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February 14, 2019, 3:30 AM
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple will unveil both its video and news subscription offerings at a March 25 event — - Company also plans to unveil news service at March 25 event — New subscription offerings may boost revenue of key segment — Apple Inc. is planning to unveil video … | Alex Sherman / CNBC: |
Sources: Apple plans an April or May launch date for its video streaming service, but Netflix won't participate and HBO hasn't committed — - Apple is targeting April to debut a new streaming product that will include original content free for Apple device owners and a platform to subscribe to other digital media services.| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
Apple has signed many publishers to its upcoming news service with a 50% revenue split, sources say, but that split likely won't satisfy major newspapers — Magazine publishers are on board with Apple's new subscription news service. Newspapers aren't. — Apple says it wants to help save journalism.
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| Kate Fazzini / CNBC: |
Google says it will spend $13B this year on expanding data centers and offices across the US, adding a new office in Virginia as it doubles its workforce there — - Google doubled capital spending in 2018, but CFO Ruth Porat said that should “moderate” this year.
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| Nikkei: |
Sources say Google plans to unveil its first lower-priced smartphone in 2019, and expect it to be cheaper than the iPhone XR, which starts at $749 — Tech giant seeks to exploit Apple woes to drive hardware expansion — TAIPEI — Google plans to unveil its first lower-priced smartphone … | Sara Salinas / CNBC: |
SEC charges Gene Levoff, Apple's ex-VP of Corporate Law, with insider trading, alleging he traded on earnings info in 2015 and 2016; Levoff was fired in Sept. — - Gene Levoff, senior director of corporate law and corporate secretary until September, “traded on material nonpublic information …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Twitter says it is testing a pop-up menu to view previews of profiles without leaving the timeline in its iOS app — Twitter announced today that it is testing a new way to quickly preview profiles in its iOS app. With this change, you can now get a quick glimpse at another user's profile without having …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
In filing to CA's DMV, Apple says its test drivers disengaged its self driving vehicles' autonomous mode about once per mile, compared to Waymo's ~11,017 miles — - California disengagement report suggests company is lagging — Tech giant has worked on the technology for about three years
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
EU negotiations on Copyright Directive overhaul come to a close, with Article 11 and 13 largely intact; legislation now heads to EU Parliament for approval — The hated Articles 11 and 13 remain intact after final efforts to remove them failed — Last-minute negotiations over the wording …
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Brightcove acquires Ooyala's online video platform business for about $15M, with $6.25M in cash and the rest in Brightcove shares — Brightcove just announced that it's acquiring Ooyala's online video platform business. — The deal brings together two long-lasting players in the online video industry.
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VideoNuze Analysis, Brightcove, Broadcasting & Cable, Variety, and Financial Post. Tweets: @adamjonwilliams
| Reuters: |
Illicit software distributors are using iOS enterprise developer certificates to distribute hacked versions of popular apps like Spotify and Minecraft — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Software pirates have hijacked technology designed by Apple Inc to distribute hacked versions of Spotify … | Niraj Chokshi / New York Times: |
FTC: Americans lost ~$143M to online dating scams in 2018, which was number one in terms of dollar loss when compared to other types of fraud the agency tracks — Love is in the air, but don't let it cloud your judgment — or it might cost you. — Americans looking for love lost …
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| Axios: |
After Khashoggi's murder, Saudi Arabia and SoftBank seem unlikely to lose out on many deals; sources say a $500M Softbank-led investment in Flexport is underway — Let's call it: Neither SoftBank nor Saudi Arabia will face any significant U.S. investment losses over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Instagram says it expects to resolve an issue causing follower number changes for some users by 9am PST Thursday; some reported thousands of followers lost — Instagram confirmed today that an issue has been causing some accounts' follower numbers to change.
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
US DOJ charges former Air Force counter-intel officer Monica Witt with aiding Iranian cyber operations against the US and sanctions two Iranian companies — Prosecutors have brought charges against a former Air Force officer for allegedly spying for Iran, the Justice Department confirmed Wednesday.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple has informed members of its Developer Program that they must enable two-factor authentication on their accounts by Feb. 27 — Apple today has informed members of its Developer Program that they must enable two-factor authentication on their account by the end of this month.| Zen Soo / South China Morning Post: |
Ant Financial's Alipay digital wallet is now accepted at 3,000 Walgreens drugstores in the US, expects to cover 7,000 stores by April — - Chinese payments firms like Alipay and WeChat Pay are eyeing international expansion to capture a share of the lucrative growth in Chinese outbound tourism| Clive Thompson / New York Times: |
A detailed history of the important but under-recognized roles women have played in computer coding, from Ada Lovelace through to today — Computer programming once had much better gender balance than it does today. What went wrong? — As a teenager in Maryland in the 1950s … | Kate Fazzini / CNBC: |
After the Equifax breach, experts are puzzled about why data from 143M Americans didn't end up for sale online; one theory suggests a nation-state is using it — - Equifax's data breach on Sept. 7, 2017, stunned markets and American consumers, but where the data of those 143 million people disappeared to has remained a mystery.
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Gizmodo and Boing Boing
Tweets: @campuscodi, @robertmaguire_, @jrreed, @christinayiotis, @michael_calia, and @campuscodi
| 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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Amazon Developer Services, Engadget, Pocket-lint, 9to5Toys, Thurrott, Digital Trends, ZDNet, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Voicebot, ZDNet, and CNET
Tweets: @nickschwab, @marshallk, and @tomwarren
| Dan Monk / WCPO: |
Grocery store chain Kroger is launching Kroger Pay, a QR-based mobile payments service, in Columbus, OH, and Colorado today, nationwide later this year — Kroger Pay to roll out nationally this year — The Kroger Co. debuted a new mobile payment option Wednesday that is launching in Columbus … | Android Developers Blog: |
Google says rejected app submissions to Google Play rose in 2018 by 55%+ YoY, as tighter policies and more extensive automated protections rolled out — Posted by Andrew Ahn, Product Manager, Google Play — Google Play is committed to providing a secure and safe platform for billions …
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| Erin Griffith / New York Times: |
CB Insights identifies 50 startups that might become unicorns, many of them niche software startups focused on farming, banking, and life sciences — Uber and Airbnb were part of an early generation of tech start-ups that quickly reached $1 billion in value. The up-and-coming generation is looking very different.Sponsor Posts
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