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Sources: SoftBank has taken a $4B stake in Nvidia, representing an equity holding of 4.9%, which is just under the amount requiring a regulatory disclosure — Stake represents 4.9 percent of total outstanding shares — Holding seen moving into SoftBank's $93 Billion Vision Fund
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| Brian Barrett / Wired: |
Intel to offer Thunderbolt 3 protocol specification to chipmakers royalty free next year and integrate Thunderbolt into its CPUs — Nearly two years ago, Intel gave a major boost to Thunderbolt, its zippy hardware interface, by embracing USB-C, the do-it-all port that will eventually eat the world.| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Google, IBM, and Lyft debut Istio, an open source tool for managing microservices from different vendors on cloud platforms — Istio gives developers a vendor-neutral way to connect, secure, manage, and monitor networks of different microservices on cloud platforms.
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| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
Imzy, a “nicer Reddit” founded in 2016 by former Reddit employees, to shut down on June 23, having raised $11M — Imzy, a Utah-based startup that wanted to create a friendlier online community—a “nice Reddit”—said on Wednesday that it's shutting down just two years after its founding …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft now uses Git to develop Windows, along with its open source Git Virtual File System to help manage the ~300GB repository — Microsoft today announced that virtually all of its engineers now use the Git version control system to develop its Windows operating system.
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Brian Harry's blog, Ars Technica, InfoWorld, GitHub, Business Insider, The Fire Hose, MSPoweruser, and On MSFT
| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple launches free Swift app development curriculum on iBooks, which will be taught by six community colleges this fall as well as “select” high schools — Apple has today announced that is launching a new app development curriculum designed to teach students how to start using Swift … | Facebook: |
Facebook redesigns Trending Topics pages to make it easier for users to discover alternate news sources, rolling out first to iPhone users in US — Redesigned Trending Results Page — Starting today, we're introducing a redesigned Trending results page, which is the page you see when you click … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Collaboration platform Smartsheet raises $52M Series F led by existing investor Insight Venture Partners at a $800M valuation — Cloud-based communication and collaboration platforms are the name of the game today in enterprise software, and now one of the still-independent leaders in that space …
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| Charlie Savage / New York Times: |
Draft legislation from the White House, which has circulated among several congressional committees, would allow US to track and destroy domestic drones — The Trump administration is asking Congress to give the federal government sweeping powers to track, hack and destroy any type of drone …
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White House, Slate, The Verge, and Mashable
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| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
Unity has raised $400M at ~$2.6B valuation, led by Silver Lake; revenue expected to be up 40% YoY to $300M this year, with gross-profit margin of ~90% — Unity Technologies is putting the finishing touches on a $400 million funding round of financing that values the videogame technology company …
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Bloomberg, Axios, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, VRFocus, UploadVR, The Tech Portal, silicontap.com, VentureBeat, GamesIndustry.biz, and PE Hub Blog. Tweets: @roelofbotha
| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Microsoft says its Xbox Game Pass streaming service will launch on June 1 for $9.99/month, offering 100+ Xbox One and Xbox 360 games — Today Microsoft revealed that its new Xbox One game subscription service will be available on June 1st. Called Game Pass, the service was first announced …
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Xbox Live's Major Nelson, VentureBeat, International Business Times, The Fire Hose, Windows Central, TechCrunch, TechSpot, PlayStation LifeStyle, Tech Narratives, games radar, Engadget, Eurogamer.net, destructoid, TechnoBuffalo, NDTV Gadgets 360, T3, GameSpot, Fortune, and Polygon
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Rackspace appoints Joe Eazor, former EarthLink CEO, as its CEO, replacing interim CEO Jeff Cotten — Rackspace today announced that its board has appointed Joe Eazor as its new CEO, effective June 12. Eazor will replace Rackspace president Jeff Cotten, who stepped in as the company's interim CEO …
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