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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Amazon announces Project Zero, an invite-only program to let brands autonomously flag and remove counterfeit listings of their products from Amazon — Amazon wants to cut down on fake listings — Amazon announced a new initiative today called Project Zero, a new effort that the online retailer …
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Tweets: @chriswelch, @stokel, and @danielpmcdermot
| Roland Li / San Francisco Chronicle: |
In a letter to a CA agency, Apple confirms that 190 employees, including 124 engineers, will be laid off from its self-driving car division on April 16 — Apple will lay off 190 employees in Santa Clara and Sunnyvale in its self-driving car division, the company said.
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Tweets: @sallyshin, @neilcybart, @sfchronicle, @karlhodge, and @chrissyfarr
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon launches Amazon Day, a new option that lets Prime members pick a day of the week for delivery — Amazon this morning launched a new delivery option for Prime members that will allow them to control when their orders arrive, Amazon Day. The option lets shoppers pick a day of the week to take delivery of their recent orders.
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| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
Strategy Analytics: Apple shipped 22.5M Apple Watch units in 2018, accounting for about half of global smartwatch shipments — Fresh statistics from research firm Strategy Analytics show Apple retained its position as the clear leader in the smartwatch sector, with Apple Watch capturing 51 percent …
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| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
Equipment from Cellebrite, popular with law enforcement for hacking into iOS/Android devices, is selling for $100-$1,000 on eBay; new units usually cost $6,000 — When eBay merchant Mr. Balaj was looking through a pile of hi-fi junk at an auction in the U.K., he came across an odd-looking device.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
FTC settles with Musical.ly, now TikTok, for $5.7M, over the app's violation of US child privacy laws; TikTok's app updates with a new UX for users under 13 — A significant FTC ruling issued today will see video app TikTok fined $5.7 million for violating U.S. children's privacy laws …
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| Alex Feerst / OneZero: |
Interviews with 15 content moderators from YouTube, Facebook, and other platforms on their day-to-day, how the job has affected them personally, and more — Tech platform trust and safety employees are charged with policing the impossible. They open up to Medium's head of trust and safety.| Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
Microsoft unveils Azure Sentinel, a new cloud service that allows customers to view and respond to security alerts and threats across corporate networks — Ahead of next week's big RSA security conference, Microsoft plans to introduce a new cloud service Thursday that will help customers manage … | Chris Velazco / Engadget: |
Motorola confirms it is working on a foldable smartphone; it will likely be a revival of the Razr brand that will launch this summer — By now, it's not much of a secret that Motorola is working on a folding phone of its own: A patent for such a device surfaced late last year …
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Tweets: @danawollman and @chrisvelazco
| Fred Imbert / CNBC: |
Report: both Uber and Lyft plan to give some of their most-active or longest-serving drivers a cash award with an option to put it toward stock in their IPOs — - Uber's plan would give some drivers either a cash bonus or the option to use that money to buy shares at the IPO price, the report says.| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Dow Jones' watchlist of 2.4M high-risk individuals, including current and former politicians, criminals, and terrorists, was exposed on an unsecured AWS server — A watchlist of risky individuals and corporate entities owned by Dow Jones has been exposed, after a company with access …
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Security Discovery, IT PRO, CNET, Engadget, DataBreaches.net, and SiliconANGLE. Tweets: @techcrunch
| The Seattle Times: |
Though Seattle repealed its “head tax”, Amazon says it won't use the 722K sq. ft. in Rainier Square tower it had leased, which would have housed up to 5K staff — The lease was one of the biggest in Seattle history — enough space to hold at least 3,500 employees and perhaps up to 5,000.
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| Bloomberg: |
Chinese used-car trading platform Chehaoduo Group is raising $1.5B from SoftBank Vision Fund at a $9B+ valuation — - The investment valued Chehaoduo Group at over $9 billion — The startup intends to spend the money on technology and AI — SoftBank Vision Fund is investing $1.5 billion …
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
RightScale 2019 State of the Cloud survey of enterprises and SMBs: Azure adoption grew from 45% to 52%, reaching 85% of AWS adoption, up from 70% last year — The RightScale 2019 State of the Cloud Report from Flexera highlights how enterprises are spending more on cloud computing …
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Tweets: @mdymondyyz, @lawrencehecht, @lawrencehecht, and @lawrencehecht
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Mozilla releases Common Voice, an open source collection of transcribed voice data comprising 1,400+ hours of samples from 42K contributors in 18 languages — Mozilla wants to make it easier for startups, researchers, and hobbyists to build voice-enabled apps, services, and devices.
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| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Figure, which uses blockchain tech to provide home equity loans, raises $65M; founded over a year ago by ex-SoFi CEO Mike Cagney, Figure has raised $120M total — Figure, a 13-month-old, San Francisco-based company that says it uses blockchain technology to provide home equity loans online …
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CoinDesk, PR Newswire, Barron's Online, PYMNTS.com, SiliconANGLE, The Block, Cointelegraph, Bloomberg, FinSMEs, and PE Hub Blog. Tweets: @ekp
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Coinhive, an in-browser Monero miner known for cryptojacking, says it will shut down on March 8, citing the crypto crash and a recent Monero hard fork — Coinhive wanted to be an alternative to classic banner ads but it became malware after constant abuse.| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Fortnite dance emote lawsuits set a precedent for media companies to abuse copyright law further and turn shared culture of dance moves into private property — Fortnite is one of the most popular and profitable video games in history, and its publisher Epic is copying creative work … | Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Zūm, which enables parents to schedule rides for their kids from fully vetted drivers, raises $40M Series C led by BMW i Ventures — Ride-sharing isn't just for transporting teenagers and adults anymore. Zūm, a ridesharing startup for kids, just raised a $40 million Series C round led …
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PR Newswire and FinSMEs
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
ClassDojo, a messaging app for teachers and parents to communicate, raises $35M Series C co-led by GSV and SignalFire, source says at a ~$400M valuation — Messaging apps have become the de facto way that many people today keep in regular contact with each other, and that trend has also found its way into the classroom.| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
BlackBerry sues Twitter for allegedly infringing six messaging patents; BlackBerry sued Facebook and Snap in 2018, also alleging messaging patent infringement — (Reuters) - BlackBerry Ltd on Wednesday filed a patent infringement lawsuit accusing Twitter Inc of illegally using technology … Sponsor Posts
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