Sources: Pebble CEO Eric Migicovsky to rejoin Y Combinator as partner; Fitbit has sent job offers to 40% of Pebble staff
Pebble CEO Migicovsky said planning to join Y Combinator — Fitbit Inc., the fitness band maker, is close to buying software assets from struggling smartwatch startup …
Fitbit confirms Pebble software assets acquisition; Pebble is shutting down, cancels Pebble Time 2 and Core, and will issue Kickstarter refunds
Wearables are in a precarious state — Digital health and fitness-tracking company Fitbit has just officially announced that it is buying key assets …
SoftBank CEO meets with Trump, says firm will invest $50B, create 50K jobs in US; source says money to come from SoftBank's previously announced $100B tech fund
President-elect says investment will create 50,000 jobs — Son was thwarted in attempts to merge Sprint with T-Mobile
Foxconn confirms discussions with US officials about investment to expand US operations, says details will be announced when talks conclude
One of Apple's biggest suppliers is in talks to invest in the United States. — Taiwan-based Foxconn is a giant contract manufacturer that plays …
Apple says Music now has 20M+ paying subscribers, up 15% from 17M in September
Eddy Cue and Zane Lowe on exclusives and why their service rules hip-hop. — Apple has released the latest numbers for the music subscription service Apple Music. In the 18 months since the service ...
Jack Dorsey announces Square's virtual payment cards now work with Apple Pay
Square Cash is expanding again. — Back in September, Square rolled out virtual payment cards: Digital debit cards that pull directly from a user's Square Cash account. — Now those payment cards wo...
Pandora unveils its on-demand, personalized music streaming service Premium, with launch expected in Q1 2017
That Pandora was planning to launch a full fledged Spotify competitor was no secret. The company said as much last year when it bought the ashes of Rdio, which had filed for bankruptcy.
Microsoft announces Windows 10 Creators Update enterprise features: better IT tools, security, more
Microsoft plans to add more security and manageability features to Windows 10 Creators Update before its debut in Spring 2017. Here's what's coming. — Microsoft's coming Windows 10 …
Kantar: iPhone market share up 7 percentage points to 40.5% in US, likely due to Samsung Galaxy Note7 troubles
Missing headphone jack is apparently a ‘non-issue’ for Americans — The US smartphone market is dominated by two big brands, Apple and Samsung, and when one of them flubs its lines …
Circle ends support for buying and selling bitcoin, referring customers to onetime competitor Coinbase, and indicates focus on blockchain technology
In a major blow to the way Bitcoin enthusiasts can buy Bitcoin, Circle, one of the best funded venture capital firms in the space has decided …
Chrome 55 for Android allows you to download music, video, and web pages for offline viewing on mobile devices; rolling out now
Chrome 55 for Mac, Windows, and Linux was a major update that has the browser default to HTML5 in a bid to further kill Flash usage.
Glassdoor: Facebook dethrones Airbnb as the best tech company to work for in the U.S.
Career website Glassdoor today released its ninth annual Employees' Choice Awards, a list of the 50 best companies to work for in the coming year. Facebook was crowned as the number one tech company ...
Sony says it has sold 50M PlayStation 4 consoles worldwide as of December 6, including PS4 Pro
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Supreme Court throws out $399M penalty judgment against Samsung in patent dispute with Apple over iPhone design, sends the case back to the lower court
A unanimous Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with smartphone maker Samsung … James Vincent / The Verge : Samsung gets another chance to reduce Apple's $400 million patent win Todd Haselton / TechnoBuffa...
IBM launches Watson for Cybersecurity beta program involving 40 companies across indurstries like finance, healthcare, and more
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Apple debuts single sign-on for iOS and tvOS with 9 partners including Dish, DirecTV, Sling TV, but is missing big names like Comcast, Charter, Verizon FiOS
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Cybersecurity company Optiv cancels IPO plans after selling majority stake to private equity firm KKR
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Sources: Google X plans Wing Marketplace, an online exchange for $6 drone deliveries from partner retailers and restaurants, amid troubled Project Wing efforts
Wednesday, December 7 Gina Hall / Silicon Valley Business Journal : Google in talks to launch drone food delivery service William White / InvestorPlace : Alphabet Inc (GOOG) News: X Wants to Create ‘W...
YouTube has paid over $1B to the music industry in the last year, from advertising alone
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The director of Google's News Lab, Steve Grove, reviews the lab's 2016 projects, including efforts to build trust and combat fake news
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Twitch brings video calls with up to five players to its game communication app, Curse, initially for Mac, Windows, and Chrome, but mobile support is on the way
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Cloud integration firm SnapLogic raises $40M Series F led by European private equity firm Vitruvian Partners
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Google AMP, Facebook's Instant Articles, and Apple News make articles from fake news sites look the same as those from Bloomberg and The New York Times
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Docker acquires file syncing and sharing app Infinit, will open-source the software
Jordan Novet / VentureBeat :
GoDaddy acquires rival hosting company Host Europe Group for $1.79B, will fund deal with $1.16B of debt
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat :
Pepo, Jason Goldberg's social media app, raises $2.35M from his old Fab.com backers
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Huawei reportedly acquires Israeli IT networking company Toga Networks for $150 million
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