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| John Paczkowski / BuzzFeed: |
Sources: Apple plans to hold a special services focused event on March 25 at its Apple Park campus to announce a subscription news service — The company is expected to show off a long-rumored news subscription service. — Reporting From San Francisco, CA
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Tweets: @johnpaczkowski, @dcseifert, @lucasmtny, @johnpaczkowski, @neilcybart, and @neilcybart
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple's upcoming paid news service runs into resistance from major publishers as Apple seeks about a 50% cut and likely won't share subscriber 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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Stratechery, Ad Age, The Verge, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Ars Technica, SiliconANGLE, Android Authority, CNBC, Thurrott, Silicon Valley Business …, Daring Fireball, TechSpot, New York Times, Forbes, Gizmodo, Silicon Republic, Neowin, PYMNTS.com, Inquirer, The Hill, Cult of Mac, Engadget, Business Insider, SlashGear, CNET, AppleInsider, VentureBeat, iPhone Hacks, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Mac, Axios, MacRumors, and 512 Pixels
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Amazon now lets users create and submit custom Alexa skills for certification and publication in the US Skills Store — Anyone can create a trivia game and share it on the Alexa store — Amazon is now letting anyone create and publish Alexa skills into the Alexa skills store.
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| Michael Futter / Variety: |
Activision Blizzard announces record $1.8B net income in 2018, but says it is laying off 8%, or ~800 of its staff, amid internal changes and unmet expectations — UPDATED: Activision Blizzard is laying off approximately 775 people — 8% of its 9,600-person staff — as it refocuses its efforts …
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| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Amazon and Google are asking smart gadget makers to continuously send status updates to Echo and Home devices, even if customers aren't interacting with devices — As Amazon.com Inc. and Google work to place their smart speakers at the center of the internet-connected home … | The Guardian: |
Facebook criticized by health experts for allowing the rise of closed groups rife with anti-vaccination misinformation, some with 150,000+ members — Experts are calling on company to counter closed groups where members can post misinformation without challenge
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| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Jack Dorsey and Kara Swisher's live Twitter interview could have been a great conversation, but Twitter's live chat limitations made it hard to follow — Kara Swisher's live-tweeted interview with Jack Dorsey highlighted some of Twitter's product issues. — Twitter wants to be the place …
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Tweets: @karaswisher, @jack, @digiphile, @klasfeldreports, @voxdotcom, @kurtwagner8, @recode, and @waltmossberg
| 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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| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
Democratic lawmakers step up scrutiny of T-Mobile-Sprint merger, which they say reduces competition, as two days of Congressional hearings begin — WASHINGTON — When T-Mobile announced its intention to buy Sprint last April, the prospects for the $26 billion deal winning regulatory approval appeared strong.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Mozilla and Ubisoft are partnering to develop Clever-Commit, an AI-powered coding assistant to find potential bugs; Mozilla to deploy it for Firefox development — Mozilla and Ubisoft today announced a partnership to develop Clever-Commit, an AI coding assistant.
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Future Releases, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, Hollywood Reporter, Gamasutra, and Variety
| FinSMEs: |
InfluxData, the San Francisco-based creator of the time series database InfluxDB, raises $60M Series D led by Norwest Venture Partners — InfluxData, a San Francisco, CA-based creator of the time series database InfluxDB, raised $60m in Series D funding. — The round was led …
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SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, and PE Hub Blog
| Sean Captain / Fast Company: |
DoorDash says 15% of customers leave no tip, the next 45% contribute less than half of “guaranteed amount”, and 80% of contractors are happy with the pay system — In its ideal world, food-delivery service DoorDash would pay its contractors almost nothing-relying on customer tips to cover most of the fee quoted for a job.
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TechCrunch. Tweets: @robaeprice, @goldyha, @workingwa, @alexismichelle, @edzitron, and @oliviasolon
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Amber Authenticate is a new tool built on Ethereum that generates hashes of a video and records them on a public blockchain to protect it from deepfakes — VIDEO HAS BECOME an increasingly crucial tool for law enforcement, whether it comes from security cameras, police-worn body cameras, a bystander's smartphone, or another source.
Tweets: @laurengoode
| NPD Group: |
NPD: US smartwatch unit sales rose 61% YoY for the 12 months ending November 2018, as 16% of US adults now own a smartwatch, up 12% from December 2017 — U.S. smartwatch sales experienced strong growth in the 12 months ending November 2018 compared to the same timeframe a year prior …
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The Verge, Computerworld, 9to5Mac, Engadget, MacRumors, Patently Apple, AppleInsider, Cult of Mac, Android Authority, and TechCrunch
| Phil LeBeau / CNBC: |
San Diego-based autonomous trucking startup TuSimple raises $95M Series D, led by Sina Corp. and Composite Capital, at a $1B valuation — - It's preparing to expand its testing of self-driving semis on highways in Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. — Autonomous trucking company TuSimple …
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Reuters and TechCrunch
| Chris Williams / The Register: |
Hacker claims to have posted ~617M online account details stolen from 16 hacked companies for sale on the dark web; MyHeritage and 500px confirm stolen data — Dubsmash, Armor Games, 500px, Whitepages, ShareThis, and more said to be up for grabs for $$$s in BTC
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CNET, 9to5Mac, Inquirer, Naked Security, Digital Trends, TechRadar.com, Security Affairs, The Independent, and Forbes
Tweets: @theregister, @theregister, @iainthomson, @theregister, @raj_samani, and @joejanecek
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Freelance services marketplace Fiverr is acquiring ClearVoice, a company that helps customers find professionals to write promotional content — Fiverr is acquiring ClearVoice, a company that helps customers like Intuit and Carfax find professionals to write promotional content.
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VentureBeat and PYMNTS.com
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Q&A with the president and COO of mobile gaming company Scopely on its business model; Scopely says it has a $400M run rate and increased revenues 80% in 2018 — Scopely isn't the most well-known mobile game company. But it scored a couple of hits with Looney Tunes: World of Mayhem and Star Trek …
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