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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Source: Apple's planned game subscription service for iOS will only include paid, not freemium, titles, pay developers based on time users spend on their games — - Devices take a back seat to video, news, gaming subscriptions — Company tries biggest strategy change since the iPhone in 2007
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| Ashley Rodriguez / Quartz: |
What to expect from Apple on March 25: a paid news service, a video service with original content, a content hub in the TV app, a credit card, and no hardware — iPhones, iMacs, and other hardware are likely to take a backseat to news and entertainment at Apple's first big product event of 2019.
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The Verge, Wired, TechCrunch, GameSpot, Yahoo Finance, KnowTechie, and The Verge. Tweets: @markgurman
| Edmund Lee / New York Times: |
Netflix's absence from Apple's media bundle portends a fight in content distribution; Goldman Sachs says the bundle could add $12B+ to Apple's Services business — The first skirmishes have already been fought in what could turn into a tech cold war. “The game is on,” said the Netflix chief executive, Reed Hastings.
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Fox News, Decider, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Macworld, and BGR
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
A look at an early version of Microsoft's new Chromium-powered Edge browser — This could be your new default browser on Windows — Microsoft is rebuilding its Edge browser on Chromium. The software maker has been testing versions of this browser internally at Microsoft … | Axios: |
Pinterest generated $756M in revenue and $63M net loss in 2018, compared to $473M in revenue and $130M million net loss in 2017, according to public IPO filing — Pinterest, the social bookmarking platform, on Friday filed for an IPO that should result in its shares being traded next month on the New York Stock Exchange.
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SEC, Reuters, CNBC, VentureBeat, Bloomberg, New York Times, Mashable, Recode, Bloomberg, The Verge, and Bloomberg
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| Washington Post: |
DHS watchdog report says FEMA exposed personal info of ~2.3M US disaster survivors, including some personal addresses and banking info, to a federal contractor — The Federal Emergency Management Agency shared personal addresses and banking information of more than 2 million U.S. disaster survivors …
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| Reuters: |
Finland to investigate HMD after report found some Nokia 7 Plus phones sent user data to a Chinese server; HMD says it was a software packaging error, now fixed — HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finland's data protection ombudsman said on Thursday he would investigate whether Nokia-branded phones …
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ZDNet, Ars Technica, Firstpost, GSMArena.com, GSMArena.com, The Verge, IT PRO, The Register, and TalkAndroid.com. Tweets: @bing_chris
| John Herrman / New York Times: |
A profile of Citizen, a crime tracking app that notifies users in NYC, SF Bay Area, Baltimore, and LA when a crime or a major incident is reported near them — An app called Citizen promises “awareness” of nearby danger. What it provides is more complicated.
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Boing Boing. Tweets: @jwherrman, @connortryan, @nytimes, @jwherrman, @tomcritchlow, @matt_cagle, @martinsfp, @marshallproj, @digiphile, @dralycemcgovern, and @citizenapp
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Mozilla announces a new version of Firefox for iOS that has been optimized for iPad with support for split screen and keyboard shortcuts — Mozilla today announced a new iOS version of Firefox that has been specifically optimized for Apple's iPad. Given the launch of the new iPad mini this week, that's impeccable timing.| Clay Chandler / Fortune: |
Inside the rivalry between Southeast Asia's Grab and Go-Jek, the ride-hailing services evolving to provide everything from groceries to mortgages — The rival ride-hailing services are now dueling to deliver everything from groceries to mortgages to Southeast Asia's middle class.| Alissa Greenberg / Pacific Standard: |
A profile of PC4R, a crowdfunded charity that is helping refugees request funds for their pay-as-you-go mobile accounts via a Facebook group with 60K+ members — A Facebook-based refugee charity can be borderless and international in a way that other charities can't. — Musap Yhia was only 10 when he left Darfur.| Zheping Huang / South China Morning Post: |
A look at Chinese tech workers' struggle with burnout and work-life balance, as many are expected to work a “996” schedule, or 9am to 9pm six days a week — He is so focused on keeping his start-up alive that he can't sleep at night. She was asked in an interview if she would be willing … Thanks:@chuakongho
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