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To start your morning, we have news that Sonos, the smart speaker company, has filed confidentially for an IPO, Peter Thiel has agreed to NOT buy Gawker and Subway is closing about 500 U.S. restaurants.
To start your morning, we have news that Comcast is offering to buy Sky for 22 billion pounds ($30.7 billion), a federal judge upholds the DACA dreamers program and swearing into your iPhone is like swearing on the "Good Place."
To start your Tuesday, we have news that Andreessen Horowitz is preparing to launch a separate fund for cryptocurrencies, Nest produced $726 million in revenue last year, and a man in Toronto used a van to kill at least 10 people.
To start your morning, we have news that another royal baby is on the way, Firewatch developer Campo Santo is joining Valve and Mitt Romney fails to win the Republican nomination for senate.
To start your morning, we have news that Amazon has over 100 million paid prime members, Uber picks VMware Inc’s Zane Rowe as its top candidate for CFO, and we find out who is the pilot that landed that damaged Southwest plane.
To start your morning, Lerer Hippeau takes over another fund from Binary Capital, Kraken is ending trading services for Japanese residents and Desiree Linden wins the Boston Marathon.
Toys R Us
First Read starts the day with news that bankrupt retailer Toys "R" Us is fielding $1 billion bids for an 85 percent stake in its Asian business, Google is about to launch a Gmail web redesign, and a list of all 43 things Mark Zuckerberg is following up on for Congress.
Nokia
First Read starts the day with news that Google is in talks to buy Nokia's airplane broadband business, Facebook stock has its best day in two years while CEO Zuckerberg testfies before Congress, and Sprint Corp has restarted talks to merge with T-Mobile US Inc.
Deutsche Bank, Enhanced Equity, private equity
First Read kicks off the day with news that Deutsche Bank's CEO is out, the FBI raids Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's office, and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg will speak before Congress today at 2:15 pm.
VC People
First Read starts the week with news that six months after leaving DFJ, Steve Jurvetson is starting a new venture firm, a court approves the procedure for auctioning Weinstein Co, and Mark Zuckerberg will meet with some U.S. lawmakers today.
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