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Facebook says most of ~3K Russia-linked ads during US Presidential campaign referenced divisive social issues, not the election, and that ~25% were geo-targeted — There have been a lot of questions since the 2016 US election about Russian interference in the electoral process.
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Facebook says it sold ~$100K of ads on politically divisive topics to Russia-linked accounts from 6/15-5/17; sources say FB told Congress ads targeted US voters — Representatives of Facebook told congressional investigators Wednesday that it has discovered it sold ads during …
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Spotify and Hulu partner to offer both services in a bundle to US students for $4.99/month, will offer other bundles to more customers in future — Hulu and Spotify announced a partnership today that will see the two companies working together to market entertainment bundles offering … | Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon seeks proposals from cities to build a second HQ in N. America, a “full equal” to Seattle HQ, and says it'll invest $5B+ and grow it to 50,000 employees — BREAKING NEWS: Amazon plans to build a second headquarters in a North American city to be determined …
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Atlassian, the maker of HipChat, launches Stride, a Slack-like team workplace communication service, starting at $3/user/month for features beyond free tier — Atlassian, the company behind popular tools like Jira, Trello and Bitbucket, has also long offered a team communications service in the form of HipChat.
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Ookla's US Speedtest report: average mobile download speeds increased 19% YoY; T-Mobile fastest for mobile internet and Comcast Xfinity fastest for broadband — Mobile and fixed broadband internet speeds in the U.S. are improving, but not all carriers and providers are created equal … | Karissa Bell / Mashable: |
Instagram says it's testing a feature for users to share their Story directly to Facebook — Facebook really wants people to view Stories on its main app, so much so that the social network is now turning to Instagram to see if its teen-friendly app can get the feature to finally stick.
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Sources: Apple secures deal for songs from Warner Music Group, plans to pay labels smaller percentage than it did under first streaming deal — IPhone maker plans to pay record labels smaller percentage — Paid streaming service has revived music industry; sales up| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
Federal judge dismisses libel suit against Techdirt from Shiva Ayyadurai, who claims he invented email, due to difficulty in defining email — Judge: Techdirt articles were opinionated and hyperbolic, but not libel. — A federal judge in Massachusetts has dismissed a libel lawsuit filed earlier …
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Square to apply for charter to form an industrial loan company, Square Financial Services, which will be capitalized with $56M in cash, chaired by Jackie Reses — The planned unit would offer loans and deposit accounts to small businesses and be capitalized with $56 million in cash
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Microsoft and Adobe advance partnership by integrating cross-cloud productivity integrations such as Microsoft Teams and Adobe's Sign e-Signature service — Microsoft and Adobe are continuing to integrate more of their cloud services — such as Microsoft Teams and Adobe's Sign e-signature service — across each other's portfolios.
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Facebook is undermining its fact checking efforts by withholding data from its media partners, citing user privacy, such as which false stories are most popular — A once-touted plan to fact-check stories is being hindered by the company's refusal to share information.| Michal Lev-Ram / Fortune: |
John Deere announces it has agreed to buy Silicon Valley startup Blue River, which develops agriculture tech that relies on machine learning, for $305M — John Deere has long been known for its iconic green tractors, combines, balers, and other farming equipment.
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Lyft and Drive.ai partner to bring self-driving car pilot program to the Bay Area, expecting to launch “soon”; no details on number of vehicles or participants — Lyft is partnering with yet another self-driving car startup — this time with Drive.ai in the San Francisco Bay Area …
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