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[ad_1] Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: Appen, a crowdsourced data annotation startup, is acquiring rival Figure Eight for $175M in cash upfront and up to $125M more based on this year’s performance  —  Appen just announced that it’s acquiring Figure Eight …

[ad_1] NBC News: Researchers who claim to have discovered the Citrix breach say Iran-linked hackers stole at least 6TB of data, may have first gained access 10 years ago  —  The hackers are believed to have penetrated the software giant …

[ad_1] Crystal Tse / Bloomberg: China-based online broker Futu closes up 28% on its first day of trading after raising $90M in a US IPO and selling $70M worth of stock via a private placement  —  Futu Holdings Ltd., the …

[ad_1] Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: France overhauls French Tech Visa program, which now has no diploma requirements, accepts employee’s immediate family, and is generally less onerous to acquire  —  The French government has unveiled a complete overhaul of the French …

[ad_1] Liana B. Baker / Reuters: Source: Nvidia has outbid Intel for Mellanox and could announce a deal to acquire the Israeli chip maker for $7B+ in cash as early as Monday  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) – Chipmaker Nvidia Corp …

[ad_1] Adi Robertson / The Verge: Facebook sues two Ukrainian developers for enticing 60K+ users to install browser extensions that scraped personal info and injected ads into their News Feeds  —  Facebook has sued two Ukrainian men for allegedly using …

[ad_1] Chris Ip / Engadget: How Foursquare, which tracks the location of millions via their smartphones and has 100K+ clients including Snapchat and Uber, makes sure its data isn’t misused  —  It seems counter-intuitive that, in the thick of a …

[ad_1] Kalev Aasmae / ZDNet: In this month’s parliamentary elections in Estonia, 44% of about 561K votes counted were cast online using the e-voting system, setting a new digital record  —  In this month’s Estonian parliamentary elections, a whopping 44 …

[ad_1] Tova Cohen / Reuters: Report: after Intel reportedly offered $6B for Mellanox in January, Nvidia has now submitted a competing bid for the Israeli chip designer  —  TEL AVIV (Reuters) – Nvidia Corp has submitted an offer to buy …

[ad_1] Manish Singh / VentureBeat: Google launches Bolo, an Android app for school children in India to improve reading and vocabulary skills in Hindi and English, using speech recognition  —  Google, which already dominates India’s smartphone, search, and online video …