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FTC announces a new task force to monitor competition in “technology-related sectors” and says that it will look into previous mergers — And they're going to look at previous mergers — The Federal Trade Commission will be launching a task force to monitor competition …
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| Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: |
Sources: US Cyber Command disrupted internet access for Russia's Internet Research Agency during the 2018 US midterms — The U.S. military blocked Internet access to an infamous Russian entity seeking to sow discord among Americans during the 2018 midterms, several U.S. officials said …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers find that weaknesses in Supermicro hardware would let an attacker leave a persistent and hidden backdoor on IBM's cloud “bare-metal” servers — Other providers of bare-metal cloud computing might also be vulnerable to BMC hack. — More than five years …
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| Gus Garcia-Roberts / USA Today: |
Twitter has permanently suspended Jacob Wohl for creating and operating fake accounts, after he shared plans to make deceptive accounts before the 2020 election — Twitter announced that it is permanently suspending Jacob Wohl, a 21-year-old Internet hoaxer and supporter of President Donald Trump …
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| Sahil Patel / Digiday: |
Sources: Facebook has been telling news publishers that it will only renew about a third of the existing news shows that it has funded for Facebook Watch — Facebook is showing a greater willingness to ax news programming that's not working on Facebook Watch.
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| Manish Singh / VentureBeat: |
Spotify launches in India with support for Hindi, Punjabi, Tamil, and Telugu languages; after free trial, the monthly premium tier starts at 119 rupees or $1.67 — A year after Spotify publicly expressed its intention to launch in India, the music streaming company has finally delivered.
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| Shannon Liao / The Verge: |
HTC's blockchain-focused Exodus 1 phone adds ~20 decentralized blockchain apps, integrates with Opera for crypto micropayments, will be sold for $699 in March — Now you can buy the HTC blockchain phone with regular cash — HTC's blockchain phone is getting several new apps today …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Google says its AI-powered grammar checker, announced last July, will now be available on Google Docs for all G Suite users — The power of machine translation to help you improve your writing at work — Google today announced that its artificial intelligence-powered grammar checker …
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| Katyanna Quach / The Register: |
IBM apologizes after some US online job application forms asked for the ethnicity of applicants and used racial slurs, says the questions have been removed — Tech giants under fire? Hold my beer, says Big Blue as it spins up race slur recruitment websites
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FTC settles with supplement maker in first case involving allegedly fake paid Amazon reviews to gain a five-star rating, will suspend most of $12.8M judgment — Commission also alleges weight-loss supplement claims were deceptive — The Federal Trade Commission today announced …
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Tweets: @mblumenthal, @pmkoom, @lindagrahovec, @ftc, @ben_hebert, and @eliotwb
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook policy doc shows it wants up to a 30% cut of Fan Subscriptions, vs Patreon's 5%, and to reserve right to offer free trials with no creator compensation — Facebook will drive a hard bargain with influencers and artists judging by the terms of service for the social network's Patreon …
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The Verge. Tweets: @dami_lee, @joshconstine, @joshconstine, @alexisohanian, @joshconstine, and @joshconstine
| Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
Report: Microsoft and VMware are working on software to ease porting apps built on VMware's virtualization tech to Azure as part of a broader partnership — One of the biggest obstacles to the growth of cloud computing is inertia, as companies that spent tens of millions of dollars …
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| Katie Roof / Wall Street Journal: |
Documents show that Peter Thiel's Founders Fund has returns that are at least 3X better than the industry average, despite significant turnover in leadership — Silicon Valley investment firm co-founded by Peter Thiel, looks to rebuild team with a high-profile hire
Tweets: @katie_roof, @jasonlk, and @katie_roof
| Kate Rooney / CNBC: |
SoFi says it will launch cryptocurrency trading in partnership with Coinbase in Q2 and also has plans for zero-fee SoFi-branded ETFs and a credit card in 2019 — - The online lending start-up will launch cryptocurrency trading in the second quarter of this year.
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CoinDesk, SiliconANGLE, Cointelegraph, Crowdfund Insider, and The Block
| The Guardian: |
UK far-right activist Tommy Robinson has been permanently banned from Facebook and Instagram for repeatedly breaking policies on hate speech — Far-right founder of English Defence League repeatedly breached hate speech rules — Tommy Robinson, the far-right founder of the English Defence League …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple has been testing a sleep tracking feature for Apple Watch for several months in California, and could add it to the Watch by 2020 — - Company holding studies at headquarters to track sleep habits — Function would compete with wearables from Fitbit and Withings
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Tweets: @ctxppc, @dickeysingh, @yuusharo, @bschorr, @hankvanzile, @tomwarren, @adampasick, and @stroughtonsmith
| Hadas Gold / CNN: |
DC appeals court rejects DOJ's bid to overturn the ruling that cleared the way for AT&T's acquisition of Time Warner; DOJ says it will not seek further review — London (CNN Business)An appeals court has rejected the Justice Department's bid to overturn a ruling that cleared the way for AT&T's acquisition of Time Warner.
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Tweets: @notaaroncraig, @amy_siskind, @cnnbrk, @kadhimshubber, @reckless, and @karlbode
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Volkswagen is planning to invest around $1.7B in Ford's Argo self-driving subsidiary, making it the nucleus of a joint venture — Volkswagen is planning to invest around $1.7 billion in a self-driving car venture with Ford's subsidiary Argo as auto makers seek to share the huge costs of developing self-driving cars.
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Forbes, CNET, Investor's Business Daily, The Verge, Engadget, and Electrek. Tweets: @timkhiggins
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