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Nutanix closes up 131% on its first day of trading after raising $238M in an IPO, now valued at around $5B (Marisa Kendall/Mercury News) אסף מגידש

Sources: Google is telling home audio vendors they won't be allowed to add competing smart assistants like Alexa if they want to continue to use Google Cast (Janko Roettgers/Variety) אסף מגידש

Music app Shazam announces 1B downloads, turns an operating profit as more brands use its audio and visual identification software (Billboard) אסף מגידש

AT&T ends its Internet Preferences program, which analyzed user browsing habits to better target ads (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica) אסף מגידש

Amazon Game Studios announces BreakAway, the first game to use Twitch's Stream+ currency; teaser shows viewers will be able to wager on matches (Sam Machkovech/Ars Technica) אסף מגידש

Facebook tests "Messenger Day", an app for sharing ephemeral photos, in Poland, where Snapchat isn't available (Josh Constine/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Data center provider Nutanix raises $238M in IPO, valuing the company at $4.05B (Sruthi Shankar/Reuters) אסף מגידש

HTC's Viveport VR marketplace focused on non-gaming content for the Vive expands beyond China to 30 new countries (Killian Bell/TechnoBuffalo) אסף מגידש

European food delivery startup Takeaway.com raises $368M in IPO, valuing it at $1.1B (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

The CW TV Network releases new Apple TV app that eliminates cable subscription login, but limits content to only five episodes from most recent season of shows (Juli Clover/MacRumors) אסף מגידש

Amazon unveils "Alexa Prize", an annual university competition to advance conversational AI; first challenge is to build a bot conversing coherently for 20 mins (Nat Levy/GeekWire) אסף מגידש

HTC launches its VR app store Viveport globally, says it will accept titles from other stores and platforms (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat) אסף מגידש

FCC delays a vote on its plan to open the TV set-top box market after objections by cable industry and disagreements on details among commissioners (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica) אסף מגידש

Amazon Game Studios unveils first three games that feature deep Twitch integration (Taylor Soper/GeekWire) אסף מגידש

Google opens Waze Rider pilot program to all San Francisco users; drivers and riders limited to two trips per day, with drivers making $0.54/mile (Andrew Dalton/Engadget) אסף מגידש

Mozilla accuses Chinese certificate authority WoSign of back-dating SHA-1 certificates and other violations, proposes no longer trusting WoSign certificates (Michael Mimoso/Threatpost) אסף מגידש

Google Cloud Platform says eight new Cloud Regions launching in 2017: Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney, Northern Virginia, São Paulo, London, Finland, and Frankfurt (Brian Stevens/Google Cloud Platform Blog) אסף מגידש

Stock app Robinhood launches Robinhood Gold, a $10/month set of features including ability to buy on credit, make instant deposits, more (Josh Constine/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Spotify-SoundCloud deal makes sense because it would build Spotify's user base and give SoundCloud investors a return, but sources say deal might not happen (Peter Kafka/Recode) אסף מגידש

Google rebrands its business apps as G Suite, launches Team Drive & upgrades apps (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

FCC votes to expand emergency text alerts from 90 to 360 characters, add support for embedded photos and links (Jessica Conditt/Engadget) אסף מגידש

Google combines all cloud services under the Google Cloud brand and rebrands Google Apps for Work to G Suite (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

IBM says it is acquiring Promontory, a financial consulting firm with 600 employees; Promontory is expected to help train Watson on regulatory issues (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times) אסף מגידש

Android Wear 2.0 delayed until early 2017, new dev preview adds Play Store on watches, more (Abner Li/9to5Google) אסף מגידש

Report: Qualcomm is in talks to acquire NXP Semiconductors in deal likely to be worth over $30B (Akin Oyedele/Business Insider) אסף מגידש

AOL launches Alto, an email app that shows relevant information like boarding passes, reservation numbers, more in a card-based dashboard, on iOS and Android (P. Claire Dodson/Fast Company) אסף מגידש

