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| Chris Williams / The Register: |
4,200+ websites, including USCourts.gov, UK's NHS services, other government sites were infected with cryptocurrency mining malware via hacked plugin — Biz scrambles to shut down crafty coin crafting operation — Thousands of websites around the world - from the UK's NHS and ICO …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is changing its iOS development strategy, moving away from an annual schedule crammed with major features and prioritizing reliability — The company is shaking up its development program to focus more on key features and push back others to the following year.
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Sources: Google is working on Android P, which mimics the iPhone X's notch, has deeper integration of Google's digital assistant, and improves battery life — Search giant tries again to win over valuable iPhone users — Android P to integrate more tightly with Google's Assistant
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MacRumors, Business Insider, Softpedia News, Technology Personalized, and Pocket-lint. Tweets: @markgurman
| Steven Musil / CNET: |
SEC filing: Apple, LG, Valve invest in $10M secondary share offering by eMagin, a NY-based manufacturer of OLED microdisplays, which can be used in VR headsets — A small company that makes OLED microdisplays is getting some attention from tech giants with big plans for virtual and augmented reality.
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Road to VR, TechCrunch, ValueWalk, Ubergizmo, PhoneArena, SlashGear, and AndroidHeadlines.com
| Kif Leswing / Business Insider: |
Apple shipped about 8M watches in Q4 2017 according to Canalys, which is more than the entire Swiss watch industry sold last quarter — - A new estimate suggests that Apple sold more watches than the entire Swiss watch industry last quarter. — Estimates suggest Apple sold about 8 million watches during the holiday quarter.
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| Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters: |
Sources: Amazon paid ~$90M to acquire security camera firm Blink late last year, for its energy-efficient chips that could extend battery life of other devices — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) paid about $90 million to acquire the maker of Blink home security cameras late last year …
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| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
eMarketer says Facebook lost ~2.8M US users under 25 in 2017, predicts it will lose ~2.1M in 2018; Instagram's US users will grow 13%, Snapchat's by 9% in 2018 — That's according to research firm eMarketer. — Facebook is losing young users even quicker than expected, according to new estimates by eMarketer.
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eMarketer, Quartz, VentureBeat, USA Today, Tech Times, and Ad Age
| Dana Cimilluca / Wall Street Journal: |
Broadcom secures $100B of debt financing for its hostile bid of Qualcomm Inc.; private-equity investors KKR and CVC join Silver Lake in backing the deal — KKR, CVC join Silver Lake in providing $6 billion in convertible debt for the bid — Broadcom Ltd. AVGO 2.58% secured as much as $100 billion … | Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
Technologist who predicted “fake news”, Aviv Ovadya, and other experts warn new AI-powered tools to manipulate perception could erode people's trust in reality — In mid-2016, Aviv Ovadya realized there was something fundamentally wrong with the internet — so wrong that he abandoned his work and sounded an alarm.| Issie Lapowsky / Wired: |
Google autocomplete still has vile suggestions for queries related to gender, race, religion, and Hitler more than a year after removing “are jews evil?” prompt — IN DECEMBER OF 2016, Google announced it had fixed a troubling quirk of its autocomplete feature …
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| Bloomberg: |
Instacart raises $200M in a round led by investment firms Coatue Management and Glade Brook Capital Partners, sources say at a $4.2B valuation — Amazon.com Inc. is very serious about grocery delivery, but Instacart Inc., the most popular alternative for supermarket orders in the U.S., isn't rolling over.
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| Brenda Goh / Reuters: |
Alibaba signs multi-year deal to offer 1000+ episodes of Disney shows on its Youku video streaming platform — SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Alibaba Group Holding Ltd's entertainment arm has signed a licensing agreement with Walt Disney Co in a deal that will provide the Chinese group's Youku video … Sponsor Posts
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