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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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| New York Times: |
Google's limits on microtargeting of political ads for state and federal candidates shakes up ad plans and frustrates both Democrats and Republicans — The company said the ads would not be directed specifically to audiences based on their public voter records or political affiliations.| 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.| 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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| Jack Nicas / New York Times: |
Tim Cook and Apple did not correct Trump after he took credit for opening a Texas manufacturing plant that has been in operation since 2013 — President Trump said on Wednesday that he opened a facility that makes computers for Apple. It's been operating since 2013.| Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says it has begun construction of its $1B Austin, Texas office 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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| NBC News: |
President Donald Trump hosted an undisclosed dinner with Mark Zuckerberg and Peter Thiel at the White House in October, Facebook confirmed on Wednesday — The meeting took place during Zuckerberg's most recent visit to Washington, where he testified before Congress about Facebook's new cryptocurrency Libra.
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| 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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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google Duplex launches on the web as Google Assistant in Chrome, lets users buy movie tickets from 70+ cinemas and ticketing services in the US — At I/O 2019, Sundar Pichai announced that Google Duplex was “moving beyond voice” and coming to the web. After publicly testing in late September … | Buster Hein / Cult of Mac: |
Guilherme Rambo, who has published scoops about unreleased Apple products by examining beta software, says Apple locked his dev account with no stated reason — Guilherme Rambo, one of the top Apple secret-spillers, says Apple locked him out of his developer account, preventing …
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| 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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| 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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| Matthew Gault / VICE: |
Apple tells Congress it is losing money on its device repair services, but critics say that Apple is being deliberately vague and may be misleading public — \u003Cp\u003E In July, Congress pressed Apple on its repair policies, which Motherboard and others have repeatedly shown to be anticompetitive …
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| Thomas Germain / Consumer Reports: |
How outdoor ad networks like Five Tier let clients plan and target billboard ads based on mobile phone data about passersby such as gender, age, race, and more — How the most intrusive parts of the web are expanding into the real world, complete with data collection and targeted ads| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Stream Remote Play Together comes out of beta, lets users play local multiplayer PC games over the internet with other gamers across desktop, iOS, and Android — Steam Remote Play Together is out of beta — Last month, Valve announced a beta of Steam Remote Play Together …
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| Sanghamitra Kar / The Economic Times: |
Binance acquires Mumbai-based bitcoin exchange WazirX, sources say at ~$5M-$10M; Indian crypto exchanges have struggled due to the lack of regulatory clarity — Through this acquisition, Binance is expected to foray into the fledgling Indian market, which is counted among the top exchanges globally.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Vouch Insurance, which offers startups insurance policies that start at $200/year, expands to CA, announces $45M Series B, after raising $24M Series A in Sept — “Move fast and break things” is a term we usually associate with Facebook (at least, until 2014) and the general startup ethos of being disruptive.| 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.Sponsor Posts
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