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| Anita Balakrishnan / CNBC: |
Meeting with tech leaders, Trump says they can call him or his team any time, Thiel is “ahead of the curve”, and administration will work on “fair” trade deals — Looks like the tech industry has a direct line to Trump — Tech titans Jeff Bezos and Sheryl Sandberg meet with Trump transition team
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Tweets: @braddjaffy, @christinawilkie, @comfortablysmug, @jmbooyah, @juliehdavis, @jyarow, @levie, @ericliptonnyt, @rolfewinkler, @lexnfx, @emilychangtv, @ashleymayer, @grinich, @dickc, @pinboard, @nytimes, @owillis, @dinabass, @donaldjtrumpjr, @felixsalmon, @gizmodo, @pinboard, @wsj, @mikeisaac, @danprimack, @stevekovach, @bafeldman, @owillis, @nickbilton, @recode, @mikeisaac, @jyarow, and @karaswisher
| Brian Fung / Washington Post: |
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and Tesla CEO Elon Musk taking on strategic advisory roles with Trump, will “meet with the president frequently” — The heads of Uber and Tesla are taking on strategic advisory roles with President-elect Donald Trump. — Travis Kalanick …
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The Trump-Pence …, VatorNews, Business Insider, New York Magazine, GeekWire, Electrek, TechCrunch, CNNMoney, Engadget, GeekTime, 9to5Mac, SiliconBeat, CBS Miami, Recode, Mashable, Mashable, CNET, BGR, and Fortune
Tweets: @ally_abrams and @harrymccracken
| Nancy Scola / Politico: |
Source: Twitter was left out of Donald Trump's tech summit over refusal to create #CrookedHillary emoji, which was part of a larger $5M deal with the campaign — Twitter was told it was “bounced” from Wednesday's meeting between tech executives and President-elect Donald Trump in retribution …
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TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, The Verge, GeekTime, Tech Trader Daily, Forbes, Business Insider, and AOL
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| April Glaser / Recode: |
Uber debuts self-driving cars in San Francisco, each staffed with a backup driver and a data collector; a ride in a self-driving Volvo costs same as an Uber X — With drivers behind the wheels. — Uber is bringing its self-driving technology to San Francisco.
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Uber Global, The Verge, Quartz, TechCrunch, BGR, New York Times, CNET, Dezeen, Geek.com, InvestorPlace, TechSpot, Pocket-lint, USA Today, VentureBeat, Nextgov, Washington Post, Digital Trends, Consumerist, and SlashGear. Tweets: @tim
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Twitter adds live video broadcast to its iOS and Android apps; Periscope will continue as a standalone app — Periscope down — Twitter released an update today that will let you broadcast live video from within its app for iOS and Android. The feature is “powered by” Periscope …
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Tweets: @joshconstine, @darrenrovell, and @kchaykowski
See also Mediagazer| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Amazon begins Prime Air drone delivery trials in the UK, starting with two shoppers and expanding to a few dozen over time; first delivery took 13 minutes total — Amazon today announced that it has started a small private drone delivery trial in the UK. It's currently working …
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Recode, SiliconANGLE, ZDNet, SiliconBeat, Quartz, KING-TV, Bloomberg, International Business Times, Morning Consult, Boing Boing, CNET, Digital Trends, Wall Street Journal, Recode, Yahoo! Finance, Business Insider, Fortune, ABC News, Newser, Mashable, internetretailer.com, BGR, The Guardian, The Next Web, Engadget, Telecompetitor, TechnoBuffalo, InvestorPlace, and Tech Trader Daily. Tweets: @jeffbezos
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Prime Video is now in 200+ countries, excluding China, at no additional cost for Prime members, and $5.99/month in countries with no Prime option — A month after it dropped major hints, Amazon has made its Prime Video service available in more than 200 countries worldwide bringing …
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| Instagram Blog: |
Instagram introduces bookmarking for posts, letting users save them for later in a private tab — Starting today, you can save posts you'd like to revisit later. — Now you'll see a new bookmark icon underneath posts in your feed. Simply tap it to save a post to a new, private tab on your profile.
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CNET, Adweek, International Business Times, MacRumors, Recode, TIME, MobileSyrup.com, iDownloadBlog.com, and PhoneDog.com
Tweets: @instagram, @joshconstine, @stvcrtr, and @mattgee
| John Cook / GeekWire: |
Wynn Resorts to put Amazon Echo in 4.7K+ Wynn Las Vegas rooms, starting summer 2017 — Alexa, open the curtains? — You may soon be able to ask that question when traveling to the Wynn Las Vegas hotel, which announced today that it will place Amazon's Echo device — powered by the voice assistant Alexa — in all 4,748 hotel rooms.
