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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Some users' Google Photos videos in Takeout backups were exported to strangers between November 21-25, 2019; those affected were notified by email — With Google Takeout, you can download your data from Google apps as a backup or for use with another service.
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Tweets: @adrs, @randfish, @iamtherog, @userbasehq, @tomwarren, @backlon, @caseynewton, @dtunkelang, and @stillgray
| HuffPost: |
Sources: Shadow, a company affiliated with Democratic digital nonprofit ACRONYM, built Iowa caucus app used by workers that caused delays in reporting results — Shadow, a Democratic digital firm, created the app that was supposed to deliver quicker caucus results.
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| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Nvidia's GeForce Now game streaming service launches from beta with Steam, Epic Games Store, Battle.net, and Uplay support, rivaling Google Stadia at $5/month — The BYOG cloud gaming service with Steam, Epic, Battle.net, and Uplay support — For the past eight years …
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| David McCabe / New York Times: |
A look at the big companies including Marriott, Disney, and IBM pushing to limit Section 230 of the CDA, challenging Facebook, Google, and the web as we know it — A motley group of powerful companies have their knives out for Section 230, which shields platforms from lawsuits over content posted by users.| Financial Times: |
SoftBank Vision Fund's US chief Michael Ronen says he is “negotiating the terms of my anticipated departure” from the fund, amid concern about its direction — A top US executive at SoftBank's $100bn Vision Fund is leaving after expressing concerns about “issues” … | Michael Santoli / CNBC: |
Tesla's stock, up ~23% today, has more than tripled in under 4 months, from $255 on Oct. 23 to ~$960; 12K+ Robinhood users bought TSLA for the first time Monday — Jim Cramer: Tesla is a tech company and must be valued as one — Yes, there's an entrenched short base that's getting torched …
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Bloomberg, Reuters, TechSpot, MarketWatch, Electrek, Trustnodes, and Yahoo Finance
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| Associated Press: |
Irish regulators have launched separate inquiries into Google, over location data, and Tinder, examining how they process user data after a number of complaints — LONDON (AP) — Irish regulators have launched separate inquiries into Google and dating app Tinder over how they process user data … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: NYSE owner Intercontinental Exchange has made a takeover offer for eBay that could value the marketplace at more than $30B; eBay stock up 10%+ — A deal could value the online marketplace at more than $30 billion — New York Stock Exchange owner Intercontinental Exchange Inc … | Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Twitter says it has suspended “a large network of fake accounts” and many others for abusing an API feature that let them match phone numbers to usernames — Twitter announced today that over the holidays it identified and shut down “a large network of fake accounts,” …
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| Davey Alba / New York Times: |
Alphabet-owned Jigsaw is testing Assembler, a tool to identify doctored photographs, even ones created with the help of AI, with over a dozen news organizations — The company, owned by Google's parent, introduced a free tool it calls Assembler to sort out real images from fake ones.
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The Verge, Jigsaw, 9to5Google, and VentureBeat
Tweets: @jaredcohen, @jigsaw, @nytimes, and @jigsaw
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Instagram generated ~$20B in advertising revenue in 2019, making up more than a quarter of Facebook's revenue — - Unit brought in about $20 billion in 2019, people familiar say — Photo-sharing app has gained in importance since 2012 purchase
Tweets: @sarahfrier, @pkafka, @mgsiegler, @ericjackson, @savequokka, @caseynewton, @yoda, and @stevekovach
| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Finix, a SaaS startup selling payments tech to other businesses, raises $35M Series B led by Sequoia, bringing its total raised to over $55M — This morning Finix, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) startup selling payments tech to other businesses, announced that it has raised … | Paul Mozur / New York Times: |
Amid virus outbreak, authorities in China are using its vast surveillance network to identify potential carriers, ostracizing even those without the symptoms — The authorities hunt for people from Wuhan, the center of the outbreak, encouraging citizens to inform on others.
Tweets: @paulmozur, @sugabelly, @jotted, @amyyqin, and @liyuan6
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Koch Industries announces it's acquiring Infor, a provider of large-scale cloud ERP software founded in 2002, in a deal sources say is worth nearly $13B — Infor announced today that Koch Industries has bought the company in a deal sources peg at close to $13 billion.
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Bloomberg, ZDNet, SiliconANGLE, Wichita Business Journal, Enterprise Times, and diginomica
| Damien Wilde / 9to5Google: |
Google says it has paid Android developers over $80B since 2012, well below the $100B threshold Apple announced it surpassed back in 2018 — Google has confirmed that it has now paid out over $80 billion to Play Store developers since the launch of the digital marketplace in March 2012.
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The Verge, Daring Fireball, iPhone Hacks, Android Central, XDA Developers, and Android Police. Tweets: @flargh
| Wall Street Journal: |
The White House says companies, including Dell, Microsoft, and AT&T, are working together to create an open standard for 5G tech to reduce reliance on Huawei — Companies including Dell, Microsoft and AT&T are part of the effort, White House economic advisor Larry Kudlow says| About Facebook: |
Facebook debuts more controls for parents in Messenger Kids like the ability to view recent chat history, a log of chat images, remote device logout, and more — We launched Messenger Kids in 2017 after meeting with thousands of parents, parenting organizations, child safety advocates …
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The Verge, Mashable, Yahoo Finance, BetaNews, MSPoweruser, 9to5Mac, Fatherly, Input, SlashGear, and VentureBeat. Tweets: @frankcatalano
| Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed News: |
As Trump expands his travel ban to Nigeria and five others, Amazon, Apple, and Google have been silent, a break from their impassioned response in 2017 — In January 2017, when the Trump administration first unveiled a travel ban targeting seven majority Muslim countries, the tech industry took up arms.
Tweets: @rmac18, @slpng_giants, @carnage4life, and @brianbeutler
| Praveen Nagaraj / News Landed: |
Apple updates iCloud.com with mobile web support for Photos, Notes, Reminders, and Find iPhone — iCloud Photo Library on Android! — Apple has silently begun allowing native support for iCloud.com on mobile browsers for both iOS and (most importantly) Android.
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The Verge, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Input, iMore, iDownloadBlog.com, and Apple Must
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Researchers detail EKANS ransomware, which is targeting industrial control systems and appears to be the work of cybercriminals rather than nation-state hackers — EKANS appears to be the work of cybercriminals, rather than nation-state hackers—a worrying development, if so.| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
Sources: top antitrust official Makan Delrahim has recused himself from DOJ's Google probe over a conflict of interest related to his past work for the company — Makan Delrahim, the Justice Department's head of antitrust, removed himself from examining the search giant over a conflict of interest … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Seattle-based Kaskada raises $8M Series A for its machine learning feature engineering platform — Feature engineering — the process of using domain knowledge to extract features from raw data — is essential to tuning machine learning performance. It's also typically arduous …
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SiliconANGLE, FinSMEs, and GeekWire
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Alphabet breaks out revenue numbers for YouTube ads for the first time: $4.7B in Q4 revenue and $15.15B in fiscal 2019, up from $11.16B YoY — We've never before known how much money YouTube generates — YouTube generated nearly $5 billion in ad revenue in the last three months …
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The Guardian, Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch, CNBC, NBC News, International Business Times, and The Overspill
Tweets: @sarahfrier, @b_fung, @randfish, @hunterwalk, @lutherlowe, @kevinroose, @sruhle, @madhavchanchani, @ashkan, @loudmouthjulia, @adamsinger, and @oneunderscore__
| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
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Tweets: @ryan_browne_ and @jyarow
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