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The Daily Download - tech news for 2018-11-16


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Nintendo America President Reggie Fils-Aime says the company has no immediate
Communications firm Voxox (formerly Telcentris) leaves tens of millions of text
Logistics firm Airspace Technologies (AT) raises $20M Series B led by
Oracle ($191.8B market cap) acquires Talari Networks, a provider of SD-WAN
Crypto loans startup Salt Lending and former CEO Erik Voorhees are
Jeff Bezos tells Amazon staff he anticipates the company will fail
BlackBerry acquires cybersecurity firm Cylance for $1.4B cash; Cylance offers AI-powered
US prosecutors inadvertently signal that WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange has been
Shift management app Shyft (iOS, Android) raises $6.5M Series A led
Activist investor Carl Icahn ends litigation against Dell over its plan
Salesforce Ventures makes an undisclosed strategic investment in software container firm
Instagram announces updates to its shopping features; business accounts with shoppable
Sony says it will not participate in the annual E3 conference
Sheryl Sandberg says she was not aware Facebook was involved with
Sony has sold more than 86M PlayStation 4 units in five
Facebook General Counsel Colin Stretch to remain with the company into
The Freedom From Facebook Coalition, which has pushed for the company
Nvidia ($123B market cap) FQ3 misses: $3.18B revenue, up 21 percent
Apple enters multi-year production agreement with film studio A24; the deal
Los Angeles-based early-stage firm Wonder Ventures launches $15M seed fund; Wonder's
Citrix ($14.5B market cap) acquires Sapho; TechCrunch reports an all-cash deal
The FCC approves an order enabling US consumer devices to access
Facebook to establish an external content oversight committee in 2019 to
Facebook says it's removed 1.5B fake accounts in the past six
Global smart speaker shipments totaled 19.7M units in the third quarter,
Elon Musk says customers who place Model 3 orders by the
Rocket Lab, which offers launch services for small satellite payloads, raises
Apple updates Final Cut Pro X with third-party app integration via
The FCC authorizes SpaceX to deploy 7k Starlink broadband satellites; SpaceX
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The Daily Download - latest tech news, byte sized. Based on @launchtickerBy Peter Kuhar