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| J. David Goodman / New York Times: |
Amazon says it has canceled plans to build HQ2 in New York City, focusing instead on Northern Virginia and Nashville, following backlash — Amazon on Thursday canceled its plans to build an expansive corporate campus in New York City after facing an unexpectedly fierce backlash from some lawmakers …
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| Natt Garun / The Verge: |
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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Sources: the FTC and Facebook are negotiating a record multi-billion dollar fine to settle the agency's investigation into the company's privacy practices — The Federal Trade Commission and Facebook are negotiating over a multi-billion dollar fine that would settle the agency's investigation …
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CNN, Axios, Engadget, CNET, Recode, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, Business Insider, TechCrunch, The Verge, CNBC, Boing Boing, Investor's Business Daily, The Daily Beast, and Gizmodo Australia
Tweets: @karaswisher, @tonyromm, @privacypen, @ianclucas, @hshaban, @mattdrange, @can, @tonyromm, and @johnbattelle
| James Vincent / The Verge: |
OpenAI says it won't release the dataset behind GPT-2, its new text generator algorithm that can write, translate, and summarize text, due to fears of misuse — OpenAI's researchers knew they were on to something when their language modeling program wrote a convincing essay on a topic they disagreed with.
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| Hugh Son / CNBC: |
JP Morgan has created JPM Coin, a digital token tied to the US dollar that will be used to instantly settle transactions; trials set to start in a few months — - Engineers at the lender have created the “JPM Coin,” a digital token that will be used to instantly settle transactions between clients of its wholesale payments business.
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| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Apple says it will resume selling banned iPhone 7 and 8 models in Germany using only chips from Qualcomm, after it had “no choice” but to stop using Intel chips — (Reuters) - Apple Inc said Thursday that it will resume selling older iPhone models in its stores in Germany …
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The Verge, Wall Street Journal, MacRumors, FOSS Patents, AppleInsider, Macworld, PYMNTS.com, Stock Market News …, Neowin, MSPoweruser, SlashGear, TechSpot, Digital Trends, Thurrott, WinBuzzer, CNET, Fortune, TechCrunch, iPhone Hacks, Engadget, and Inquirer
Tweets: @fosspatents, @bergmayer, and @fosspatents
| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Sources: Facebook keeps a “lookout” list of ex-employees and users who made threats against the company, and sometimes uses its products to track their location — - Facebook maintains a list of individuals that its security guards must “be on lookout” for that is comprised …
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The Verge, Engadget, CNET, and MSPoweruser
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
DigitalOcean launches a managed database service; only supports PostgreSQL for now, will add support for MySQL and Redis later this year — DigitalOcean started as an affordable but basic virtual private server offering with a pleasant user interface. Over the last few years …
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| TechCrunch: |
Alibaba's Ant Financial buys London-based payments company WorldFirst in a deal that sources say is valued at around $700M — Ant Financial, the financial services giant affiliated with Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, has made its first big move into Europe.
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Bloomberg, South China Morning Post, Bloomberg, PaymentsSource, PYMNTS.com, PE Hub Blog, and TechNode
Tweets: @jonrussell, @luluyilun, @jonrussell, and @jonrussell
| Vindu Goel / New York Times: |
Critics say India's proposed internet rules, which could let Indian officials compel companies to remove posts, violate constitutional free speech protections — NEW DELHI — India's government has proposed giving itself vast new powers to suppress internet content, igniting a heated battle …
Tweets: @histoftech, @keithbradsher, and @matthewstoller
| The Daily Beast: |
Sources: two teams of federal officials assembled to secure election infrastructure and fight foreign influence efforts are being dramatically downsized — 'It's very curious why the leadership has not committed resources to prepare for the 2020 election,' one Homeland Security official tells The Daily Beast.| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Facebook says it is exploring ways to address anti-vaccine misinformation including reducing or removing it from recommendations and demotion in search results — Facebook Inc., under pressure to reduce harmful, misleading and fake content, said it is exploring removing anti-vaccine information …
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The Verge, The Daily Beast, and Business Insider
Tweets: @lachlan, @lachlan, @alex, @melissaryan, and @walldo
| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
JibJab, one of the first companies that let people insert selfies into videos, GIFs and e-cards, has been acquired by Catapult Capital for an undisclosed sum — JibJab, one of the first companies that let people insert selfies into videos, gifs, and e-cards, has been acquired by Catapult Capital.| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Nvidia Q4: revenue of $2.21B, down 24% YoY, vs. $2.20B est., gaming revenue of $954M, vs. $1.21B est., and net income of $567M; stock up 6%+ after hours — - The company beat expectations on the top and bottom lines after providing updated guidance last month.
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ZDNet, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, NVIDIA Newsroom, and Investor's Business Daily
| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Canalys: 32% of smartphone shipments in Europe in 2018 were from Chinese vendors; Huawei shipped 13.3M units in Q4 2018, up 55.7% YoY, Xiaomi was up 62% — US antipathy to Chinese brands hasn't crossed the Atlantic — The latest figures from market analysts Canalys have quantified a trend … | Tim Peterson / Digiday: |
Sources: Snap is offering $40K to $50K per episode for original series that premiere on Snapchat, wants 10-12 episodes per series, each up to seven minutes long — DIGIDAY+ MEMBER ARTICLE — Snap is willing to pay for original shows, and it's enough to pique entertainment executives' interest … | 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 …
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AppleInsider, Ars Technica, KnowTechie, PYMNTS.com, Mashable, ExtremeTech, SlashGear, Gizmodo, Patently Apple, iPhone in Canada Blog, CNET, and Neowin
Tweets: @wongmjane and @stephennellis
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Pinpoint, which is building a data analytics platform for software engineering, raises $13.5M Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners — For those without the technical know-how, software development — which more often than not involves a tangled web of commits, reviews, bug testing …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
DriveNets, which builds cloud-based network management tools for carriers, emerges from stealth, raises $110M, source says at a valuation between $300M to $500M — Software is eating the world, and today a startup that's taking this maxim to the world of telecoms has raised a big round of funding as it comes out of stealth.
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FinSMEs, VentureBeat, DriveNets, CTech - 24/7, and Reuters
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amazon launches Amazon Moments, a rewards program that lets developers give users physical gifts for specific actions, in 100 countries — App and web developers are always trying to figure out better ways of keeping their users engaged on their platforms for longer.| Nellie Bowles / New York Times: |
Profile of Atlassian founders Scott Farquhar and Mike Cannon-Brookes, Australia's first startup-to-IPO tech billionaires, whose company is now worth $20B — SYDNEY, Australia — Atlassian is a very boring software company. It develops products for software engineers and project managers …
Tweets: @nytimes and @tonytassell
| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Figma, maker of cloud-based collaborative interface design tools, raises $40M Series C, bringing the total raised to $82.9M at a post-money valuation of $440M — With more industries and organizations recognizing design as a pillar of business, a battle is brewing among makers of design tools.
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Sequoia Capital, Figma Blog, and Index Ventures
Tweets: @figmadesign, @rrhoover, and @matthuang
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