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Questions arise about Bloomberg's story on China spying via tiny chips after companies' strong denials, showing the difficulties of national security reporting — Today's bombshell Bloomberg story has the internet split: either the story is right, and reporters have uncovered one of the largest …
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Elastic, a search and data analytics startup, closes up 94.4% on its first day of trading after raising $252M in its IPO and is now valued at about $4.8B — - The company offers its technology through cloud providers such as Amazon, but Amazon also represents competition.
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Source: in a company-wide Facebook town hall, Joel Kaplan said he should have talked to Zuckerberg and Sandberg before attending Kavanaugh hearings — Top Facebook executive Joel Kaplan made an emotional appearance at a companywide town hall Friday, and admitted that he should have consulted …
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After Windows 10 October 2018 upgrade, some users are reporting problems like their files and profiles getting deleted, issues with Microsoft Store apps, more — Every time Microsoft rolls out a new Windows 10 feature update we hear of problems being encountered by early adopters … | Peter Rudegeair / Wall Street Journal: |
Brex, which provides corporate credit cards to other tech startups, raises $125M Series C led by DST Global and Greenoaks, at a valuation of $1.1B — Payments companies are hot, but none are hotter than Brex — Henrique Dubugras, a 21-year-old Stanford freshman and entrepreneur … | Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab: |
Study: 80%+ of the Twitter accounts that spread false info during 2016 election are still active, continue to push more than a million tweets per day — Enough with the “whack-a-mole” claims that as soon as you ban one fake news site, another one pops up: A report released by Knight …
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| Stacey Higginbotham / Stacey on IoT: |
Sources: Walmart is asking companies that want to sell smart home products to make sure those products work with Google Home — Walmart is asking companies that want to sell smart home products to make sure those products work with Google Home. The retailer has instructed potential suppliers …
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| Anna Hensel / VentureBeat: |
Report: share of global venture capital captured by US has fallen from over 95% in the mid-1990s to 71% in 2012 to ~50% in 2017; India, China benefited most — Year after year, startups in U.S. cities like San Francisco, New York, and Boston continue to raise an unprecedented amount of venture capital …
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| Kara Swisher / New York Times: |
A look at the Internet Bill of Rights, framed by a Democrat on request by Nancy Pelosi, for how tech and telecom companies should treat Americans online — If Democrats win back the House, they promise to start regulating Silicon Valley. — Ms. Swisher covers technology and is a contributing opinion writer.
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| Ben Fox Rubin / CNET: |
Amazon says it has fired an employee for sharing users' email addresses with a third-party seller, is working with law enforcement, informing affected customers — An Amazon employee was fired after sharing customers' email addresses with an unnamed third-party seller, in violation of company policies, Amazon said.
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Randori, a Boston-based startup that claims to have “industry's first nation-state caliber attack platform” to test corporate networks, raises $9.75M seed round — Randori, a startup that claims to be the “industry's first nation-state caliber attack platform,” …
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Samsung forecasts record Q3 operating profit of ~$15.8B, up 20% YoY, and revenue of ~$57.3B, up 5% YoY, on continued strong demand for its memory chips — Samsung really appears to be cashing in chips. — The South Korea electronics giant said Thursday it expects to record … | Nat Levy / GeekWire: |
Online lending exchange LendingTree acquires Seattle-based online insurance marketplace QuoteWizard for $300M — Insurance comparison marketplace QuoteWizard has been acquired by LendingTree for $300 million, and the price tag could rise even more should the bootstrapped Seattle startup continue its recent record-setting growth.
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Sources: Sundar Pichai visited the Pentagon last week to meet reps of the DoD division that oversees Project Maven — Google chief executive Sundar Pichai quietly paid the Pentagon a visit during his trip to Washington last week, seeking to smooth over tensions roughly four months … Sponsor Posts
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