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A recap of Facebook and Twitter hearings: Republican claims of bias, Democratic claims of political manipulation, and appearances by Alex Jones and Laura Loomer — A capsule review of tech's visit to Washington: The Senate seemed serious, the House did not, and Republicans aren't done complaining about bias.
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In House committee hearing, Dorsey said Twitter intends to share an abuse transparency report this year, agrees to have the company undergo a civil rights audit — A meek and quiet “no” was Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's refrain as he responded to an onslaught of questions from House Energy Committee Republicans …
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Sources: Apple has considered the name “iPhone Xs Max” for the 6.5-inch model; both Xs and Xs Max will have 4GB RAM, up from 3GB, and dual SIM options — Last week 9to5Mac exclusively shared the first look at the new iPhone Xs models due to be officially announced by Apple on September 12.
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| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
Insight Venture Partners buys content management platform Episerver for $1.1B from the private equity firm Accel-KKR — Episerver, the Irvine, California-based company which provides services for marketers to manage content, was bought by Insight Venture Partners for a cool $1.1 billion from the private equity firm Accel-KKR.
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| Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: |
DoJ to announce hacking charges against a North Korean government spy, linked to the Lazarus Group, in connection with the 2014 Sony hack — The Justice Department will announce computer hacking charges Thursday against a North Korean government spy in connection with the 2014 attack … | Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Lyft launches a fleet of around 350 electric scooters in Denver, its first market, available for $1+ from 6AM to 8PM daily — The company is playing catch-up in a flush market, but it believes it can win by playing nice with cities — Lyft is the latest company to jump on the shared-scooter bandwagon …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Google unveils Dataset Search, a search engine that will cover datasets from environmental and social sciences, government, and ProPublica-style news orgs — Dataset Search could be a scientist's best friend — Google's goal has always been to organize the world's information, and its first target was the commercial web.
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| Kate Clark / TechCrunch: |
Estonian ride-hailing company Taxify will launch its new brand of e-scooters, called Bolt, in Paris on Thursday; Taxify says it has 10M users in 25 countries — Estonian ride-hailing company Taxify will compete with Bird and Lime in Europe with its new brand of e-scooters, called Bolt, launching in Paris on Thursday.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
AMD announces a range of new chips to compete with Intel's lower-end lineup, including the dual-core Athlon 200GE for $55 — Advanced Micro Devices is rolling out its latest processors based on the Zen architecture that will attack the low end of rival Intel's product line.
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| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Monese, which provides a mobile-only current account targeting customers with a thin credit file, raises $60M Series B led by Kinnevik — The large amounts of cash that is being invested in challenger banks in the U.K., whether that be startups with a fully fledged banking license or those using …
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
A look at the potential antitrust cases against Google, Amazon, Uber, and Facebook and what they might look like if they lost — Antitrust crusaders have built up serious momentum in Washington, but so far, it's all been theory and talk. Groups like Open Markets have made a strong case that big companies … | Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Location marketing startup Uberall raises $25M led by HPE Growth Capital, adding to the $25M Series B raised earlier this year, and acquires competitor Navads — Berlin-based location marketing startup Uberall has raised a further $25 million in funding — adding to a $25 million Series B raised earlier …
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| Fathin Ungku / Reuters: |
Facebook says it will invest more than $1B to build its first Asian data center in Singapore, slated to open in 2022 — SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Facebook (FB.O) said on Thursday it will invest more than $1 billion to build its first data centre in Asia in Singapore, slated to open in 2022.
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| Bloomberg: |
Chinese social network Bullet Message hits 5M users after Aug. 20 debut, ranks above WeChat in Apple Store downloads but is no threat to WeChat with 1B+ users — - New ‘Bullet’ social network passes WeChat on Apple charts — Pornography, weak privacy terms draw criticism to upstart
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| Kate Clark / TechCrunch: |
Chicago-based ShipBob, which helps small e-commerce businesses streamline fulfillment and manage inventory, raises $40M Series C led by Menlo Ventures — Nowadays, those of us who shop for everyday goods online are accustomed to said goods arriving on our doorstep 24 to 48 hours …
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| Chris Ip / Engadget: |
How 30+ popular tech companies, from social networks to dating apps, responded to requests for personal data; how they interpret that data remains opaque — Here's what they gave us — and what they didn't. — The average American, one study tell us, touches their phone 2,600 times per day.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Upwork, a marketplace for freelance developers, writers, and others, files for an IPO on Nasdaq and says it had $228M in revenue from June 2017-2018 — Another tech IPO is coming around the corner in what has been a strong year for startups taking the plunge and going public.
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| Nico Grant / Bloomberg: |
Dell reports revenue of $22.9B, up 18% YoY, and projects $92B in adjusted revenue for 2019 as it weighs a plan to go public again — Dell Technologies Inc., the world's largest closely held technology company, reported growing sales, and increased its outlook for the year …
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SEC filing shows Groq, a startup developing a tensor processing unit, has raised $52.3M of a $60M round — Groq has raised $52.3 million of a $60 million round, per an SEC filing. Social Capital co-founder and former Facebook executive Chamath Palihapitiya, who's listed on the filing, has participated in the funding.Sponsor Posts
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