, and CSO
Tweets: @howelloneill, @mikeisaac, @briankrebs, and @andrewsweiss
| Jamie Feltham / UploadVR: |
AMD buys Nitero for low latency wireless streaming tech to make desktop VR headset cables unnecessary — Nitero, a company working in the increasingly prevalent wireless desktop VR sector, has just been acquired by AMD. — AMD is best known for its CPUs that power VR-ready PCs …
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AMD, PCWorld, TechCrunch, Engadget, Forbes, TechSpot, Tom's Hardware, Inquirer, CRN, and The Tech Report
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter now lets brands make “custom hearts” for Periscope live videos, declines to disclose pricing — Those little hearts you tap to signal to a live video's creator that you're enjoying the content might look a little different on Twitter in the future.| Jing Cao / Bloomberg: |
Source: Blue Apron had revenue of between $750M and $1B last year and was profitable in Q3 — The company has built an impressive high-tech operation but is spending heavily to lure customers who are always a bad experience away from bailing. — by — Jing Cao
Tweets: @sarahcuda
| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Former Twitter executives Adam Bain and Adam Messinger left $35M+ in combined stock awards on table when they quit last year — COO Adam Bain and CTO Adam Messinger said bye to a lot of potential cash when they departed. — Twitter's top executives are very well paid …
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