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| Nick Clegg / New York Times: |
Facebook responds to Chris Hughes, says it is not a monopoly and has robust competition in all areas it operates, reiterates its call for more regulation — Dismantling our company won't fix what's wrong with social media. — Mr. Clegg is Facebook's vice president for global affairs and communications.
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Uber closes down 7.6% on its first day of trading after raising $8.1B in its IPO, which valued the company at about $82.4B — - Uber debuted Friday on the New York Stock Exchange at $42 per share, trading under the symbol “UBER.” — Uber dropped 7.6% on its first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange Friday.
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| Heather Somerville / Reuters: |
SEC approves the creation of the Long-Term Stock Exchange, or LTSE, a Silicon Valley-based national securities exchange proposed by Eric Ries — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - U.S. regulators on Friday approved a new stock exchange that is the brainchild of a Silicon Valley entrepreneur …
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| Bryan Menegus / Gizmodo: |
Tech activists are protesting Palantir's work with ICE by mass flagging “issues” with the company's most popular Github repositories — Tech activists continue to organize and win across many of the industry's biggest firms—and increasingly the online spaces tech workers gather …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
A look at the super app trend in India, where companies like Paytm, Ola, and Amazon are increasingly bundling a range of new services into their apps — Companies like Paytm and Amazon bundle other services to give users an all-in-one experience — Truecaller, an app that helps users screen strangers …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
In its lawsuit against Rankwave, Facebook alleges Rankwave misused Facebook data outside of the apps where it was collected and refused to comply with an audit — Facebook might have another Cambridge Analytica on its hands. In a late Friday news dump, — TechCrunch has attained a copy …
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| Jessica Romero / Facebook: |
Facebook sues Rankwave, a South Korean data analytics company with apps on Facebook, says Rankwave didn't cooperate with efforts to verify policy compliance — Today Facebook filed a lawsuit in California state court against Rankwave, a South Korean data analytics company that ran apps on the Facebook platform.
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| Eugene Kim / CNBC: |
Amazon has been mistakenly taking down ads with religious content, causing some sellers of religious products to lose sales — KEY POINTS — Amazon told some sellers that it is now blocking ads containing language about religion, after updating its ad policy.
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| Simina Pasat / The GitHub Blog: |
GitHub unveils GitHub Package Registry, a package management service that supports npm, Maven, RubyGems, NuGet, and Docker, available today in limited beta — Today, we're excited to introduce GitHub Package Registry, a package management service that makes it easy to publish public or private packages next to your source code.
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| Bernhard Warner / The Atlantic: |
Algorithms used to take down “terrorist” videos are deleting evidence of war crimes and could hinder efforts to bring human-rights abusers to justice — Algorithms that take down “terrorist” videos could hamstring efforts to bring human-rights abusers to justice. — Journalist based in Rome
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| Recorded Future: |
The dark web is tiny and unreliable: analysis of 55K onion domains on the Tor network finds only 8,400 had a live site, with many having poor up times — Click here to download the complete analysis as a PDF. — Key Findings — The collection of onion sites that is sometimes called …
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| Paul Thurrott / Thurrott: |
Internal docs show Windows 10 is now active on 825M+ devices, SwiftKey has 159M+ MAUs, and that the mobile versions of Edge have been downloaded 4.5M times — According to internal documentation viewed by Thurrott.com, Windows 10 is now active on over 825 million devices worldwide.Sponsor Posts
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