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Sarah Frier / Bloomberg:Sources: Snap CFO Tim Stone resigned after a dispute with management over pay, going around CEO Evan Spiegel to ask Snap's board for a significant raise  —  - Stone went around Spiegel to seek pay bump, people say  — Executive…

Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:Trump signs the OPEN Government Data Act, asking federal agencies to default to making data public when possible and publishing it in a machine-readable format  —  The federal government produces one hell of a lot of data, but…

Larry Dignan / ZDNet:Google to raise prices globally for G Suite on April 2; G Suite Basic will go from $5 to $6, G Suite Business will go from $10 per user per month to $12  —  The G Suite price increases are the first in a decade.  Google argues that…

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:SuperData: revenue from digital games rose to $110.7B in 2018, up 11% YoY, with mobile making $61.6B; the top free-to-play game was Fortnite, earning $2.4B  —  Digital games and interactive media grew 13 percent to $119.6…

Alex Konrad / Forbes:Techstars announces Techstars Studio, a CO-based startup studio for new company concepts that plans to support four or five startups in its first year  —  Members of the Techstars community, like those pictured, will have the…

Jan Wolfe / Reuters:Match Group and IAC seek $250M damages in a countersuit against Tinder founder Sean Rad, alleging he copied company files and other proprietary information  —  (Reuters) - Online dating company Match Group Inc (MTCH.O) and its parent…

Wall Street Journal:Sources: DOJ is pursuing a criminal case against Huawei for alleged trade secret theft from US business partners including T-Mobile; indictment is expected soon  —  Probe involves allegations that Huawei stole robot phone-testing…

FinSMEs:NYC-based Sonrai Security, which helps companies manage cloud data, raises $18.5M Series A led by Polaris Partners and TenEleven Ventures  —  Sonrai Security, a NYC-based Cloud Data Control company, raised $18.5m in Series A funding.  —  The…

Tom Warren / The Verge:Microsoft is planning to decouple Windows search and Cortana in the next major Windows 10 update, expected in April, so typed queries will be handled separately  —  Windows search is now free to get more powerful  —  Microsoft is…

Yogita Khatri / CoinDesk:Binance launches fiat-to-crypto exchange on the island of Jersey, letting European users trade Bitcoin and Ethereum against the pound and euro  —  Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by adjusted trading volume, has…

Jon Russell / TechCrunch:Indian education unicorn Byju's acquires Osmo, which develops interactive play apps that tie into custom hardware, for $120M  —  Weeks after it raised a massive $540 million funding round, Indian education unicorn Byju's is on the…

Nick Summers / Engadget:Unity updates ToS so that any third-party software, like Improbable's SpatialOS, can be used with its game engine, following last week's fracas  —  Everything is back to normal.  Sort of.  —  Unity has had a change of heart. …

Matthew Gault / Motherboard:DoD IG says the DoD faces challenges in managing cybersecurity risk, with 266 recommendations on cyber threats dating back to 2008 still open as of Sept. 2018  —  A new report from US military watchdogs outlines hundreds of…

Connie Loizos / TechCrunch:Outdoorsy, which develops a platform to connect underused RVs with users, raises $50M Series C led by Greenspring Associates, after a $25M Series B in Feb. 2018  —  Outdoorsy is building for the road ahead.  The three-year-old…

Joseph Cox / Motherboard:Following AT&T and T-Mobile, Sprint says it will stop selling customers' real-time location data to third-parties but didn't provide a timeframe  —  After AT&T and T-Mobile said they would stop selling their customers' phone…