Techmeme: FCC investigation finds Verizon, T-Mobile, and US Cellular exaggerated 4G coverage in official filings to the FCC; Ajit Pai has no plans to punish the carriers (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)

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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

FCC investigation finds Verizon, T-Mobile, and US Cellular exaggerated 4G coverage in official filings to the FCC; Ajit Pai has no plans to punish the carriers — FCC buries investigation's finding in 5G press release, won't punish carriers. — 49 with 42 posters participating

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Colin Lecher / The Verge:

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Kieren McCarthy / The Register:

Internet Society says private equity firm Ethos Capital will pay $1.135B for the .org top level domain registry — Anger rises over ten-figure sale of registry — Analysis The price tag for one of the internet's largest and most important domain-name registries has finally been revealed: $1.135bn.

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Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed News:

Kashmiris, who are subject to an ongoing four month internet shutdown, are losing their WhatsApp accounts because of the platform's policy on inactive accounts — On Wednesday, Kashmiris began disappearing from WhatsApp — and no one initially knew why. Citizens of the disputed geographical territory …

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Munsif Vengattil / Reuters:

Alibaba-backed Chinese startup AutoX applies to test self-driving vehicles without an in-car backup driver in California — (Reuters) - Chinese startup AutoX, backed by e-commerce giant Alibaba, has applied to test self-driving vehicles without an in-car backup driver in California …

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Jason Schreier / Kotaku:

Sources: Microsoft is planning a cheaper, disc-free Xbox, codenamed Lockhart, to go alongside its high-end Project Scarlett console — In June, Microsoft announced Project Scarlett, a new iteration of the Xbox that the company said would “set a new bar for console power, speed and performance.”

Jason D. Rowley / Crunchbase News:

Analysis: Series A and Series B rounds have annually accounted for between 21% and 37% of total $100M+ VC rounds across the globe since 2010 — It's become the norm for some private tech companies to raise in a single round what VC firms raise for an entire new fund.

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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Imgur says it now has 300M MAU and launches Melee, an iOS app where users see a feed of memes and gameplay clips for the games to which they subscribe — 10 years after debut, 300 million monthly user Imgur is one of the last massively popular yet unpersonalized home pages on the internet.

More: VentureBeat and The Verge. Tweets: @joshconstine. Thanks:@sistaklein

Neha Malara / Reuters:

Slack reports Q3 revenue of $168.7M up 60% YoY, beating analyst estimates, and a net loss of $87.8M, says its paying customers grew to 105K, up 30% YoY — (Reuters) - Slack Technologies Inc (WORK.N) forecast disappointing current-quarter revenue and profit on Wednesday as its messaging platform wrestles with stiff competition.

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Paresh Dave / Reuters:

Instagram says it will now require birthdates from new users, in order to improve safety features for minors and better target ads for age-restricted products — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc's Instagram said it will require birthdates from all new users starting on Wednesday …

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