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Interviews with 65 current and former employees on the meltdown inside Facebook over the last 15 months as the Cambridge Analytica scandal unfolded — Scandals. Backstabbing. Resignations. Record profits. Time Bombs. In early 2018, Mark Zuckerberg set out to fix Facebook.
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Sony says its next-gen PlayStation console will be backward-compatible, support 8K graphics with ray tracing, and have an SSD, but won't be released this year — MARK CERNY WOULD like to get one thing out of the way right now: The videogame console that Sony has spent the past four years building is no mere upgrade.
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| Guilherme Rambo / 9to5Mac: |
Sources: Apple is planning a desktop extension feature for macOS 10.15 that allows users to send any window of any app to an external display, including an iPad — It's undeniable that one of the best characteristics of every Apple product is its display. Apple ships computers …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Mozilla executives reflect on how Google web products would often break in Firefox but not Chrome and on other issues perceived as anti-competitive tactics — Former and current Mozilla engineers are reaching their boiling points. — A former high-ranking Mozilla executive has accused Google …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
YouTube showed a link and description of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, as part of its fact checking, underneath live streams of the Notre Dame Cathedral fire — A fire has broken out at the iconic Notre Dame Cathedral today, and as you'd expect, many news networks are offering live coverage of the breaking situation.
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| Megha Mandavia / The Economic Times: |
Sources: Indian government has asked Apple and Google to take down TikTok from their app stores, following a Madras High Court order to ban the app — MeitY's order will stop further downloads, but people who already the app will be able to still use it. — BENGALURU: Google and Apple …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Facebook will discontinue P2P payments in Messenger in the UK and France on June 15; the service will remain active in the US — Facebook is pulling away from its ambitions to provide peer-to-peer money transfers via Messenger in Europe. Today, the company announced that it would be discontinuing … | Sameer Samat / Android Developers Blog: |
Google outlines new Android developer relations policies, says it will take more time to review apps by developers that don't yet have a track record — Thank you for all the feedback about updates we've been making to Android APIs and Play policies. We've heard your requests for improvement as well as some frustration.
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| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
Leapwork, which develops a process automation platform that can be used by non-technical staff, raises $10M Series A led by DN Capital and e.ventures — Most work involving computers is highly repetitive, which is why companies regularly have developers write code to automate repetitive tasks.
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| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Hulu has repurchased AT&T's 9.5% stake in the business for $1.43B, giving Hulu a valuation of $15B; Disney said in November that Hulu was worth $9.26B — - Hulu bought back AT&T's 9.5 percent stake in the entity for $1.43 billion, valuing the streaming company at $15 billion.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Canalys analysts forecast that the installed base of smart speakers will grow 82.4% YoY from 114M units in 2018 to 207.9M in 2019 — Smart speakers' global installed base is on track to top 200 million by the end of this year, according to a report out today from analysts at Canalys.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Salesforce acquires Salesforce.org, which had been a public benefit corporation, for $300M, will integrate it as part of a new nonprofit and education vertical — Salesforce yesterday announced a move to reposition how it provides software to and works with non-profits like educational institutions … | New York Times: |
Some companies attacked in 2017's NotPetya ransomware plague have been denied insurance coverage over “war exclusion” clauses — LONDON — Within days of a cyberattack, warehouses of the snack foods company Mondelez International filled with a backlog of Oreo cookies and Ritz crackers.
Tweets: @jckichen, @nytimesbusiness, @nicoleperlroth, @nytimesbusiness, and @puiwingtam
| Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed News: |
Source: Twitter left up tweets threatening Rep. Ilhan Omar's life, which would typically be removed once reported, so law enforcement could investigate them — Twitter left up tweets threatening Rep. Ilhan Omar's life over the weekend so law enforcement could investigate them, BuzzFeed News has learned.
Tweets: @kantrowitz, @kantrowitz, @dcbigjohn, @matt_kiser, and @carnage4life
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