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AT&T says it has restored service to 60% of Puerto Rico's population, launches limited LTE connectivity in remote areas in partnership with Project Loon — About a month after Hurricane Maria's devastating landfall on Puerto Rico, and a couple of weeks after the FCC gave clearance …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Zain Jaffer, CEO of video ad startup Vungle, put on indefinite leave after charges for attempted murder, lewd act on a child, and more; Vungle has raised $25.5M — Zain Jaffer, who founded mobile ad firm Vungle and was its CEO until this week, was arrested on Tuesday for attempted murder …
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Sources: some employees feel Facebook is being used as a scapegoat for 2016 election outcome using flawed hindsight about factors mostly beyond FB's control — In the summer of 2015, a Facebook engineer was combing through the company's internal data when he noticed something unusual.
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Billboard's Hot 100 and Billboard 200 charts to give more weight to subscription-based streaming services and paid tiers of hybrid services starting in 2018 — Billboard has announced that its Hot 100 and Billboard 200 charts — which measure singles and albums, respectively … | Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Spoke, a help desk automation AI chatbot for businesses, says it has raised a total of $28M from Accel, Greylock, and others since being founded last year — - A people-operations staffer at a start-up that has adopted Spoke spends much less time answering her colleagues' questions.
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Facebook Messenger now lets users send money to friends via PayPal, adds PayPal's first bot for customer service — PayPal users in the U.S. will now be able to send and receive person-to-person payments over Facebook Messenger, the company announced this morning.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Flexible car ownership marketplace Fair.com raises up to $1B in venture and debt financing from BMW's iVentures, Penske Automotive Group, Sherpa Capital, others — Fair.com — an all-digital car marketplace that was co-founded by car industry vets Georg Bauer of BMW, Mercedes-Benz, and Tesla …
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| Mark DeCambre / MarketWatch: |
Bitcoin price passes $6,000 as its total market value hits $100B+ for the first time — The world's most prominent digital currency was on track to mark a fresh milestone on Friday, with bitcoin rallying and putting the cyber currency in position to hit a total market value of around $100 billion.
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| Sumit Chakraberty / Tech in Asia: |
Southeast Asian gaming and ecommerce firm Sea Limited, formerly Garena, closes up 8.4% on its first day trading on the NYSE, after raising $884M in IPO — Shares of Singapore's online gaming, ecommerce, and digital payments company Sea had a rollercoaster ride on the first day of its US$884 million IPO …
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Some doctors are wary of applying security update to St. Jude pacemakers, which are now owned by Abbott Labs, due to malfunction risk, thus hampering adoption — Some doctors are wary of software patch that prevents unauthorized access to Internet-connected devices, worried about risk of malfunction
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| Adam Fisher / Wired: |
Profile of former Apple exec and Nest co-founder Tony Fadell, as he announces launch of his investment fund Future Shape — TONY FADELL IS at the Grove, a spectacularly beautiful country estate outside of London. The event is Founders Forum: the ultra exclusive invite-only tech conference.
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| Jeff Engel / Xconomy: |
Computer vision startup Veo Robotics raises $12M Series A from Lux, GV, Siemens' Next47 — True artificial intelligence is likely decades away, if it ever comes. In the meantime, companies are making robots “smarter” in less dramatic ways that nevertheless could prove quite useful.
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