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Customer service ‘behavioral pairing’ startup Afiniti quietly raised $130M at a $1.6B valuation
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Pandora exec: We were late to the game with our premium offering
Pandora head of data science Siddharth Patil said he regrets that his company failed to introduce a premium on-demand music…
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Voltron dev wins $150K in Universal GameDev Challenge
Universal Games and Unity Technologies announced the winner from the Universal GameDev Challenge: Voltron: Cubes of Olkarion, a prototype built…
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Oracle delves deeper into blockchain with four new applications
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Stockholm-based Resolution Games nabs $7.5M to pioneer AR/VR experiences
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Report: Cryptocurrency hackers earned $20M with 51-percent attacks in 2018
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Simone Giertz, the “Queen of Shitty Robots”, just launched a Kickstarter
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Lyft speeds ahead with its autonomous initiatives
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Nintendo is bringing Labo kits to elementary schools
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