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    • Intuit says it is acquiring Origami Logic, an Accel-backed marketing analytics startup that has raised over $64M in funding, in a deal expected to close Q4 2019 (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE)

    Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: Intuit says it is acquiring Origami Logic, an Accel-backed marketing analytics startup that has raised over $64M in funding, in a deal expected to close Q4 2019  —  Financial software powerhouse Intuit Inc. today announced that it’s buying Origami Logic Inc., an Accel-backed marketing analytics startup. Intuit says it is acquiring

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    • Uber’s CEO thinks Eats is a secret weapon in the ride-hailing wars

    Uber is experimenting with increasing the cross-promotion of its Eats food delivery service and its ride-hailing offering inside the company’s app, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said Thursday. Khosrowshahi said he feels comfortable trying this after finding out that when customers use more than one of the company’s products, their engagement with Uber “more than doubles” overall.

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    • Mark Zuckerberg’s head of security accused of sexual harassment by two former staffers

    Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerbeg, like most ultra-rich members of society, has an extensive security detail that monitors him at all hours of the day, in addition to the litany of staff members responsible for cooking, cleaning, and managing Zuckerberg and his family’s personal affairs. Yet according to two former employees of Zuckerberg’s personal household and

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    • VMware reports Q1 revenue of $2.27B, up 13% YoY, beating analyst estimates of $2.24B, and net income of $505M, including a gain of $132M from Pivotal (Natalie Gagliordi/ZDNet)

    Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: VMware reports Q1 revenue of $2.27B, up 13% YoY, beating analyst estimates of $2.24B, and net income of $505M, including a gain of $132M from Pivotal  —  VMware also reported an unexpected gain of $132 million from its investment in Pivotal Software.  —  VMware delivered strong … VMware reports Q1 revenue

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    • Sources: Amazon is interested in buying prepaid cellphone wireless service Boost Mobile from T-Mobile and Sprint (Reuters)

    Reuters: Sources: Amazon is interested in buying prepaid cellphone wireless service Boost Mobile from T-Mobile and Sprint  —  (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc is interested in buying prepaid cellphone wireless service Boost Mobile from U.S. carriers T-Mobile US Inc and Sprint Corp, according to two sources familiar with the matter. Sources: Amazon is interested in buying

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    • Microsoft says devs can now bring Win32 games to the Microsoft Store, a shift away from the store's previous Universal Windows Platform requirement for games (Tom Warren/The Verge)

    Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft says devs can now bring Win32 games to the Microsoft Store, a shift away from the store’s previous Universal Windows Platform requirement for games  —  It’s been a long time coming  —  Microsoft had a dream with Windows 8 that involved universal Windows apps that would span across phones

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    Jezebel Here’s a Good Story About Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Telling Off Her Sexist Boss in Her Restau

    Jezebel Here’s a Good Story About Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Telling Off Her Sexist Boss in Her Restaurant Days | Deadspin A Thorough And Informative 2019 NBA Finals Preview For Basketball Idiots | Splinter Say McCain, Say McCain | The Root Mike Tyson Reportedly Put the Paws on The Game’s Manager for Insinuating That… Read more… Jezebel Here’s a Good Story About

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    • Genstar Capital buys a majority stake in Prometheus Group, a Raleigh-based plant maintenance operations and optimization software company, at a $1B+ valuation (Chantal Allam/WRAL TechWire)

    Chantal Allam / WRAL TechWire: Genstar Capital buys a majority stake in Prometheus Group, a Raleigh-based plant maintenance operations and optimization software company, at a $1B+ valuation  —  RALEIGH – In just 13 years, Prometheus Group has transformed itself from a “one-man consulting shop” to a “unicorn” – a privately held startup valued at over

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