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Amazon acquires podcast network Wondery

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Amazon just announced that it’s acquiring Wondery, the network behind podcasts including “Dirty John” and “Dr. At the same time, the announcement claims that “nothing will change for listeners” and that the network’s podcasts will continue to be available from “a variety of providers.”

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Meta reportedly set to launch Threads in the EU next month

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Since its launch in July, Meta’s text-based social network Threads has gained many features, but a major missing part in the puzzle has been the app’s availability in the EU. The company, however, could launch the platform in the EU next month, according to the Wall Street Journal.

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Nutanix CEO sees multi-year opportunity after Broadcom’s VMware acquisition

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In January 2024, The Wall Street Journal highlighted the attention Broadcom’s VMware overhaul drew from CIOs, followed by reports of pricing and reseller agreement changes. We have a TAM (total addressable market) of about $76 billion and that includes software-defined compute, storage, and networking,” Ramaswami said.

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Cyber Guardians: INE Security Champions Cybersecurity Training During National Physicians Week 2025

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healthcare, according to The HIPPA Journal, exposing over 124 million patient records, the worst year on record. For example, network defense and malware analysis labs show engineers how to contain ransomware outbreaks. Recent reports show healthcare has endured a record wave of cyber breaches. million per incident.

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NFX’s James Currier: Where unicorn ideas come from and why founders ‘have to keep pivoting’

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Network effects: Your product becomes more valuable as more people use it. Pop culture and tech journalism lionize founders who shoot for the moon, “so most people think of having ideas,” said Currier, noting that unicorns like Lyft, Meta and Alphabet simply “copied” existing companies.

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The Week’s Biggest Funding Rounds: xAI And Anthropic Headline Big Week For AI (Again)

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xAI , $5B, artificial intelligence: Generative AI startup xAI raised $5 billion in a funding round valuing it at $50 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported. The startup’s networking infrastructure helps tie AI chips together — allowing for the consistent flow of data needed for modern AI workloads.

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Medium acquires social book reading app Glose

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The vast majority of the world’s ideas are stored in books and journals, yet are hardly searchable nor shareable. With Glose, we want to improve that experience within Medium’s large network of engaged readers and writers. “Books are a means of exploring an idea, a way to go deeper.

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