Tag: livio
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Google offers real-time search data for news, images and video
The example Google gives is a search for Taylor Swift. When you type that search term in, you’ll want to pay attention to the subheadings in the search results that drop down; “American singer-songwriter”…
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French startup Doctolib, an online booking platform for medical practitioners, raises $42M, making it one of the best-funded health startups in Europe (Romain Dillet/TechCrunch) ClimaCell, which predicts weather using software that processes how weather is impacting wireless signals, raises $15M Series A (Jeff Engel/Xconomy) Canalys: VR headset shipments pass 1M for first time in Q3 with Sony, Oculus, and HTC taking the top three spots, shipping 490K+, 210K, and 160K respectively (Canalys) YouTube Go, a lightweight YouTube app designed for slower internet connections, leaves beta; available in India, Indonesia, and other select countries (Corbin Davenport/Android Police) WeWork to acquire community platform Meetup, according to an internal announcement from Meetup CEO Scott Heiferman (Gabriela Barkho/Crunchbase News) Sources: SoftBank offers to buy secondary Uber shares at $48B valuation, 30% lower than Uber’s recent $69B valuation, will also invest $1B+ at $69B valuation (Eric Newcomer/Bloomberg) YouTube says it has terminated 270+ accounts, taken down 150K+ videos, removed ads from ~2M videos over past week as it purges content that endangers children (Noah Kulwin/VICE News) Microsoft will end support for logging into Skype via Facebook on January 10th, to push users toward single Microsoft sign-on across its services (Brad Sams/Thurrott.com) US DoJ charges three members of one of China’s cyber-espionage units for hacking Moody’s Analytics, Siemens, and Trimble between 2011 and May 2017 (Catalin Cimpanu/BleepingComputer.com) Uber receives letters from Republican and Democratic Senators seeking an explanation as to why it initially hid its 2016 data breach from 57M users (Tony Romm/Recode)
  Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: French startup Doctolib, an online booking platform for medical practitioners, raises $42M, making it one of the best-funded health startups in Europe — French startup Doctolib is raising money…
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Alabama Men’s Basketball Team Almost Had An Amazing Comeback
Down to only three players on the court, the University of Alabama men’s basketball team came very close to pulling off the upset of a lifetime against Minnesota. Instead, the team will have to…
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Bali volcano: Mt Agung ash shuts airport for second day
Massive plumes of dark ash reached as high as 3km (2 miles) above the summit of the rumbling volcano. – fake news discovered by Livio Acerbo here
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Former Hulu exec Noah Heller launches new venture fund to focus on LA tech
Noah Heller, one of the chief architects of Hulu’s virtual reality strategy, has left the video streaming service to set up his own venture firm, 3Rodeo. Primarily focused on backing Los Angeles-based technology startups,…
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New story in Business from Time: Ivanka Trump Has Arrived in India for a Business Summit. Here’s What You Should Know
Ivanka Trump arrived in Hyderabad, southern India, Tuesday to attend the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, an annual conference that connects start-up founders and entrepreneurs with potential investors. This year’s theme, “Women First, Prosperity for All,”…
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‘Pokémon Go’ legendary Ho-Oh is catchable for limited time
After amassing 500 million Pokémon in less than 48 hours, Pokémon Go players seemed primed to smash the Global Catch Challenge to nab 3 billion pocket monsters. Sure enough, they did, and (as promised)…
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SNES Mini Classic isn’t a Cyber Monday deal, but here’s an interesting alternative
Want an SNES Classic Mini, but can’t find one in stock anywhere? We’ve found an alternative that’s actually cheaper and, in some ways better. The Hyperkin Retreon 3 is just $53 over at AmazonLooking…
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WeWork reportedly plans to buy Meetup
Co-working space giant WeWork will acquire Meetup, according to Crunchbase News. The report says Meetup chief executive officer and co-founder Scott Heiferman shared the news with employees at a company-wide meeting on Monday. WeWork…
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Pensioni, Poletti chiude alle modifiche: “Fatto quanto dovuto”
“Sulle pensioni quello che dovevamo fare – ha detto Poletti – lo abbiamo fatto”. E sulla linea del ministro è anche il Pd che pur aprendo alla possibilità … by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit from