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Twitter to hide abusive tweets in conversations, add safe search, and try to keep banned users from rejoining the service — The company promised users more features around safety, so here they are. — A week ago, Twitter executives said that making the service safer for users was the company's …
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BeatsX wireless earphones will go on sale February 10 in Apple retail stores and online at Apple.com — Beats by Dr. Dre says its highly anticipated wireless neckband-style headphone and AirPods competitor will be in stores shortly — and two new colors are coming.| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
YouTube opens up mobile livestreaming to all creators with 10K+ subscribers and debuts Super Chat, which lets users pay to highlight their messages — Eight months after announcing it would support livestreaming capabilities, YouTube has started giving more people access to the service.
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Vizio settles FTC lawsuit accusing it of tracking customers' TV habits, agrees to pay $2.2M, obtain consent before collecting and sharing data, delete user data — Vizio will pay $2.2 million to settle a lawsuit alleging it collected customers' TV-watching habits without their permission.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Hootsuite acquires Facebook ad manager AdEspresso as it moves into paid content and social ads — Hootsuite, the startup and platform that lets marketers manage a company's interactions across a range of social media networks, is getting into the business of paid content.
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Uber sues Seattle over law allowing drivers to unionize, hearing set for March 17 — Liberal city of the Northwest vs. global ride-hailing juggernaut — Late last month, Uber sued the city of Seattle, challenging the city's authority to implement a landmark law allowing drivers in the gig economy to unionize.
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Researcher finds 76 popular iOS apps, including VICE News, are vulnerable to interception of TLS-protected data while in use — During the development of our web-based mobile app analysis service verify.ly, it was essential to have a clear understanding of the most common security issues which plague mobile applications today.
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Snap's Spectacles, Pokémon Go, Slack, Otto, Twilio's Jeff Lawson, Forerunner VC Kirsten Green, AngelList's Naval Ravikant, others win at 10th Annual Crunchies — It's that time of year again. Silicon Valley has exchanged its standard hoodie-based uniform for something a bit …
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Networking startup SnapRoute raises $25M Series A led by Norwest Venture Partners, with contributions by Lightspeed, AT&T, and Microsoft Ventures — SnapRoute, a new-age networking startup founded by former Apple aapl engineers, now has $25 million in Series A funding.| John Eggerton / Multichannel News: |
House passes Email Privacy Act, an update to ECPA that will require law enforcement to get warrants for access to digital communications older than 180 days — Senate yet to vote on bill — The House Monday (Feb. 6) unanimously passed the E-mail Privacy Act.
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Hundreds of investors, startups, and VC firms say Trump's travel ban will harm the US startup community and country's ability to compete globally — More than 200 tech industry leaders signed a letter to be sent to President Donald Trump on Tuesday opposing the administration's refugee … | Kate Conger / TechCrunch: |
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| Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
Hashtags appeared in 30% of Super Bowl ads in 2017, down from a high of 57% in 2014; URLs were used in 41% of ads this year — From a high of 57% three years ago, hashtags are now in only about one-third of ads. — Hashtags were in 30% of Super Bowl 51 ads, down significantly from 45% last year.
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