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PR Newswire, TheStreet.com, TechCrunch, Recode, Engadget, VentureBeat, Bank Innovation, The Verge, Phandroid, Consumerist, and Fortune
Tweets: @zenalbatross, @fmanjoo, @ivanthek, and @sbanjo
| Kate Conger / TechCrunch: |
Evernote's new privacy policy, set to take effect on Jan. 23, would let some employees read user notes to aid with machine learning, although users can opt-out — Evernote announced that it will roll out a new privacy policy on January 23, and the changes have users threatening to abandon the service.
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Evernote, ZDNet, PCWorld, CNNMoney, Gizmodo, Computerworld, 9to5Google, BetaNews, 9to5Mac, Lifehacker, The Next Web, Engadget, Forbes, TechnoBuffalo, Phandroid, and MSPoweruser
Tweets: @robaeprice, @stevekovach, @mat, @harrymccracken, @andrewwrites, @genetics_blog, @chartier, @caseynewton, @mrtonylee, @ow, and @wilw
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple's standalone support app for accessing product docs, scheduling Genius Bar appointments, more, hits the US app Store, rolling out to more countries later — Apple's recently launched standalone support application is now hitting the U.S. App Store. The app, which had quietly debuted …
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App Store, Digital Trends, Macworld, International Business Times, ValueWalk, MacStories, and Business Insider. Tweets: @markgurman
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Next version of Microsoft Edge blocks Flash plugin by default, loads HTML5 content if available; Microsoft will exempt popular websites, hasn't said which ones — The death of Flash continues to move forward, and now Microsoft is taking its swing at the aging internet standard.
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Windows Blog, Windows Central, ZDNet, Ars Technica, BetaNews, PCWorld, The Next Web, BleepingComputer.com, and Neowin. Tweets: @drpizza
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
150 prominent filmmakers sign an open letter to major camera makers, including Canon, Nikon, Sony, and others, asking for default storage encryption — In the summer of 2013, when documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras was shooting a still-secret NSA leaker named Edward Snowden in a Hong Kong hotel room, she took security seriously.
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Freedom of the Press …, ZDNet, and The Verge
Tweets: @freedomofpress, @bartongellman, @wired, and @rondeibert
See also Mediagazer| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
Facebook is in talks with TV shows and video producers about licensing content including original, licensed, scripted, unscripted, and sports programming — The company says it wants to “kickstart” its video efforts. — Facebook, which has long relied on other people to provide it with content …
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Variety, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Engadget, Marketing Land, CNET, Business Insider, Consumerist, SocialTimes, and Tubefilter
Tweets: @nickstatt, @b_fung, @pkafka, and @brianstelter
See also Mediagazer| Reuters: |
FTC orders owner of Ashley Madison to pay $1.66M fine, as remainder of $17.5M settlement gets suspended due to inability to pay — The owner of hacked infidelity website Ashley Madison will pay $1.66 million to settle an investigation by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and several U.S. states …
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Federal Trade Commission, Gizmodo, ruby Media, TechCrunch, Engadget, ZDNet, CSO, Office of Inadequate Security, Washington Post, and Bloomberg. Tweets: @jasonlk
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Commenting platform Disqus lays off 20% of its workforce, or 11 people, as it shifts business models to focus on data services for publishers and advertisers — Some downsizing and refocusing is underway at Disqus, the startup incubated at Y-Combinator that became an early mover in the business …
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Kickstarter open sources code for its native iOS and Android apps, making it available on GitHub, as part of the company's commitment to helping startups — Kickstarter is pulling back the curtain on its app development process. This morning, the crowdfunding platform is taking …
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| Tony Romm / Politico: |
IBM announces plan to hire 25K new workers in the US over the next four years, including 6K the next year, and a $1B investment for training and development — IBM CEO Ginni Rometty announced Tuesday that her company would hire 25,000 new workers over the next four years …
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| New York Times: |
Russian hackers gave reporters and bloggers access to documents on Democratic House Candidates from DCCC hack, trying to influence nearly a dozen House races — WASHINGTON — South Florida has long been a laboratory for some of the nation's roughest politics, with techniques … Sponsor Posts
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