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Sources: Facebook is in talks with pay TV channels, including HBO, Showtime, and Starz, about selling their streaming TV services on its platform…

Peter Kafka / Recode : Sources: Facebook is in talks with pay TV channels, including HBO, Showtime, and Starz, about selling their streaming TV services on its platform   —  The world's biggest social network wants to get into the pay TV business — by taking a page from Amazon.  —  Facebook is readying …

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Starbucks partners with UberEats to deliver food and coffee from a quarter of its US stores starting in 2019, following a pilot program in Miami in…

Nivedita Balu / Reuters : Starbucks partners with UberEats to deliver food and coffee from a quarter of its US stores starting in 2019, following a pilot program in Miami in September   —  (Reuters) - Starbucks Corp (SBUX.O) said on Thursday it is partnering with UberEats to deliver food and coffee from nearly a quarter …

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Juniper Square, which operates a platform for commercial real estate investment firms, raises $25M Series B led by Ribbit Capital (Kate…

Kate Clark / TechCrunch : Juniper Square, which operates a platform for commercial real estate investment firms, raises $25M Series B led by Ribbit Capital   —  Juniper Square, a four-year-old startup at the intersection of enterprise software, real estate and financial technology, has brought in an additional $25 million …

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Google says it won’t sell general-purpose facial recognition APIs before working through “important technology and policy questions” (Kent…

Kent Walker / Google : Google says it won't sell general-purpose facial recognition APIs before working through “important technology and policy questions”   —  More than 400 million people in the world have diabetes.  A third of them have diabetic retinopathy, a complication that can cause permanent blindness.

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Sonata Software anuncia firma de acuerdo definitivo para adquirir al socio de servicios de campo de Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sopris Systems, con sede en…

BANGALORE, India, 13 de diciembre de 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Sonata Software, el proveedor mundial líder de servicios y soluciones de tecnología de la información (TI) anunció que ha firmado un acuerdo definitivo para adquirir Sopris Systems, con sede en los Estados Unidos. Sopris Systems es ...

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Sources: Uber has confidentially filed for an IPO; filing indicates it could go public as soon as the first quarter of 2019 (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal : Sources: Uber has confidentially filed for an IPO; filing indicates it could go public as soon as the first quarter of 2019   —  The filing indicates a public listing could come in early 2019, pitting the ride-hailing service against rival Lyft  —  Uber Technologies Inc. filed paperwork confidentially …

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UK-based Boku, a carrier billing services provider, says it has acquired Danal, a US-based mobile identity and authentication service, and will pay up…

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch : UK-based Boku, a carrier billing services provider, says it has acquired Danal, a US-based mobile identity and authentication service, and will pay up to $68M   —  After going public in the U.K. last year, Boku has made an acquisition to expand its carrier billing services …

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Google has found three malicious ad network SDKs as part of Cheetah Mobile and Kika Tech ad fraud probe; sources: SDKs are from AltaMob, BatMobi, and…

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : Google has found three malicious ad network SDKs as part of Cheetah Mobile and Kika Tech ad fraud probe; sources: SDKs are from AltaMob, BatMobi, and YeahMobi   —  A few days ago, Google removed popular Cheetah Mobile and Kika Tech apps from its Play Store following a BuzzFeed investigation …

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China has set up the Online Games Ethics Committee, which has reviewed a first batch of 20 games and rejected 9 of them, according to the state…

Zheping Huang / South China Morning Post : China has set up the Online Games Ethics Committee, which has reviewed a first batch of 20 games and rejected 9 of them, according to the state broadcaster CCTV   —  - The recently formed Online Games Ethics Committee has rejected nine of an initial batch of 20 titles it reviewed

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Canada’s DOJ argues Huawei CFO committed fraud by misrepresenting a Huawei subsidiary as an independent company, tricking US banks into violating Iran…

Kate Conger / New York Times : Canada's DOJ argues Huawei CFO committed fraud by misrepresenting a Huawei subsidiary as an independent company, tricking US banks into violating Iran sanctions   —  VANCOUVER, British Columbia — The reasons that the United States asked the Canadian authorities to arrest a top executive …

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Walmart to acquire the assets of Art.com, an online seller of art and wall decor which, a source says, was recently bringing in $300M in sales…

Lauren Thomas / CNBC : Walmart to acquire the assets of Art.com, an online seller of art and wall decor which, a source says, was recently bringing in $300M in sales annually   —  - Marc Lore, head of Walmart's U.S. e-commerce business, has said the company could one day own upwards of 40 digitally native brands.

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