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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Coinbase adds Civic, district0x, Loom Network, and Decentraland to its Coinbase Pro trading platform and is considering 27 other tokens — UPDATE, 12/7/18 18:00 UTC: Four hours after announcing the list, Coinbase Pro said it was launching support for Civic, District0x, Loom Network and Decentraland's tokens.
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| Owen Williams / Motherboard: |
By putting Edge on Chromium and planning to invest in the engine, Microsoft is showing it is committed to the web as a platform for the future of apps — The move will allow deeper integration of Chromium and Chrome on Windows, which will lead to major improvements in performance and battery life.
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| Jillian D'Onfro / CNBC: |
Google publishes its plans for Mountain View's North Bayshore development which includes 3.12M square feet of offices and up to 8000 residential units — - Google just released its plans for a massive development in its home city of Mountain View, California.| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Facebook bans sexual solicitation including vague suggestive statements, sexualized slang, and using sexual hints such as mentioning sexual preference — Well, well. As we've covered for a while now, FOSTA became law almost entirely because Facebook did an about-face on its position on the law …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Uber has confidentially filed for an IPO; filing indicates it could go public as soon as the first quarter of 2019 — The filing indicates a public listing could come in early 2019, pitting the ride-hailing service against rival Lyft — Uber Technologies Inc. filed paperwork confidentially …
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Sources: FBI is now investigating fake net neutrality comments on the FCC website and has delivered subpoenas to at least two organizations — People's names and addresses were listed on the FCC's website beside net neutrality comments they didn't make. Now the FBI is interested.| Kate Conger / New York Times: |
Canada's DOJ argues Huawei CFO committed fraud by misrepresenting a Huawei subsidiary as an independent company, tricking US banks into violating Iran sanctions — VANCOUVER, British Columbia — The reasons that the United States asked the Canadian authorities to arrest a top executive …
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| Jamie Feltham / UploadVR: |
StarVR suspends its month old developer program with a $3,200 headset as it delists from Taipei exchange and its major shareholder, Starbreeze, runs out of cash — Less than a month after StarVR started accepting applications for its $3,200 developer kit program, the company has confirmed …
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| Lux Alptraum / The Verge: |
Tumblr's initial embrace of pornography helped it grow users, but it has since been phased out following Yahoo acquisition — When censoring sex becomes preferable to acknowledging its existence — About a decade ago, I met up with Tumblr founder David Karp at a SoHo coffee shop.| Ali Tamaseb: |
An analysis of 195 startups with valuations over $1B, using 65 factors like founder background, industry sector, competition, and funding — I Spent 300 Hours Gathering Data On Billion-Dollar Startups and Here's 100 Charts You Shouldn't Miss — About 15 months ago, I embarked on a journey … | Financial Times: |
US export controls could slow China's ambitions to mass produce cutting-edge chips because the Chinese chip plants rely on US and other foreign equipment makers — Xi Jinping, the Chinese president, visited a memory chip plant in the city of Wuhan earlier this year.
Tweets: @financialtimes and @emilyzfeng
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Epic's PC and Mac games store, announced last week, is now live with Epic's own Fortnite and Unreal Tournament, Hades from Supergiant Games, with more to come — It's a busy week for Epic Games . Fresh from pushing out a major season 7 update for Fortnite, so the gaming giant has taken the wraps off its own games store.
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