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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Spammers are emailing businesses, schools, and other locations in the US, Canada, and New Zealand, demanding bitcoin as ransom to not detonate a supposed bomb — Spammers are sending a wave of threats to businesses, schools, and other locations in English-speaking countries across the world …
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Facebook: Cedar Rapids Police Department. Tweets: @nypdnews, @certnz, @briankrebs, @wsbtv, @jasonschreier, @emilydreyfuss, @briankrebs, @onenorthavenue, and @oneunderscore__
| Sam Levin / The Guardian: |
Some current and former fact-checkers say Facebook has ignored their concerns, that they have been used for PR, and that they have lost trust in the company — Journalists paid to help fix Facebook's fake news problem say they have lost trust in the platform
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Facebook, The Verge, The Next Web, Fast Company, and Fortune
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| Bloomberg: |
In a court filing, Apple argues that China's ban on the sale of some iPhones, which it is appealing, would force it to settle its licensing battle with Qualcomm — Apple Inc. said a Chinese ban on the sale of some models of the iPhone will force it to settle a long and bitter licensing battle …
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple is notifying artists that it is removing their ability to post to Apple Music Connect and is removing previously posted content from Artist Pages — Apple Music Connect appears to slowly be going the way of iTunes Ping. Apple has started notifying Apple Music artists that it is removing … | Rani Molla / Recode: |
A visual look at the biggest tech trends of 2018: sentiment toward Amazon's HQ2 search, the plateau of social media use, Facebook's trust betrayals, more — Here's a visual look back at the year. — There's been a lot to keep track of this year. We've endured disasters both natural and manmade … | Kent Walker / Google: |
Google says it won't sell general-purpose facial recognition APIs before working through “important technology and policy questions” — More than 400 million people in the world have diabetes. A third of them have diabetic retinopathy, a complication that can cause permanent blindness.
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| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
Sources: Facebook is in talks with pay TV channels, including HBO, Showtime, and Starz, about selling their streaming TV services on its platform — The world's biggest social network wants to get into the pay TV business — by taking a page from Amazon. — Facebook is readying …
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Axios, Gizmodo, CNET, and Notes from Silicon Valley
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| Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
Instacart says it will end its partnership with Whole Foods starting in February; source: move is expected to reduce Instacart's revenue by less than 5 percent — Instacart will begin pulling the first group of workers out of Whole Foods locations in February.
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The Instacart Checkout, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, PYMNTS.com, CNET, The Verge, GeekWire, Business Insider, and Axios
| Katie Roof / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Niantic, publisher of Pokémon Go, is in the process of raising a $200M funding round that would value the company at $3.9B — The $200 million funding round is expected to be led by IVP, with participation from strategic investors Samsung Electronics Co. and aXiomatic Gaming LLC.
Tweets: @serkantoto
| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
SEC filing: IMAX will close its remaining three virtual reality centers and write off “certain VR investments”; the three sites are expected to close in Q1 2019 — Imax is making its exit from virtual reality (VR) official: The company notified shareholders with a SEC filing Thursday …
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United States Securities …, Engadget, SiliconANGLE, The Verge, UploadVR, and TechCrunch. Tweets: @tculpan. Thanks:@jank0
| Kate Clark / TechCrunch: |
Amsterdam-based e-scooter startup Dott, founded by former Ofo exec Maxim Romain, raises €20M led by EQT Ventures and Naspers — The funding extravaganza may be approaching its end for scooter “unicorns” Lime and Bird, but smaller startups in the micro-mobility space have continued …
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VentureBeat and Tech.eu
| Amy Gesenhues / Marketing Land: |
Facebook says it is rolling out Watch globally on desktop and Facebook Lite and expands availability of Ad Breaks, 15-second in-stream ads, to 14 more markets — Says more than 75 million daily Watch visitors spend, on average, more than 20 minutes on the video platform.
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Facebook, The Verge, The Information, Axios, Social Media Today, TechCrunch, Engadget, and VentureBeat
Tweets: @cityofthetown, @mgsiegler, @mattnavarra, @caseynewton, @caseynewton, and @sarahfrier
| Arielle Pardes / Wired: |
Postmates announces Serve, an autonomous rover launching soon in LA, and says it now averages 4M deliveries per month in 550+ cities — HANGING ON THE wall of Postmates' stealth R&D laboratory, there's a framed photo of an iconic scene from Star Wars, Luke Skywalker bent down beside R2D2.
