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Apple responds to Spotify's complaint, says Spotify seeks to keep all the benefits of the App Store “without making any contributions to that marketplace” — We believe that technology achieves its true potential when we infuse it with human creativity and ingenuity.
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| Facebook: |
Facebook's Chief Product Officer Chris Cox and VP of WhatsApp Chris Daniels are leaving the company — Today Mark Zuckerberg shared the following post with employees. — Hey everyone — I want to share some important updates as we organize our company to build out the privacy-focused social platform …
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Sources: Chris Cox and Chris Daniels left in part over conflicts with Zuckerberg's plan to integrate Facebook's services into a single privacy-focused platform — SAN FRANCISCO — Two of Facebook's top executives — one regarded as the company's No. 3, and the other the head …
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| Sherisse Pham / CNN: |
Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter struggle to halt the spread of the horrific New Zealand shooting video; one of the shooters livestreamed the attack on Facebook — Hong Kong (CNN Business)Facebook, YouTube and Twitter are struggling to halt the spread of horrific footage that appears to show …
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| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Documents, sources, and interviews with senior Facebook employees detail the process and the difficulty of moderating Facebook Live — On Friday, at least 49 people were killed in terror attacks in New Zealand. Documents, sources, and interviews with senior Facebook employees show … | Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic: |
Google Docs grows as a popular secret communication tool for teens as parents and teachers, unaware of its chat feature, assume students are just taking notes — When the kids in Skyler's school want to tell a friend something in class, they don't scrawl a note down on a tiny piece of paper and toss it across the room.
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| Japan Times: |
Former Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles gets suspended jail term for falsifying financial data but is acquitted of bitcoin embezzlement — The high-flying creator of the Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange received a suspended jail sentence of 2½ years after a Japanese court Friday found him guilty on charges of data manipulation.
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| Thomas Ricker / The Verge: |
Facebook says all of its services are now operational, attributes the downtime to a “server configuration change” — Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook all appear to be operating normally — Facebook is reporting all services operational after a prolonged outage that impacted all of the company's most popular apps.
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| Alex Heath / Cheddar: |
Source: Snap plans to announce its gaming platform, which will feature games by outside developers designed for the Snapchat app, at a partner summit on April 4 — Snap Inc. plans to announce its long-rumored gaming platform for developers next month, Cheddar has learned.| Facebook: |
Facebook debuts new AI technology to detect revenge porn shared on Facebook and Instagram and an online resource hub for its victims — When someone's intimate images are shared without their permission it can be devastating. To protect victims, it's long been our policy …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Researchers find unsecured database of Chinese online shopping giant Gearbest exposing 1.5M+ records, including customer data, orders, and payments — Gearbest, a Chinese online shopping giant, has exposed millions of user profiles and shopping orders, security researchers have found.
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vpnMentor, BetaNews, SlashGear, Inquirer, CyberScoop, and Android Police. Tweets: @zackwhittaker
| Shira Ovide / Bloomberg: |
Lyft's average revenue of $3.75 per ride is about the same for car trips as for bicycles and scooters, which incur no driver-related costs — What does it say about Lyft's financial viability that each car ride is worth the same as a scooter or bike trip? You decide.| Colin Harper / Bitcoin Magazine: |
Tether drops the claim that it's “always backed 1-to-1 with traditional currency”, now says it's “100% backed by reserves”, emboldening the stablecoin's critics — Tether just updated its website to clarify that each of its USDT tokens, which it used to claim were …
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| Wayne Ma / The Information: |
Analysis: share prices for some of Apple's top suppliers declined 23% YoY on average in 2018, while Apple's share price only fell 5% — As Apple goes, so go its suppliers—but worse. — Share prices for top companies that make parts for Apple products declined far more than Apple's own stock … | Christine Kim / CoinDesk: |
Cosmos, a highly anticipated blockchain designed to provide interoperability between other blockchains like Bitcoin and Ethereum, goes live — Cosmos, a highly anticipated blockchain itself designed to improve the interoperability between any number of other blockchains, has officially released a live software.
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Circle blog, Tendermint, Crowdfund Insider, Cosmos Blog, and CryptoNinjas. Tweets: @jchervinsky
| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Samsung Notebook 9 Pro review: solid build quality with a sharp display but it has a MacBook Pro-like shallow keyboard and fingerprint scanner is inconsistent — Samsung's latest laptop fixes many of the issues of older models, but does it with zero flair — What do you do if you're …
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| Jeff Grubb / VentureBeat: |
Discord says it will now let developers sell their games directly in their Discord server as well as use Discord to run alphas, betas, and early access tests — Discord is a social network first. While the platform has a store and subscription service, it recognizes that most people come to it for communications.| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Slack says it has removed 28 accounts for having a “clear affiliation with known hate groups” — Chat competitor Discord has faced similar issues — Workplace chat company Slack said today it's removed 28 accounts for having a “clear affiliation with known hate groups.”
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Tiger Global says managing partner Lee Fixel, who helped lead investments in Facebook, LinkedIn, Spotify, and more, is stepping down — Lee Fixel is stepping down as the managing partner of Tiger Global, where he has helped lead successful investments in such “unicorn” companies as Facebook, Flipkart, LinkedIn and Spotify.
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple announces WWDC 2019 will be held June 3-7 at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose — Apple has officially announced dates and opened registration for its annual developer conference where it will likely unveil iOS 13, macOS 10.15, watchOS 6, and tvOS 13.Sponsor Posts
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