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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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| John Paczkowski / BuzzFeed: |
Sources say Apple plans to hold a special “services focused” event on March 25 at the Steve Jobs Theater on its Apple Park campus — The company is expected to show off a long-rumored news subscription service. — Reporting From San Francisco, CA
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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.
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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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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Amazon's acquisition of eero is met with concerns over data privacy and disappointment that eero will integrate with the tech giant's 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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| 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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| 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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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Twilio announces Q4 revenue of $204.3M, up 77% YoY and beating analyst estimates, ends quarter with 64,286 active customer accounts — The cloud communications platform posted strong results and upped its outlook with the addition of SendGrid. — Twilio's fourth quarter sales were up 77 percent … | Williams Pelegrin / Android Authority: |
Huawei's Watch GT, with 1.39" circular AMOLED display, GPS, heart rate monitor, and running LiteOS, is available via Amazon in the US for $199.99 — It's been a few months since Huawei announced the Watch GT, but folks in the U.S. can now pick up the company's latest smartwatch for a penny under two Benjamins.
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| Palko Karasz / New York Times: |
The UK's top doctors warn families about social media and screen use, advising screen-free meal times and more, joining a growing chorus advising caution — LONDON — With even Silicon Valley worrying about the effect of technology exposure on young people, Britain's top doctors … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Investigation: dozens of porn and gambling apps found using iOS Enterprise Certificates to get to users outside the App Store, 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.| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Twitter confirms that users are experiencing issues with notifications, likes, and retweets, with some users reporting fluctuating numbers of likes and retweets — If you have been experiencing issues with the Like or Retweet count on Twitter and are desperately seeking validation, here it is: yes, it's Twitter, not you (probably).Sponsor Posts
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