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Twitter will now label political ads with sponsors, including spending and targeting disclosures, and establish a Transparency Center database with all ads — - Twitter will clearly label political ads, and require campaigns and organizations to disclose who bought the ad and how much they spent.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Gmail adds support for third-party add-ons for web and Android, with Asana, Trello, Intuit QuickBooks, Dialpad, RingCentral among launch partners — Google is launching third-party add-ons for Gmail today. These native extensions will allow you to bring the power of services like Asana …
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Automotive supplier Delphi acquires Boston-based self-driving startup NuTonomy for $450M — Both companies have autonomous driving pilots in Singapore — Delphi, one of the world's largest automotive suppliers, is acquiring Boston-based self-driving car startup NuTonomy for an upfront purchase price …
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple says iPhone X will be available for walk-in customers at retail stores on launch day, Friday November 3, encourages customers to “arrive early” — Apple today announced that stores will have iPhone X available for walk-in customers, who it encourages to arrive early, on launch day.
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
New “Bad Rabbit” ransomware spreads within many organizations in Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, and Germany — A new wave of ransomware has hit several targets in Russia and Eastern Europe on Tuesday, according to media reports and several security companies.
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| Katie Bo Williams / The Hill: |
Bipartisan bill unveiled to require warrants for Section 702 surveillance, which US intel agencies use heavily and is due to sunset this year unless renewed — A group of 11 senators on Tuesday unveiled a proposal to substantially reform the National Security Agency's warrantless surveillance program … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Instagram now lets you add a guest to a live video stream — Make way for more talking heads. Instagram, competing hot on the heels of other live video broadcasting apps, is enhancing its video streaming service with a new feature that it hopes will bring out more videos … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apptopia data shows Apple's “App of the Day” App Store section, introduced in iOS 11, has boosted downloads by 1,747% on average and 792% for games — New research from Apptopia, out today, takes a look at the impact getting featured as the App or Game of the Day on the new iOS App Store has on app downloads.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
AT&T loses record 385,000 traditional pay-TV subscribers in Q3, posts 296,000 net adds for DirecTV Now, and reports revenue of $39.7B, down from $40.9B YoY — AT&T's DirecTV and U-verse TV businesses were hammered in the third quarter of 2017, while the telco's over-the-top DirecTV … | Alex Heath / Business Insider: |
Source: Snap's internal data showed most Spectacles customers stopped wearing the glasses after 4 weeks — - Despite the initial hype, Snap's Spectacles are a commercial flop. — The company has sold only 150,000 pairs to date, and less than half of Spectacles owners kept using the glasses after the first month.
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Overstock.com plans to sell up to 500M digital tokens in an ICO to fund its subsidiary, tØ, an SEC-compliant digital token exchange — E-commerce veteran Overstock.com is planning to sell up to 500 million digital tokens via an initial coin offering that will launch next month …
Tweets: @danprimack
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber adds new fees to compensate drivers for slow passengers, longer trips to pick up riders, and ride cancellations — Extra fees kick in for pickup trips longer than eight minutes — Uber is adding a bunch of new fees to sweeten the pot for drivers who may be reluctant to wait for slow passengers … | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
AMD returns to profitability in Q3 with $71M in net income and $1.64B in revenue, up from $1.3B YoY, as Ryzen takes off, but stock drops 10%+ on weak Q4 outlook — Advanced Micro Devices reported a net profit in the third quarter, thanks to the strength of its Ryzen and Epyc series processors that launched earlier this year.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn boosts its messaging with smart replies, pre-written, AI based interactions — LinkedIn — the Microsoft-owned platform for those who want to network with professional contacts and advance their own careers — has been in the middle of a long-term makeover of its social tools, as it looks to drive more usage.
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Official LinkedIn Blog, International Business Times, Adweek, On MSFT, MSPoweruser, and Ubergizmo
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Vimeo debuts a new $500 live event camera, Mevo Plus, following its Livestream acquisition last month — IAC-owned video streaming site Vimeo and Livestream today are announcing their first product integrations today, following Vimeo's acquisition of Livestream's live video streaming platform …
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Sources: typical AI specialists receiving $300K-$500K a year in salary and stock; well-known names in the AI field have received compensation totalling millions — Nearly all big tech companies have an artificial intelligence project, and they are willing to pay experts millions of dollars to help get it done.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
HashiCorp raises $40M Series C led by GGV Capital and Redpoint Ventures to expand its cloud infrastructure automation services — HashiCorp is probably best known for Terraform, its open-source tool for automatically provisioning infrastructure by describing it as code.
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Marketwire, Going Long, and The New Stack
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon debuts new Appstore app for Fire and Android devices with better discovery and a focus on Amazon Coins — Amazon's Kindle app isn't the only mobile app from the company getting a makeover today. Amazon has also now quietly introduced a new version of its Appstore app for Fire TV, Fire tablets and Android devices.
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The Verge and Amazon Developer Services
| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Google Assistant adds over 50 kids games and activities for Android and Google Home — Google is adding a bunch of new games and activities to the Google Assistant today as a way to keep kids entertained. The update, which was previewed earlier this month, includes “more than 50 new games …
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