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    • Coinbase gets approval from NY regulators to create the Coinbase Custody Trust Company, which will offer custody services for Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, and more (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

    Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: Coinbase gets approval from NY regulators to create the Coinbase Custody Trust Company, which will offer custody services for Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, and more  —  Coinbase has received approval from New York regulators to form a qualified custodial firm for cryptocurrencies. Coinbase gets approval from NY regulators to create the Coinbase

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    • Pixel 3 phones, which can fast charge wirelessly, can only do so with certified chargers, but Qi is an open standard, so this amounts to a DRM-like restriction (Ron Amadeo/Ars Technica)

    Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: Pixel 3 phones, which can fast charge wirelessly, can only do so with certified chargers, but Qi is an open standard, so this amounts to a DRM-like restriction  —  Qi wireless charging is a standard.  This isn’t supposed to happen.  —  Google’s Pixel 3 smartphone is shipping out to the

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    • Sources: Apple plans to offer TV subscription service in 100+ countries, debuting in US in first half of next year, will offer free shows to Apple device owners (Jessica Toonkel/The Information)

    Jessica Toonkel / The Information: Sources: Apple plans to offer TV subscription service in 100+ countries, debuting in US in first half of next year, will offer free shows to Apple device owners  —  Apple is planning to launch its upcoming TV subscription service in more than 100 countries, three people familiar with the company’s

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    • Sources: Cloudflare is looking to go public in the first half of 2019 at a $3.5B+ valuation with Goldman Sachs working as the lead investment bank (Reuters)

    Reuters: Sources: Cloudflare is looking to go public in the first half of 2019 at a $3.5B+ valuation with Goldman Sachs working as the lead investment bank  —  (Reuters) – Cloudflare Inc, a U.S. startup whose software makes websites load faster and with greater security, is preparing for an initial public offering … Sources: Cloudflare

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    • Investigation finds network of 125+ Android apps, installed 115M+ times, and websites, some targeted at kids, are part of a multi-million dollar ad fraud scheme (Craig Silverman/BuzzFeed News)

    Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News: Investigation finds network of 125+ Android apps, installed 115M+ times, and websites, some targeted at kids, are part of a multi-million dollar ad fraud scheme  —  Last April, Steven Schoen received an email from someone named Natalie Andrea who said she worked for a company called We Purchase Apps. Investigation

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    • GoEuro raises $150 million for its travel aggregator (Romain Dillet/TechCrunch)

    Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: GoEuro raises $150 million for its travel aggregator  —  Romain Dillet @romaindillet / 7 hours  —  Berlin-based startup GoEuro just raised a new $150 million funding round from Kinnevik and Temasek, with Hillhouse Capital also participating.  According to Crunchbase, the company has raised nearly $300 million to date. GoEuro raises 0

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    • Patreon partners with Reddit to promote creators' Patreon accounts by making them more visible, adding special flair tags for supporters, and more (Julia Alexander/The Verge)

    Julia Alexander / The Verge: Patreon partners with Reddit to promote creators’ Patreon accounts by making them more visible, adding special flair tags for supporters, and more  —  New widgets and flairs coming to Reddit  —  Patreon, a crowdfunding membership platform for creators, announced today that it’s partnering … Patreon partners with Reddit to promote

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