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| Yuji Nakamura / Bloomberg: |
Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck says that 500M NEM cryptocurrency tokens, worth ~$400M, have been “illicitly” transferred out of the exchange — Coincheck Inc., one of Japan's biggest digital exchanges, said that about $400 million of the NEM cryptocurrency was lost after it was sent …
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Tweets: @coincheck_en, @haydentiff, @charlesarthur, @coincheck_en, @ynakamura56, @ofnumbers, @whalepool, @ynakamura56, @coindesk, and @coindesk
| Evan Blass / VentureBeat: |
Renders of upcoming Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ leak, both look very similar to their S8 predecessors — EXCLUSIVE: — Having opted against what would have been an uncharacteristic debut at the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas — in teaser capacity or otherwise …
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| Nitasha Tiku / Wired: |
Diversity advocates inside Google, including queer and transgender staff, say they are being targeted by a small group of coworkers with doxxing and harassment — FIRED GOOGLE ENGINEER James Damore says he was vilified and harassed for questioning what he calls the company's liberal political orthodoxy …
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Business Insider, NewCo Shift, SiliconBeat, Android Central, Vanity Fair, and New York Magazine
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| Will Oremus / Slate: |
Google is testing Bulletin, an app letting users report and publish local news stories about their communities, as a limited pilot in Nashville, TN, Oakland, CA — Google appears to be testing a new tool for people to report and publish local news stories, called Bulletin.
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Gizmodo, Search Engine Land, Digital Trends, Engadget, Google, Hoodline Insider, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Neowin, PhoneDog.com, TalkAndroid.com, AndroidHeadlines.com, TechSpot, Android Police, Mashable, Android Authority, Understanding Google …, The Verge, Android Central, CNET, 9to5Google, Sami Cone, The Next Web, YouTube, and SlashGear
Tweets: @ruralj, @byajperez, @mattfdoyle, @_danielsinclair, @willoremus, and @willoremus
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Dell's board is meeting later this month to discuss strategic options, including an IPO and buying the rest of VMWare it does not already own — Company's board plans to discuss options later this month — After going private in 2013, firm now seeks growth, cash
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Fortune, ZDNet, Financial Times, Silicon Valley Business …, Reuters, Stock Market News …, The Register, CRN, USA Today, Silicon Republic, Wall Street Journal, Neowin, VentureBeat, Lowyat.NET, SiliconANGLE, SiliconANGLE, CNET, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, Business Insider, Seeking Alpha, and Reuters
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook will allow fans of game streamers to tip creators a minimum of $3 as part of its new gaming creator pilot program — Facebook Live is launching monetization for video gameplay streamers, allowing users to tip creators a minimum of $3 via the desktop site.
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Facebook for Developers, Engadget, Recode, The Verge, VentureBeat, and Variety
Tweets: @kantrowitz and @joshconstine
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter now lets advertisers sponsor Moments from select publishers — Twitter has added a new advertising product to its lineup. The company announced today it's offering brands the ability to sponsor Moments - the “Stories"-like feature that includes a series of tweets, often including images …
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Twitter, Marketing Land, Recode, Barron's Online, and Bloomberg
| Carlton Reid / BikeBiz: |
Research: 16M dockless bikes are used 3X/day on average in China; 500K bike-share bikes replaced ~10% private car travel, 13% of petrol consumption in Shenzhen — Before the advent of dockless bike-sharing in Chinese cities cycling accounted for 5.5 percent of transport miles.
Tweets: @martinmignot
| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
Maersk says NonPetya ransomware attack required an almost complete infrastructure overhaul, reinstallation of 4,000 servers, 45,000 PCs, and 2,500 applications — The shipping giant has suffered millions of dollars in damage due to the ransomware attack. — Maersk has revealed …
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| Brady Dale / CoinDesk: |
Mobius, which is building a Stripe-like payments platform for cryptocurrencies, raises $39M in its ICO, uses Stellar blockchain instead of Ethereum — “We look at ethereum like AOL or Myspace.” — That's how Mobius Network co-founder and CEO David Gobaud explains why his startup ran …
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ICO Examiner and Crowdfund Insider
| Huib Modderkolk / De Volkskrant: |
Dutch media: Dutch intelligence penetrated Russian APT29 Cozy Bear's network, office security camera in 2014, provided info on State Department, DNC hacks to US — Hackers from the Dutch intelligence service AIVD have provided the FBI with crucial information about Russian interference with the American elections.
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Reuters, Fortune, Inquirer, Engadget, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, and Bloomberg
Tweets: @jamespurefoy, @zackwhittaker, @ericgarland, @natashabertrand, @trbrtc, and @trbrtc
| Canalys: |
China's smartphone market suffered first ever annual decline in 2017 as shipments fell 4% YoY to 459M and 14% QoQ in Q4, but Huawei grew shipments 9% QoQ — Palo Alto, Shanghai, Singapore and Reading (UK) - Thursday, 25 January 2018 — The growth story of the world's largest smartphone market …
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