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Google announces new political ad rules, limits microtargeting to age, gender, and general location categories, will start enforcing them in UK within a week — We're proud that people around the world use Google to find relevant information about elections and that candidates use Google …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
PayPal to acquire Honey, a comparison shopping and rewards platform that has 17M MAUs, for ~$4B — PayPal announced today it has agreed to acquire Honey Science Corporation, the makers of a deal-finding browser add-on and mobile application, for $4 billion, mostly cash.| New York Times: |
Google has hired IRI Consultants, an anti-union consulting company, signaling the feud between some activist employees and management has escalated — After nearly two years of unrest, the company appears to be cracking down on employee activism. — Google has hired an anti-union consulting firm …
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| Faiz Siddiqui / Washington Post: |
Uber plans to test letting riders and drivers in the US record audio of their trips “soon”, as a similar pilot program debuts next month in Brazil and Mexico — Uber plans to record audio during rides in the United States as part of a new security feature, its latest push …
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| Kate Conger / New York Times: |
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| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Sonos has acquired voice assistant startup Snips for $37M, says it has sold 6.1M speakers in 2019, reports fiscal Q4 revenue of $294.2M, up 8% YoY — The company grew its 2019 revenue by 11%, but saw losses rise in Q4 due to increased R&D spending — Smart speaker maker Sonos is getting ready …
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| Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says it has begun construction of its $1B Austin, Texas campus, opening in 2022, as Trump tours the nearby Mac Pro production plant — Apple has announced that it has begun construction of its new Austin, Texas, campus, on the day that President Trump is due to tour the Mac Pro production line a short distance away.
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| Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
On-demand transcription service Rev faces backlash from its contractors after cutting their take to 30 cents for each dollar spent on some jobs, from 45 cents — Rev was just a small start-up offering online transcriptions. Now it's the latest symbol of a gig-economy company whose workers are fed up.| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers find bugs in Google and Samsung camera apps from before July 2019 that could record video, take pictures, and extract GPS data without permission — A new vulnerability has been found in the Camera apps for millions, if not hundreds of millions, of Android devices that could allow …
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| Jake Bright / TechCrunch: |
After converting to a for-profit status, Samasource raises $14.8M Series A for its AI data annotation service used by companies like Google and Walmart — AI training data provider Samasource has raised a $14.8 million Series A funding round led by Ridge Ventures.
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| Joel Marcey / Facebook Developers: |
Facebook makes Visual Studio Code its default internal development environment, partners with Microsoft on tools to let devs do remote development at scale — History — Facebook engineers have written millions of lines of code. There is no mandated development environment. Some developers use vim.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google launches Google Earth tools that let users create and present virtual tours, with attached text, images, and videos, for specific places — It's like a homemade guided tour — Today, Google is adding new tools to Google Earth on the web that let you build your own tour of a place right on top of the Google Earth map.
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The US says it has begun processing businesses' applications for licenses to sell tech to Huawei, approving those that do not pose national security risks — Commerce Department confirms it's granted “limited” exceptions to the ban on sales to the Chinese tech giant
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple launches Apple Music for Business, letting businesses play music in retail locations with Apple providing human-curated playlists and recommendations — Apple Music is now partnering with businesses to play music at retail stores. In a partnership with PlayNetwork … | Crystal Tse / Bloomberg: |
Canaan, the China-based maker of Bitcoin mining machines, prices its US IPO at the bottom of the range at $9 per share, raising $90M — Canaan Inc., a maker of Bitcoin mining machines, raised $90 million after pricing its U.S. initial public offering at the bottom of its marketed range.
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| Megan Graham / CNBC: |
Facebook begins rolling out new “brand safety” tools to let advertisers control the content their ads appear around, including white-listing publishers — - Facebook announced a slate of new “brand safety” tools for advertisers Wednesday, a way to let advertisers have more control over the content where their ads appear.| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Gravitational raises $25M Series A, led by Kleiner Perkins, to help developers with cloud deployment using Kubernetes — As we move into an increasingly multi-cloud world, there is a portability problem moving applications between clouds. Gravitational wants to fix that, and today it announced a $25 million Series A.
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| Angelica Mari / ZDNet: |
WhatsApp says it has banned more than 400,000 accounts between August 15 and October 28, 2018, during Brazil's general election — The information was submitted by the messaging app as part of ongoing investigations into the spread of fake news. — Messaging app WhatsApp reported banning …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple launches $129 Smart Battery Cases for the iPhone 11, 11 Pro, and 11 Pro Max, now with a physical button that launches the camera app — Apple today launched new battery cases for the iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, and iPhone 11 Pro Max, with the new cases available for $129.
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9to5Mac, MacStories, The Next Web, The Verge, Digital Trends, KnowTechie, Business Insider, iMore, Engadget, iDownloadBlog.com, and CNET. Tweets: @iryantldr
| Jane Zhang / South China Morning Post: |
A profile of Baidu Bake, an encyclopedia with 16 times more Chinese entries than Wikipedia, written by 6.9M+ users comprising about 340 core contributors — Transition from hard format encyclopaedias to open-source encyclopaedias has raised some quality-of-information issues though … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify says its free tier will now stream across Alexa-powered devices in the US, Australia, and New Zealand, and smart speakers from Sonos and Bose globally — Spotify has worked with Amazon Echo since 2016, but only for premium subscribers. Today, that changes as Spotify says its free tier …
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