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Twitter comes under Congressional scrutiny as Russia-linked accounts found to tweet about NFL protests, spread misinformation, and share anti-Clinton stories — SAN FRANCISCO — After a weekend when Americans took to social media to debate President Trump's admonishment of N.F.L. players …
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Interview with Apple Music's Jimmy Iovine, Zane Lowe, and Larry Jackson on how to continue to grow the service, as it tops 30M paying subscribers — From left: Zane Lowe, Larry Jackson and Jimmy Iovine photographed Sept. 18 at Apple Music's Beats 1 Studio in Los Angeles.
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Toshiba signs final agreement to sell its flash memory chip business for ~$18B to group led by Bain Capital, which includes Apple, Dell, SK Hynix, and Hoya Corp — Toshiba Corp. signed a final agreement to sell its flash memory chip business to a group led by Bain Capital for about 2 trillion yen … | Mark Zuckerberg: |
Trump and some liberals say Facebook helped their opponents, but Facebook's role was different: enabling discussions, voter registration, and candidate outreach — I want to respond to President Trump's tweet this morning claiming Facebook has always been against him.
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Facebook is launching a new tool in India on October 1 to help match blood donors with hospitals, blood banks, and individuals in need — In India, people use Facebook for keeping in touch with family, sharing photos and finding blood. — Facebook is launching a new tool in India on Oct. 1 …
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Equifax to launch a new free service by February 2018 which allows users to lock and unlock access to their credit files — New ‘safe and simple’ service to be introduced by January — CEO Barros lays out plan in newspaper op-ed on 2nd day in job — Equifax Inc. will debut a new service …
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Sources: Ikea has acquired TaskRabbit and will run it as an independent subsidiary; TaskRabbit has raised around $50M — The Swedish home goods giant is looking for some digital help from the contract labor marketplace — Swedish home goods giant Ikea has bought TaskRabbit, according to sources close to the situation.
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Amazon now has 5,000 people working on Alexa and Echo, up from 1,000 in May 2016; the company's job site lists an additional 1,500 related openings — - Amazon's hardware chief said more than 5,000 employees now work on the Alexa voice technology platform.
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Snap announces sponsored 3D World Lenses, with Warner Bros and Bud Light as launch partners — Snapchat is taking its World Lenses augmented reality feature and opening them up to brands. Snap's Imran Khan just announced the availability of the new advertising product on stage at Advertising Week … | Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Nvidia's Shield TV gets deep integration with Google Assistant voice controls and adds support for Samsung's SmartThings platform — Hands-free voice assistant on your TV — Nvidia is today releasing version 6.0 of its software for the Shield TV set top box, which brings along the Google Assistant.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft joins the Open Source Initiative as a premium sponsor, joining Google and others — Microsoft today announced that it has joined the Open Source Initiative (OSI) as a Premium Sponsor. The OSI, which launched in 1998, takes a relatively pragmatic approach to open source and advocates … | Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat: |
EU regulators say tech giants are still not doing enough to voluntarily remove hate speech and terrorist content, will review rules in six months — European regulators are giving Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube six months to voluntarily get more aggressive about blocking …
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South African media and internet giant Naspers acquires another 13% stake in Berlin-based food delivery firm Delivery Hero for ~€660M from Rocket Internet — Naspers, the South African media and internet giant, has upped its stake in Delivery Hero, the Berlin based food-delivery giant … Sponsor Posts
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