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Facebook unveils Facebook Pay, which will work on Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp, to let users shop, donate to causes, send money to friends, more — Facebook Pay arrives just weeks after payment companies dropped out of Libra — Facebook is launching a new payments system today, appropriately named Facebook Pay.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple to debut its 16-inch MacBook Pro with a redesigned keyboard as soon as Wednesday; expected to go on sale this week, starting at ~$2,400 — Apple Inc. plans to debut a new MacBook Pro laptop with a larger screen and revamped keyboard as soon as Wednesday, according to people familiar with the situation.
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| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
Facebook's iOS app accesses the camera as users scroll their feeds; a workaround is to revoke the app's camera permissions; a patch is “already rolling out” — When you're scrolling through Facebook's app, the social network could be using your camera, concerned users have found.
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A district court rules the government's “suspicionless” searches of international travelers' phones and laptops at airports and US border violate 4th Amendment — In a major victory for privacy rights, a federal court in Boston today ruled that the government's suspicionless searches …
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| Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: |
Amid labor tensions Google says it fired a staffer for leaking employee info to media, put two on leave for sharing internal docs and tracking staffer calendars — - Employee terminated for leaking names, details to media — Rifts with management roiling company known for openness| Frank Pallotta / CNN: |
Disney+ spokesperson acknowledges service issues on launch day, saying consumer demand exceeded “high expectations”, as users complain that they can't connect — New York (CNN Business)Disney+ launched to much fanfare on Tuesday, and then immediately hit some bumps.
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downdetector.com, CNET, Hollywood Reporter, TechCrunch, BBC, CordCutters, The Ringer, The Next Web, TechSpot, NBC News, KnowTechie, Phandroid, IGN, Digital Trends, The Daily Dot, New York Times, and CNET. Tweets: @caro_milanesi
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Intel has been slow to address information-leaking chip bugs, issuing an incomplete fix for “ZombieLoad” in May and another series of microcode patches today — Speculative execution attacks still haunt Intel, long after researchers told the company what to fix.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram debuts Reels, a TikTok-style video remix feature, which lets you make 15-second video clips set to music and share them as Stories, in Brazil — Instagram is launching a video-music remix feature to — finally fight back against Chinese social rival TikTok.
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| Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed News: |
A look at Facebook's past views on China and how they changed as TikTok became popular; sources: Facebook held serious acquisition talks with Musical.ly in 2016 — Four years ago, Mark Zuckerberg tried to buy the Chinese company that became the basis of TikTok.| Matthew Boyle / Bloomberg: |
A look at Walmart's attempt to unify its legacy and online store units, causing an internal culture clash, as e-commerce investments pinch the company's margins — Not long ago, a Walmart Inc. store manager asked the company's e-commerce department if it could send over the details … | Enoch Yiu / South China Morning Post: |
Sources: Alibaba's IPO application approved by the Hong Kong stock exchange; shares to be priced on Nov. 20 with expected trading in the week of Nov. 25 — The nod clears the way for Hangzhou-based Alibaba to start a weeklong roadshow from November 13 to garner interest from global investors Shares … | Amanda Perelli / Business Insider: |
The average price Instagram influencers are paid for sponsored posts has been $1,643 in 2019, up from $1,144 in 2018, says a study from marketing firm Izea — - The average cost of sponsored content on social media has increased as influencers have become more valuable to brands.
Tweets: @arperelli and @kami
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GuRu raises $15M Series A for developing products that can safely deliver electric power through the air for powering devices using millimeter-wave technology — GuRu, a wireless power startup formerly known as Auspion, Inc., has raised $15 million in Series A funding to deliver electric power through … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Automattic partners with Stripe to debut Recurring Payments for WordPress.com and Jetpack-powered sites, to let content creators collect repeat contributions — The subscription model is today sustaining a number of businesses, including artists, creators, news publishers, game developers, entertainment providers and more.
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Tweets: @hankchizljaw, @mattnavarra, @markarms, @craigmod, and @bluechoochoo
| Jake Bright / TechCrunch: |
Interswitch, a Nigeria-based digital payments startup, says Visa has acquired a minority stake, reportedly for $200M, at a $1B valuation, plans IPO in H1 2020 — Nigerian digital payments firm Interswitch confirmed today it has reached unicorn status after Visa acquired a minority equity stake in the firm.
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PaymentsSource and PYMNTS.com
| Aamir Siddiqui / XDA Developers: |
Chrome OS now shows a Chromebook's end-of-life date in the device's settings — Chromebooks, or laptops that run ChromeOS as the operating system, have a fixed support lifespan, during which Google regularly provides for updates that keep the OS running smoothly and relatively risk-free.
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