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| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
Sources: Yahoo expected to confirm data breach of 200M+ user credentials that was detailed in August — A hacker named “Peace” is bringing chaos to the internet giant just as its sale to Verizon is pending. — Yahoo is poised to confirm a massive data breach of its service …
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See also Mediagazer| Hudson Hongo / Gizmodo: |
Trump backs Cruz in opposing transfer of Domain Name System to ICANN in October, claiming Internet freedom would be at risk — Back in December, Donald Trump suggested fighting terrorism online by “closing the internet in some way,” openly mocking potential First Amendment concerns.
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Microsoft to launch full version of Minecraft: Education Edition on November 1 for annual fee of $5/user — Since June 9, more than 35,000 students and educators around the world have utilized the early access program and provided feedback to help us fine-tune the experience across a diverse set of learning environments.| Trevor Mogg / Digital Trends: |
Amazon Prints now available to Prime and Drive members, starting from $0.09 for prints of digital photos, and $20 for photo books — It's been at least a couple of hours since Amazon rolled out a new service or launched a new product, so it's no surprise that another one has just landed: photo printing.
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| Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek: |
Scan shows 840K+ Cisco devices have NSA-linked flaw discovered from a Shadow Brokers leak; most of the affected Cisco IOS software versions remain unpatched — An IOS software vulnerability identified recently by Cisco while analyzing the firewall exploits leaked by the group calling itself Shadow Brokers …
| Nat Levy / GeekWire: |
Sales tax automation firm Avalara raises $96M round from Walburg Pincus and others, including $50M for growth, and $46M to buy out early investors — Sales tax automation company Avalara announced Thursday it has landed $96 million in funding from Warburg Pincus, Sageview Capital, Technology Crossover Ventures and others.| Michael del Castillo / CoinDesk: |
Winklevoss Bitcoin exchange Gemini Trading begins hosting daily BTC/USD auctions from today, expects to add additional trading pairs at a later date — Gemini Trading, the bitcoin and ethereum exchange founded by Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, is set to begin hosting daily bitcoin auctions.
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| Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
Allo: much like Google Hangouts except it doesn't send or receive messages using a phone number, and will likely be unsuccessful in messaging wars — Yet another messaging app from Google with little reason to expect it to be a success. — Hey! Google has a new messaging app out today called Allo.
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Instagram says it now has over 500K active advertisers, up from 200K in February — For those of you following Instagram's ad business, my headline might seem a bit familiar — yes, the Facebook-owned photo-sharing service announced another advertiser milestone back in February …
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| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Facebook Messenger rolls out polls in group chats and intelligent payment suggestions in US — Facebook is rolling out two new features for its popular Messaging app, giving users in-chat polling and also testing out an intelligent way to detect when you want to send money.
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative pledges $3B over 10 years to cure and manage diseases, starting with $600M fund for Biohub research center at UCSF — Starting with a $600 million “Biohub” — The philanthropic initiative founded by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan …
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Thanks:@jobriensf| Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: |
Flickr to close its photo licensing program Marketplace, says royalties due to users will be paid — Two years ago Flickr rolled out Marketplace, a photo licensing service that was meant to help Flickr users get paid by big websites and media properties who wanted to use that user's photos.
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| Fitz Tepper / TechCrunch: |
Dating app Bumble to roll out photo verification feature in effort to stop impersonators using the platform — For some reason certain people feel the need to create a dating profile using someone else's pictures. Whether it's done to impersonate someone else, bully someone or even just pull a prank … Sponsor Posts
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