It wasn’t long ago that Xiaomi, once China’s top smartphone vendor, looked like it was past its prime. But a revival has brought resurgent sales at home and abroad, and now it is looking to cash in by going public.
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As Videogame Hackers Try to Ruin Christmas, Watchdogs Are on Patrol
Cyberattacks targeting videogame systems have become an unpleasant late-December tradition. Luckily, an informal band of security researchers and computer experts collaborate to hunt down and thwart cyber-Grinches.
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As Videogame Hackers Try to Ruin Christmas, Watchdogs Are on Patrol
Cyberattacks targeting videogame systems have become an unpleasant late-December tradition. Luckily, an informal band of security researchers and computer experts collaborate to hunt down and thwart cyber-Grinches.
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Justice Department Urged To Scrutinize Comcast-NBC
“Comcast has both the incentive and ability to withhold programming from distribution rivals,” Public Knowledge says in a new letter to the Justice Department.
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Snap Loses Another Product Developer
After about a year, Jonathan Wegener is leaving Snap, Recode reports. Wegener worked on product at the struggling social giant. “People come and go at big tech companies all the time,
but Snap tends to see execs come and go quicker than most,” Recode notes. “A number of well-known Silicon Valley techies have gone to work at Snap over the years, and many of them
don’t make it more than 18 months.”
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Spotify Moving Closer To NYSE Listing
Spotify will receive approval from the Securities and Exchange Commission to move forward with a
listing of its shares on the New York Stock Exchange, the Wall Street Journal reports. The paper calls the approval “a key step in the music-streaming service’s plan to
avoid a traditional initial public offering.”
Most Read Stories Of 2017
Happy holidays. Barring a major breaking news story over the next week, here are the “most read” stories published by MediaPost in 2017. No. 1 was Jess Nelson’s June 14th coverage of the fate of Yahoo
Mail. No. 10 was Adam Buckman’s TV Blog “Mike Myers Is A Cheeky Monkey As Host Of New ‘Gong Show’.”
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Most Read Stories Of 2017
Happy holidays. Barring a major breaking news story over the next week, here are the “most read” stories published by MediaPost in 2017. No. 1 was Jess Nelson’s June 14th coverage of the fate of Yahoo
Mail. No. 10 was Adam Buckman’s TV Blog “Mike Myers Is A Cheeky Monkey As Host Of New ‘Gong Show’.”
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Schmidt to Step Down as Alphabet Executive Chairman
Google parent Alphabet said Eric Schmidt will step down from his post as executive chairman in January and transition to a role as technical adviser.
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Hyundai Preps Vehicle 'Personal Assistant'
The automaker will unveil its “Intelligent Personal Agent” during CES 2018 in Las Vegas in January. It will be demonstrated via a connected car cockpit.
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