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Sources: Facebook is planning to launch its own cryptocurrency and a digital payments system in about a dozen countries by Q1 2020 — Facebook is finalising plans to launch its own crypto-currency next year. — It is planning to set up a digital payments system in about a dozen countries by the first quarter of 2020.
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Tweets: @mollymckew, @mollyjongfast, @financialtimes, @alexeheath, @mounia_nl, and @nischalshetty
| Alan Boyle / GeekWire: |
SpaceX successfully launches first batch of 60 Starlink satellites of nearly 11,000 planned into a low orbit above Earth to provide global internet connectivity — After two postponements, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket executed a mission that dealt out 60 Starlink broadband data satellites in low Earth orbit.
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Tweets: @trengriffin and @spacex
| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Multiple sources and emails describe how Snap employees used internal tools like SnapLion to access user data several years ago, before Snap restricted access — Multiple sources and emails also describe SnapLion, an internal tool used by various departments to access Snapchat user data.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Source: Snap is in talks to license catalogs of Sony Music, Universal Music, and Warner Music, which will allow Snapchat users to include songs in their posts — Snap wants to up Snapchat's music game. — The company has been in negotiations with music companies including the big three … | Aislinn Keely / The Block: |
AT&T says customers can now pay their mobile bills in cryptocurrency via BitPay — Cryptocurrency is taking another step towards the mainstream as mobile carrier AT&T announced it would accept payments in crypto today, according to a release from the company.
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| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
A distorted video of Speaker Pelosi, in which her speech is made to appear slurred, has 2M+ views on Facebook; YouTube says it has removed uploads of the video — Distorted videos of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), altered to make her sound as if she's drunkenly slurring her words …
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| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Source: Amazon is working on a wearable voice-activated health and wellness device that works with a mobile app and can recognize human emotions — - Described as a health product, it would work with a mobile app — Machines that can understand emotions are a sci-fi staple
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Tweets: @davidjoachim, @daviddesteno, @emilybell, @stenderworld, @chrissyfarr, @mhbergen, @charlesarthur, and @sachgau
| Biz Carson / Forbes: |
Lime shuffles leadership, with co-founder Brad Bao taking over as CEO from co-founder Toby Sun, who will now focus on R&D; COO Joe Kraus promoted to president — Lime cofounder Brad Bao is stepping in as CEO, replacing his cofounder Toby Sun.LIME — Scooter startup Lime is shuffling …
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
Chinese travel platform Mafengwo, which offers editorial content, bookings, and travel merchandise, raises $250M Series E led by Tencent Holdings — Mafengwo, a Chinese travel website, announced today it has raised a $250 million Series E led by Tencent Holdings. — Subscribe to the Crunchbase Daily
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| Thomas Claburn / The Register: |
Hacker breaches Perceptics, which makes license plate readers for cities and the US government, dumps internal files on the dark web; Perceptics confirms breach — Perceptics confirms intrusion and theft, stays quiet on details — Exclusive The maker of vehicle license plate readers used extensively … | Will Sommer / The Daily Beast: |
Twitter permanently bans Brian and Ed Krassenstein, who frequently shared anti-Trump sentiments, alleging they ran fake accounts and purchased fake interactions — Ed and Brian Krassenstein are banned for life after ‘operating multiple fake accounts and purchasing account interactions,’ a Twitter spokesman said.
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| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Google adds group video calls for up to eight people to its Duo video calling app for iOS and Android users worldwide — Google's Duo video call app today introduced group video calls for up to 8 people for iOS and Android users worldwide. At launch, Duo group video calls will not be available …
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The Keyword, Phandroid, The Verge, SlashGear, Neowin, Thurrott, and Droid Life. Tweets: @juberti
| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Automattic acquires Prospress, the company behind WooCommerce Subscriptions and other automated tools; the 20-person Prospress team will join Automattic — Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Longreads, Simplenote and a bunch of other cool things, is acquiring a small startup called Prospress.
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WooCommerce, WordPress Tavern, Post Status, Matt Mullenweg, Prospress, and PYMNTS.com. Tweets: @mark_forrester
| Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News: |
As Twitter tests an increased ad load, users report a higher number of spammy or malicious promoted tweets — Twitter is running a test that has increased the number of promoted tweets showing up in people's timelines — and it has resulted in a range of user complaints about their new prevalence … | Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Instagram says IGTV will now support landscape video, following feedback from creators and users, as the service struggles to gain traction — The vertical video experiment is over — Instagram is no longer all-in on vertical video. The company announced today that its longform video offshoot …
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Instagram, Digiday, TechCrunch, Social Media Today, SlashGear, Neowin, MSPoweruser, Digital Trends, Engadget, and Android Authority
Tweets: @itsjeffhiggins, @chriswelch, @adamhlavac, @patmuldowney, @taylrn, @ashleyrcarman, @tomwarren, and @juiceboxca
| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
SecurityScorecard report analyzing US political party cyber defenses finds DNC has made improvements following 2016 hacks but still lags behind RNC — Personal data leaks, poor protection of logins, and other gaps still leave major parties vulnerable. — In a study of US and European … | Peter Kafka / Vox: |
Q&A with Neal Mohan, YouTube's chief product officer, about how the service deals with objectionable content, YouTube remaining an open platform, and more — A Q&A with Neal Mohan, YouTube's chief product officer. — YouTube, the world's largest video site, has 2 billion users.| Randy Nelson / Sensor Tower Blog: |
Sensor Tower: Valve's Steam Link reaches 2M+ installs on Android and iOS, with 330K+ downloads on iOS in its first week, 71% of which were from China and Japan — A year after it was initially rejected for release on the App Store, Valve's Steam Link app, which enables computer gamers using …
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| Ilya Khrennikov / Bloomberg: |
Yandex launches a new delivery service that lets users tell a restaurant what to cook, even if not on the menu, initially available in Moscow and St. Petersburg — - Yandex expanded to food delivery after 2017 deal with Uber — App tells a restaurant what to cook even if not on the menu| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Shopify quietly acquired Handshake, an e-commerce platform for B2B wholesale purchasing, source says for less than $100M; Handshake was last valued at ~$54M — E-commerce platform Shopify has quietly made an acquisition to continue its expansion of the services and products that merchants can sell and purchase through its platform.
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