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| Jack Nicas / Wall Street Journal: |
YouTube says it will start labeling videos from state-funded broadcasters like PBS and RT, considers surfacing videos from credible sources alongside hoaxes — Google unit to provide more context around some videos — YouTube said it is planning changes to give users more context …
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
YouTube CEO Wojcicki promises more transparency, better appeals process for demonetization, including more human reviews, and consequences for “egregious” cases — YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki took to the service's Creator Blog last night to issue some broad goals for the year forward.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple launches repair program for small percentage of iPhone 7 devices affected by a bug that shows no available cell service even when cell coverage available — Apple today launched a repair program for iPhone 7 devices that are impacted by an ongoing bug that causes them to have no available service …
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| Steve Costello / Mobile World Live: |
Sony CEO Kazuo Hirai to be succeeded by current CFO in April; Sony reports record Q3 profits of $3.2B boosted by games division; smartphone shipments down to 4M — Sony trimmed the sales forecast for its mobile business following a weak fiscal Q3, as it also announced changes in its top management.
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Tweets: @smetaldave64, @ynakamura56, and @time
| Bloomberg: |
JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America are halting credit card transactions with known cryptocurrency exchanges; Bank of America debit card purchases not affected — A growing list of card issuers are declining crypto purchases — After recent price drops, JPMorgan doesn't want credit risk
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| Mike Dano / FierceWireless: |
Sprint aims to be the first nationwide mobile 5G network by early 2019, says its 160 MHz of 2.5 GHz spectrum gives it advantage against competition in mobile 5G — Sprint's CEO today promised the carrier will launch mobile 5G services on its 2.5 GHz spectrum holdings on a nationwide basis in the first half of 2019.
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| Steve Ranger / ZDNet: |
IDC says global smartphone unit shipments fell 6.3% YoY in Q4, while Strategy Analytics sees 9% drop in Q4, but 1% growth on a full-year basis in 2017 — Even with a good performance from Apple's newest devices, smartphone sales dropped dramatically in the last three months of 2017.
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Tweets: @htsfhickey and @fjeronimo
| Aarian Marshall / Wired: |
Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs spins out Coord to develop APIs for tolls, parking, and curb space data for bike-sharing, ride-hailing, and public transport services — IN OCTOBER OF last year, Alphabet, Google's parent company announced it was taking its data-hoovering powers out of purely digital realm and into 3-D space.
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Sidewalk Talk, The Verge, Curbed, and Engadget
| Dara Kerr / CNET: |
Drivers discover that Uber limits tipping; company says the limit is 200% of the total, up to $100 to safeguard against mistakes; Lyft's limit is $50 or 200% — If you want to leave a generous tip for your Uber driver, you may have to use cash because the ride-hailing app has a ceiling.| Apple: |
Apple Q1: 77.3M iPhones, down 1% YoY, with $796 ASP; 13.2M iPads, up 1% YoY; 5.1M Macs, down 5% YoY; $8.5B services revenue, up 18% YoY — Revenue and EPS Hit New All-Time Records — Active Installed Base of Devices Reaches 1.3 Billion in January — Apple today announced financial results …
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TheStreet, Forbes, VentureBeat, Computerworld, SamMobile, CNBC, CNET, International Business Times, Mashable, TechSpot, iPhone in Canada Blog, Bloomberg, ZDNet, Patently Apple, RAIN News, Macworld, Quartz, O'Grady's PowerPage, Ubergizmo, ValueWalk, iLounge, AppAdvice.com, MacStories, MacDailyNews, Seeking Alpha, Neowin, Financial Times, TechCrunch, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, and Philip Elmer-DeWitt
Tweets: @asymco and @techbarnold
| Eric Lam / Bloomberg: |
Bitcoin briefly dropped below $8K, for the first time since November, amid the broad cryptocurrency market sell-off — Biggest digital token takes losses since peak to about 60% — Rival coins including Ripple, Ether and Litecoin tumble — Bitcoin fell below $8,000 as a miserable 2018 continued …
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Gizmodo, CoinSpeaker, Techweez, Neowin, NewsBTC, CNBC, CNBC, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, CNBC, and Wall Street Journal
Tweets: @officialmcafee, @charlieshrem, @apompliano, @dandrezner, @vinnylingham, and @vinnylingham
| Sonam Rai / Reuters: |
Dell says it is evaluating a potential public offering or a combination with VMware — (Reuters) - Dell Technologies Inc said on Friday it is evaluating a potential public offering of its common stock or a potential business combination between the U.S. computer maker and business software provider VMware Inc (VMW.N).
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Investor Relations, SiliconANGLE, Business Insider, Fortune, The Register, VMware, Inc., Bloomberg, and TechCrunch. Tweets: @lexnfx
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