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Facebook announces Clear History feature, letting users stop Facebook-collected browsing history from being associated with their account — It's arguably the company's biggest update since the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke. — Facebook users will soon be able to opt …
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Livestream of Facebook's F8 developer conference keynote — Live at F8!
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Facebook announces dating feature for its app that will recommend matches and let users create a separate dating profile, with testing to begin later this year — The world's largest social network is adding dating app features — Facebook is adding a dating layer to its main mobile app …
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| Anna Hensel / VentureBeat: |
Facebook announces it's re-opening app reviews, following the pause it took in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal — Facebook is reoppening app reviews for developers starting today after pausing them in the wake of the news that data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica improperly gained access to large amounts of user data.
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| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
WhatsApp cofounder and CEO Jan Koum leaving Facebook; sources say over attempts to weaken WhatsApp's encryption and use its data, and he plans to leave board — SAN FRANCISCO — The billionaire chief executive of WhatsApp, Jan Koum, is planning to leave the company after clashing with its parent …
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| Bloomberg: |
Filings: Jan Koum's remaining Facebook stock options were not due to fully vest until November, and he may be forfeiting up to $1B if he leaves before May 15 — WhatsApp co-founder still has amassed a $10.4 billion fortune — He's said to have clashed with other executives over strategy| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amazon launches Prime Book Box, an invite-only subscription service for kids' hardcover books for $23/box sold as part of Prime membership — Along with the higher price that Amazon is introducing to Prime this month, the company is also bringing another first to its membership service: physical books.
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| Barry Levine / MarTech Today: |
Trade groups representing 4,000 publishers criticize Google's GDPR policies, say proposal to get consent from EU visitors if Google ads are served “falls short” — The organizations point to Google's requirements that publishers collect consent and assume liability as some of the many issues.
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| Bloomberg: |
Private equity firm Permira is buying Cisco's video software business, known as the NDS Group, sources say for ~$1B; Cisco had bought it from Permira for $5B — Cisco bought NDS Group from Permira in 2012 for $5 billion — Cisco is shifting away from tech such as satellite boxes
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| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Suki announces it has raised $20M, led by Venrock, to build an AI-enabled voice assistant for doctors — When trying to figure out what to do after an extensive career at Google, Motorola, and Flipkart, Punit Soni decided to spend a lot of time sitting in doctors' offices to figure out what to do next.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Hustle, a grassroots mass-texting tool that does not “sell to Republican candidates or committees”, raises $30M Series B with GV and Salesforce participating — Hustle 20X'd its annual revenue run rate in 15 months by denying clients that contradict its political views.
Tweets: @mims and @joshconstine
| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
AWS starts blocking domain-fronting, a technique used by services to evade state-level internet blocks, following a similar move by Google's App Engine — A week after Google shut down a method for app developers to skirt internet censorship, Amazon is doing the same.
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BleepingComputer.com, Amazon Web Services, ZDNet, SecurityWeek, and Slashdot
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
To combat cord cutting, Comcast gives some plans free internet speed increases in OR, WA, and Houston but only to subscribers of both internet and TV service — Comcast keeps losing TV subscribers, but it has a new way to fight cord cutting. — As streaming video continues to chip away … | Wall Street Journal: |
Inside the increasingly divisive and nonstop debates among Google employees, often over social and political topics — The tech giant, trying to navigate an age of heightened political disagreement, struggles to tame a workplace culture of nonstop debate — Ingrid Newkirk …
Tweets: @kirstengrind, @trippmickle, @saraheneedleman, @ceodonovan, @eliotwb, @scottmaustin, @caseynewton, and @dmac1
| Bob Egelko / San Francisco Chronicle: |
California Supreme Court adopts much stricter standard for classifying workers as contractors and not employees, a ruling that may affect many gig economy firms — Companies that want to classify their workers as contractors and avoid paying them wages and benefits that state law requires …
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Tweets: @techworkersco, @sfchronicle, and @csaid
| Dan Frommer / Recode: |
T-Mobile and Sprint merger may help them to stop wasting resources on stealing customers from each other and take on the industry goliaths AT&T and Verizon — Should T-Mobile be allowed to join forces with rival Sprint? — T-Mobile is trying to make a huge move: Yesterday … | Wall Street Journal: |
Tehran court orders Iranian telecoms to block Telegram, saying the app gave Islamic State “safe ground” and also citing the app's role in recent protests — Tehran court ruling prohibits the messaging platform used to organize protesters — Iran moved to shut …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Twitter announces 30 new or renewed video content deals, details live programming from ESPN, NBCUniversal, Live Nation, Vice News, MLB, and more — Twitter is ready to pump even more premium video into your tweet-stream from a range of new and existing partners — with an emphasis on live-streamed content.
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| Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
Seattle-based SkyKick, which builds software to help SMBs build their IT strategy, raises $40M, mostly from individuals, bringing total raised to $65M — Tectonic shifts in information technology strategies are hard to navigate, even for the biggest companies on the planet.| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Review of Oculus Go, which launches today: works without a phone or computer, solid hardware, $199 price is reasonable, but ecosystem is lacking and looks bulky — Oculus' first portable all-in-one VR headset is good, but not great — For the past few years, consumer virtual reality headsets …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
UK parliament issues ultimatum to Mark Zuckerberg: voluntarily testify before parliament or receive a formal summons to appear next time he lands in UK — The UK parliament has issued an impressive ultimatum to Facebook in a last ditch attempt to get Mark Zuckerberg to take its questions …
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