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Sources: SoftBank to take control of WeWork, spending $4B-$5B on new funding and existing shares in The We Company, valuing it between $7.5B and $8B — KEY POINTS — Softbank to spend $4 billion to $5 billion on new equity, existing shares, sources say.
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Verizon is giving away Disney+ for free for one year to all of its wireless customers on unlimited-data plans and to FiOS and 5G home internet customers — New Fios broadband, 5G home wireless internet customers also eligible for 12-month free offer — Verizon is giving away Disney Plus …
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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
New York State's attorney general says 46 attorneys general have joined its antitrust probe into Facebook, separate from DOJ and FTC investigations — The expanded roster of states and territories taking part in the investigation reflects broad concerns among officials that ‘Facebook may have put consumer data at risk.’| Joe Maring / Android Central: |
The Pixel 4 and 4 XL support fast wireless charging on any Qi charger, unlike the Pixel 3, which needed Google's own Pixel Stand for fast charging — 11W speeds seem to be supported on just about anything. — Updated October 22, 2019: So it turns out that the Pixel 4's wireless charging situation …
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Mark Zuckerberg's proposal of social media as a “Fifth Estate” highlights that the world is fundamentally changing; the sooner we realize that, the better — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg began his speech last week by attempting to place free expression in the historical American context …
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Firefox 70 arrives with social tracking blocked by default, a personalized privacy report to show how many trackers have been blocked, and performance gains — Mozilla today launched Firefox 70 for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS. Firefox 70 includes social tracking protection …
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| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Sources: MPC, pitched as a privacy-focused smartphone vendor, was run by a violent UK gang and shut down after multiple investigations into it developed — Crime blogger Martin Kok was assassinated while leaving a sex club. It turned out MPC, one of his clients, was not an ordinary phone company.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Google Duplex to launch a limited pilot in New Zealand to confirm holiday store hours of some local businesses during the Labor Day public holiday on October 28 — Google quietly announced this evening that Google Duplex, its AI chat agent that can arrange appointments over the phone …
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| Shelby Brown / CNET: |
Devumi settles FTC charges that it sold fake followers and likes; cosmetics firm Sunday Riley also settles with FTC for allegedly posting fake online reviews — The Federal Trade Commission uncovered and stopped the misleading online marketing tactics of two different companies, it announced Monday.
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| Cameron Faulkner / The Verge: |
Google's Nest Mini is a great-sounding upgrade over the Home Mini, its ability to be mounted to a wall is nice, but it still lacks a 3.5mm jack, unlike Echo Dot — It can't hang with more expensive speakers, but it can hang on the wall — The main thing you need to know about the new Google Nest Mini … | Andrew Nusca / Fortune: |
A look at the revival in digital music sales, which have grown from $14.3B in 2014 to $18.1B in 2018, mainly thanks to paid streaming services like Spotify — Imagine, for a moment, that Taylor Swift was wrong. The reigning queen of country-tinged pop shocked fans in 2014 by abruptly … | Financial Times: |
Sources: Facebook hasn't offered money to wire services Reuters and AP for being featured on its news page, as Bloomberg and Dow Jones land seven-figure deals — Facebook will pay millions of dollars to some publications featured on its news page but nothing to others, as its efforts to rebuild trust divide the US media sector.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Signal AI, formerly Signal Media, which offers AI-backed media monitoring and market intelligence services, raises $25M Series C led by Redline Capital — Media monitoring — where news sources and other public information outlets are scanned regularly for mentions of specific organizations … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Slack improves app discoverability with new store-like UI, says there are 1,800 apps, and now lets apps use overlay windows and a home tab to showcase features — More functional and interactive apps are on the way — Slack has embraced third-party apps on its platform for years … | vpnMentor: |
Researchers find open database that leaked 179GB+ of customer, US government, and military records from Best Western's travel reservation system Autoclerk — Led by Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, vpnMentor's research team discovered a breach in a database belonging to Autoclerk …
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Roku to buy ad tech platform Dataxu, which provides software for managing ad campaigns programmatically across digital platforms, for $150M in cash and stock — Roku is buying Dataxu, a platform that lets marketers plan and buy video ad campaigns, for $150 million in cash and stock.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Aurora Insight, which offers an AI-powered “dynamic” global map of wireless connectivity, emerges from stealth with $18M across Series A and seed rounds — Aurora Insight, a startup that provides a “dynamic” global map of wireless connectivity that it built and monitors in real …
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