Month: December 2018

    • Beddit, the sleep tracking company that Apple acquired in 2017, releases Beddit Sleep Monitor 3.5, a $150 sleep monitor for iOS, available in Apple Stores (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)

    Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: Beddit, the sleep tracking company that Apple acquired in 2017, releases Beddit Sleep Monitor 3.5, a $150 sleep monitor for iOS, available in Apple Stores  —  Earlier this week, Apple received FCC clearance with a new sleep monitor product that looked like an updated version of the Beddit Sleep Monitor that

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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 annually (Lauren Thomas/CNBC)

    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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    • Andy Rubin's Essential has acquired CloudMagic, maker of the Newton email app that the India-based startup shut down in September (Anirban Sen/Livemint)

    Anirban Sen / Livemint: Andy Rubin’s Essential has acquired CloudMagic, maker of the Newton email app that the India-based startup shut down in September  —  Andy Rubin’s Essential Products has acquired CloudMagic less than three months after the startup’s founder Rohit Nadhani said its flagship email app Newton Mail was shutting down Andy Rubin's Essential

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    • Sources: Apple acquired Platoon, a UK-based startup which uses analytics to source talent like musicians and writers to produce, distribute, and sell their work (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

    Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Sources: Apple acquired Platoon, a UK-based startup which uses analytics to source talent like musicians and writers to produce, distribute, and sell their work  —  Spotify has made some significant moves to bypass record labels and work directly with artists, and there are signs that Apple … Sources: Apple acquired Platoon,

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    • EU's technology commissioner: EU should be worried about Huawei and other Chinese tech companies because of the risk they pose to bloc's industry and security (Reuters)

    Reuters: EU’s technology commissioner: EU should be worried about Huawei and other Chinese tech companies because of the risk they pose to bloc’s industry and security  —  BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union should be worried about Huawei [HWT.UL] and other Chinese technology companies … EU's technology commissioner: EU should be worried about Huawei and

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    • Winklevoss' Gemini exchange says it will add support for Bitcoin Cash on December 10, after receiving approval from NY regulator (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

    Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: Winklevoss’ Gemini exchange says it will add support for Bitcoin Cash on December 10, after receiving approval from NY regulator  —  The Winklevoss-owned Gemini crypto exchange is adding support for bitcoin cash (BCH), the firm announced Friday.  —  Specifically, the New York-based startup … Winklevoss' Gemini exchange says it will add

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    • MasterCard wants to make electronic payments anonymous… with blockchain

    Just as the US Department of Homeland Security announced plans to develop forensic techniques to deanonymize cryptocurrency transactions, MasterCard has thrown a spanner in the works with plans for the exact opposite. According to a recent patent application, the payment infrastructure provider wants to anonymize “electronic transactions via blockchain.” The patent explains how the system

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