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October 16, 2018, 6:45 PM
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Google announces licensing changes for European Android OEMs, with license fee for Play Store and other Google apps, will allow forked devices, effective Oct 29 — Android will still be “free and open source” — Google is changing the way it licenses its suite of Android apps in Europe …
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Tweets: @reckless, @backlon, @reckless, @franciscof_1990, @alohabrowser, @ow, @stevesi, @reckless, and @dennisbednarz
| Alex Heath / Cheddar: |
Source: Facebook is building a hybrid video chat/TV set-top box, internally called Ripley, which it plans to announce in Spring 2019 — Facebook is developing hardware for the TV, Cheddar has learned. — The world's largest social network is building a camera-equipped device that sits atop …
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| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
After saying last week no data collected through Portal would be used to target users with ads on Facebook, it now says the data can be used to target ads — Who you call and what apps you use could determine what ads you see. — Facebook announced Portal last week, its take on the in-home …
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Digital Trends, ZDNet, Gizmodo, Business Insider, and iPhone Hacks
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Sources: Uber could be valued at $120B in an IPO as soon as early 2019, nearly double its valuation two months ago, according to proposals from banks — Eye-popping offering, which could take place early next year, is nearly double the ride-hailing company's valuation in a fundraising round two months ago
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| Karl Bode / Techdirt: |
Stanford study: of the 800,000+ unique comments submitted to the FCC concerning repeal of net neutrality, 99.7% of them opposed what the FCC did — A new study has once again confirmed that the vast, vast majority of the public opposed the FCC's ham-fisted repeal of net neutrality.
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As the scandal of Khashoggi's disappearance grows, Silicon Valley is mostly quiet on its connections to Saudi Arabia, the largest funding source for US startups — The kingdom is now the largest single investor for U.S. startups, with stakes in Uber, WeWork and Magic Leap
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Huawei unveils Mate 20 Pro with 6.4-inch OLED display, in-display fingerprint sensor, two-way wireless charging, three rear cameras, and 4,200mAh battery — Everything you could want from a phone, and then some — Arriving fashionably late to the 2018 contest for super flagship phones …
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| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
GitHub debuts Actions for devs to automate workflows and build, share, and execute code inside containers, security alerts for Java and .NET projects, and more — The GitHub code repository, which has been used by 31 million developers around the world in the past year … | Nitasha Tiku / Wired: |
Google CEO Sundar Pichai publicly discusses censored Chinese search engine for the first time, says internal tests have been very promising — GOOGLE'S INTERNAL TESTS developing a censored search engine in China have been very promising, CEO Sundar Pichai said on stage on Monday as part of the WIRED 25 Summit.| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Lyft launches All-Access Pass subscription plan for $299 per month for 30 rides costing up to $15 each, for single-passenger trips and carpooling rides — Netflix, but for rides — Lyft's monthly subscription experiment is going national. The ride-hailing company has been tinkering …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple says devs can now sell 10 apps in a bundle, create app bundles for Mac apps, and make bundles that include free apps with auto-renewable subscriptions — Apple today announced expanded features for App Store bundles, introducing support for both Mac apps and free apps with subscriptions for the first time.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
A look at how some top utility apps on the App Store are making millions of dollars by using dark patterns, tricking users into signing up for subscriptions — Subscriptions have turned into a booming business for app developers, accounting for $10.6 billion in consumer spend on the App Store in 2017 … | Alex Sherman / CNBC: |
Source: Lyft has hired JP Morgan to lead its IPO, scheduled for early 2019, which could value company at more than $15B — - Lyft could be valued at more than $15 billion in the public markets, according to a source familiar with the matter. — Lyft has hired J.P. Morgan Chase to lead …
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Apple apologizes for the hacking of some Apple IDs in China in phishing scams, says the victims hadn't enabled two-factor authentication — Apple apologized over the hacking of some Chinese accounts in phishing scams, almost a week after it emerged that stolen Apple IDs had been used to swipe customer funds.| Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic: |
Users say harassment is rampant on Instagram, and some employees say efforts to stem it are not funded well or prioritized — When Brandon Farbstein first joined Instagram in 2014, he was 14 and optimistic. Farbstein was born with a rare form of dwarfism, and he wanted to use …
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| Michelle Castillo / CNBC: |
Netflix Q3: streaming revenue of $3.91B, up 36% YoY, and global membership surpassing 130M paid and 137M total; stock up 13%+ after hours — - Earnings per share (EPS): 89 cents vs. 68 cents estimate, according to a Refinitiv consensus estimate — Netflix shares soared 15 percent … | Brad Chacos / PCWorld: |
Gaming chat company Discord says its digital game store, which first launched in Canada back in August, is now launching globally in public beta with 22 titles — Discord's war on Steam (which only started after Steam declared war on Discord) is escalating.
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| Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
Instacart raises $600M at a $7.6B valuation led by hedge fund D1 Capital Partners — The startup has a fresh $600 million in funding to boot. — As Amazon has ramped up its Whole Foods grocery delivery service to 48 cities across the U.S., a common narrative has followed …
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| Roberto Baldwin / Engadget: |
Amazon unveils waterproof Kindle Paperwhite with higher 300ppi resolution, starting at $129, available for preorder now, shipping November 7 — Sometimes you just want to read a book. Or maybe all the books. That's the promise of the Kindle line. Access to thousands of books …
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| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Coinbase now lets users buy and sell ZRX, the token representing the 0x Project, joining BTC, BCH, ETC, ETH, and LTC a week after adding ZRX to Coinbase Pro — Coinbase's newest asset is live. On Tuesday the popular U.S.-based cryptocurrency platform added support for ZRX, the token representing the 0x Project.
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The Coinbase Blog, CoinDesk, SludgeFeed, and NullTX
| Kate Clark / TechCrunch: |
Pinterest revamps product pins, which now include up-to-date pricing and stock info alongside a link to the retailer, “Products like this” suggestions, and more — Visual search engine Pinterest is rolling out new features this morning that will make it easier for people to purchase the products on its platform.
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Engadget, Digital Trends, and VentureBeat
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
After criticism from FCC's Pai and Florida Gov. Scott, Verizon offers 3 month credit to customers hit hardest by Hurricane Michael; AT&T also giving credits — Since the landfall of Hurricane Michael last week, Verizon has been under scrutiny for its seemingly poor efforts to restore service in the Florida Panhandle.
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CNET, Ars Technica, The Verge, Tampa Bay Times, and Verizon Fios & Custom TV
| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Irish Data Protection Commission says about 3M Europeans were affected by Facebook's security breach, announced in Sept., where personal info was accessed — - A September Facebook security breach affected about 3 million European users, according to a spokesperson from the Irish Data Protection Commission.| Matthew Iles / Civil: |
Journalism blockchain network Civil says the sale of its CVL token fails to hit $8M goal, buyers will be offered full refunds, and another token sale in works — A setback, and the path forward. — Key takeaways: — The CVL token sale didn't succeed.| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Twitter bans ~1,500 accounts, source says for spreading misleading election-related content; the “NPC” accounts were 4chan and Reddit users posing as activists — Twitter has barred hundreds of right-wing users for posing as soulless, “nonplayable” liberal activists.
Tweets: @joemanna and @kevinroose
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