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March 11, 2019, 3:10 AM

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Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Interview with Sen. Warren on her plan to break up big tech, including Apple, which she says shouldn't both run the App Store and distribute its own apps in it  —  Under Warren's plan, Amazon would not be able to sell Amazon Basics products on the Amazon retail store, Google would not be able …
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Facebook sues two Ukrainian developers for enticing 60K+ users to install browser extensions that scraped personal info and injected ads into their News Feeds  —  Facebook has sued two Ukrainian men for allegedly using quiz apps to scrape Facebook users' private data and inject advertisements into their News Feeds.
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Appen, a crowdsourced data annotation startup, is acquiring rival Figure Eight for $175M in cash upfront and up to $125M more based on this year's performance  —  Appen just announced that it's acquiring Figure Eight in an all-cash deal that sees Appen paying $175 million upfront …
Dennis Schaal / Skift:
Source: Airbnb is paying a little more than $400M for HotelTonight, with about half in cash and half in stock  —  So how much is Airbnb shelling out to acquire HotelTonight?  The deal price was a little more than $400 million, with about half in cash and half in stock …
NBC News:
Researchers who claim to have discovered the Citrix breach say Iran-linked hackers stole at least 6TB of data, may have first gained access 10 years ago  —  The hackers are believed to have penetrated the software giant Citrix years ago and have remained inside the company's computer network ever since.
Chris Ip / Engadget:
How Foursquare, which tracks the location of millions via their smartphones and has 100K+ clients including Snapchat and Uber, makes sure its data isn't misused  —  It seems counter-intuitive that, in the thick of a backlash against Big Tech's data privacy abuses, Dennis Crowley …
Dennis Crowley / Foursquare Intersections:
Manish Singh / VentureBeat:
Google launches Bolo, an Android app for school children in India to improve reading and vocabulary skills in Hindi and English, using speech recognition  —  Google, which already dominates India's smartphone, search, and online video market, today launched a learning app for primary school children …
Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:
Tesla is dealing with the failure to achieve full self-driving by shifting goalposts, as it continues using its customers as unpaid safety drivers for its tech  —  Tesla just shifted the goalposts for “full self-driving” technology.  —  An overhaul to Tesla's Autopilot webpage might represent …

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