
Google launches Cloud Composer beta, a managed Apache Airflow service

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MobileBridge launches Momentum to replace loyalty points with cryptocurrency

Security chatbot startup Demisto raises $20 million

Cloud security startup Evident.io raises $22 million led by GV

Facebook is testing Beach Mode in Workplace to reduce notifications

Fuze raises $104 million to grow its unified communications platform for enterprises

Egnyte launches refreshed desktop app for Mac and Windows

Deloitte predicts machine intelligence, not mere AI, as a big trend for 2017

How on-demand laundry startup Laundrapp plans to take on the world

Netflix open-sources a Slack bot that helps devs manage GitHub repos

NEA’s Dick Kramlich, Anthony Schiller raise inaugural $130 million fund for Green Bay Ventures

Salesforce launches Quip Connect app for Sales and Service Clouds

PayPal launches Slack bot for peer-to-peer payments

Exabeam raises $30 million led by Cisco and Lightspeed

AT&T, Microsoft Ventures back networking startup SnapRoute in $25 million round

Slack hires Twitter’s former developer advocate lead Bear Douglas

How Russia’s new ‘Google tax law’ is impacting Uber

Google removes restrictions from free version of Data Studio, its tool for creating customized reports

BotBeat: This week’s top bots news

One thing holding back Snap in China? Google

MapAnything raises $33.1 million to map Salesforce data

Nexon launches retro arcade mobile game Evil Factory

Viber appoints former AdTech chief to lead the company after more than a year without a CEO

IDC: Smartphone shipments up 6.9% in Q4 2016, Apple overtakes Samsung for first place

iPad in free fall after sales plunged 22% in Q1

Slack expands beyond teams to entire organizations with Enterprise Grid

SAP starts making Slack bots for its enterprise software

Google launches G Suite Enterprise edition with Drive data loss prevention, S/MIME encryption

Tech IPOs doubled in the last half of 2016, setting the stage for a robust 2017

Google will open-source its Earth Enterprise on-premises software in March

Analysis
Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, and others’ tepid responses to Trump’s Muslim ban

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Happy Data Privacy Day! How online security tools are growing alongside concerns over snooping

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Hyperlinks with superpowers: How Superlinks take consumers on a magical journey

Trump team circulating budget blueprint to eliminate NEA and NEH, gut EPA

Google parent Alphabet stock slips 3% after earnings miss

Microsoft reports $26.1 billion in Q2 2017 revenue: Azure up 93%, but Phone down 81% and Surface down 2%

AWS Marketplace now offers desktop apps for Amazon WorkSpaces

Alphabet’s health-tech company Verily gets $800 million from Singapore investment firm Temasek

Analysis
The new Cisco looks a lot like the old IBM and HP
