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| Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
Data brokers like Sift and Kustomer, which share consumers' est. lifetime value with companies, now share it with customers on request due to new privacy laws — Little-known companies are amassing your data — like food orders and Airbnb messages — and selling the analysis to clients.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Companies in Vision Fund's portfolio, like Wag and Fair, have struggled; sources: Oyo founder invested $2B in his company with a loan backed by Masayoshi Son — Other companies the huge tech investment fund has backed have struggled lately — SoftBank Group Corp. 's longtime strategy … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Play Points, which rewards Android users with store credit or discounts for purchases like apps and movies, expands to the US from Japan and South Korea — Google Play is launching a new rewards program, Googe Play Points, that will allow you to earn points for everything …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Microsoft Surface Pro X review: beautiful design and good screen but expensive, slow for the price, and has an unimpressive battery and app compatibility issues — Better than expected isn't enough — The Surface Pro X is the computer Microsoft has tried to make for at least seven years.
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New York Times, LaptopMag, Windows Central, Engadget, Gizmodo, CNET, Tom's Guide, CNBC, Petri, CNN, Boing Boing, MSPoweruser, and AskWoody
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| Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE: |
1,100+ Googlers sign a letter asking Google to commit to eliminating its carbon footprint by 2030 and stop working with orgs harming climate change refugees — Google employees announced a campaign today to push the company to eliminate its massive carbon footprint by 2030.
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Google Workers For Action …, Bloomberg, The Guardian, Business Insider, Yahoo Finance, Engadget, Gizmodo, Vox, IT PRO, TechSpot, The Hill, Reclaim The Net, CNET, and CNN
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Researchers show that they can use lasers to send commands to smart speakers, tablets, and phones via Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant from far away — By pointing lasers tuned to a precise frequency at a smart assistant, researchers could force it to unlock cars, open garage doors, and more.
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| Jennifer Langston / Microsoft: |
Microsoft teams up with Warner Bros, stores and retrieves the 1978 movie Superman on a piece of glass as a proof of concept test for Project Silica research — Microsoft and Warner Bros. have collaborated to successfully store and retrieve the entire 1978 iconic “Superman” …
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| Frank Pallotta / CNN: |
Netflix added a “skip politics” button to a segment of Seth Meyers' new comedy special “Lobby Baby”, following a request from the comedian — New York (CNN Business)Seth Meyers thinks some comedy fans may be burned out by DC politics, so he asked Netflix (NFLX) to help him do something about it.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft launches Office app on iOS and Android, combining Word, Excel, PowerPoint functionality into one app, expanding from initial debut with Galaxy Note10 — Microsoft is looking for new ways to encourage people to use Office apps on their mobile phones by combining lightweight versions of the core apps into a single app.| Yaël Eisenstat / Washington Post: |
A former head of election integrity operations at Facebook says the company's business model and ad targeting tools make it hard for it to not harm democracy — The company can't avoid damaging democracy. — I joined Facebook in June 2018 as its “head of Global Elections Integrity Ops” …
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Mozilla urges Congress to reject ISPs' lobbying against encrypted DNS in Firefox and Chrome, says the campaign is using Google as boogeyman to spread confusion — ISPs lobby against DNS encryption, but Mozilla tells Congress not to trust them. — Mozilla is urging Congress to reject … | Uber: |
Uber reports Q3 revenue of $3.8B, up 30% YoY, gross bookings of $16.5B, up 29%, net loss of $1.2B; Uber Eats revenue up 64% to $645M; stock down 5%+ after hours — Revenue of $3.8 billion, with growth accelerating to 30% year-over-year, or 31% on a constant currency basis
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| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
Study of ~10K startups: women represent 13% of founders but own 7% of founder equity; 31% of all equity owners are women, but hold 6% of total startup equity — Female entrepreneurs have less equity in their own companies than do male entrepreneurs, according to a new report from Carta.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google News for Android and iOS adds an option to show stories for up to two languages and regions — In recent years, Google has strived to make its products work better internationally. Google News for Android and iOS now supports bilingual feeds to show stories for up to two “languages & regions of interest.”
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| Antonio Lucio / Facebook: |
Facebook debuts logo with text that has context-dependent coloring, says it's to further distinguish the company from the Facebook app, which keeps its branding — Facebook started as a single app. Now, 15 years later, we offer a suite of products that help people connect to their friends and family …
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Facebook, BuzzFeed News, NBC News, Business Insider, The Verge, Inquirer, Android Police, Beyond Search, MarketWatch, The Next Web, South China Morning Post, International Business Times, Silicon Republic, Coinspeaker, Social Media Today, Firstpost Tech, ZDNet, SiliconANGLE, Washington Post, Newser, Search Engine Journal, Telegraph, Telecoms.com, Engadget, Wired, Mashable, The Daily Dot, Neowin, BetaNews, Thurrott, and Silicon Valley Business …
Tweets: @kurtwagner8, @mattnavarra, @alexeheath, @spencerjakab, @julian_epp, @petridishes, @tha_rami, @mor10, @awilkinson, @bmoorecreativ, @ihnatko, @cdibona, @canoopsy, @margarita, @business, @terr, @cap, @mdaware, @mikeisaac, @mgsiegler, @joshconstine, @mgsiegler, @kurtwagner8, @backlon, @mgsiegler, @mgsiegler, @counternotions, @jamesliamcook, @danielwcooper, @reckless, @kerrymflynn, @oliviasolon, @jamestitcomb, @alexhern, @chriswelch, @jank0, @kantrowitz, @mdrndad, @verge, @caseynewton, @backlon, @alexeheath, @reneritchie, and @caseynewton
| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Twitter suspends accounts linked to Hezbollah and Hamas after criticism from US lawmakers, after previously saying it distinguished military and political arms — Curbs come after lawmakers pressed social media companies to remove content from groups the U.S. classifies as terrorist organizations| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Cloud HR software company Workday to acquire Scout RFP, which makes cloud-based e-sourcing and procurement software, for $540M — Based in San Francisco, Scout RFP makes cloud-based e-sourcing and procurement software. — Workday announced Monday that it plans to acquire Scout RFP …
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Workday Blog, TechCrunch, Workday, Enterprise Times, SiliconANGLE, MarketWatch, Nasdaq, and Seeking Alpha
Tweets: @eastdakota and @halletecco
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Dropbox rolls out Transfer, its file transfer tool that debuted in beta in July, to all users; Transfer lets paid users share 100GB files and free users 100MB — Dropbox is rolling out its previously announced file transfer service to all users from today after a four-month beta period.
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Work in Progress, BetaNews, The Verge, and Thurrott
| Adobe Newsroom: |
Adobe, Twitter, and The New York Times Company announce the Content Authenticity Initiative to develop an industry standard for digital content attribution — LOS ANGELES—(BUSINESS WIRE)—At Adobe MAX, Adobe (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the Content Authenticity Initiative …
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Axios, The Verge, Engadget, Reclaim The Net, TechRadar.com, and Neowin
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
iOS 13.2 and iPadOS 13.2 seem to terminate apps in the background far more aggressively, hurting the multitasking experience, especially on the iPad — A growing number of iPhone and iPad users have complained about poor RAM management on iOS 13 and iPadOS 13, leading to apps like Safari … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
London-based Ebury, which provides foreign exchange and currency services for SMEs, raises £350M led by Santander, which now owns 50.1% of total shares — As the UK continues on its slow march to leave the European Union, a London-based startup that enables companies to work internationally …
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EU-Startups, Crowdfund Insider, PYMNTS.com, and PYMNTS.com
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