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Facebook says it is testing its dating product internally; sign-up screenshots show the feature calls for a separate profile as described at F8 in May — Let the poking begin — Two months after announcing the product at its F8 developer conference, Facebook is testing its dating app internally with employees.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Q&A with Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney about why the Android version of Fortnite will be available exclusively on fortnite.com, bypassing the Google Play Store — Tim Sweeney is quiet as CEOs go. But the head of Epic Games isn't shy when it comes to expressing his opinions about the state of games …
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Tweets: @sriramk, @staska, @selenalarson, @fortnitebr, @backlon, @alexhern, @nickstatt, and @backlon
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| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
TSMC says a virus infected its fabrication tools on Friday night and shut down several factories, some of which won't restart at least until Sunday — - Some factories back to normal, rest in another day, TSMC says — Virus that struck Friday night ‘was not caused by hacker’
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Google is in talks with Tencent, Inspur, and other local companies to offer Google cloud services in mainland China — - Local partnerships would give Google political cover to return — Talks began early this year but U.S.-China trade tensions loom
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| Yawen Chen / Reuters: |
A look at DingTalk, Alibaba's chat app for companies, used by over 100M users in 7M companies in China that many say fuels an unhealthy work culture — Their installation in the hallowed flat where Ma got his start in the eastern city of Hangzhou reflects DingTalk's place in the pecking order … | Bloomberg: |
Intercontinental Exchange, the owner of NYSE, partners with Starbucks, Microsoft, and others to form a new Bitcoin trading platform called Bakkt — - Launch of physical futures contract planned for November — Venture wants to offer merchant and consumer applications
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Tweets: @waynevaughan, @daddycool1991, @novogratz, and @msantoriesq
| Wall Street Journal: |
Like the first wave of VCs, Bessemer and Venrock, the ultrawealthy are again moving into VC and enticing startups with their networks outside of Silicon Valley — Some big names are turning to venture investing as a way to bet on the future, but not necessarily in Silicon Valley
Tweets: @garrytan
| Alex Wilhelm / Crunchbase News: |
Arlo, Netgear's connected home security camera spinoff, closes up 38% on its first day of trading after raising $163M in its IPO at about $1.16B valuation — Morning Report: Another day, another IPO. Today Arlo started its first day of trading over 16 percent.
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| Ryan Whitwam / Android Police: |
Google Maps is rolling out a feature that shows the battery level of a device used when it is sharing location — Google has gone through several version of location sharing over the years, all the way back to Google Latitude. That feature was inside Maps, but then location sharing moved to Google+.
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| Sahil Patel / Digiday: |
Sources: Awesomeness' value plunge was caused by the loss of $150M-$180M in Go90 revenue and an ownership structure that made unilateral decisions difficult — Subscribe to Digiday's weekly video briefing email, written by senior reporter Sahil Patel, for more exclusive coverage and analysis around … | Julie Zhu / Reuters: |
Source: Didi and Ant Financial, both of which already own stakes in Ofo, are in talks for a joint buyout offer of up to $2B for the Chinese bike-sharing startup — HONG KONG (Reuters) - Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing and Alibaba's (BABA.N) Ant Financial are in talks … | Brian Crecente / Variety: |
Sources: GameFly, which sold its streaming tech and development team to EA, will shut down its game streaming service on August 31 — Gamefly plans to shut down its video game streaming service at the end of August, according to the company's support line and messages being sent to the service's users, Variety has learned.
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