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| Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal: |
Salesforce founder Marc Benioff and his wife, Lynne Benioff, to buy Time Magazine for $190M from Meredith Corp., expecting to close within 30 days — Benioffs won't have day-to-day operational role at Time Magazine — Time magazine will have a new home.
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Meredith Corporation MediaRoom, CNNMoney, CNET, Bloomberg, Business Insider, Forbes, Recode, Adweek, and Deadline
Tweets: @benioff, @danprimack, @jayrosen_nyu, @kbandersen, @brianstelter, @mattocko, @benmullin, @joshtpm, @sdkstl, @laura_nelson, @paulgoldberger, @benmullin, @pkafka, @wsj, @yoda, and @karaswisher
| Owen Thomas / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Interview with Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, on his philanthropic priorities in SF, and why he invests in schools to help solve the “digital refugee” crisis — Salesforce's chief on the future of jobs, education, homelessness and the environment — and everything else we could get him to talk about
Tweets: @sfchronicle, @salesforcejobs, @benioff, @valaafshar, and @sfchronicle
| Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon confirms it is investigating claims that its employees in US and China accepted bribes for internal data and other confidential info on Amazon merchants — Employees, through intermediaries, are offering internal data to help merchants increase their sales on the website
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The Verge, CNET, Digital Trends, Gizmodo, Engadget, Bloomberg, and Business Insider
Tweets: @paulwsj, @bysamro, @tepingchen, @wsj, @dtunkelang, and @scottmaustin
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Google remotely enabled Battery Saver mode for users running Android 9 Pie, during an “internal experiment”, has since apologized and reset settings to default — You'd think there would be more safeguards for preventing this kind of thing — Yesterday a mix of people … | Leigh Cuen / CoinDesk: |
Coinbase says it plans to expand its New York City office, which caters to institutional clients, to 150 employees next year, up from 20 currently — The crypto industry unicorn Coinbase has aggressive growth plans for its newly opened New York office, which caters to institutional clients.
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| Danah Boyd / Data & Society: |
How extremists exploit tech's respect of “free speech” and media's bias to cover “both sides” to amplify fringe messages and get into mainstream conversation — This is a crib of a talk that Data & Society Founder and President danah boyd gave at the Online News Association conference … | Linus Torvalds / LKML Archive on lore.kernel.org: |
Linux creator and project lead Linus Torvalds apologizes for years of rude behavior, says he is temporarily stepping away from Linux maintenance to get better — From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Subject …
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SiliconANGLE. Tweets: @zekjur, @timbray, @aprilwensel, @filosottile, @garybernhardt, @shanselman, @anildash, and @erratarob
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Twitter now puts live broadcasts started by accounts users follow, including breaking news, personalities, and sports, at the top of their timelines in its app — Twitter will now put live streams and broadcasts started by accounts you follow at the top of your timeline, making it easier to see what they're doing in realtime.
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Social Media Today, Marketing Land, Adweek, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @twitter and @coffeegeek
| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Facebook seeks to hire a Director of Human Rights Policy to steer investigations into human rights abusers on its platforms — Facebook has faced criticism for its slow response to the Myanmar government's use of its social network to fuel atrocities, and it's determined to prevent that from happening again.
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TechCrunch, Isle Of Wight Radio, India.com, and Axios
Tweets: @sarasous, @techcrunch, @mathewi, @axios, and @caseynewton
| CB Insights Research: |
Research: healthcare AI startups have raised $4.3B across 576 deals since 2013, topping all other industries in AI deal activity — AI needs doctors. Big pharma is taking an AI-first approach. Apple is revolutionizing clinical studies. We look at the top artificial intelligence trends reshaping healthcare.| Horace Dediu / Asymco: |
Durable iPhones can result in lower replacement rates, but they expand Apple's client base via resales, which can then be monetized via accessories and services — I think Lisa Jackson's presentation at the September 2018 iPhone launch event was perhaps the most interesting and most profound.
Tweets: @triketora, @kpfrahm, @iansherr, @hallstephenj, @saji, @fionaosaurusrex, and @neiltwitz
| Cherie Hu / Billboard: |
MusicWatch: paid music streaming subscribers surpass 50M in US, nearly doubling since end of 2016, with ~20M separate users sharing but not paying for access — An estimated 51 million people in the U.S. are now paying monthly subscriptions for music streaming services …
Tweets: @cheriehu42 and @joshpfried
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