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September 27, 2018, 1:20 PM

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Kashmir Hill / Gizmodo:
Study: Facebook lets ads target your account using info given for security purposes, like your phone number, as well as info from your friends' address books  —  Last week, I ran an ad on Facebook that was targeted at a computer science professor named Alan Mislove.
David Stringer / Bloomberg:
Unnamed Australian teenager sentenced to eight months probation for breaching Apple's systems; investigators recovered 1TB of sensitive info copied from Apple  —  - Youth found accessing Apple networks addictive, court hears  — Customers' data wasn't compromised by the attacks, Apple says
Bryan Menegus / Gizmodo:
Amazon's anti-union tactics revealed in leaked 45-minute video that it sent to team leaders at Whole Foods; Amazon says Gizmodo “cherry-picked soundbites”  —  Amazon, the country's second-largest employer, has so far remained immune to any attempts by U.S. workers to form a union.
Connie Loizos / TechCrunch:
Home-flipping startup Opendoor raises $400M from SoftBank's Vision Fund, source says at a $2B+ valuation  —  It's official.  Two weeks ago, we reported that Opendoor — the four year-old, San Francisco-based company aiming to make it possible to buy and sell residential real estate …
Bloomberg:
SoftBank's Vision Fund has already committed $65B; Masayoshi Son says that he plans to raise a new $100B fund every two or three years and spend ~$50B per year  —  The Japanese dealmaker says he'll raise a new $100 billion fund every few years.  Silicon Valley's disruptors are struggling to keep up.
Amazon US Day One Blog:
Amazon announces Amazon 4-star, a physical store that only sells items rated four stars and above with discounts for Prime members, with the first in NYC  —  Peek inside our newest store, inspired by our customers.  —  Tomorrow, we're opening Amazon 4-star, a new physical store where everything …
Lucas Matney / TechCrunch:
Oculus announces the standalone Oculus Quest, shipping next spring for $399 with touch controllers and 50+ games at launch  —  Opening up the Oculus Connect 5 keynote with some announcements, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that its newest headset, called Oculus Quest …
CoinDesk:
Crypto mining company Bitmain files for Hong Kong IPO; draft filing shows $2.8B in revenue as of June 30 and $422.05M raised in funding round that ended Aug. 7  —  Bitmain, the Beijing-based cryptocurrency mining giant, has officially filed an application to go public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX).
Steve Blank:
A look at how the Apple Watch is poised to disrupt the highly regulated healthcare industry and what diagnostics and screening apps Apple may add in the future  —  I don't own an Apple Watch.  I do have a Fitbit.  But the Apple Watch 4 announcement intrigued me in a way no other product has since the original IPhone.
More: ZDNet
Amy Gesenhues / Marketing Land:
Snap makes Shoppable Snap ads available via its self-serve ad-buying platform, lets advertisers import product catalogs, adds advanced pixel targeting features  —  Shoppable Snap ads are rolling out, and advertisers can now import catalogs to automatically create product ads.
Matthew Prince / The Cloudflare Blog:
Cloudflare launches its own domain registrar called Cloudflare Registrar, promises to never charge anything more than the wholesale price each TLD charges  —  “I love my domain registrar.”  Has anyone ever said this?  From before Cloudflare even launched in September 2010 …

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