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President Trump signed an order blocking Singapore-based Broadcom's proposed acquisition of US-based Qualcomm, citing national security concerns — President Donald Trump killed Broadcom's proposed buyout of Qualcomm, citing national security concerns, according to a statement issued by the White House on Monday.
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After promising to move back to the US last November, Singapore-based Broadcom says it will do so by April 3, two days before Qualcomm's shareholder meeting — (Reuters) - Singapore-based Broadcom Ltd (AVGO.O) said on Monday it expects to redomicile to the United States by April 3 …
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Apple acquires digital newsstand Texture, which gives its readers access to ~200 magazines for $10/month, as it doubles down on content “from trusted sources” — As the debate continues over fake news and the role that aggregators like Facebook have played in spreading it …
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Calendar 2 for Mac updated to mine Monero by default; after poor reviews, dev removes app from App Store, says mining will be gone in new version, citing bugs — Popular Calendar 2 app mines Monero by default, but at least it discloses it. — Resource-draining currency miners …
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| Zeynep Tufekci / New York Times: |
YouTube could be one of the most powerful radicalizing tools of this century, given its billion users and algorithms that recommend ever more extreme videos — At one point during the 2016 presidential election campaign, I watched a bunch of videos of Donald Trump rallies on YouTube.
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Lyft says it surpassed $1B in revenue for fiscal '17; Q4 revenue up 168% YoY vs Uber's 61% YoY rise; this quarter likely to be 20th straight of 100%+ YoY growth — Lyft made a lot of progress in 2017, helped by strong market expansion within the U.S. and riding some very bad news from its primary rival, Uber.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
A year after its launch, Microsoft says Teams is used by 200K organizations and will soon have support for Cortana and inline message translation — Microsoft has never shared how many individuals are using Teams, its chat-based collaboration tool that's part of Office 365 and competes …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Twilio launches Flex, a programmable contact center platform with a full graphical user interface — Earlier this year we reported that Twilio was going to launch a full contact center solution called Flex on March 12 — lo and behold, today is March 12 and Twilio today announced the launch …
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| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
US district judge Lucy Koh rejects bid by Verizon to dismiss many claims brought against Yahoo, allowing data breach victims to move ahead in legal battle — (Reuters) - Yahoo has been ordered by a federal judge to face much of a lawsuit in the United States claiming that the personal information … | Andrew Marantz / New Yorker: |
Inside Reddit as it rolled out the October 2017 policy update that resulted in the ban of numerous subreddits, including ones for Nazis and bestiality — The trolls are winning. How do we fix life online without limiting free speech? — Which Web sites get the most traffic?
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| Gabriele Boland / NewsWhip: |
Study: top reporter ranked by Facebook engagement is from The Onion, others are from sites like Breitbart and Daily Wire; two in top 50 are from fake news sites — With social platforms like Facebook putting an emphasis on meaningful engagements, publishers and content creators have to reassess …
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| Jamie Rigg / Engadget: |
UK government's plan to police porn sites by compelling them to verify the age of British visitors has been delayed until the end of the year — Ever since the Digital Economy Act became UK law this time last year, we've known there would come a time when porn sites would be compelled … Sponsor Posts
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