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    • Sphero is crowdfunding RVR, a new robot that can connect to accessories like Raspberry Pi through its universal expansion port, starting at $199 on Kickstarter (Ashley Carman/The Verge)

    Ashley Carman / The Verge: Sphero is crowdfunding RVR, a new robot that can connect to accessories like Raspberry Pi through its universal expansion port, starting at $199 on Kickstarter  —  The RVR is coming  —  Sphero, the Colorado-based connected toy company, has had a successful, conventional run making sphere-shaped, smartphone-controlled robots. Sphero is crowdfunding

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    • GN Group, which makes connected hearing aids that work with iOS and Android, is acquiring videoconferencing device and software provider Altia Systems for $125M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

    Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: GN Group, which makes connected hearing aids that work with iOS and Android, is acquiring videoconferencing device and software provider Altia Systems for $125M  —  Some interesting M&A is afoot in the world of hardware and software that’s aiming to improve the quality of audio and video communications over digital networks.

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    • Google says the built-in microphone in Nest Secure devices, which it had never disclosed earlier in the tech specs, was "never intended to be a secret" (Nick Bastone/Business Insider)

    Nick Bastone / Business Insider: Google says the built-in microphone in Nest Secure devices, which it had never disclosed earlier in the tech specs, was “never intended to be a secret”  —  – In early February, Google announced that Assistant would now work with its home security and alarm system Nest Secure. Google says the

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    • IFTTT's Linden Tibbets resigns as CEO, will stay as chief design officer; Chris Kibarian, ex-CEO of Monster.com owner Randstad Digital Ventures, named IFTTT CEO (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

    Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: IFTTT’s Linden Tibbets resigns as CEO, will stay as chief design officer; Chris Kibarian, ex-CEO of Monster.com owner Randstad Digital Ventures, named IFTTT CEO  —  After raising $24 million in funding led by Salesforce in April 2018, the startup IFTTT — which provides an API platform … IFTTT's Linden Tibbets resigns

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    • Huawei sends invitations for its next flagship P30 series launch event in Paris on March 26 (Mariella Moon/Engadget)

    Mariella Moon / Engadget: Huawei sends invitations for its next flagship P30 series launch event in Paris on March 26  —  Huawei’s upcoming flagship phones won’t be popping up at Mobile World Congress.  The tech giant has announced a special P30 series launch event in Paris, which will take place on March 26th … Huawei

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    • Industry sources: Google will reveal details about its Project Stream game streaming service during its keynote at the Game Developers Conference on March 19 (Chris Morris/Fortune)

    Chris Morris / Fortune: Industry sources: Google will reveal details about its Project Stream game streaming service during its keynote at the Game Developers Conference on March 19  —  Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo might want to brace themselves.  Googleis about to enter the lucrative video game sector with its Project Stream. Industry sources: Google will

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    • Report: Amazon's China unit in merger talks with local e-commerce firm Kaola, one of the biggest Chinese shopping sites for imported goods (Reuters)

    Reuters: Report: Amazon’s China unit in merger talks with local e-commerce firm Kaola, one of the biggest Chinese shopping sites for imported goods  —  (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc’s Chinese joint venture is in talks about a merger with local e-commerce firm Kaola, which sells imported products in the Asian country … Report: Amazon's China unit

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    • Alan, which makes a SaaS platform for the private health insurance market in France, raises $45M Series B after raising a $28M Series A in April 2018 (Romain Dillet/TechCrunch)

    Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: Alan, which makes a SaaS platform for the private health insurance market in France, raises $45M Series B after raising a $28M Series A in April 2018  —  Paris-based startup Alan has raised a Series B round of funding of $45 million (€40 million).  Index Ventures is once again leading the

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    • Regulators globally increasingly view "loot boxes", which provide random in-game items for real money, as a form of gambling, and are considering regulations (Makena Kelly/The Verge)

    Makena Kelly / The Verge: Regulators globally increasingly view “loot boxes”, which provide random in-game items for real money, as a form of gambling, and are considering regulations  —  A month ago, a woman known online as CadenceLikesVGs realized she had a gambling problem. Regulators globally increasingly view "loot boxes", which provide random in-game items

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    • Researchers: India's state gas company let a sensitive part of its website to be indexed by Google, exposing 5M+ customer records including the Aadhaar numbers (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

    Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Researchers: India’s state gas company let a sensitive part of its website to be indexed by Google, exposing 5M+ customer records including the Aadhaar numbers  —  Another security lapse has exposed millions of Aadhaar numbers.  —  This time, India’s state-owned gas company Indane left exposed … Researchers: India's state gas company

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