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Sources: Apple's plan for a paid news service later this year runs into resistance from major publishers as Apple wants 50% of the revenue and not to share data — Apple plans to keep about 50% of subscription revenue from ‘Netflix for news’ service, likely won't share customer data with publishers
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| Max Willens / Digiday: |
TechCrunch launches a $15/month membership tier, Extra Crunch, offering exclusive content and perks like access to a community of founders and vertical experts — TechCrunch has spent nearly 15 years covering the technology and startup worlds. This week it will try to forge a new kind of relationship with those communities.
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Amazon's acquisition of eero is met with concerns over data privacy and that the independent company was absorbed by a tech giant with its own ecosystem — Consternation, concern, and exhaustion — Amazon sure does love surprises. The original Echo came as a bolt out of the blue …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Investigation: dozens of porn and gambling apps found using iOS Enterprise Certificates to get to users outside the App Store, likely violating Apple's terms — Facebook and Google were far from the only developers openly abusing Apple's Enterprise Certificate program meant for companies offering employee-only apps.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Lyft founders are preparing to take near-majority voting control when it goes public later this year, despite owning a combined stake of less than 10% — John Zimmer and Logan Green are set to join the growing club of tech entrepreneurs who stay in the driver's seat when their companies go public| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Google to “refocus” Android Things from a public developer platform to a “platform for OEM partners”, limiting support for some NXP, Qualcomm, MediaTek hardware — When Google announced Android Things at its 2015 I/O developer conference, it pitched it as a versatile …
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| Paul Thurrott / Thurrott: |
EA says Apex Legends had 10M sign ups in the first three days and 25M gamers in the first week, milestones that took Fortnite about 2 weeks and 3 months to hit — We'll see if it has staying power, but EA's new game Apex Legends has quickly rocketed past market leader Fortnite, with over 25 million sign-ups in just one week.
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| Recode: |
Q&A with Roger McNamee, former mentor to Mark Zuckerberg, and author of Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe, on Silicon Valley's abuse of user trust — McNamee was an adviser to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and helped recruit Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, but now he's speaking out against the social giant.
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| Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: |
South Korea's Supreme Court upholds Korean FTC's antitrust charges, ordering Qualcomm to pay $180M+ — As Qualcomm fights the Federal Trade Commission on antitrust charges in the US, it has just lost a case against another FTC: the Fair Trade Commission in Korea.
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| Alan Levin / Bloomberg: |
US government orders all civilian drones to add external markings to more easily identify the owner, starting from February 23 — - U.S. government files new regulation on drone requirements — Action follows recent proposal to expand remote flights| Will Knight / MIT Technology Review: |
Trump signs American AI Initiative executive order that will prioritize federal funding for AI, create resources for AI researchers, establish standards, more — Artificial intelligence may have been invented in the United States, but other nations, including China, Canada, and France …
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Reddit's latest user stats, showing 330M MAUs, gives an average revenue per user of approximately $0.30, far lower than the other major social networks — - With 330 million monthly active users and revenue of about $100 million, according to sources, the company is generating an estimated $0.30 per user.
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Research details an AI system that diagnosed common medical conditions in childhood with high accuracy after analyzing records of nearly 600K Chinese patients — Each year, millions of Americans walk out of a doctor's office with a misdiagnosis. Physicians try to be systematic …
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| Ian Allison / CoinDesk: |
Chainalysis, a cryptocurrency transaction analysis startup, raises $30M Series B led by Accel and will open an office in London — Chainalysis, the cryptocurrency transaction analysis startup, has raised $30 million in Series B funding. — The firm will use some of the funding to open …
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| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Mode, a collaborative analytics platform focused on empowering data scientists, raises $23M Series C, says 600 orgs now use it, including Twitch, Lyft, Shopify — Mode, a five-year-old collaborative analytics platform based in San Francisco, has raised $23 million in Series C funding led by Valor Equity Partners.
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| Neil Cybart / Above Avalon: |
As search interest in AirPods grew 500% YoY during the 2018 holiday season, they are becoming a cultural phenomenon with memes, videos, and tweets — Apple has a hit on its hands, or maybe we should say in its ears. AirPods have become the second best-selling Apple product out of the gate of all time.
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Tweets: @aboveavalon, @kyleorl, and @vladsavov
| Reuters: |
Sources: for the past six months India's antitrust watchdog has probed claims that Google abused Android, similar to the case that led to a major fine in the EU — NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's antitrust commission is looking into accusations that Alphabet Inc's unit Google abuses …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
IBM takes its Watson-branded AI services beyond its own cloud platform and now lets enterprises run them on their own data centers — IBM today announced that it is freeing its Watson-branded AI services like the Watson Assistant for building conversational interfaces and Watson OpenScale …
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