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Swiss staffing and workforce development company Adecco acquires New York-based coding school General Assembly for $412.5M; General Assembly had raised ~$120M — Coding school General Assembly has agreed to be acquired for $412.5 million in cash by Swiss staffing and workforce development company Adecco.
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Department of Commerce bans ZTE from exporting components to US and blocks sales from US companies to it, after alleged false statements to officials — ZTE made ‘false statements’ to the U.S: Commerce Department — Chinese firm pleaded guilty last year to sanctions law
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| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
Coinbase confirms acquisition of Earn.com, which lets users earn bitcoin by replying to emails and completing tasks, with CEO Balaji Srinivasan joining as CTO — Coinbase is acquiring Earn.com, a paid inbox service formerly known as 21 inc., with CEO Balaji Srinivasan joining as chief technology officer …
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FBI, DHS, and UK's National Cyber Security Centre issue joint alert warning of a Russian-led global campaign to attack and infiltrate internet infrastructure — State-sponsored Russian hackers are actively seeking to hijack essential internet hardware, US and UK intelligence agencies say.| Wall Street Journal: |
Goldman Sachs buys personal-finance app Clarity Money, sources say for a “high eight-figure sum”, expected to serve as a mobile storefront for its consumer bank — Goldman acquires Clarity Money, Adam Dell's personal-finance and budgeting app — Goldman Sachs GS -1.41% Group …
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| Issie Lapowsky / Wired: |
Study: of 228 groups found running divisive Facebook ads during 2016 election, 122 were “suspicious” and ran 4x more ads than others, ~20 had known links to IRA — WHEN YOUNG MIE Kim began studying political ads on Facebook in August of 2016—while Hillary Clinton was still leading the polls …
Tweets: @profcarroll, @wired, @davidfrum, @issielapowsky, @issielapowsky, @campaignlegal, @issielapowsky, @edbott, and @issielapowsky
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Sony announces Xperia XZ2 Premium with 5.8-inch 4K HDR display and dual cameras focusing on ultra-low-light performance, with photos of up to ISO 51,200 — ISO 51200 sensitivity — Less than two months after unveiling the Xperia XZ2 at Mobile World Congress, Sony is back again with the Xperia XZ2 Premium.| Bloomberg: |
Russia starts implementing a ban on the Telegram messenger service after company refused to hand over encryption keys to security services — Russia began implementing a ban on the Telegram messenger service for refusing to hand over encryption keys to security services …
| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
China's Weibo backs down from censoring gay content following backlash from users, after saying it would ban it along with other content to comply with new law — - On Friday, the social media service announced plans to remove posts containing pornographic cartoons, videos that promote violence … | Samuel Axon / Ars Technica: |
Review of macOS 10.13.4 eGPU support: performance gains are decent, especially for Metal, but not ready for primetime and support is limited to AMD cards — Performance doesn't disappoint, but lack of strong software support does. — When Apple released macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 on March 29 … | Chris Wood / BBC: |
Partial fingerprints in a picture of a hand holding drugs, found in a WhatsApp message on a phone, helped convict UK drug dealer — A pioneering fingerprint technique used to convict a drugs gang from a WhatsApp message “is the future” of how police approach evidence to catch criminals.| Jeff Buchanan / Xconomy: |
Livongo, which helps patients manage diabetes and hypertension via connected devices and a cloud based platform, raises $105M Series E at $800M+ valuation — Livongo Health, a startup that develops connected devices and software for patients with diabetes and other chronic conditions …
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MassDevice, Modern Healthcare, MobiHealthNews, PR Newswire, Forbes, and GeekWire
| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Car-sharing startup Turo raises $12M from American Express Ventures and Sumitomo Corporation to close a $104M Series D — Peer-to-peer car-sharing marketplace Turo has officially closed a $104 million Series D round. This comes following a $12 million investment from Sumitomo Corporation …
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| Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk: |
Baidu launches Totem, a stock photo service that uses blockchain to timestamp submissions and track ownership of each original photograph — Chinese internet search giant Baidu has launched a blockchain-based stock photo service in bid to protect image intellectual property in China.
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