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LinkedIn to announce changes to its algorithm, designed to favor posts that cater to niche professional interests, as opposed to elevating viral content — Linkedin will today announce algorithm changes made over the past 12-18 months to favor conversations in its Feed that cater …
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| Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider: |
Early impressions of macOS Catalina, which will usher in a new era of cross platform apps, as it enters public beta — Apple's macOS Catalina is another ambitious refinement of the Mac featuring a fundamental rethinking of iTunes and an infusion of fresh ideas from iOS …
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Tweets: @marcoarment, @reneritchie, @jcenters, @dannysullivan, @danieleran, @harrymccracken, and @stevekovach
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
iOS 13 hands-on as it launches in public beta with new Apple Maps, dark mode, Reminders, Photos, native swiping keyboard, a subtle volume indicator, more — A first look at the latest software for Apple's iPhones — Apple's iOS 13 is here — or rather, the public beta for iOS 13 has arrived …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Researchers say hackers have been stealing massive amounts of call records from over ten cell network providers worldwide to conduct targeted surveillance — At least 10 cell networks have been hacked over the past seven years — Security researchers say they have uncovered …
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Cybereason, Wired, Wall Street Journal, BBC, CyberScoop, Gizmodo, The Verge, Digital Trends, Android Authority, Inquirer, Patently Apple, Reuters, AppleInsider, Axios, Forbes, Houston Chronicle, The Hill, Boing Boing, CNET, ComputerWeekly.com, Bloomberg, TechSpot, IT PRO, The Register, Android Central, Telecoms.com, and Wall Street Journal
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Showpad, a sales enablement platform for presentations and other collateral, raises $70M Series D co-led by Dawn Capital and Insight Partners — Sales teams have long turned to tech solutions to help improve how they source leads, develop relationships and close deals.
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SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, FinSMEs, and PE Hub Blog. Tweets: @ingridlunden. Thanks:@ingridlunden
| Kieren McCarthy / The Register: |
How Verizon caused regional outages at Cloudflare, Facebook, Amazon, and others after wrongly accepting a network misconfiguration from a small ISP in PA — 'Normally you'd filter it out if some small provider said they own the internet' — Verizon sent a big chunk of the internet …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
MX, which develops a suite of aggregation and analysis tools for financial institutions, raises $100M Series B led by Battery Ventures — MX, a Utah-based software firm developing a suite of aggregation and analysis tools for financial institutions, today revealed that it's secured $100 million …
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| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Monzo, a UK-based digital bank, raises ~$144M Series F led by Y Combinator's Continuity fund at a ~$2.5B post-money valuation, about double from October — Monzo, the fast-growing U.K.-based challenger bank with more than two million account holders, has raised £113 million (~$144m) in additional funding.
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| Lane Sainty / BuzzFeed: |
Australian judge allows man to sue media companies for defamation over Facebook comments written by their readers — Former youth detainee Dylan Voller is suing News Corp, Fairfax Media and Sky News. — BuzzFeed News Reporter, Australia — Dylan Voller, the Aboriginal man …
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Sydney Morning Herald, Techdirt, The Guardian, Mumbrella, ABC, The Guardian, The Daily Dot, and Gizmodo
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| Sylvan Lane / The Hill: |
House committee to hold a hearing on Facebook's Project Libra on July 17, one day after the Senate; sources: Libra lead David Marcus expected to testify at both — The chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee announced Monday that the panel will hold a hearing next month …
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CoinDesk, The Block, Fortune, Financial Services Committee, CryptoGlobe, MarketWatch, The Daily Hodl, Cointelegraph, Anycoin.news, and Messari Crypto. Tweets: @jerrybrito
| Monica Nickelsburg / GeekWire: |
Apple says it will employ 2,000 people in Seattle over the next five years, expanding upon an earlier promise to employ 1,000, will hire for engineering roles — In the heart of the neighborhood where Amazon has made its home, Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan said Monday that she was interested in talking about a …
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Tweets: @sallyshin, @mayorjenny, @elisalacava, @sallyshin, @neiltwitz, @hackapreneur, @kantrowitz, and @kantrowitz
| Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide: |
Apple says Spotify hasn't paid 30% commission on any subscriber for the past three years and pays a 15% commission on just 0.5% of its premium subscribers — Spotify could really have done with some positive industry PR today following last week's revelation that it's clawing back overpaid royalties from songwriters and publishers.| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
UK-based used car marketplace Motorway raises £11M Series A led by Marchmont Ventures — Motorway, the U.K. used car marketplace, has raised £11 million in Series A funding. Leading the round is Marchmont Ventures, the fund managed by Hugo Burge and Alan Martin …
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