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| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
Analysis finds ads for big brands placed on politically extreme and derogatory content across the web, highlighting broader issues with programmatic advertising — Follow The Post's tech blog, The Switch, where technology and policy connect. — As the owner of a small business in liberal Massachusetts …
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| Tess Townsend / Recode: |
YouTube's ad mess gives advertisers leverage for what they really want: More data — Advertisers are tired of just trusting Google. — As far as advertisers are concerned, there are really only two ways to place ads online: The “open web” where you can track the ads, and “walled gardens” where you can't.
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| Nick Wingfield / New York Times: |
Sources: Amazon exploring retail store concepts for furniture, electronics, and more, including plans for grocery stores in India's vast market — SEATTLE — Last Sunday in Palm Springs, Calif., Jeffrey P. Bezos, the chief executive of Amazon, climbed into the cockpit of a 13-foot robot …
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| Washington Post: |
White House team led by Jared Kushner to work with tech titans like Cook, Gates, and Benioff to modernize tech and data infrastructure of all federal agencies — President Trump plans to unveil a new White House office on Monday with sweeping authority to overhaul the federal bureaucracy …
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| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Users unwittingly exposed sensitive docs on Microsoft's Docs.com due to default “share publicly” setting; Microsoft initially responded by turning off search — Microsoft has quietly removed a feature on its document sharing site Docs.com that allowed anyone to search through millions …
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| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
Behind the Amazon Marketplace, where top third-party sellers compete using rules-based algorithms and AI, adjusting prices sometimes thousands of times each day — Beneath the placid surface of product pages lies an unseen world of bots, algorithms, flash crashes and fierce competition.
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
PietSmietTV, a startup that streams gameplay videos 24 hours a day via Twitch and YouTube, ordered to apply for broadcast TV license by German regulators — You might want to think twice about running a non-stop livestream just because you can — at least in Germany, regulators will want to have a word with you.
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| Cho Mu-Hyun / ZDNet: |
Korean regulator that fined Qualcomm $865M says firm blocked Samsung from selling modem-equipped Exynos chips, in unfair licensing of standard essential patents — Qualcomm blocked Samsung Electronics from selling its own Exynos series of mobile chip-set through a licensing deal, Korea's Fair Trade Commission says.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Spotify to acquire and shut down content recommendation startup MightyTV, founder Brian Adams to become VP of technology at Spotify — Spotify has acquired MightyTV, a New York-based startup that uses AI to provide video recommendations based on personal preferences and opinions of friends.
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| Bloomberg: |
Uber suspends self-driving car testing following Arizona crash involving one of its cars; police say the Uber car was not at fault, another car failed to yield — A self-driving car operated by Uber Technologies Inc. was involved in a crash in Tempe, Arizona, the latest setback for a company reeling from multiple crises.
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| Garrett M. Graff / Wired: |
Inside the FBI's hunt for notorious Russian hacker and Zeus malware creator Evgeniy Bogachev, who has intelligence ties and a $3M bounty on his head — On the morning of December 30, the day after Barack Obama imposed sanctions on Russia for interfering in the 2016 US election … | New York Times: |
Profile of Kirsten Green, who never worked at a VC firm before founding Forerunner Ventures in 2012, and has backed Dollar Shave Club and Jet.com — SAN FRANCISCO — Kirsten Green had only dabbled in investing in start-ups before she began a venture capital fund in 2012.Sponsor Posts
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