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Apple says HomePod wireless speaker will arrive in stores February 9, will be available to order starting Friday, January 26 in the US, UK, and Australia — Breakthrough Wireless Speaker Brings Advanced Audio Technologies Into Any Home for an Incredible Music Listening Experience| Dami Lee / The Verge: |
Google quietly updates design of Gboard for iOS to make the GIF creation feature more accessible by moving the GIF-making button next to the word suggestion bar — Hey, Dieter — Gboard, Google's iOS and Android keyboard app, has quietly updated its design by moving its GIF-making button up next to the word suggestion bar.| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
DuckDuckGo launches revamped mobile apps and browser extensions with built-in tracker blocking available globally for Android, iOS, Chrome, Firefox, and Safari — Some major product news from veteran anti-tracking search engine DuckDuckGo: Today it's launched revamped mobile apps … | Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Netflix beats in Q4 with 8.3M new worldwide subs, vs 5M est., and almost 2M in US, vs 1.28M est.; revenue of $3.29B meets expectations; stock up 8%+ after hours — Netflix reeled in 8.3 million new streaming subscribers — including almost 2 million in the U.S. — handily beating Wall Street estimates for the fourth quarter of 2017.
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| Bloomberg: |
Twitter COO Anthony Noto has resigned to become SoFi CEO, starting March 1 — Noto joined Twitter in 2014 after a career on Wall Street — SoFi has been searching for a new leader since September — Twitter Inc. Chief Operating Officer Anthony Noto has resigned to accept the role …
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| Newley Purnell / Wall Street Journal: |
Google's Files Go Android app, which has a special feature to delete all “good morning” images at once, has 10M+ downloads, mostly in India — The country, newly online, has become obsessed with sending cheery greetings from smartphones, causing head scratching in Silicon Valley
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
By recognizing that it hurts democracy, an admission with little precedent among tech firms, Facebook bolsters the case against itself for users and regulators — Sometimes, it's bad for democracy — In October, I started writing a daily newsletter about Facebook and democracy.| Samidh Chakrabarti / Facebook: |
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Android 8.1 Speed Labels now show WiFi network speeds before connecting, helping decide between networks to join; admins can opt out of having speed displayed — Oreo was a bit of a lackluster update on first launch, but the mobile operating system is getting some nice new tricks with 8.1's updates.
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| Rupert Murdoch / News Corp: |
Rupert Murdoch suggests Facebook pay carriage fees similar to the cable TV model to recognize trusted publishers — News Corp today issued the following statement from Executive Chairman, Rupert Murdoch: — “Facebook and Google have popularized scurrilous news sources through algorithms …
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| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
Tokyo-based bitFlyer, one of the biggest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, launches in Europe after receiving EU-wide payment institution license — BitFlyer, the Tokyo-based operator of one of the world's largest bitcoin exchanges, is expanding into Europe after receiving regulatory approval …
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Business Wire, The Next Web, NewsBTC, Press Association, TechCrunch, Bitcoinist.com, and Bloomberg. Tweets: @barrysilbert
| Theodore Schleifer / Recode: |
Sources: Coinbase crossed $1B in revenue in 2017, sends reminder to investors that it does not allow trading of its stock on secondary markets — Coinbase issues a statement that warns its own shareholders. — Coinbase, the bitcoin trading broker that has exploded in popularity … | Michelle Price / Reuters: |
SEC chairman: public companies pivoting overnight to blockchain tech to capitalize on hype are being scrutinized, and poor legal advice is being given on ICOs — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is scrutinizing public companies that change their name …
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ZDNet, U.S. Securities …, Fortune, Cointelegraph.com News, PYMNTS.com, The Register, Boing Boing, and CoinDesk. Tweets: @rabois
| Melinda Newman / Billboard: |
Apple launches Apple Music for Artists, a dashboard to provide musicians with insights into their fans' listening and purchasing habits, currently in beta — Today Apple launches Apple Music for Artists, a dashboard designed to provide acts with hundreds of data points giving deep analytical insight …
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Intel tells customers to stop deploying buggy Spectre/Meltdown patch, as it resulted in “higher than expected reboots and other unpredictable system behavior” — More problems from the massive processor vulnerability — Intel has a patching problem.
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