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SEC settles with Floyd Mayweather and DJ Khaled on charges of promoting ICOs without disclosing payments; Mayweather to pay $600K+ in fees, Khaled to pay $150K+ — Pro boxer Floyd Mayweather and music producer DJ Khaled pumped up initial coin offerings without telling investors …
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| Ryan Gallagher / The Intercept: |
Sources detail the measures Google took to keep Dragonfly under wraps, including shutting out some members of the security and privacy teams from key meetings — The secrecy surrounding the work was unheard of at Google. It was not unusual for planned new products to be closely guarded ahead of launch.
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Coinbase Pro says it is adding Zcash to its professional trading platform in the US, UK, European Union, Canada, Singapore, and Australia — Crypto exchange Coinbase Pro is adding privacy coin zcash to its listings. — The platform announced Thursday that customers can transfer zcash …
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| Yogita Khatri / CoinDesk: |
FBI arrests Jared Rice, Sr., CEO of cryptocurrency platform AriseBank, for defrauding investors out of $4M+ and charges him with securities and wire fraud — The FBI has arrested the CEO of cryptocurrency platform AriseBank after he was indicted over an alleged multi-million dollar scam.| Dan Thorp-Lancaster / Windows Central: |
Intel to start distributing drivers for its graphics chips as Universal Windows Drivers, a single driver package that can run on different device types — Intel this week announced that, starting this month, it will begin distributing drivers for its products as “modern” Universal Windows Drivers (via Neowin).| Gabe Rivera / Techmeme News: |
Techmeme now publishing paid and free “Leaderboards” showing the most influential reporters around a specific news topic — Today Techmeme has begun publishing Topic Leaderboards, which list the top authors and publications covering 24 topic areas such as cloud computing, autonomous vehicles …
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| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
YouTube begins rolling out Stories, which last for seven days on its mobile app and can be viewed by everyone, to accounts with over 10,000 subscribers — Amid some concern from the community — YouTube is expanding its Instagram-like Stories capability to more creators today … | The Verge: |
Alt-right commentator Laura Loomer handcuffed self to Twitter NYC door to protest her ban from the service; NYPD cut cuffs at Loomer's request after a few hours — 'They may have banned me from Twitter but now I'm handcuffed to Twitter' — Earlier this afternoon, alt-right Jewish commentator …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft rolls out a search function, powered by Bing, for SwiftKey on Android in the US, UK, India, France, Canada, and elsewhere — Microsoft-owned mobile keyboard company SwiftKey is today rolling out a search feature for Android users that lets them browse the internet for content directly from within the keyboard.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft debuts redesigned icons for its Office suite, alongside other cosmetic changes, and says Outlook Mobile is getting a redesign soon — A new modern look — Microsoft is modernizing its Office icons as part of a broader focus on design for its various Office apps.
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| Nat Levy / GeekWire: |
New book outlines Microsoft's product roadmap: new Surface Pro and Laptop, “ambient devices”, and cheaper Xbox One S in 2019; new Surface Book and Hub in 2020 — Next year will be a busy one for Microsoft's Surface division, if a new book about the organization is any indication.
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| James Titcomb / Telegraph: |
Local reports say Apple has removed 700+ apps, including apps by Sogou and Pinduoduo, from the Chinese App Store for pushing app updates without Apple's review — Apple has removed hundreds of iPhone apps from its App Store in China, in the company's latest crackdown in one of its biggest markets.| Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
Facebook will exempt ads from eligible news outlets from its political ad archive in the UK, a policy it plans to extend to the US and Brazil pending UK tests — Social network to act against ‘dark adverts’ with compulsory disclaimers saying who paid — Every political advert on Facebook …
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| Katie Roof / Wall Street Journal: |
Vista Equity Partners takes majority stake in Wrike, a work management platform that says it has nearly a $100M run rate, source says at a valuation of ~$800M — Software company is said to be valued at nearly $800 million — Vista Equity Partners has taken a majority stake in Wrike Inc., a workplace management software startup.
Tweets: @jordannovet and @katie_roof
| Sam Kim / Bloomberg: |
South Korea charges nine people and two companies with illegally selling Samsung's bendable OLED screen technology to Chinese rivals — - Suspects accused of stealing tech used to bend Galaxy screens — Samsung spent 150 billion won on technology, prosecution says
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
A Nielsen report says US viewers spend nearly 8B hours per month streaming content via connected devices like Roku, Apple TV, and Amazon Fire TV — With the rise of streaming services and the trend toward cord cutting, the way U.S. consumers are watching video is also changing.| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
GM's President Dan Ammann to become CEO of self-driving car unit Cruise; current Cruise CEO and co-founder Kyle Vogt will stay on as unit president and CTO — General Motors on Thursday announced that company president Dan Ammann will take a new job as CEO of its self-driving unit, Cruise.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Memo: the White House plans to host a roundtable on December 6 to discuss innovation with tech executives, including Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, and others — Guest list includes heads of Microsoft, Google, Qualcomm, Oracle — The Trump administration will hold a roundtable discussion …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Indonesian ride-hailing company Go-Jek launches in Singapore, initially available to the customers of DBS bank, and plans a wider rollout by early 2019 — Less than a year after Uber's exit, a new challenger is taking on Grab — SINGAPORE—Indonesian technology firm PT Go-Jek Indonesia launched …
Tweets: @wsj
| David Barnard: |
How iOS developers game the App Store: naming apps with popular keywords, tricking users to sign up for subscriptions, buying fake ratings and reviews, and more — I've been pestering Apple for years publicly and privately about the manipulation and outright scams going on in the App Store.
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iPhone Hacks, 9to5Mac, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @drbarnard, @jamesthomson, and @steipete
| Kate Clark / TechCrunch: |
Lyft closes its acquisition of bike-rental startup Motivate, says it will invest $100M in NY's Citi Bike, tripling the number of bikes available to 40K by 2023 — Lyft has finally given us a glimpse of its forthcoming line of shareable bikes, which the ridesharing company says will be available … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google Assistant adds Broadcast Replies, notes and lists integration, visual lyrics, and Pretty Please on Smart Displays and Google Home — With the holiday season underway, Google is announcing a slew of new features for Assistant speakers and Smart Displays.
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