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| Nitasha Tiku / Wired: |
Diversity advocates inside Google, including queer and transgender staff, say they are being targeted by a small group of coworkers with doxxing and harassment — FIRED GOOGLE ENGINEER James Damore says he was vilified and harassed for questioning what he calls the company's liberal political orthodoxy …
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| Yuji Nakamura / Bloomberg: |
Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck says $400M worth of NEM cryptocurrency tokens have been “illicitly” transferred out of the exchange — Coincheck Inc., one of Japan's biggest digital exchanges, said that about $400 million of the NEM cryptocurrency was lost after it was sent …
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| Evan Blass / VentureBeat: |
Renders of upcoming Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ leak — EXCLUSIVE: — Having opted against what would have been an uncharacteristic debut at the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas — in teaser capacity or otherwise — Samsung is now gearing up to launch the 2018 versions …
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| Will Oremus / Slate: |
Google is testing Bulletin, an app for allowing local users to submit stories about their communities, as a limited pilot in Nashville, TN and Oakland, CA — Google appears to be testing a new tool for people to report and publish local news stories, called Bulletin.
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Google, Search Engine Land, Digital Trends, Engadget, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Hoodline Insider, The Verge, 9to5Google, Android Authority, CNET, TalkAndroid.com, TechSpot, AndroidHeadlines.com, Android Police, Understanding Google …, Android Central, Sami Cone, The Next Web, YouTube, and SlashGear
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Dell's board is meeting later this month to discuss strategic options, including an IPO and buying the rest of VMWare it does not already own — Company's board plans to discuss options later this month — After going private in 2013, firm now seeks growth, cash| Huib Modderkolk / De Volkskrant: |
Dutch media: Dutch intelligence penetrated Russian APT29 Cozy Bear's network, office security camera in 2014, provided info on State Department, DNC hacks to US — Hackers from the Dutch intelligence service AIVD have provided the FBI with crucial information about Russian interference with the American elections.
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Reuters, Fortune, Inquirer, Engadget, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, and Bloomberg
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook will allow fans of game streamers to tip creators a minimum of $3 as part of its new gaming creator pilot program — Facebook Live is launching monetization for video gameplay streamers, allowing users to tip creators a minimum of $3 via the desktop site.
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Facebook for Developers, VentureBeat, Recode, and The Verge
Tweets: @kantrowitz and @joshconstine
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Walmart and Rakuten partner to launch a new online grocery service in Japan, sell Rakuten-owned Kobo's e-readers, audiobooks, and e-books in US — Walmart today announced a major expansion in terms of its global e-commerce presence: the retailer is entering a strategic partnership with Tokyo-based Rakuten … | Brady Dale / CoinDesk: |
Mobius, which is building a Stripe-like payments platform for cryptocurrencies, raises $39M in its ICO, uses Stellar blockchain instead of Ethereum — “We look at ethereum like AOL or Myspace.” — That's how Mobius Network co-founder and CEO David Gobaud explains why his startup ran …
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ICO Examiner and Crowdfund Insider
| Canalys: |
China's smartphone market suffered first ever annual decline in 2017 as shipments fell 4% YoY to 459M and 14% QoQ in Q4, but Huawei grew shipments 9% QoQ — Palo Alto, Shanghai, Singapore and Reading (UK) - Thursday, 25 January 2018 — The growth story of the world's largest smartphone market …
| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Lyft investigating whether staff abused access to customer data after online post claims workers tracked ex-partners, pulled info of celebs including Zuckerberg — Enter your email to read the full article.
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| Troy Wolverton / Business Insider: |
CEO says Intel plans to release chips that have built-in Meltdown and Spectre protections later this year — - Intel plans to release chips that have built-in protections against the Spectre and Meltdown attacks later this year, company CEO Brian Krzanich said Wednesday.
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Seeking Alpha, PCWorld, TechCrunch, BetaNews, MarketWatch, Washington Post, Softpedia News, MSPoweruser, On MSFT, TechSpot, Engadget, BGR, and SiliconANGLE. Tweets: @ampressman. Thanks:@lexnfx
| Ted Greenwald / Wall Street Journal: |
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Tweets: @jordannovet, @reuterstech, @lexnfx, and @patrickmoorhead
| Lucinda Southern / Digiday: |
Bloomberg says its Twitter video channel, TicToc, now has 750K daily viewers, 1M daily views, and 119K followers, with half of the audience outside the US — Bloomberg is seeing early signs of success one month after launching TicToc, the business publisher's 24/7 news network exclusive to Twitter.Sponsor Posts
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