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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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| 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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| 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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| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Seoul escort bar visit by Uber CEO, Emil Michael, and others in 2014 led to HR complaint; Kalanick's ex-girlfriend says Michael asked her to lie about visit — A woman who dated Uber CEO Travis Kalanick for three years, Gabi Holzwarth, says she was with Mr. Kalanick when he and a team …
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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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| 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 … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Emaar Malls, the shopping-center unit of Dubai's largest publicly-traded property developer, has offered ~$800M for Souq.com, challenging Amazon's bid — Offer of about $800 million said to have come last week — Emaar Chairman Alabbar focusing on technology investments| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Google is working on a new social app for small groups to edit photos together — While Google continues to add more features to its two social communication apps Allo and Duo, TechCrunch has learned that it has quietly been working on least one more social app.| South China Morning Post: |
Beijing court overturns ruling that said Apple's iPhone 6 violated a defunct Chinese phone maker's design patent — Beijing Court quashes city's intellectual property bureau's ruling that US tech giant had violated defunct Shenzhen firm's design patent — A Beijing court has overturned …
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| Hannah Karp / Wall Street Journal: |
Performers increasingly turn to virtual tip jars on platforms like YouNow, musical.ly's live.ly; the top 20 content creators on live.ly make ~$31K/month in tips — More up-and-coming acts are using apps like YouNow and Live.ly to connect with fans, who leave virtual-currency tipsSponsor Posts
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