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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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| 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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| Jennifer Langston / Microsoft: |
Microsoft teams up with Warner Bros to store and retrieve 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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| Washington Post: |
Overview of TikTok's evolving censorship approach: ex-US staff say Chinese bosses set rules on videos with heavy kissing, political topics, subversive content — Managers insist they are revamping policies to give American staff greater autonomy from Beijing.
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| 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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Companies in Vision Fund's portfolio, like Wag and Fair, are struggling; sources say 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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| 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, Gizmodo, IT PRO, Business Insider, Engadget, The Hill, Yahoo Finance, Reclaim The Net, TechSpot, and CNET
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| Brandon Kochkodin / Bloomberg: |
Users on Reddit say they have discovered a flaw in Robinhood's system that lets them trade stocks with excess borrowed funds, essentially free money — A glitch in the Robinhood Markets Inc. system is allowing users to trade stocks with excess borrowed funds, giving them access to what amounts to free money.
Tweets: @thestalwart
| 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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| 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 … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Mozilla is working to fix a Firefox bug being actively exploited by scammers, which causes the browser to lock up after displaying a warning message — Fraudulent tech-support sites cause Firefox to freeze while displaying scary message. — Scammers are actively exploiting a bug in Firefox …
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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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| 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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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Medopad, which is building AI-based measurable indicators of disease progression picked up by apps and wearables, raises $25M Series B led by Bayer — Medopad, the UK startup that has been working with Tencent to develop AI-based methods for building and tracking “digital” biomarkers …
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
Quebec-based RenoRun, which runs a platform for acquiring and delivering building materials, raises $17.1M Series A led by Inovia Capital and Obvious Ventures — RenoRun, a construction material delivery service, has raised US$17.1 million (CA$22.5 million) in Series A funding co-led by Inovia Capital and Obvious Ventures.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Toronto-based Untether AI raises $20M Series A from Intel Capital, Radical Ventures, and others to develop machine learning inferencing hardware — Untether AI, a Toronto-based startup that's developing high-efficiency, high-performance chips for AI inferencing workloads …
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| 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 7%+ — Revenue of $3.8 billion, with growth accelerating to 30% year-over-year, or 31% on a constant currency basis
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
HomeLight, which runs an AI-powered platform for home buyers, sellers, and real estate agents, raises $109M led by Zeev Ventures, bringing total raised to $160M — San Francisco-based HomeLight, which develops AI-driven software and services for home buyers, sellers, and real estate agents … | 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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FinSMEs, EU-Startups, Crowdfund Insider, PYMNTS.com, and PYMNTS.com
| 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 … | 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| Kate Clark / TechCrunch: |
A look at startups like Cameo and Karat, which are building services for creators and influencers, as VCs bet on a now established part of the digital economy — Why 2020 will be a ‘watershed year’ for the creator economy — Danielle Bernstein is just 27 years old, but she's been running her own business for 10 years.
Tweets: @kateclarktweets, @benjeffriess, and @taylorlorenz
| 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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