Real estate firm Opendoor acquires home-buying service Open Listings (YC W15);

Cloud-based developer environment Packet raises $25M Series B led by Third

Regulators in NY approve two cryptocurrencies linked to the US dollar;

The New Yorker profiles Mark Zuckerberg, and Facebook’s attempts to deal

Elon Musk says Tesla will remove two colors from its ordering

Vape company Juul files trademark claims against 30 entities in China,

China-based internet firm NetEase says it will stop updating its financial

Singapore-based Grab signs a partnership with Moca to offer mobile payments

Zendesk acquires CRM platform Base; terms undisclosed; Base provides AI-powered customer

Drone firm Impossible Aerospace raises $9.4M Series A from Bessemer Venture

Instacart’s chief growth officer Elliot Shmukler is set to leave the

Samsung opens a 33k square foot store in Bengaluru, India, its

British healthtech firm Medopad acquires US-based analytics company Sherbit; terms undisclosed;

Altaba plans to raise $4.3B by selling off its entire stake

Google Cloud names Andrew Moore as the next head of its

Alibaba and the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) establish a joint

UK-based fraud detection platform Ravelin raises £8M ($10.4M) Series B led

Japan-based Renesas ($60B market cap) acquires fellow semiconductor firm IDT for

Pinterest claims 250M monthly active users, up 25 percent since September

Academic hackers at Belgium's KU Leuven university say they've wirelessly cloned

Hyperlocal news startup Hoodline (formerly Ripple News) raises $10M Series A

Shares in Apple's Asian suppliers drop after President Trump publicly stated

Walmart partners with wireless electricity company Ossia for limited trials targeting

Snapchat reveals the first class for its Yellow startup accelerator; targets

Twitter hires former Refinery29 COO Sarah Personette to serve as head

Samsung announces the SmartThings Tracker: a fob for locating keys, more;

Uber hires former Coca-Cola SVP Rebecca Messina to serve as the

AT&T announces the final five cities (in a list of 12)

Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon Wear 3100 chip for smartwatches; it is

Intel ($214B market cap) acquires NetSpeed Systems, which provides network-on-chip IP

Apple to replace Lighting ports with USB-C on the 2018 iPad

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