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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, @stevetweedie, @juliehdavis, @comfortablysmug, @jmbooyah, @lexnfx, @christinawilkie, @jyarow, @levie, @cnbcnow, @mekosoff, @pinboard, @ericliptonnyt, @rolfewinkler, @emilychangtv, @ashleymayer, @grinich, @pinboard, @nytimes, @owillis, @dinabass, @donaldjtrumpjr, @felixsalmon, @gizmodo, @pinboard, @wsj, @mikeisaac, @stevekovach, @bafeldman, @owillis, @nickbilton, @recode, @karaswisher, and @mikeisaac
| 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, Electrek, New York Magazine, 9to5Mac, Mashable, GeekWire, CNET, CNNMoney, BGR, and Fortune
| 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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| Jessica Misener / BuzzFeed: |
13 pictures of tech CEOs appearing unhappy at Donald Trump's tech summit — That feeling when.| Ginger Gibson / Reuters: |
Trump transition official says Twitter was too small to be included in tech summit and that #CrookedHillary emoji ordeal had nothing to do with excluding them — Dec 14 President-elect Donald Trump left Twitter off the invitation list for a meeting of technology company executives on Wednesday …
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Tweets: @stephennellis, @emptywheel, @cwarzel, and @seanspicer
| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Yahoo reveals another hack where an “unauthorized third party” in Aug. 2013 stole data from 1B+ accounts including names, emails, telephone numbers, birthdates — Yahoo has disclosed that in addition to its September hacking incident, another “unauthorized third-party” obtained data from more than 1 billion user accounts.
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Tweets: @cnbcnow, @cnbc, @matthew_d_green, @tyrangiel, @selviano, @tonyromm, @larakiara, @harrymccracken, @lexnfx, and @michaelgillett
| 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, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Quartz, TechCrunch, BGR, Mashable, New York Times, CNET, Dezeen, Geek.com, InvestorPlace, TechSpot, Washington Post, Digital Trends, Pocket-lint, Consumerist, and SlashGear. Tweets: @tim
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
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| 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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Tweets: @robaeprice, @stevekovach, @mat, @harrymccracken, @caseynewton, @mrtonylee, @ow, @genetics_blog, @wilw, @chartier, and @andrewwrites
| 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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Bloomberg, Recode, SiliconANGLE, ZDNet, Quartz, SiliconBeat, KING-TV, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, 3DPrint.com, Pocket-lint, CNET, Morning Consult, Boing Boing, International Business Times, Fortune, Mashable, Yahoo! Finance, Recode, BGR, The Guardian, Business Insider, The Next Web, internetretailer.com, Engadget, Telecompetitor, and TechnoBuffalo. Tweets: @jeffbezos
| 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.| 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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Tweets: @fmanjoo, @zenalbatross, @ivanthek, and @sbanjo
| 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 … | 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 …, CNET, Digital Trends, ZDNet, and The Verge
Tweets: @freedomofpress, @bartongellman, @wired, and @rondeibert
See also Mediagazer| 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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Business Wire, Variety, SiliconANGLE, Mashable, Tubefilter, TechSpot, TechnoBuffalo, and VideoNuze Analysis. Tweets: @refsrc. See also Mediagazer
| 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, Digital Trends, ZDNet, Ars Technica, BetaNews, The Next Web, PCWorld, and Neowin. Tweets: @drpizza
| 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, TechCrunch, Washington Post, ruby Media, ZDNet, Engadget, CSO, and Office of Inadequate Security. Tweets: @jasonlk
| 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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Tweets: @nickstatt and @b_fung
See also Mediagazer| 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 … | 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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