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Sources: Goldman Sachs is in talks with Apple to offer financing to Apple gadget shoppers, using its retail point-of-sale financing arm Marcus — Wall Street firm would lend to shoppers buying expensive Apple gadgets — As Apple Inc.'s AAPL 4.18% investment bank, Goldman Sachs GS 3.85% Group Inc … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Report: Google is developing a subscription game streaming service codenamed Yeti that could either work with Chromecast or a Google-made console — Besides Android apps and the Play Store, Google's current gaming efforts are particularly centered around video livestreams on YouTube and Daydream VR.
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Snapchat is launching a tool to let TV networks pipe snippets of live broadcasts directly into the app, starting this Saturday with NBC's Olympics coverage — Deal could forge closer ties between traditional TV networks and Snapchat's parent company Snap Inc. — Georgia Wells and Benjamin Mullin| Snap Investor Relations: |
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| Olivia Zaleski / Bloomberg: |
Inside the battle among Airbnb investors and executives over whether to remain private or IPO; sources say founders and early employees cashed ~$350M of equity — Investors and executives disagreed over when to take the home-rental company public. The stay-private crowd is winning.
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Tweets: @jasonlk, @tomgara, @klendathucap, @sonyaellenmann, @jyarow, and @mims
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Russian trolls posed as black activists on Tumblr and generated hundreds of thousands of interactions with anti-Hillary Clinton, pro-Bernie Sanders content — Tumblrs run by Russian trolls generated hundreds of thousands of interactions with anti-Hillary Clinton, pro-Bernie Sanders content.
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Tweets: @jstrauss, @slpng_giants, @emilybell, @micahgrimes, and @kylegriffin1
| Theodore Schleifer / Recode: |
SoftBank's technology funds, the $100B Vision Fund and $6B Delta Fund, have already invested ~$40B of their $106B target; Vision Fund has invested in 26 firms — They said it couldn't be done. — Longtime Silicon Valley hands are still aghast that an investing firm can find …
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Microsoft updates its Cortana app for iOS with native iPad support, two years after releasing it for iPhone — Microsoft today updated its Cortana app for iOS with native iPad support. The design looks essentially the same as the iPhone version, but with an interface optimized …
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Apple says a “processing error” meant ad spend and install data for Search Ad Basic users was sent to the wrong developers — Apple today apologized after sending incorrect information to some iOS developers using its Search Ads Basic service yesterday.
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Tweets: @louisdhauwe, @_patmurray, and @stroughtonsmith
| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
Streaming service ESPN Plus launching next month at $4.99/mo; sources say it won't have ESPN cable channels' content, which still requires ESPN subscription — How much would you pay for sports you weren't watching on TV? — Want to pay for a subscription to ESPN without paying for a subscription to other cable channels?
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Tweets: @soccermarketing and @xpangler
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Drive adds ability to comment on Office files, PDFs, and images in preview pane without having to convert them to Google formats — Google is launching an update to Google Drive today that will make it easier for teams and agencies to use a mix of G Suite and Microsoft Office while working with their colleagues and customers.
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Viacom confirms it has acquired online video conference VidCon and will run it as a standalone subsidiary — It's official: Viacom has announced the acquisition VidCon, host of the world's biggest conference dedicated to YouTube and online video. — Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
New York-based Mirror raises $13M from Spark Capital and others for building an at-home mirror-like device that can stream live or on-demand fitness classes — The health club industry generates around $83 billion in revenue globally each year, according to figures from the International Health …
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TechCrunch, Business Wire, NewsCenter.io, StartupWorld, New York Business Journal, Inc.com, FinSMEs, and PE Hub Blog. Tweets: @seamlessiot
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BitMEX Research looks at the history of Ripple, its company disputes, and says the technology behind its distributed consensus system is essentially centralized — Abstract: In this piece, we briefly look over the history of Ripple and examine various disputes between the founders and partner companies … | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
UK government announces labor market reforms to aid gig economy workers, including ensuring holiday and sick pay and raising fines for employer mistreatment — The UK government has announced a package of labor market reforms to respond to changes in working patterns including those driven …
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Engadget, CNET, BBC, Sky News, The Independent, Financial Times, Reuters, The Independent, HuffPost UK, and The Guardian
| Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat: |
Social network Gab, popular with the far-right, says it raised $4.8M from 1,000+ investors on crowdfunding platform StartEngine and plans $10M ICO — Amid ongoing disputes about free speech and hate speech, “alternative” social network Gab says it has raised $4.8 million and is planning a $10 million initial coin offering (ICO).
Tweets: @shaig
| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Netgear says it will spin off its Arlo security camera wing into a standalone business by the second half of 2018 and is planning an IPO for Arlo — Netgear announced this afternoon that it plans to spin off its Arlo wing into a standalone business. The networking hardware giant's board …
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NETGEAR, Inc., Digital Trends, SiliconANGLE, Multichannel News, The Register, Fortune, ZDNet, Engadget, and Silicon Valley Business …. Tweets: @benbajarin
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Alphabet names Dinesh Jain, former COO of TWC, as CEO of Access, its high-speed internet unit that includes Fiber; Jain is Access' third CEO in under two years — Another new CEO at Access as Alphabet struggles to figure out the future of Google Fiber — Google parent company Alphabet …
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Silicon Valley Business …, Engadget, Google Fiber Blog, Business Insider, Bloomberg, and 9to5Google. Tweets: @mattrosoff
| Bernadette Tansey / Xconomy: |
Car auction firm KAR buys San Francisco-based Stratim, a fleet management software service formerly known as Zirx — With an eye toward a greater role in the future of mobility services, the big Indiana used-car auction company KAR announced Wednesday it acquired Stratim …
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TechCrunch, Reuters, Auto Remarketing, and Indianapolis Business Journal
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Sources: in Q3 2017, Spotify made €1B in revenue, putting it on track for €4B in full year revenue, up 40% YoY, and had an operating loss between €70M and €90M — Spotify generated a billion euros ($1.2 billion) in revenue in the third quarter of 2017, according to two investors briefed on the numbers.Sponsor Posts
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