Quote-to-cash software company Apttus raises $88M Series D at $1.3B valuation, plans IPO for first half of 2017 (Alex Konrad/Forbes) אסף מגידש

Skype iOS app updated with Siri and CallKit support, allowing incoming calls to be displayed and answered on lock screen (Juli Clover/MacRumors) אסף מגידש

KGI: 'Increasing likelihood' iPhone 8 will feature glass front and back, stainless steel metal for premium models (Zac Hall/9to5Mac) אסף מגידש

Multiple Android Wear smartwatches including Tag Heuer, Moto 360 v2, ASUS ZenWatch are unable to pair with iPhone 7; Google reported issue to Apple a week ago (Ben Schoon/9to5Mac) אסף מגידש

Microsoft consolidates multiple groups to create new combined AI and Research group, will include Bing and Cortana teams (Harry Shum/The Official Microsoft Blog) אסף מגידש

Google releases YouTube-8M, a dataset of 8M video URLs representing over 500K hours of video, along with 4800 distinct labels, for machine learning (Google Research Blog) אסף מגידש

Apple to open $45M R&D center in Beijing, China to focus on developing hardware, will have 500 employees (Wall Street Journal) אסף מגידש

Facebook at Work will launch on October 10 in London (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Raspberry Pi Foundation unveils Pixel, a new LXDE-based desktop for Raspbian that is designed to be more appealing with new theme, application icons, more (Marius Nestor/Softpedia News) אסף מגידש

Skymind, a company developing an open-source deep learning framework meant to be integrated into companies' existing architectures, closes $3M seed round (Jordan Novet/VentureBeat) אסף מגידש

Sources: Qi Lu, Microsoft's EVP of applications and services, is leaving the company due to health issues; Corporate VP Rajesh Jha to assume many of Lu's duties (Kara Swisher/Recode) אסף מגידש

A look at Verily's health tracking watch prototype shows e-ink display, long battery life for more constant tracking, plans to use in medical research studies (Antonio Regalado/MIT Technology Review) אסף מגידש

Spotify launches in Japan with free ad-supported tier and an ad-free version at $9.70/month (Yuji Nakamura/Bloomberg) אסף מגידש

Apple says Search Ads will go live in the App Store on Oct. 5, offers developers $100 credit towards first campaign (John Voorhees/MacStories) אסף מגידש

Security firm InfoArmor says hackers-for-hire, not state-sponsored actors, breached Yahoo; firm claims it has some of the stolen data (Michael Kan/PCWorld) אסף מגידש

Online payday lender LendUp ordered to pay $6.3M in refunds and penalties for deceptive practices (James Rufus Koren/Los Angeles Times) אסף מגידש

Fitbit Charge 2 review: inaccurate distance tracking spoils an otherwise good device, which has an improved display and week-long battery life (Lauren Goode/The Verge) אסף מגידש

Sources: Spotify is in advanced talks to acquire SoundCloud after its two earlier attempts proved unsuccessful (Financial Times) אסף מגידש

YouTube hires Lyor Cohen, who helped build Def Jam label and ran Warner Music, as Global Head of Music (Peter Kafka/Recode) אסף מגידש

Amazon, Facebook, Google, IBM, Microsoft launch Partnership on AI nonprofit organization to advance best practices, does not intend to lobby government (Roger Parloff/Fortune) אסף מגידש

Facebook's F8 2017 conference to be held in San Jose April 18-19, tickets will be $595, registration not yet open (Josh Constine/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Report: Spotify is in advanced talks to acquire SoundCloud (Janko Roettgers/Variety) אסף מגידש

Apple may release new MacBook Pros in the second half of October; source says Apple is working on optimizing macOS for the new hardware (Eric Slivka/MacRumors) אסף מגידש

Mixpanel: iOS 10 reaches 48% adoption after two weeks, lagging slightly behind iOS 9 a year ago (Juli Clover/MacRumors) אסף מגידש