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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google rebrands Project Fi to Google Fi and adds support for iPhones and the “majority” of Android devices — Looks like the MVNO is here to stay — Three years after it first launched, Google is making its cell service a little more official today.
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App Store, The Keyword, Engadget, TechCrunch, Thurrot, ZDNet, VentureBeat, Android Police, Android Authority, 9to5Google, Wired, MSPoweruser, iPhone Hacks, Droid Life, Tom's Guide, and Mashable
| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Google CEO Sundar Pichai to testify before the House Judiciary Committee on December 5 regarding claims the company is biased against conservatives — Google chief executive Sundar Pichai is set to testify to Congress in December, facing off against lawmakers for the first time at a hearing …
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TechCrunch, Ars Technica, Engadget, Amnesty International, 9to5Google, CNET, CNBC, Reuters, The Verge, Mashable, SiliconANGLE, Firstpost, Engadget, Business Insider, Bloomberg, Mercury News, Washington Post, and Recode
Tweets: @lutherlowe, @tonyromm, @mims, @alkapdc, and @tonyromm
| Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News: |
The DOJ indicts eight men on charges related to a global ad fraud scheme discovered with the help of about 15 tech companies, including Google and White Ops — In August 2017, the FBI organized a secret meeting of digital advertising and cybersecurity experts in a secure room in a Manhattan federal building.
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Tweets: @ericgeller, @simonowens, @buzzfeedben, @peterjukes, and @nypdoneill
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
DOJ indicts two Iranian nationals for creating and deploying the SamSam ransomware, which caused $30M in losses and had 200+ victims — U.S. federal prosectors have indicted two Iranian nationals for creating and deploying the notorious SamSam ransomware. — Faramarz Shahi Savandi, 34 …
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| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed News: |
Ex-Facebook staffer Mark Luckie posts 2,500-word memo detailing Facebook's “black people problem”, originally shared internally before his last day in November — In a 2,500 word internal memo released publicly this morning, former Facebook employee Mark S. Luckie delivered …
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
LG puts Brian Kwon, head of its hugely profitable home entertainment business, in charge of its struggling smartphone division — Mission impossible: a new executive at LG is charged with fixing the company's long-time loss-making smartphone division following a leadership change.
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| Larry Cermak / The Block: |
Steemit, a social network that rewards users with its own cryptocurrency, says it's laying off nearly 70% of its team, after its currency declined 96% — Steemit, the company behind a blogging website that uses the Steem blockchain and cryptocurrency to reward publishers and curators …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Starting next year, YouTube says its original content will be free and supported by ads, instead of being behind a premium paywall — YouTube has concluded that its investments in original programming should have a home on the free, ad-supported side — not just tucked behind a paywall.
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Tweets: @bingchen and @martinsfp
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook is launching its “Today In” local news section in 400 US cities, after beginning testing it in January — Facebook has a new area of its app it will have to police for fake news and biased sensationalism. Facebook is launching “Today In”, its local news aggregator … | Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon says it's starting to sell text analysis software to mine medical records for info that doctors and hospitals can use to improve treatment and cut costs — The move is the latest by a technology company to tap the health care market — Amazon.com Inc. AMZN .01% is starting …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says Fast Pair, its Bluetooth pairing spec, now pairs Bluetooth accessories across devices sharing a Google account and will support Chromebooks in 2019 — Earlier this month, Google released a Fast Pair Validator app on the Play Store to help Bluetooth manufacturers support Android's seamless Bluetooth pairing solution.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Source: Corel, the Canadian developer of apps like CorelDraw and WordPerfect, is acquiring virtualization specialist Parallels in deal expected to close in Dec. — Some consolidation is afoot in the world of business software. TechCrunch has learned from multiple sources that Parallels … | Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Nintendo says consumers spent $250M on its consoles from Thanksgiving to Cyber Monday in the US, led by the Switch — U.S. shoppers provided a nice boost to Nintendo's balance sheet last weekend. — The gaming giant reported Wednesday that consumers spent $250 million on Nintendo products from Thanksgiving to Cyber Monday.
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| David Floyd / CoinDesk: |
Tether reopens account verification for new customers and allows redemption of fiat currency, after suspending its wallet service in Nov. 2017 following hack — Tether Ltd., the controversial issuer of the tether stablecoin (USDT), which aims for parity with the U.S. dollar …
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Bitfinex, CoinSpeaker, ETHNews, Bitcoin Magazine, Crypto Briefing, Cointelegraph.com News, CryptoGlobe, and Anycoin.news
Tweets: @bitfinex, @crypto_macro, and @el33th4xor
| Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
AWS debuts AWS Ground Station, a cloud service for satellite operators, says it will construct new ground-based facilities to allow high data speeds from space — Space is hard, and getting data to and from orbiting satellites can be even harder. Amazon Web Services just launched …
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AWS News Blog, TechCrunch, TechCrunch, TechCrunch, AWS News Blog, Bloomberg, MIT Technology Review, Business Wire, Digital TV Europe, and SiliconANGLE
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| Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
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| Phil LeBeau / CNBC: |
Waymo hires Deborah Hersman, who was chairwoman of the National Transportation Safety Board in the Obama administration, as its first chief safety officer — - Waymo has hired Deborah Hersman, who served as chairwoman of the National Transportation Safety Board in the Obama administration, to be its chief safety officer.| New York Times: |
Some experts say the US economy has become less dynamic as smaller companies shift away from IPOs, choosing buyouts and VC money instead, especially in tech — Ryan Smith spent years planning to sell shares of his software company, Qualtrics, on the stock market, meeting with bankers …
Tweets: @nytimesbusiness
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Source: Imran Khan, former chief strategy officer at Snap, raises $17.5M for his new e-commerce startup led by Lightspeed Venture Partners — Imran Khan, former chief strategy officer at Snap Inc., has raised $17.5 million for his new e-commerce startup, according to a source familiar with the deal.| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Instagram begins rolling out a tool that describes photos for visually impaired users using AI or user descriptions — They'll know what they're seeing — Instagram announced today that it's rolling out new features that'll make the app easier to use for people with visual impairments.
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Instagram and VentureBeat
| Eric Lam / Bloomberg: |
Filing: Mike Novogratz's merchant bank Galaxy Digital reports $136M loss for the first nine months of 2018, due to losses on Ether, Bitcoin, and XRP — The bad year for traders at Mike Novogratz's cryptocurrency merchant bank got even worse in the third quarter — and that was before the market fell out of bed this month.| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Philippines-based Voyager, telecom PLDT's new fintech business, says it raised $215M, with $175M coming from Tencent and KKR — One of the year's largest fintech investments in Southeast Asia has closed after Philippines-based Voyager announced it raised $215 million.
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China Money Network and PE Hub Blog
| Judith Balea / Tech in Asia: |
Oriente, which wants to provide mobile-first banking in Southeast Asia, raises $105M Series A from some of the region's richest families — AD. Remove this ad space by subscribing. Support independent journalism. — Southeast Asia's 600 million-strong market is one of the most rapidly growing in the world.
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TechCrunch, Bloomberg, The Straits Times, and Oriente
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