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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google can make a success of Fitbit if it can be managed as well as the integration of HTC's smartphone team, but it can also end up as a fiasco like Nest — The HTC acquisition went well, Nest did not — will this? — Google is buying Fitbit and the reasons why are both simple and complicated.
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Google to acquire Fitbit at $7.35 per share in cash, valuing the company at about $2.1B — - The acquisition pits Alphabet against fellow tech giant Apple in the wearable fitness tracking space. — Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks on stage during the annual Google I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California, May 8, 2018.
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| David Ruddock / Android Police: |
Google's Fitbit acquisition feels like a top-down decision of executives who found enough yes men to agree to the delusion that Fitbit can revive Wear OS — Google announced today that it would purchase Fitbit, the ailing manufacturer of fitness-focused wearables and smartwatches, for $2.1 billion.
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| Swati Khandelwal / The Hacker News: |
Google releases patch for a Chrome zero-day vulnerability being used in the wild that allows hackers to escape sandbox protections via malicious websites — Attention readers, if you are using Chrome on your Windows, Mac, and Linux computers, you need to update your web browsing software immediately …
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| Elizabeth Schulze / CNBC: |
Russia's “sovereign internet” law, which aims to enable disconnecting the country's internet from the rest of the world, went into effect on Friday — - The law tightens Moscow's control over the country's internet infrastructure and aims to provide a way for Russia to disconnect its networks from the rest of the world.
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| CNN: |
Facebook says it will not fact-check ads by UK political parties and candidates running in December election, but will fact-check political groups like Leave.EU — Facebook's political ad policy under pressure — London and New York (CNN Business)A controversial policy allowing politicians … | Will Oremus / OneZero: |
Twitter's ban on political and issue ads will let companies advertise things like fossil fuel-based products but ban ads from activists advocating against them — The company's feel-good decision is already a mess. — Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced on Wednesday that the company …
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| Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: |
Some employees say Google's new community standards smack of censorship after memes about hiring of an ex-DHS staffer are deleted from an internal message board — - Critical memes deleted at company known for open debate — New hire tied to Trump immigration policies poses a test| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
A Verge writer and former Techmeme editor describes the process for his successful submission of “yawning face” and waffle emojis to the Unicode Consortium — You can make emoji, too — This week, I learned that Lil Nas X tweeted about something I helped make. No, it wasn't an article on The Verge.
Tweets: @jaypeters, @jaypeters, @loudmouthjulia, and @mslopatto
| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
At Blizzcon, Blizzard president gives vague apology over the Hearthstone Hong Kong protests response, says he accepts “accountability,” promises to “do better” — Brack accepts “accountability,” promises to “do better” without offering details on how.
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| Julia Carrie Wong / The Guardian: |
The debate over Facebook's political ads policy has been too US-centric and the company hasn't explained how that policy will work in other countries — When Facebook wrote to Joe Biden's campaign to say it would not back down from its decision to exempt politicians from its ban … | Caroline Haskins / BuzzFeed News: |
How student surveillance service Gaggle monitors online activities of about 5M US students for “suspicious or harmful content” using AI and human moderators — Gaggle monitors the work and communications of almost 5 million students in the US, and schools are paying big money for its services.
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