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Interviews with more than 50 people show how Facebook stumbled in dealing with multiple crises, which Zuckerberg and Sandberg initially tried to obscure — Sheryl Sandberg was seething. — Inside Facebook's Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters, top executives gathered in the glass-walled conference room of its founder, Mark Zuckerberg.
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Source: Facebook has ended its relationship with Definers Public Affairs, the consulting firm which cast George Soros as a force behind Facebook's critics — SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook has ended its relationship with a Washington-based consulting firm, Definers Public Affairs …
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Facebook responds to the NYT exposé, lists “number of inaccuracies” in the story, and denies it knew about Russian activity as early as spring of 2016 — Yesterday The New York Times published an article about the past two years at Facebook. There are a number of inaccuracies in the story, including:
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One reason for Facebook's aggressive PR against competitors was to manage declining morale, and retain employees who would otherwise jump ship — For some time now, Facebook has copped to being “slow.” — Confronted with any question about Russian interference on the platform …
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Google adds business messaging to Google Maps for iOS and Android, helps keep track of conversations with local businesses — Last year we enabled users in select countries to message businesses from the Business Profiles on Google. Sending messages to businesses gives you the opportunity … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Uber reports Q3 net loss of $939M, up 32% QoQ, as revenue rose 38% YoY to $2.95B; gross bookings rose to $12.7B; Eats had gross bookings of $2.1B, up 150% YoY — Uber, which is expected to go public sometime next year, just released its Q3 2018 financial results.
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| Dami Lee / The Verge: |
Instagram rolls out activity dashboard that shows users how much time they have spent in the app with time limiting tools and the option to mute notifications — Back in August, Facebook and Instagram announced they would introduce new activity dashboards that tracked how much time users spent inside …
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How a DARPA program is developing recovery tools that aim to restore power to an electric grid after a cyberattack — IN HIS YEARS-LONG career developing software for power grids, Stan McHann had never before heard the ominous noise that rang out last Wednesday.| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Cortana's mobile redesign, in beta last month, is out now for iOS, adding conversational experiences, the ability to play music and podcasts, and more — A voice assistant for those entrenched in the Microsoft ecosystem — Cortana's version 3.0 redesign, which we first saw released in beta last month …
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Google releases Night Sight, a software update that dramatically improves low-light photos, to Pixel users — The mighty Night Sight mode is being released to Pixel phones today — Two years ago, Google's release of the first Pixel smartphone radically raised the bar for the image quality we could expect from mobile cameras.
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Mozilla publishes a privacy and security guide for 70 popular connected devices, including drones, wearables, and more, ahead of the holiday season — If you're planning on picking up some cool new smart device for a loved one this holiday season, it might be worth your while to check whether it's one of the good ones or not.
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US GAO dismisses Oracle's argument that the Pentagon's $10B cloud contract violated federal standards and unfairly favored Amazon — - GAO decision deals setback to Oracle's federal contracts push — Rejection frees Pentagon to pursue single-source solution
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Facebook launches Unsend for Messenger, letting users delete messages within 10 minutes of posting, in Poland, Bolivia, Colombia, Lithuania; global rollout soon — Not just for Zuckerberg anymore — Facebook secretly retracted messages sent by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, TechCrunch reported seven months ago.
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| Rose Behar / Android Police: |
Google Assistant adds Routines integration into clock app, ability to reply to intercom-style Broadcasts, and a command to put devices into Do Not Disturb mode — In the voice assistant market, the most meaningful features often don't sound that impressive: more often than not …
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
LinkedIn says it expects $2B in revenue from its media business, driven mostly by ad revenue, by the end of the fiscal year — LinkedIn, the business and employment network, says it expects to bring in roughly $2 billion from its media business — mostly via ad revenue — by the end of this fiscal year.| Angus Berwick / Reuters: |
Investigation shows how ZTE helped Venezuela's government build a system, used by as many as 18M, similar to China's national identity card program — TRICKS OF THE TRADE: Critics say China exports tools that help autocratic governments monitor citizens. Venezuelan President Nicolás …
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| Financial Times: |
Apple, Alphabet, Cisco, Microsoft, and Oracle spent $115B+ in the first 3 quarters on share buybacks after tax reforms, nearly double what they spent last year — The five US tech companies with the largest cash piles took advantage of President Trump's tax reforms to spend more than $115bn …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources provide a behind-the-scenes account of Amazon's HQ2 selection process, say the company made the decision to split HQ2 in two in September — For months, cities vied for Amazon's second headquarters while some executives were realizing that no single place would fulfill its requirements
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Cisco beats with Q1 revenues of $13.07B, up 8% YoY, vs. $12.87B est., revenues of $7.64B for its Infrastructure Platforms business, up 9% YoY, vs. $7.4B est. — Cisco stock rose slightly after the company reported better-than-expected earnings for the first quarter of its 2019 fiscal year.Sponsor Posts
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