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| Emily Chang / Vanity Fair: |
An excerpt from Emily Chang's upcoming book Brotopia, on Silicon Valley's drug-fueled sex parties attended by powerful investors and well-known entrepreneurs — Some of the most powerful men in Silicon Valley are regulars at exclusive, drug-fueled, sex-laced parties—gatherings they describe …
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Apple buys buddybuild, an app development service with about 40 employees based in Vancouver, and will roll its product into Xcode — Apple continues to ramp up its efforts to court developers by making it easier to create and iterate their apps for its platforms.
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| Rob Copeland / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Thiel's Founders Fund bought $15-$20M in bitcoin, now worth hundreds of millions, spread across multiple funds, one of which began investing in mid-'17 — Founders Fund, the venture-capital firm co-founded by Peter Thiel, has bought large sums of bitcoin that are now worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
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| Anita Balakrishnan / CNBC: |
Report: after years of trying, Amazon and Salesforce have made “significant progress” in move away from Oracle tech by building their own and using open-source — Amazon and Salesforce have long searched for alternatives to Oracle's technology — and now, the pair have made …
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Tweets: @jaimenovoa, @theinformation, @amir, and @theinformation
| Justin McCurry / The Guardian: |
YouTube star Logan Paul sparked outrage by posting a now-removed video of an alleged suicide victim in a Japanese forest — Outcry after American posts video in which he jokes with friends over apparent suicide victim they came across in forest — The celebrity YouTuber Logan Paul …
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| Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
Details emerge on Intel's Indian website about its first “Intel with Radeon RX Vega Graphics” processor: Core I7-8809G with 3.1 GHz Base, 100W target TDP — To begin the year, Intel's Indian website has published a small number of details regarding Intel's first ‘Intel with Radeon RX Vega Graphics’ processor.
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| CNBC: |
Sources: Amazon's been in talks with firms, including Clorox and Procter & Gamble, to promote products on Alexa, with ads focusing on sponsorships within skills — - Ads will focus on sponsorship opportunities within skills or use data about a buyer's shopping history to suggest products.
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| Martin Matishak / Politico: |
After Equifax breach compromised the identities of 145M Americans, there was anger in Congress, but the hearings and proposals have led to no real change — The aftermath of the data breach played out like a familiar script: White-hot bipartisan outrage, then hearings and proposals that went nowhere.| Andrew Wallenstein / Variety: |
Google and Facebook's dominance in digital ads and Netflix and Amazon's massive programming budgets are forcing big media mergers and streaming ventures — There's no debating the #MeToo movement was the biggest story in the entertainment industry in 2017.| Jeremy Kahn / Bloomberg: |
Filings: Google moved $19.2B to Bermuda shell company in 2016, up 7% YoY, to save $3.7B+ in taxes; money moved between Irish firms and Dutch firm with no staff — Amount for 2016 was seven percent higher than the year before — Tax shelter saved Google at least $3.7 billion in tax| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon says it shipped 5B+ items with Prime in 2017 and that more new members joined Prime worldwide in 2017 than any other year — Amazon still won't officially reveal how many consumers worldwide participate in its Amazon Prime membership program, but it did today offer a few new stats related to that program's adoption and growth.
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Quartz, The Verge, VideoNuze Analysis, Amazon.com, GeekWire, Fox News, CNET, Business Insider, Prime Insider, CNBC, and Seeking Alpha. Tweets: @epro
| Brad Sams / Thurrott.com: |
Microsoft and Amazon miss integration deadline for Cortana and Alexa; Amazon says they expect to roll it out “soon” — Last year, in August, Microsoft and Amazon announced a partnership that would allow the two digital assistants to talk to each other.| ProPublica: |
Study shows Facebook's hate speech rules are unevenly enforced, with the company agreeing its censors made mistakes on 22 of 49 posts submitted for explanation — We asked Facebook about its handling of 49 posts that might be deemed offensive. The company acknowledged that its content reviewers had made the wrong call on 22 of them.
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