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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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| 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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| Chris Velazco / Engadget: |
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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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| 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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FinSMEs, Crowdfund Insider, and PE Hub Blog
| 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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| 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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Digital Trends, Business Insider, AppleInsider, The Seattle Times, iPhone in Canada Blog, Mayor Jenny A. Durkan, Engadget, Patently Apple, Bloomberg, 9to5Mac, The Verge, and MacRumors
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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