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Facebook to launch Community Actions, a News Feed petition feature for users to tag government agencies and officials and advocate for changes, on Monday — Gather a mob and Facebook will now let you make political demands. Tomorrow Facebook will encounter a slew of fresh complexities …
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| James Cook / Telegraph: |
Uber is hiring for a new Micromobility Robotics team to develop autonomous scooters and bikes that can drive themselves to reach customers and charging points — Uber is hiring engineers to develop electric scooters and bicycles which can drive themselves around cities in order to reach customers and charging points.
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WhatsApp is now globally limiting the forwarding of messages to five recipients, in a bid to fight “misinformation and rumors” — JAKARTA (Reuters) - Facebook Inc's WhatsApp (FB.O) messenger service is globally limiting the number of times a user can forward a message to five …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Kaia Health, which makes apps that help manage chronic pain using AI and motion-tracking tech, raises $10M Series A — Chronic diseases affect the lives of millions of people around the world. Over 16 million adults in the U.S., for instance, have been diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease …
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
London-based MarketInvoice, an online invoicing platform, raises £26M Series B led by Barclays and Santander, and a £30M debt facility from Viola Credit — - MarketInvoice lets small-to-medium enterprises sell their unpaid invoices through an online platform to gain access to working capital loans.| Matt Binder / Mashable: |
Google Maps rolls out ability to see user-reported speed traps via small camera icons, in North America, UK, Australia, Russia, Brazil, India, and Indonesia — Drivers will soon have an extra set of eyes on the road, courtesy of Google. — Google's navigation app, Google Maps …
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Google fined €50M by the French data regulator CNIL under GDPR for lack of transparency, inadequate info, and lack of valid consent about ads personalization — The CNIL, the French data protection watchdog, has issued its first GDPR fine of $57 million (€50 million).
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| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
A reporter, who was injured when her Grab car crashed in Singapore, set out to probe Grab's image as a sober and law-abiding startup but found no smoking gun — Singapore, like every big city, has been overrun with new car service apps. Is that a good thing? — On March 26, 2018, the news in my world was all about Grab.| Alex Sherman / CNBC: |
SEC filing: Disney lost $1B+ from streaming in its 2018 fiscal year, with a $580M loss attributed to its stake in Hulu and $469M to ownership of BAMtech — - Disney's stake in Hulu and its ownership of BAMtech led to a loss of more than $1 billion in the latest fiscal year.| Kate Clark / TechCrunch: |
Knock, a home trade-in platform started by Trulia veterans, has raised $400M Series B in equity and debt financing led by Foundry Group — Home trade-in platform Knock has brought in a $400 million investment to accelerate a national expansion and double its 100-person headcount.| Emily Bell / Columbia Journalism Review: |
Facebook's journalism funding does not guarantee the success of high-quality reporting on its platform, which would obviate the need for such cash infusions — At some point over the past year, anyone connected with journalism, its present woes, or concerns over its future probably found themselves in a room with a Facebook executive.| James Ball / Columbia Journalism Review: |
| Dan Rys / Billboard: |
Profile of Audiomack, which started as a mixtape hosting site and now has a popular free music streaming service with 1.5M users, up from 400K a year ago — “We're not intent on becoming Spotify. We're not trying to become Apple Music," says co-founder and CMO Dave Ponte.| O'Ryan Johnson / CRN: |
AppRiver, a Florida-based cybersecurity company that focuses on email and web protection, agrees to be acquired by email security firm Zix Corporation for $275M — Zix hopes to complete the $275 million deal by March 31 and in so doing will boost its channel presence 10- fold as it looks … Sponsor Posts
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