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Documents and eyewitnesses say T-Mobile execs have been frequently staying at Trump's D.C. hotel as VIPs as T-Mobile seeks approval for its $26B Sprint merger — Last April, telecom giant T-Mobile announced a megadeal: a $26 billion merger with rival Sprint, which would more than double T-Mobile's value …
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Evan Spiegel says Snap CFO Tim Stone, who joined the company from Amazon eight months ago, has resigned but will remain until February 5 to help with transition — San Francisco (CNN Business)Snap is losing another high-profile executive. Chief Financial Officer Tim Stone told Snap …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Fiserv is buying payments giant First Data in a $22B all-stock deal; Fiserv's CEO Jeffery Yabuki will become CEO of the combined entity — While we will continue to see a lot of consolidation among smaller startups in the area of financial technology, or fintech, there are also some much bigger combinations … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft is planning to decouple Windows search and Cortana in the next major Windows 10 update, expected in April, so typed queries will be handled separately — Windows search is now free to get more powerful — Microsoft is making some big changes to Cortana in Windows 10.
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| Brandon Gomez / CNBC: |
Niantic, the company behind Pokémon Go, raises $245M Series C led by IVP at a $4B valuation and says it's working on Harry Potter games — Augmented reality developer Niantic said Wednesday it has raised $245 million in a Series C funding round led by venture capital firm IVP.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Pew survey of US Facebook users: 74% didn't know the company compiles lists of their interests and traits to target ads; 51% were uncomfortable with this — A study by the Pew Research Center suggests most Facebook users are still in the dark about how the company tracks and profiles them for ad-targeting purposes.
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Veeam, which specializes in on-premises backup and recovery software for enterprises, raises $500M led by Insight Venture Partners — Veeam said that the capital from Insight Venture Partners will help organic and inorganic growth plans. — Veeam, a privately held data management company …
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| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Following AT&T and T-Mobile, Sprint says it will stop selling customers' real-time location data to third-parties but didn't provide a timeframe — After AT&T and T-Mobile said they would stop selling their customers' phone location data to third parties, Sprint followed suit.
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| Rachel Yang / Variety: |
Roku says it is removing two Infowars channels on its platform after criticism from users and a rebuke from some Sandy Hook families — Roku has taken the Infowars channel off its platform after the streaming device faced criticism for carrying the controversial program hosted by right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
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| Yogita Khatri / CoinDesk: |
Binance launches fiat-to-crypto exchange on the island of Jersey, letting European users trade Bitcoin and Ethereum against the pound and euro — Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by adjusted trading volume, has launched a new fiat-to-crypto exchange on the island of Jersey, a British self-governing dependency.
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Sources: Lenovo is partnering with Verizon to reintroduce the Motorola Razr phone with a foldable screen, at a price starting at ~$1,500 — Motorola seeks to revive flip phone that was dethroned by the iPhone a decade ago — The Motorola Razr phone is making a comeback.
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| Trent Brunson / Trail of Bits Blog: |
Study finds that the top one percent of bug hunters found on average ~0.87 bugs per month, earning an average yearly salary of ~$34K — Trying to make a living as a programmer participating in bug bounties is the same as convincing yourself that you're good enough at Texas Hold 'Em to quit your job.| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
App Annie State of Mobile report: app store consumer spending was ~$100B in 2018, up 75% from 2016, global app downloads were ~194B in 2018, up 35% from 2016 — App Annie's 2019 State of Mobile report has a bevy of factoids and projections enterprises need to consider as they take on their mobile and digital transformation strategies.| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Outdoorsy, which develops a platform to connect underused RVs with users, raises $50M Series C led by Greenspring Associates, after a $25M Series B in Feb. 2018 — Outdoorsy is building for the road ahead. The three-year-old company, which connects customers with underused RVs …
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Facebook says it will extend its stricter political ad rules to India, Nigeria, Ukraine, and the EU ahead of significant votes over the coming months — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc told Reuters on Tuesday that it would extend some of its political advertising rules and tools … | Nick Summers / Engadget: |
Unity updates ToS so that any third-party software, like Improbable's SpatialOS, can be used with its game engine, following last week's fracas — Everything is back to normal. Sort of. — Unity has had a change of heart. The company is updating its Terms of Service so that any third-party software …
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Unity Technologies Blog, Gamasutra, Worlds Adrift, and GamesIndustry.biz
Tweets: @simoroth, @garrynewman, @unity3d, and @nisummers
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Ethereum's long-anticipated Constantinople fork has been delayed after an audit firm discovered a critical flaw in one of the planned changes — Ethereum's long-anticipated Constantinople upgrade has just been delayed after a critical vulnerability was discovered in one of the planned changes.
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Tweets: @coindesk, @cryptooindia, @icodrops, and @campuscodi
| Kate Conger / New York Times: |
Data from Portland's 4-month scooter program, which capped the number of scooters to ~2K and recorded 700K+ rides, shows scooters often replaced short car trips — SAN FRANCISCO — The e-scooter boom began in Santa Monica, Calif., about 16 months ago. Electric scooters …
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Tweets: @nytimesbusiness, @bikeportland, @nytimesbusiness, and @nytimestech
| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Summary of the first six days of the FTC vs Qualcomm trial, which saw witnesses from Apple, other companies, and IP experts from consultancies and universities — The US Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday presented its last witnesses and evidence in its case against Qualcomm.
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CNET, SiliconANGLE, Fortune, iPhone Hacks, 9to5Mac, Telecoms.com, SlashGear, and Seeking Alpha
Tweets: @sharatibken, @cnetnews, and @durvidimel
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Indian education unicorn Byju's acquires Osmo, which develops interactive play apps that tie into custom hardware, for $120M — Weeks after it raised a massive $540 million funding round, Indian education unicorn Byju's is on the M&A path. The company announced today it has snapped up U.S-based Osmo … | Akanksha Rana / Reuters: |
Enterprise-focused technology provider Infor raises $1.5B from Koch Equity and Golden Gate Capital, following a $2B raise in early 2017 — (Reuters) - Cloud technology company Infor Inc said on Wednesday it received an investment of $1.5 billion from shareholders Koch Equity Development LLC and private equity firm Golden Gate Capital.
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| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
YouTube updates its policies, says it prohibits harmful and dangerous challenges and pranks following stunts like the Bird Box and Tide Pod challenges — YouTube to creators: don't — YouTube has a new message for creators looking to participate in dangerous or potentially harmful stunts …
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Tweets: @loudmouthjulia, @buzzfeednews, and @johnpaczkowski
| Douglas Soltys / BetaKit: |
Bold Commerce, which builds apps for e-commerce platforms like Shopify, raises $22M Series A led by Whitecap Venture Partners and Round13 Capital — Winnipeg-based e-commerce solution developer Bold Commerce announced today the close of a $22 million CAD Series A funding round, led by Whitecap Venture Partners and Round13 Capital.
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