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Tweets: @pardesoteric, @wired, @joshconstine, @mollywood, @nattgarun, @laurengoode, and @wired
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Medium CEO Ev Williams had preliminary talks about buying New York Media, parent of New York Magazine; source said talks are “unlikely to progress” — - The Twitter co-founder says he wants to invest in media in '19 — Magazine publisher has been exploring its options this year| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Apple announces a $1B Austin campus initially for 5,000 workers, new offices in Seattle, San Diego, and Culver City, and expansions in several other US cities — Apple plans to build a new $1 billion campus in Austin, Texas, adding thousands of jobs, while also setting up new large offices in Seattle …
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Apple, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, NPR, Austin American-Statesman, Digital Trends, SiliconANGLE, Light Reading, Washington Post, Silicon Valley Business …, Ars Technica, Business Insider, CityLab, InvestorPlace, The Register, Engadget, Quartz, Forbes, Mashable, CNET, Xconomy, VentureBeat, Telegraph, Politico, Gizmodo, Investor's Business Daily, Apple Must, Bloomberg, iPhone in Canada Blog, GeekWire, The Hill, CNBC, MSPoweruser, iDownloadBlog.com, Mercury News, Silicon Valley Business …, The Next Web, BBC, and New York Times
Tweets: @tim_cook, @shiraovide, @dhh, @rolfpendall, @dhh, @tony_the_murse, @carnage4life, @bryfitz, @bostonchaahhts, @carletonenglish, @ivanthek, @rrhoover, @mikeisaac, @_danielsinclair, and @prdonahue. Thanks:@inafried
| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Adobe reports mixed Q4 results, with revenue of $2.46B, up 23% YoY, vs. $2.43B est., and FY2018 revenue of $9.03B, up 24% YoY, vs. $8.99B est. — This is Adobe's first financial report since acquiring marketing automation firm Marketo for $4.75 billion back in October.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
CommBank announces it will support Apple Pay come January, making it the second to do so of the four big banks in Australia; NAB and Westpac remain holdouts — Apple Pay adoption has been rather slow in Australia due to disagreements between Apple and major banks over access to the NFC chip in iPhones.
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O'Grady's PowerPage, CommBank, MacRumors, and Apple Support
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Twitter says global government demands for data about users or takedowns of posts increased by 80% in the first half of 2018, with ~87% from Turkey and Russia — Twitter says the number of government demands for data on its users has shot up in the past year.| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
YouTube's annual Rewind video received 10M dislikes in about eight days, overtaking Justin Bieber's Baby to be the most disliked video — Creators help explain why — To say that this year's YouTube Rewind didn't go over well with the YouTube community would be quite an understatement.
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YouTube, YouTube, New York Times, Firstpost, BuzzFeed News, The Hill, BBC, Washington Post, Mashable, and Neowin
Tweets: @mkbhd, @redletterdave, @youtube, @brockwilbur, @mkbhd, @loudmouthjulia, @lazarbeamyt, @mkbhd, @darknezzz13, @jazzmynejay, @keemstar, and @maryannmaria7
| Marrian Zhou / CNET: |
Amazon rolls out preview of Alexa Guard and announces Alexa security panel that lets users control home security systems from ADT, Ring, Abode, and Scout Alarm — Amazon says Alexa wants to keep your home safe. — On Thursday the company rolled out a preview of Alexa Guard …
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Amazon Developer Services, Digital Trends, KnowTechie, ZDNet, and VentureBeat. Tweets: @paulmarks12
| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Kotaku: |
Wiki site Fandom says it will acquire Curse Media, which runs gaming wiki site Gamepedia, from Twitch, which bought Curse Media parent Curse in Aug. 2016 — Wiki site Fandom announced yesterday that they will acquire Curse Media, which runs gaming wiki site Gamepedia, from Twitch.| Emily Birnbaum / The Hill: |
YouTube says it removed 7.8M+ videos between July and September because they broke community guidelines and deleted 1.6M+ channels and 224M+ comments — YouTube removed 58 million videos between July and September this year because they broke community guidelines.Sponsor Posts
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