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    • Chinese lidar maker RoboSense raises $45M from investors including Alibaba Group and state-owned auto firm SAIC Motor Corp. (Eudora Wang/China Money Network)

    Eudora Wang / China Money Network: Chinese lidar maker RoboSense raises $45M from investors including Alibaba Group and state-owned auto firm SAIC Motor Corp.  —  RoboSense, a Chinese provider of lidar sensors used in driverless cars, announced today the completion of a over US$45 million financing round … Chinese lidar maker RoboSense raises M from

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    • Google's Home Hub doesn't run Android Things, the platform Google purposely built for IoT products like smart displays, but uses Google's Cast platform instead (Ron Amadeo/Ars Technica)

    Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: Google’s Home Hub doesn’t run Android Things, the platform Google purposely built for IoT products like smart displays, but uses Google’s Cast platform instead  —  Google built a platform for smart displays and then didn’t use it in the Home Hub.  —  On Tuesday, Google announced the Google Home Hub

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    • Memo: ahead of meeting next week, the UK, Netherlands, Estonia, and other countries push for the EU to introduce sanctions for those who carry out cyberattacks (Bloomberg)

    Bloomberg: Memo: ahead of meeting next week, the UK, Netherlands, Estonia, and other countries push for the EU to introduce sanctions for those who carry out cyberattacks  —  – Memo sent to EU countries ahead of leaders’ summit next week  — Push comes after cyber-related attacks by Russia, China Memo: ahead of meeting next week,

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    • Sensor Tower: Netflix app revenue was up ~90% YoY to ~$243.7M in Q3 across both App Store and Google Play, the highest grossing non-game mobile app worldwide (Todd Spangler/Variety)

    Todd Spangler / Variety: Sensor Tower: Netflix app revenue was up ~90% YoY to ~$243.7M in Q3 across both App Store and Google Play, the highest grossing non-game mobile app worldwide  —  App spending across Apple App Store and Google Play increased 23% in third quarter, per Sensor Tower Sensor Tower: Netflix app revenue was

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    • Study: Bitcoin daily transactions fell from ~360K in late 2017 to ~230K in Sept. 2018; transaction values fell from $3.7B+ to below $670M in the same period (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)

    Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: Study: Bitcoin daily transactions fell from ~360K in late 2017 to ~230K in Sept. 2018; transaction values fell from $3.7B+ to below $670M in the same period  —  – Declining daily transaction volume, values seen as negative  — Quarter-over-quarter transactions are seen plummeting again Study: Bitcoin daily transactions fell from ~360K

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    • In a publicity crisis, like a data breach, Google receives less outrage and pushback from users than Facebook because it provides genuinely useful services (Casey Newton/The Verge)

    Casey Newton / The Verge: In a publicity crisis, like a data breach, Google receives less outrage and pushback from users than Facebook because it provides genuinely useful services  —  What Google gained by giving up on social networks  —  There are bad bugs, and there are worse bugs. In a publicity crisis, like a

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    • Video conferencing startup Zoom announces partnerships with Dropbox and Atlassian, a cloud phone system called Zoom Voice coming in 2019, and an app marketplace (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

    Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Video conferencing startup Zoom announces partnerships with Dropbox and Atlassian, a cloud phone system called Zoom Voice coming in 2019, and an app marketplace  —  Videoconferencing solution company Zoom announced a slew of new products and services this week at its Zoomtopia 2018 conference in San Jose, California. Video conferencing startup

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