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| Mark Armstrong / The WordPress.com Blog: |
WordPress has launched Newspack, a publishing platform aimed at small and medium-sized news outlets and backed by Google, ConsenSys, Lenfest, Knight, and others — Over the past 15 years, WordPress has grown to become the world's most popular publishing platform for the open web — and it's especially true for news organizations.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Facebook says it will test a Stories feature for event sharing on iOS and Android for users in US, Brazil, and Mexico — Finally, a truly smart way to use Stories outside of Instagram — Facebook continues to undergo the most contentious period in its history, as it struggles with the fallout …
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| Tim Ingham / Music Business Worldwide: |
Report: Norway launches a criminal investigation over potential data fraud after claims that big stars' streaming numbers were inflated on Tidal — In an explosive story last year, TIDAL was placed at the center of a major alleged ‘fake streams’ scandal. — Norwegian financial newspaper … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Wiliot raises $30M Series B from AWS, Samsung, and others to make chips powered by ambient radio frequencies, sources say at a post-money valuation of $120M — As we continue the quest for better and more efficient sources of energy to link up our connected world, companies that are developing …
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How PayPal's user growth and stock price have risen after teaming up with former foes like Visa; sources: Venmo still loses hundreds of millions annually — In late 1999 a young computer scientist named Max Levchin started receiving emails from strangers about a web demo he'd created to illustrate the workings of an app.| Steven Sinofsky / Learning By Shipping: |
CES 2019 notes: high number of Chinese attendees, massive Google participation, and products that are close to reaching a tipping point of customer satisfaction — Help Wanted, Product Managers Apply — The Consumer Electronics Show is the annual gathering of over 180,000 people … | BBC: |
Scooter rental company Bird backs down and apologizes to Cory Doctorow after issuing him legal threats over a blogpost about modifying Bird scooters — A scooter firm has apologised after issuing a journalist with legal threats over a blogpost about its scooters.
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| Nitasha Tiku / Wired: |
Googlers for Ending Forced Arbitration, an activist group inside Google, to launch a public awareness campaign about mandatory arbitration agreements on Tuesday — TECH WORKERS MAY be new to labor organizing, but they're learning quickly. When a November walkout by 20,000 Google employees protesting …
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| Lily Katz / Android Authority: |
USB-C headphones were virtually absent at CES 2019, failing to catch on because of continuing compatibility issues and a lack of quality hardware — 6.3K — In a sea of 3D audio products and true-wireless earbuds, USB Type-C headphones were nowhere in sight at CES 2019.| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says HomePod will become officially available in China and Hong Kong on January 18 — Apple has announced today that HomePod will be available in China starting on Friday, January 18th. Apple teased last month that HomePod was coming to China in “early 2019,” but now we have an official release date.
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| Laura Cooper / Wall Street Journal: |
Vista Equity Partners takes majority stake in Quick Base, which helps people with no coding experience build business apps, source says for more than $1B — The more than $1 billion deal is the latest in a string of acquisitions by Vista Equity Partners — Quick Base Inc. … | TechCrunch: |
A deeper look at Twitter's upcoming beta app with conversational features like color-coded and algorithmically sorted responses, hidden engagement icons, more — Twitter has made a name for itself, at its most basic level, as a platform that gives everyone who uses it a voice.Sponsor Posts
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