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Apple says it will let developers making apps for Watch Series 3 track ski and snowboard activities through APIs in watchOS 4.2 — Apple has announced that skiers and snowboarders can use Apple Watch Series 3 to track their activities starting today. — Apple Watch apps snoww, Slopes …
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon acquires Ring, maker of video doorbells and other smart home devices; reports put the price tag at $1B+ — Amazon has reached an agreement to acquire Ring, the Santa Monica, Calif.-based maker of video cameras, doorbells and other smart home technologies, GeekWire has learned.
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| Hugh Langley / Wareable: |
Leaked images and sources detail Fitbit's next smartwatch, set for spring launch, that will appeal to female market, have 50M water resistance, no GPS, more — Exclusive: A better design than the Ionic, but lacks GPS — On its latest investors call, Fitbit teased a brand new smartwatch …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook is rolling out job ads to 40 more countries; businesses can post job openings to a Jobs tab on their Page, Facebook Marketplace, and the News Feed — LinkedIn wasn't built for low-skilled job seekers, so Facebook is barging in. Today Facebook is rolling out job posts to 40 … | Ali Winston / The Verge: |
Sources: Palantir has been secretly testing predictive policing technology in New Orleans since 2012 that identifies individuals at risk of committing crime — Palantir deployed a predictive policing system in New Orleans that even city council members don't know about — Illustrations by Garret Beard and Alex Castro
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| Chris Stokel-Walker / Bloomberg: |
Study: top 3% of most-viewed YouTube channels receive ~85% of all views, attract 1.4M+ views/month, but could bring only ~$17K/year each in advertising revenue — You can have a million views a month and still not be able to make rent — Do your children dream of YouTube stardom?
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| Marek Majkowski / Cloudflare Blog: |
Cloudflare says it's spotted massive DDoS amplification attacks that abuse Memcached servers and the UDP protocol, has mitigated attacks of up to 260Gbps — Over last couple of days we've seen a big increase in an obscure amplification attack vector - using the memcached protocol, coming from UDP port 11211.| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
UK-based Kindred Capital, a VC firm that shares 20% of the fund's profits with the founders of startups it invests in, closes its first fund at $112M — What do you do if you're a venture capital (VC) firm looking to make a name for yourself in a crowded space?
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| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Duo Security reports SAML vulnerability affecting single sign-on systems, allows attackers with authenticated access to log in as other users without a password — A validation bug in how some single sign-on products implemented an open authentication standard could have allowed an attacker …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
eBay to acquire Japanese ecommerce platform Qoo10.jp, an arm of Singapore-based Giosis, report says for ~$700M — eBay has confirmed that it's buying the Japanese arm of Giosis, a Singapore-based business that operates the Qoo10 ecommerce platform across a number of Asian markets …
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| John Shinal / CNBC: |
Facebook VP Andrew Bosworth shares chart that shows the Trump campaign paid slightly higher CPM prices compared to Clinton in 2016 election, disputing reports — - Facebook executive Andrew Bosworth shared a tweet showing that President Trump paid more than Hillary Clinton did to reach users on the platform.
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Self-driving car startup Aurora raises $90M Series A, with participation from Greylock Partners and Index Ventures — Self-driving car startup Aurora has raised $90 million in a Series A round, with participation from both Greylock Partners and Index Ventures.
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| Kim Hart / Axios: |
Poll of 3,574 US adults shows 55% are in favor of the government regulating big tech companies, up from only 40% in November last year — A majority of Americans are now concerned that the government won't do enough to regulate how U.S technology companies operate, according to an Axios-SurveyMonkey poll.
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| Clare McGrane / GeekWire: |
Microsoft announces four new services aimed at healthcare professionals, including Microsoft Genomics for genetic analyses and AI-based Empower MD platform — Every day, doctors and nurses across the country do a complicated dance around patient care. They turn back and forth as a mother describes …
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| Johana Bhuiyan / Recode: |
Ford chooses Miami to test autonomous ride-hail and delivery businesses, including pilot with Postmates and Domino's, and is setting up fleet-management center — The company is testing its cars in a delivery service, mapping out the streets for a driverless ride-hail service and setting up a fleet-management center.
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| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
Entertainment Software Rating Board says “in the near future” all physical, boxed games that contain in-game purchases will include a label notifying purchasers — The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) today announced that all physical, boxed games that contain …
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Tweets: @esrbratings, @terramantis, @epicnamebro, @enichan, @bombosmedallion, @jasonschreier, @cygnus_hd, and @legalgameruk
| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Square reports Q4 revenue of $283M, up 47% YoY, versus estimates of $266.3M, and 2017 subscription and services-based revenue of $253M, up 95% from 2016 — Square posted a largely successful fourth quarter that showed continuing growth with its Cash App — with users spending around $90 million …
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
India-based music streaming service Gaana raises $115M led by Tencent for creating more personalized services and features for listeners using AI — Chinese internet giant Tencent is continuing to put its money in India and in music streaming services after it agreed to lead a $115 million investment in India's Gaana.
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Baidu's video streaming service iQiyi files for US IPO with $1.5B placeholder target; reports suggest it's aiming for a public market valuation of ~$10B — IQiyi is working with Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, BofA — Chinese IPOs expected for 2018 include Xiaomi, Tencent Music| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Asus announces 6.2" Zenfone 5 and $499+ flagship 5Z with iPhone X-like design and notch, Snapdragon 636 and 845 respectively; 5 available in April, 5Z in June — 'Some people will say it's copying Apple, but we cannot get away from what users want' — Ahead of today's Zenfone 5 launch …
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