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Germany's antitrust watchdog orders Facebook to stop combining WhatsApp and Instagram data without consent in Germany; Facebook says it will appeal decision — Germany's competition authority has told Facebook it can only continue gathering so much data about users from beyond its app and website if it gets individuals' consent.
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Twitter Q4 beats with revenue of $909M, up 24% YoY, a net income of $244M, and ad revenue up 23% YoY to $791M, but misses on MAUs with 321M; stock down 9%+ — After strong results from Facebook and Snap this quarter, all eyes were on Twitter to see if the other big, publicly listed social network could deliver a hat trick of growth.
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| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Leaked documents show around 250 bounty hunters and related businesses had access to AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint customer location data for at least five years — In January, Motherboard revealed that AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint were selling their customers' real-time location data …
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Sources: Apple has moved its modem engineering unit to its in-house hardware technology group led by Johny Srouji, Apple's SVP of hardware technologies — Apple Inc has moved its modem chip engineering effort into its in-house hardware technology group from its supply chain unit …
| Victoria Song / Gizmodo: |
Microsoft introduces background blur feature to Skype, which uses AI to detect the user's hair, hands, and arms, and blur distracting objects in the background — Slobs of the world, don't work too hard KonMari-ing your apartment or office ahead of your next important Skype call.
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
For Spotify to succeed as a podcast app, it needs to clearly separate podcasts from music, help users discover podcasts better, and allow creators to monetize — Some suggestions for improvement — Spotify announced today that the company plans to spend up to $500 million on podcast-related acquisitions.| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Starting Feb. 28, Facebook's “Why am I seeing this?” button on ads will show when a user's info was uploaded for ad targeting and if it was by a brand or agency — Facebook's crack down on non-consensual ad targeting last year will finally produce results.
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| Guise Bule / Secjuice.com: |
Atrient, a vendor of player reward kiosks for casinos, allegedly ignored serious security flaws, and a researcher who uncovered flaws was assaulted by its COO — Following a serious vulnerability disclosure affecting casinos globally, an executive of casino technology vendor Atrient … | Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Microsoft joins Google, Facebook, and Arm as a member of the OpenChain Project, which aims to standardize open-source software licensing — Microsoft Corp. wants to support more standardization of open-source software licensing, so today it's putting its weight behind the OpenChain Project as its latest platinum member.
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| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Cluno, which lets users lease a car for an all-inclusive monthly fee, raises $28M Series B to invest in its app and develop an API for car dealers — Cluno, the Munich startup providing what it calls a “car subscription” service, has raised $28 million in Series B funding.| Jeff Buchanan / Xconomy: |
Seattle-based KenSci, which helps hospitals predict mortality risk using AI, raises $22M Series B led by Polaris Partners — Transitioning an elderly patient to palliative care can be a difficult decision for caregivers, but it's one that families and clinicians across the globe make every day.
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| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Following a lawsuit, Instacart CEO apologizes for changes that meant some tips were used to boost base pay, says affected workers will get retroactive pay — On the heels of a recently-filed class action lawsuit over wages and tips, as well as drivers and shoppers speaking …
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| New York Times: |
Facebook's revenue from China-based advertisers reached an estimated $5B in 2018, or about 10% of its total sales, helped by its local advertising resellers — SHENZHEN — Facebook's apps and websites have been blocked in China for years. The company has no office in the country that supports its social networking services.
Tweets: @dorianelau and @paulmozur
| Ernesto Falcon / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
Study comparing 30 European nations on net neutrality enforcement finds that zero rating business practices by wireless carriers increases cost of wireless data — When an ISP decides to exempt certain applications or services from cutting into a user's data cap, that's zero rating.
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| Biz Carson / Forbes: |
Uber exec Jason Droege and CEO Dara Khosrowshahi talk about Uber Eats, which research shows has grown from 3% of US food delivery market in 2016 to 24% in 2018 — hen early investors were pitched on Uber's original plan for a car-service app in 2008, it wasn't until the second-to-last slide … Thanks:@lauramandaro
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Report: some iPhone apps use Glassbox's analytics SDK to record in-app user interactions without permission, and recordings sometimes don't mask sensitive data — And there's no way a user would know — Many major companies, like Air Canada, Hollister and Expedia, are recording every tap and swipe you make on their iPhone apps.
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| Austin Carr / Bloomberg: |
Interviews with 49 people illuminate Wisconsin's disastrous deal with Foxconn, championed by Trump, that saw $4.5B in promised incentives with little return — “This is the Eighth Wonder of the World.” — So declared President Donald Trump onstage last June at a press event at Foxconn's … | The Keyword: |
Google experiment finds 45% traffic decline to news sites with search results without snippets, in a moderate version of what is proposed in EU's Article 11 — In the next few days, European legislators meet to decide on a final text of the European Copyright Directive.
| Andrew Gruttadaro / The Ringer: |
Interview with MoviePass CEO Mitch Lowe and EVP Khalid Itum about what went wrong, as they embark on an apology tour to win back distributors and customers — It was the greatest deal—or scam, depending on whom you ask—in movie history. And then it fell apart.| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Google says Gmail is now blocking an extra 100M spam messages each day by using TensorFlow-trained machine learning models — Google is using its machine learning platform, TensorFlow, to eke out additional gains — Google has recruited its in-house machine learning framework, TensorFlow …
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