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Apple News and Twitter will co-host Democratic presidential debates in 2020, with Facebook noticeably absent after co-hosting debates in 2012 and 2016 — The Democratic National Committee announced on Thursday the hosts of the next four presidential debates in the first four primary and caucus states.
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| Maya Shwayder / Digital Trends: |
Decentralizing Twitter won't solve its hate speech problems; Mastodon CEO says “it sounds like Twitter is making a Mastodon clone” — Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey floated a compelling possibility on Wednesday: He wants to put together a team to explore decentralizing Twitter.| Klint Finley / Wired: |
How decentralized protocols may help solve some issues plaguing social media today; @bluesky team should consider existing projects like Mastodon — The CEO tweeted that he's hiring a team to develop open source standards for decentralized social networks. His hope: It will spawn better ways to combat hate and harassment.| @jack: |
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| Roma Slyusarchuk / The Keyword: |
Google rolls out Verified SMS, which labels messages from legitimate businesses, on Android in nine countries, expands spam detection in messages to the US — In addition to enhancing messaging on Android with Rich Communication Services (RCS) and bringing you helpful features with Messages …
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Google brings its real-time translation mode, interpreter, to the Google Assistant app on iOS and Android globally with support for 44 languages — After rolling out on smart speakers and displays earlier this year, Google's interpreter real-time translation mode finally landing on mobile.| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Facebook makes an initial commitment of $130M to its upcoming Oversight Board and says it will not announce the first members this year as originally expected — Facebook announced an initial commitment of $130 million to launch its new Oversight Board, which is designed as a way for users …
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| Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land: |
Google says it is changing mobile search results for news topics, adding more carousels of stories, starting in the US and rolling out later internationally — Users will now see multiple carousels of news stories. — Google is changing how it presents news stories in its search results.
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| Sean Lyngaas / CyberScoop: |
Jeanette Manfra, assistant director for cybersecurity at DHS, will be joining Google Cloud as global director of security and compliance — One of the U.S. government's most influential cybersecurity officials is heading to Google. — Jeanette Manfra will take a job at the tech giant's cloud division … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
As it did in 2018, Twitter says it will add labels to 2020 House, Senate, and governor candidates who qualify for the general election ballot — The company will label 2020 candidates for US House, Senate, and gubernatorial races — For the 2018 midterm elections, Twitter introduced labels … | Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Bill.com, which automates payments for SMBs, prices its IPO at an above-range $22 per share to raise around $216M at a valuation of around $1.6B — Business-to-business payments company Bill.com priced its IPO today at an above-range $22 per share. The firm, selling 9.82 million shares in its offering …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
AI Index Report 2019: 300% rise in research papers, US the global leader by most metrics, self-driving cars received more private investment than any AI field — The 2019 AI Index report gives us a glimpse into AI progress — Trying to get a handle on the progress of artificial intelligence …
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| Julie Verhage / Bloomberg: |
Robinhood starts rolling out its Cash Management service, which offers 1.8% interest, debit cards, and FDIC coverage on deposits through bank partnerships — Robinhood Markets Inc. has finally launched its take on a bank account, albeit a very different version of the service it once hoped to offer.| Charlotte Tucker / EU-Startups: |
Paris-based Yubo, which lets young people create live video discussion spaces, raises €11M led by Iris Capital and Idinvest Partners — Today Yubo, the social platform connecting Generation Z around the world, announces snapping up more than €11 million.| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Profile of Canva, a graphic design app that CEO Melanie Perkins helped build from a yearbook-design business out of Perth into a profitable $3.2B Adobe rival — On a steamy May morning in 2013, Canva CEO Melanie Perkins found herself adrift on a kiteboard in the channel between billionaire …
Tweets: @alexrkonrad, @n_sportelli, @d_tao, @realmdonnelly, @alexrkonrad, @kitevc, @forbes, @rafat, @alexrkonrad, @alexrkonrad, and @dannygroner
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
LeanTaaS, which uses AI to improve the operational performance of hospitals and clinics, raises $40M Series C, bringing its total raised to $100M — Long wait times for patients can be the undoing of a large clinic or a hospital system. According to a recent survey, 84% of patients consider … | Kana Inagaki / Financial Times: |
Struggling display maker Japan Display agrees to a $829M bailout; sources say Apple has agreed to make an equity investment of $200M — Japan Display has agreed to an injection of up to ¥90bn ($829m) from Ichigo Asset Management in a deal that would allow the cash-strapped company …
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| Reed Albergotti / Washington Post: |
MeetMe, which combines dating with live streaming, admits it let a “VIP” user keep streaming even after he was outed as a sex offender — MeetMe says it checks users to ensure they aren't convicted sex offenders. But the success of one streamer came within weeks of his release from prison.
Tweets: @nancyjosales and @reedalbergotti
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Atlassian announces Forge, a serverless cloud development platform to help developers easily integrate with Atlassian products — Atlassian has a portfolio of developer tools like Bitbucket, Jira and Confluence. It also has a marketplace with hundreds of add-ons, but what it lacked was a development platform to call its own.
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| New York Times: |
Details of 15M bank debit cards in Iran from its three largest banks have been published on social media in what experts suspect is a state-sponsored attack — The details of millions of Iranian bank cards were published online after antigovernment protests last month. Experts suspect a state-sponsored cyberattack.
Tweets: @gesfandiari and @farnazfassihi
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