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SiriusXM to acquire Pandora in a $3.5B all-stock deal — Satellite radio company SiriusXM is acquiring music streaming service Pandora in a $3.5 billion all-stock deal, the companies announced Monday. — Pandora shares rose 14.4 percent in premarket trading from Friday's close of $9.09 a share …
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| Stephanie Saffer / Apple: |
Apple says it has completed its acquisition of Shazam, and the app will now be available ad-free for all users — Shazam App Will Soon Become Ad-Free For All Users — Cupertino, California — Apple today announced it has completed its acquisition of Shazam, one of the world's most popular …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft announces Windows Virtual Desktop, a new Azure-based service that provides a full virtualized multi-user Windows 10 experience — There are plenty of third-party solutions for running a Windows desktop in the cloud, but until now, Microsoft itself seemed hesitant to offer the same kind of user experience.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
As part of a new strategic partnership with Apple, Salesforce will release a Salesforce Mobile SDK for iOS by end of 2018 and redesign its iOS app by early 2019 — Salesforce and Apple have announced a partnership “that brings together the number one customer relationship management platform and iOS.”
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Roku says its streaming boxes, sticks, and TVs will gain Google Assistant support within the next few weeks letting users launch apps, control playback, more — And Spotify is coming back to the platform — This is one example of interoperability that I didn't expect to see anytime soon …
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TechCrunch, Digital Trends, 9to5Google, CNET, Engadget, Ars Technica, 9to5Toys, and Mashable
| Nellie Bowles / New York Times: |
Former ProPublica reporters are starting The Markup, a news site to investigate big tech, with a $20M gift from Craigslist's Craig Newmark and other funding — The Markup, dedicated to investigating technology and its effect on society, will be led by two former ProPublica journalists.
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| Ryne Hager / Android Police: |
Yubico launches new YubiKey 5 Series 2FA keys, supports passwordless FIDO2 and NFC — Supporting FIDO2 — Yubico, the leading provider of hardware authentication security keys, today announced the launch of the YubiKey 5 Series, the industry's first multi-protocol security keys supporting FIDO2.
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Microsoft, SAP, and Adobe announce an Open Data Initiative to bring data across all of their platforms into one package running on Azure — Industry leaders team up to help customers connect data across their organizations, find powerful insights and deliver intelligent services with AI
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| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Walmart says 17,000+ Oculus Go headsets will be used in its US stores by end of year to train its employees, in an expansion of a pre-existing program — Walmart said it is using the headsets to train within three key areas: new technology, compliance, and soft skills like empathy and customer service.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft: Surface Hub 2S will be available in Q2 2019 with original Surface Hub software, can be updated to Surface Hub 2X in 2020 using an upgrade cartridge — Surface Hub 2S to launch next year, followed by Surface Hub 2X update in 2020 — Microsoft is unveiling hardware changes to its Surface Hub 2 today.
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Engadget, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, Windows Central, VentureBeat, PCWorld, Thurrott.com, and GeekWire
| Simone Stolzoff / Quartz: |
Slack has acquired Astro, a productivity startup that makes tools to surface important information from your emails and calendar — There's a common understanding that there are two types of people in this world: Slack people and email people. In reality, most modern offices use both …
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| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
Eric Schmidt says the internet will bifurcate in the next 10-15 years into a Chinese-led internet, with fewer freedoms and more censorship, and one led by US — - Speaking at a private event hosted by Village Global VC yesterday night, tech luminary and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt predicted …
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| Adam Satariano / New York Times: |
Behind the rise of app-only banks in the UK and Europe, where favorable regulations and an influx of venture capital have fueled their growth — LONDON — Greg Stevenson was trying to refinance the mortgage on his four-bedroom home in eastern England when things started going awry.| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Bird is looking to hire staff to oversee its scooter fleet in almost a dozen cities across Asia and Latin America, including Hong Kong, Mumbai, and Mexico City — Scooter rental start-up Bird is preparing to embark on a massive new phase of expansion across Asia and Latin America … | Aradhana Aravindan / Reuters: |
Singapore fines Grab and Uber $9.5M over merger, outlines measures that it is says will spur competition and lessen the deal's impact on drivers and riders — SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore's anti-trust watchdog fined ride-hailing firms Grab and Uber a combined S$13 million ($9.5 million) …
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TechCrunch, ZDNet, Fortune, Channel NewsAsia, PYMNTS.com, Roadshow, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Bloomberg
Tweets: @jonrussell, @jonrussell, @jonrussell, @jonrussell, and @jonrussell
| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed News: |
Ian Rylett, co-founder of YouTube tween channel SevenAwesomeKids, arrested for allegedly molesting a minor; YouTube demonetized the channel but left it up — For weeks now, SevenAwesomeKids, part of one of YouTube's biggest and most active tween/teen girl channel networks, has been suspiciously dormant.| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft announces Cortana Skills Kit for Enterprise which lets companies build custom skills and agents, and deploy them directly to their organizations — Microsoft today announced the introduction of the Cortana Skills Kit for Enterprise to give businesses the power to create custom voice apps for their employees as well as users.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Tile appoints GoPro COO CJ Prober as new CEO, announces investment from Comcast; sources: “sizable investment” was at a higher valuation than previous round — There's a changing of the guard, and a new strategic partnership, over at Tile, the startup that helps you keep tabs … | Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Snap begins slow rollout of a new way to search for products on Amazon right from Snapchat, works by simply pointing camera at a physical product or barcode — Snap on Monday announced a new visual search tool for the company's Snapchat app in partnership with Amazon.Thanks:@sal19
| Bálint's extended musings: |
Starting with Chrome 69 on desktop, users logging in to a Google site or service are automatically logged in to Chrome, which is a new mandatory login behavior — Starting with Chrome 69, logging into a Google Site is tied to logging into Chrome. — This is typically the topic where things …
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ZDNet, The Register, The Next Web, SlashGear, and MSPoweruser
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