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Walmart strikes a five-year strategic partnership to use Microsoft's cloud tech, AI, machine learning, and other services, as both firms look to fend off Amazon — The shared rivalry with Amazon ‘is absolutely core to this,’ Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says
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| Kim Zetter / Motherboard: |
Election Systems and Software contradicts earlier statements, admits to Sen. Wyden some voting systems sold to states from 2000-2006 had remote access feature — Remote-access software and modems on election equipment ‘is the worst decision for security short of leaving ballot boxes on a Moscow street corner.’
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| Joe Fedewa / XDA Developers: |
Google debuts visual snapshot for Assistant, a Google Now-like feature for proactive suggestions related to your commute, upcoming events, purchases, and more — The evolution of Google Assistant can be traced back to 2012 when Google Now was all the rage.| Ryan Smith / AnandTech: |
Samsung announces 10nm 8GB LPDDR5 DRAM chip, targets 6.4Gbps data transfer rates and 30% reduced power — Samsung has been on a roll lately with memory & storage-related announcements, and that roll is continuing today with a new DRAM-related announcement out of the juggernaut.
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
Inside OGUSERS, a forum to trade social media and gaming handles, often stolen via “SIM hijacking” where phone numbers are stolen via carrier's customer service — Meet the hackers who flip seized Instagram handles and cryptocurrency in a shady, buzzing underground market for stolen accounts and usernames.
Tweets: @briankrebs, @jason_koebler, @itgirljs, @lorenzofb, and @jason_koebler
| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
BMW launches Ride, a new ride-hailing offering available in Seattle starting today, as part of its car-sharing service ReachNow — BMW-owned ReachNow is bringing its ride-hailing and car-sharing services into one app as it takes on Uber, Lyft, and traditional rental companies in the rapidly-changing transportation industry.
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Travel giant Booking Holdings, formerly known as Priceline, invests $500M in Chinese ride-hailing firm Didi Chuxing — Didi Chuxing, China's largest ride-hailing company, has pulled in some strategic capital after Booking Holdings invested $500 million into its business.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Amazon's EC2 gets faster processors and new high-memory instances, as well as the ability to run a local version of EC2 inside an AWS Snowball Edge device — It's a big day for Amazon's EC2 cloud computing service today. Not only can you now run EC2 inside a Snowball Edge device …
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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Andreessen Horowitz names Connie Chan a General Partner, ending the VC firm's no-promotion policy — Connie Chan is Andreessen Horowitz's first general partner promoted from within. — Andreessen Horowitz has prided itself on breaking some of venture capital's long-time norms in its nine years of operation.| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Dialpad, which provides conferencing software and voice transcription apps, raises $50M Series D led by Iconiq Capital — Dialpad announced a $50 million Series D investment today, giving the company plenty of capital to keep expanding its business communications platform.
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Social Capital CEO Chamath Palihapitiya defends his work after a string of prominent staff departures and a failed expansion that have left investors dismayed — Seven years ago, Social Capital made its debut as one of the hottest venture funds in Silicon Valley, the brainchild … | Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Snap partners with NewsWhip, Storyful, SAM Desk, and TagBoard to help journalists better mine the billions of public videos and photos shared on its app — Snapchat is launching a news partnership initiative with the goal of helping journalists and news organizations better mine the billions …
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Marketing Land, Fortune, and Silicon Republic
Tweets: @taylorlorenz, @storyful, @joshconstine, @moneyries, and @sarafischer
| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
In a hearing, Facebook, Alphabet, and Twitter tell House Judiciary Committee that they are not discriminating against content for political reasons — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Facebook Inc (FB.O), Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) and Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) told a U.S. House panel on Tuesday …
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Facebook announces a new AI lab in Pittsburgh and hires a number of new researchers for Facebook AI Research in Seattle, London, Menlo Park, and Pittsburgh — We created Facebook AI Research over four years ago to focus on advancing the science and technology of AI, and we've always done …
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| Jan Wolfe / Reuters: |
IBM asks jury to award $167M from Groupon for alleged infringement on ecommerce patents, says Amazon, Facebook, Google licensed patents for $20M-$50M per firm — WILMINGTON, Del. (Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp on Monday asked a U.S. jury to award it $167 million … | Ashlee Vance / Bloomberg: |
Profile of Zoox, which has been building an autonomous car from scratch since 2014 and has raised $800M to date, including $500M in July at a valuation of $3.2B — The mystery box sits inside an all-white room in an office building in San Francisco. It's a large, wooden crate with no features …
Tweets: @chafkin, @mcannonbrookes, @business, @joelwebershow, @ericpauldennis, and @felixgillette
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Google launches Chrome Enterprise Grab and Go, a software suite to help businesses operate a Chromebook loaner program for employees — Google has announced a new Chromebook loaner program for businesses that's designed to get workers up and running with a temporary new machine within minutes.
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9to5Google, SiliconANGLE, About Chromebooks, and The Keyword
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Detailed medical histories and contact information of 80K+ patients in Ontario allegedly held for ransom after data breach at CarePartners healthcare provider — Data contained names and contact information for more than 80,000 patients, plus detailed medical histories| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Tinder says it will begin testing Bitmoji integration in Canada and Mexico using the recently launched Snap Kit — Tinder will begin testing Bitmoji in its app in Canada and Mexico, the company announced today. The new integration comes courtesy of the recently launched Snap Kit …
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The Verge, Mashable, and Digital Trends
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Blast raises $12M in seed round to help gamers save money when they hit in-game achievements, announces its app is available in Play Store — Blast lets gamers save every time they hit an achievement in a game like Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. And that simple idea for “micro savings” …
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