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Sources: Jimmy Iovine to leave Apple Music in August, a time believed to coincide with the full vesting of his Apple stock — His planned departure is likely timed to his shares fully vesting, sources tell Billboard. — Look for Jimmy Iovine to leave Apple Music in August.
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| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Intel begins issuing patches to combat Spectre and Meltdown flaws, with plans to release updates for 90% of chips from past five years this week — Following up on yesterday's confirmation that security exploits can compromise computers with Intel processors, Intel today announced a timetable …
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Apple says all Mac, iOS devices affected by Meltdown and Spectre; Meltdown defense added in iOS 11.2, macOS 10.13.2; Spectre patch for Safari coming within days — After more than a day of silence, Apple confirmed Thursday that the Mac, iPhone and iPad are all affected by the recently disclosed massive chip vulnerability.
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| Tony Romm / Recode: |
Sources: FCC Chairman Ajit Pai canceled his scheduled appearance at CES after receiving death threats — The threats have intensified following an FCC vote to repeal net neutrality rules. — Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai canceled his scheduled appearance …
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| Tony Romm / Recode: |
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| Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Kalanick plans to sell ~29% of his 10% Uber stake, worth about $1.4B, to SoftBank consortium after offering 50%, the maximum allowed for board members — Former Uber Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Officer Travis Kalanick, who has long boasted that he's never sold any shares …
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| Apple: |
App Store customers spent $300M worldwide on New Year's Day and spent over $890M in the week starting Dec. 24; developers earned $26.5B in 2017, up 30%+ YoY — New Year's Day Sets Record With $300 Million in Purchases — Cupertino, California — App Store customers around the world …
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Tweets: @neilcybart, @scotttaylor, @_inside, @benedictevans, and @benedictevans
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Cloud announces Preemptible GPUs in beta at 50% discount, says they can only be used for 24 hours and may be shut down with no more than a 30-sec warning — Google Cloud today announced the launch of preemptible GPUs. Like Google's preemptible VMs (and AWS's comparable spot instances) …
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| Michelle Castillo / CNBC: |
Mark Zuckerberg says his 2018 personal challenge will be addressing issues like interference by nation states, abuse, quality of time spent on platform — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's mission in 2018 is to fix Facebook's mounting issues from last year, including state interference and harassment on its platforms.
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Tweets: @rhhackett, @kantrowitz, @kottke, @bendwalsh, @econ_marshall, @jwherrman, @jillianiles, @buzzfeednews, and @ericnewcomer
| TechCrunch: |
Sources: GoPro is cutting 200-300 jobs, largely impacting its Karma drone division — Jan 5, 2018, 1:31 amJan 5, 2018, 3:08 am — GoPro is in the process of laying off around 200-300 employees this week, TechCrunch has learned from sources close to the company.| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Apple quietly joined the Alliance for Open Media, focused on video compression tech, which counts Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Facebook as members — For months, powerful companies including Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook have been working to shrink online video sizes.
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Tweets: @stshank, @andreasgal, @juberti, and @digitalreb
| Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: |
Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen reportedly owns 5.19B XRP tokens and a 17% stake in the company, valued at ~$59.9B after 36,000% increase in XRP value — - With Ripple's XRP coin hitting a high of $3.84, the company's co-founder and executive chairman, Chris Larsen, is now worth about $59.9 billion on paper.
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| Cate Cadell / Reuters: |
Google leads $120M Series D round in Chinese game streaming platform Chushou; the service claims ~8M streamers and 250K live streams a day — BEIJING (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google has led a $120 million investment in Chinese live-stream mobile game platform Chushou …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Spotify says it has 70M paying subscribers, up from 60M in late July 2017, as the company prepares for an IPO — Spotify today announced on Twitter that it has hit a new milestone, with the streaming music service reaching a total of 70 million paid subscribers.
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9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, AppleInsider, Bloomberg, CNET, TechCrunch, Axios, CNBC, AppAdvice.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, and The Verge
Tweets: @spotify, @shiraovide, @apollozac, and @alexeheath
| Madhav Chanchani / The Economic Times: |
Alibaba, Tencent, and investors such as SoftBank and Naspers have emerged as the biggest allies of India's most-valued internet companies in recent years — Each of India's four most-valued internet companies - Flipkart, Ola, mobile payments platform Paytm, and online travel agency MakeMyTrip …
Tweets: @vtoubiana
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