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Sources: Uber has recently held talks about possible acquisitions with scooter startups Bird and Lime — Uber has held talks recently with electric scooter rental startup Bird to acquire the company in what could be a multibillion-dollar deal, said several people briefed on the discussions.
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After Qualcomm and Apple fail to reach a settlement over patent royalties, judge schedules the start of the trial for April 15 in San Diego federal court — Earlier this week, Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf made headlines when he said his company was “on the doorstep of a resolution” with Apple, implying a settlement was possible.
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Since Satya Nadella became CEO, Microsoft has almost tripled its market cap to $850B+, and on Friday it replaced Apple as the world's most valuable company — Just a few years ago, Microsoft was seen as a lumbering has-been of the technology world. — It was big and still quite profitable …
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Profile of Chronicle: a startup incubated at Google X that uses AI and VirusTotal, with experience from Bigtable and MapReduce, to counter cybersecurity threats — Fifteen years ago, cybersecurity could be boiled down to a simple strategy: Secure the perimeter.| Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
How Amazon is limiting the ability of popular brands to sell independently via its Marketplace, if they also want to sell their goods directly via Amazon itself — Some companies are choosing to end their relationship with Amazon rather than cave to the online retailer's demands.| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Apple approves Indian telecom regulator's “TRAI DND - Do Not Disturb” app that lets users block unwanted phone calls and text messages, avoiding iPhone ban — Fed up with years of waiting for Apple to implement anti-spam measures for iPhones, India's telecom regulator TRAI threatened …
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PitchBook: VCs invested ~$8B in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, and Pakistan in first 10 months of 2018, 40% more than in all 2017 — Entrepreneurs such as Sidra Qasim and Waqas Ali exemplify the increasing ease of accessing venture capital from the developing world.| Anna Escher / TechCrunch: |
Brazil-based QuintoAndar, an online marketplace for long term rentals, raises $64M Series C led by General Atlantic, bringing the total funding raised to $95M — Anna Escher @https://www.twitter.com/annaescher / 8 hours — There's quite a bit wrong with real estate in Brazil, according to QuintoAndar founder and CEO Gabriel Braga.| Matthew Hughes / The Next Web: |
E Ink unveils JustWrite, a new digital paper technology that doesn't require a backlight and promises almost no lag — The hypothetical pinnacle of digital paper is when it becomes indistinguishable from the real article, both in terms of reading and writing.
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US officials: China's cyberespionage against the US, which was pared back in 2015 after US-China pact, picked up again in 2017 and has accelerated since then — WASHINGTON — Three years ago, President Barack Obama struck a deal with China that few thought was possible …
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AT&T plans another, 3-tiered streaming service for Q4 2019 with a movie-focused entry level, a premium level with original programming, and a WarnerMedia bundle — AT&T may be ready to sell its stake in Hulu, the company revealed in an analyst presentation on Thursday.
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Instagram is launching a “Close Friends” list on iOS and Android to let users share Stories with a limited group of friends — They're Finstagram Stories — No one wants to post silly, racy, or vulnerable Stories if they're worried their boss, parents, and distant acquaintances are watching.
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