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Facebook launches Messenger Kids, a standalone messaging app that lets kids under 13 chat with friends and family approved by their parents, on iOS in the US — For the first time, Facebook is opening up to children under age 13 with a privacy-focused app designed to neutralize child predator threats …
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| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
SEC's new cyber unit dedicated to ICOs files its first charges over a scam by PlexCoin, which reportedly raised $15M and promised 13-fold profit within a month — A new division of the Securities and Exchange Commission dedicated to so-called “initial coin offerings” (ICOs) …
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Tweets: @sec_news, @sec_enforcement, @sec_enforcement, and @dukeleto
| Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times: |
Steve Case's new Rise of the Rest fund raises $150M from Jeff Bezos, Eric Schmidt, and others to promote start-ups in the middle of the United States — When Steve Case, the billionaire co-founder of AOL, first met J. D. Vance, author of “Hillbilly Elegy,” the best-selling book …
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YouTube says moderation team will have 10K+ people by end-2018, up 25% according to sources, and pledges new approach to ads to curb child exploitation problem — The company plans to have over 10,000 content moderators on staff by the end of 2018, YouTube CEO, Susan Wojcicki said.
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| Bloomberg: |
Two US Senators say they redirected Shervin Pishevar funds to charities after misconduct claims; sources: some Hyperloop One board members ask Pishevar to leave — The investor backed Senators Kamala Harris and Cory Booker — Pishevar's startup is said to have held Sunday board meeting| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Target launches its own in-app mobile payments system on iOS and Android with debut of Wallet feature — As promisedearlier, Target today launched its own mobile payments system with the introduction of “Wallet” in the Target app. Wallet, as the name implies, allows Target shoppers in-store …
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Tweets: @kevinctofel, @ron_miller, and @chartier
| JC Torres / SlashGear: |
Google releases December Pixel/Nexus Security Bulletin confirming KRACK Wi-Fi patch is coming to devices — Google kicked off the whole monthly security bulletin practice to assure Android users, or at least owners of its Nexus and Pixel devices, that they will get timely and critical security fixes before all hell breaks loose.| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple begins selling unlocked & SIM-free iPhone X in the U.S. — The iPhone X has been available for just over a month now, and as supply and demand start to balance out, Apple is expanding the lineup. Starting today, the iPhone X is available SIM-free and unlocked directly from Apple.| Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed: |
Trolls got a reporter's account locked over an old joke, revealing how Twitter's rules can be exploited and how high-profile users get better customer support — The Monday before Thanksgiving, I awoke to my personal nightmare: I had been reported for abuse on Twitter (my favorite thing …
Tweets: @jwherrman and @eff
| Taylor Lorenz / The Daily Beast: |
Facebook removes posts, suspends users for phrases like “men are scum”; ~500 female comedians staged Nov. protest using the terms, most were suspended — When comic Marcia Belsky sarcastically replied “men are scum” to a friend's Facebook post back in October …
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Tweets: @banditrandom, @datnofact, @meyerson, @kfish7, @sarahemclaugh, and @hypervisible
| Natalia Drozdiak / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple reaches deal with Ireland on the terms of an escrow fund, allowing the transfer of ~$15.46B in allegedly unpaid taxes that EU ordered Dublin to retrieve — EU said tax deal with Ireland had allowed Apple to pay almost zero tax on European profits between 2003 and 2014| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
GM launches Marketplace, an in-car shopping service for food, gas, hotels, and more via 4G-connected infotainment systems in 2017 and 2018 models — A solution in search of a problem — In an ongoing effort to redesign the driving experience to include more smartphone-style features …
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