Amazon to buy Whole Foods Market for $13.7B in all-cash deal; John Mackey will remain CEO of Whole Foods Market, which will continue to operate stores
Whole Foods Market ranked #28 and Amazon ranked #2 on Fortune's 2017 list of World's Most Admired Companies
Last year a Facebook bug exposed the personal profiles of 1,000+ content moderators to administrators of the groups with removed terrorist content
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A look at Jeff Bezos' charitable donations, after he asks for ideas on philanthropy focused on “the right now”, for causes with “urgent need and lasting impact”
Jeff Bezos, the founder and chief executive of Amazon, is well on his way to becoming the richest person in the world …
Amazon has been laying groundwork to acquire a grocery chain, and Whole Foods has a strong brand and high-income demographic that lines up with its own
Amazon has been laying groundwork to take over a grocery chain — Whole Foods has a strong brand and high-income demographic
North Korea's cyberattack strategy may seem erratic, but experts warn it can be effective at raising funds, creating chaos, and extending military aggression
NORTH KOREA IS arguably the least-understood nation on the planet. And that also applies to its state-sponsored hackers whose global cyberattacks …
Amazon wants to become Walmart before Walmart can become Amazon
The future of retail will be a combination of both online e-commerce and a brick-and-mortar retail presence - as recent moves from both Walmart and Amazon have shown, including today's back-to-back an...
YouTube intros heatmaps for VR, letting creators see where viewers look during 360° videos, says viewers spend 75% of their time looking at front 90 degrees
YouTube's growing library of VR content is a definite asset in Google's struggle to dominate the virtual reality sphere.
Before Whole Foods the biggest Amazon acquisitions were Zappos for $1.2B (2009), Twitch for $970M (2014), Kiva Systems for $775M (2012), Souq for $650M (2017)
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After The Information reported Tencent is exploring a $3B bid for Rovio, the Angry Birds maker says an IPO is possible in the future
Finnish mobile game and animation studio Rovio, maker of the Angry Birds game, said it could list on the stock exchange in the future …
After teasing Ataribox, Atari CEO confirms company is working on a game console
EXCLUSIVE: — Atari CEO Fred Chesnais told GamesBeat in an exclusive interview that his fabled video game company is working on a new game console. — In doing so, the New York company might be cash...
Top EU court rules that ISPs can be ordered to block The Pirate Bay and other torrent sites
Ernesto / TorrentFreak :
Microsoft unveils Modern Keyboard with a fingerprint sensor, which works either wired or via Bluetooth 4.0, compatible with Windows 8-10, Android, and macOS
and Bad Ergonomics Christian Zibreg / iDownloadBlog.com : Microsoft's new Modern Keyboard is the Touch ID-enabled keyboard we wish Apple had made Zak Killian / The Tech Report : Say Hello with Microso...
Apple hires Sony TV execs Jamie Erlicht and Zack Van Amburg as heads of video programming worldwide reporting to Eddy Cue, to lead push into original content
Wall Street Journal :
Walmart to buy menswear company Bonobos for $310M; Bonobos' CEO Andy Dunn will oversee Walmart's digital brands
> Walmart $ Shave Club —> Unilever Chewy —> PetSmart Jet —> Walmart ModCloth —> Walmart Disrupting retail is hard Jessica Verrilli / @jess : Lots of interesting M&A happening in the intersection point...
Profile of Shiva Ayyadurai, who claims he invented email and is running as a Republican in a 2018 senatorial election, amid his libel lawsuit against Techdirt
“I defined e-mail! And you guys have got to give me that credit.” — History is not fixed; like memory itself, it is an act of reconstruction. Tweets: @rmac18 and @shanselman Tweets: @rmac18 : A bra...
Experts detail how Russia is targeting US military personnel and veterans via a multi-pronged cyber espionage campaign involving phishing, catfishing, and more
With hacks, pro-Putin trolls and fake news, the Kremlin is ratcheting up its efforts to turn American servicemembers and veterans into a fifth column.
Sources: Reddit is raising funding at a valuation of around $1.7B
The link-sharing website bulks up with venture capital — Snoop Dogg, Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel among earlier backers — Reddit is one of the few relics of the mid-2000s internet that has not onl...
Chinese online used car trading platform Guazi.com raises $400M Series B led by Sequoia China; Guazi was valued at $1B during $250M Series A in September 2016
Pan Yue / China Money Network :
Gym membership startup ClassPass raises $70M Series C led by Temasek, at what the CEO says is a $470M post-money valuation
Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @stevekovach Tweets: Steve Kovach / @stevekovach : This is a quote from the ClassPass CEO https://www.wsj.com/... pic.twitter.com/CMj4UFgEuj
VoiceLabs discontinues its Sponsored Messages ad product for Alexa Skills following Amazon's policy changes, shifts focus to its analytics product
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Intellectual Ventures spin-out Pivotal Commware, developing antenna from metamaterials for software defined radios, raises $17M Series A from Bill Gates, others
Benjamin Romano / Xconomy : Thanks: @bromano
Justin Kan's Atrium LTS legal technology services startup raises $10.5M led by General Catalyst, with nearly 100 institutional and angel investors participating
Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch : Tweets: @amittm and @rrhoover Tweets: Amitt Mahajan / @amittm : This is a product that should exist and is built by a team that deeply understands the problems they are sol...
Samsung quietly acquired VR app studio VRB, sources say for $5.5M
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch : Tweets: @ingridlunden Tweets: Ingrid / @ingridlunden : This seems like an almost quaint amount of money, given the other deals in the news today. http://twitter.com/...
Oath unveils Bullet, an open source general-purpose query engine for streaming data
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE : Thanks: @robhof
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