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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Black Friday online sales reach an estimated $3.34B, up 21.6% from last year; mobile sales rise 33% to $1.2B — Black Friday online shopping is continuing to grow, and this Friday was another record-breaking day. According to a new report out this evening from Adobe …
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| Neal E. Boudette / New York Times: |
US auto safety regulator NHTSA proposes voluntary guidelines calling on phone makers to limit functionality in their software while users are driving — Apple iPhones and other hand-held devices have long had an airplane mode that shuts off wireless communications to prevent interference … | Google Research Blog: |
Google says its Neural Machine Translation System translates between language pairs it hasn't seen before, and sees signs of “interlingua” common representation — Posted by Mike Schuster (Google Brain Team), Melvin Johnson (Google Translate) and Nikhil Thorat (Google Brain Team)
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Payments provider Stripe raises $150M Series D at a $9B valuation led by General Catalyst and CapitalG, bringing total amount raised by Stripe to about $440M — Stripe — the company that lets websites and apps incorporate payments services by way of an API and a few lines of code … | Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon limits customers to five reviews per week; verified purchases, books, music, and video are exempt from the cap — Amazon will start capping the number of product reviews any customer can submit in a given week, limiting each person to five/week except for products that have been verified …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Analysis shows Amazon deleted 500K+ reviews, 71% of which were “incentivized”, since changing its guidelines last month — Amazon is making good on its promise to ban “incentivized” reviews from its website, according to a new analysis of over 32,000 products and around 65 million reviews.
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| Mathew Ingram / Fortune: |
WaPo's Russian propaganda story has dubious sources, little evidence, and too general claims that describe how any news is usually shared on social media — One of the themes that has emerged during the controversy over “fake news” and its role in the election of Donald Trump is the idea …
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See also Mediagazer| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Google has been warning prominent journalists and professors that their accounts are under attack from “government-backed attackers” — A flurry of social media reports suggests a major hacking campaign has been uncovered. — Google is warning prominent journalists and professors …
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See also Mediagazer| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Amazon is in talks to acquire Dubai-based e-commerce website Souq.com for $1B; the website sells 1.5M products in UAE, Egypt, Saudi Arabia — No final decisions have been made, talks could still falter — Middle East e-commerce site initially planned to sell a stake
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
SEC filing shows Palantir raised a $20M funding round from a single entity on November 8, bringing total raised to over $2B — Palantir — that $20 billion secretive outfit that provides government, finance, healthcare and other organizations with analytics, security and other data management solutions …
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| Amelia Tait / New Statesman: |
Reddit CEO Huffman's decision to delete and alter comments on Trump thread amounts to censorship and has eroded the site's credibility with users — Even those who don't frequent “the front page of the internet” should worry about the implications of this act.
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Tweets: @_danilo, @jezcorden, @marcbodnick, @natashafatah, @mikeisaac, @coolbearcjs, @yoda, @arrington, @sonyaellenmann, @dhh, @mccanner, @tapbot_paul and @chrislhayes
See also Mediagazer| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
VLC previews 360° video and photo support for its desktop apps, says the feature will come to mobile soon; dedicated VLC apps for VR headsets due in 2017 — Popular open source video playback app VLC has added support for 360-degree video to its desktop versions, and is planning …
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International Business Times, Engadget, The Tech Portal, Fossbytes, TechCentral.ie, 9to5Mac, BetaNews and Liliputing. Thanks:@jank0
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