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Twitter acquires Chroma Labs, which makes tools for video and photo creation, will split team across product, design, and engineering, shut down Chroma Stories — - Company builds photo, video-editing features for social media — Chroma will join Twitter to work on ‘conversations’ products
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Facebook is internally testing a tabbed version of News Feed for mobile that includes the Most Relevant feed, the Most Recent feed, and an Already Seen feed — Facebook may make it easier to escape its ranking algorithm and explore the News Feed in different formats.
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| Johana Bhuiyan / Los Angeles Times: |
Sources: Uber shuts down its customer support office in LA, laying off ~80 employees and outsourcing their jobs to a support office in Manila — Uber has closed a customer support office in downtown Los Angeles, laying off about 80 employees, The Times has learned.| Corbin Davenport / Android Police: |
Mozilla releases its VPN service Firefox Private Network on Android in a closed beta for $4.99/month — Mozilla, the organization behind the much-loved Firefox web browser, has experimented with creating a VPN service for some time. Unlike the VPNs packaged with browsers like Opera …
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| Nilesh Christopher / VICE: |
An Indian election candidate created multiple deepfakes of his own video with him speaking different languages to access voters, reaching ~15M WhatsApp users — On February 7, a day ahead of the Legislative Assembly elections in Delhi, two videos of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) …
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| Michael del Castillo / Forbes: |
Coinbase becomes a Visa Principal Member, allowing it to issue bitcoin debit cards for other crypto companies and traditional firms — Credit card giant Visa has granted its principal membership to a cryptocurrency company for the first time. Officially awarded to cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase … | Hugh Son / CNBC: |
LendingClub is acquiring Boston-based online bank Radius Bancorp in a deal valued at $185M, making it the first US fintech company to acquire a bank — - LendingClub, a fintech company that pioneered personal loans made online, is buying a U.S. bank to give it access to a stable and cheaper source of funding, CNBC has learned.
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| Richard Cooke / Wired: |
A tribute to Wikipedia, which is one of the few remaining places that retains the faintly utopian glow of the early World Wide Web — People used to think the crowdsourced encyclopedia represented all that was wrong with the web. Now it's a beacon of so much that's right.
Tweets: @alexhinojo, @wired, @johnbirmingham, @wikimedia, @rgcooke, @jonnoxrevanche, @timsmithrx, and @mondaystory
| Nicholas Quah / Hot Pod News: |
Patreon has launched Patreon Capital, which provides creators with cash advances they pay back with slight interest using income earned on the platform — I was tempted to kick this story off with a platitude along the lines of: “Starting something is the hardest part.”
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
ISPs seek an injunction against a Maine law requiring opt-in consent before sharing customer info like browsing histories, saying it violates free-speech rights — Law says ISPs need opt-in consent before using or sharing Web-browsing history. — The broadband industry is suing Maine … | George P. Slefo / Ad Age: |
Consumer insights provider Hitwise is shutting down after 24 years, following allegations that it purchased sensitive user data from Avast's Jumpshot — The move underscores the growing impact consumer privacy is having in areas such as ad tech — Consumer insights company Hitwise … | Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Ring makes two-factor authentication mandatory and pauses use of most third-party analytics services as it devises ways to limit data sharing with third parties — Ring is continuing its bid to improve privacy and security after facing criticism. As of today, the Amazon brand will start requiring …
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| Steven Overly / Politico: |
Judge rules that Huawei does not have grounds to sue the US government over a law banning federal agencies and their contractors from buying Huawei products — A federal judge ruled today that Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei does not have grounds to sue the U.S. government …
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| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Atomico announces its fifth fund has closed at $820M, bringing their total assets to $2.7B; Atomico will mostly fund European startups at Series A — Atomico, the European venture capital firm founded by Skype's Niklas Zennström, has announced that it has closed its fifth fund …
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| Robert Hof / SiliconANGLE: |
Dell announces it is selling its RSA cybersecurity firm to a consortium led by private equity firm Symphony Technology Group for $2.075B — Updated: — Dell Technologies Inc. announced Tuesday it's selling its venerable RSA Security LLC business to a consortium led by Palo Alto … | Taiga Uranaka / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Japan's Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group is investing $700M in ride hailing giant Grab, intends to market its financial services to Grab's users — - MUFG gains access to millions of users in Southeast Asia — Grab is trying to build a regional super-app like WeChat| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Aisera, which uses AI to help with customer service and internal operations, raises $20M Series B led by Norwest Venture Partners — Robotic process automation — the ability to automate certain repetitive software-based tasks to free up people to focus on work that computers cannot do … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Huntress, a SaaS cybersecurity provider, raises $18M Series A led by ForgePoint Capital as it expands into additional market segments and geographies — According to a recent study published by the University of Maryland, hackers attack every 39 seconds (or about 2,244 times a day), and they're often successful.
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Passle, Huntress Labs, and FinSMEs
| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
ElectionGuard, the open-source voting machine software Microsoft announced in May 2019, gets its first real-world test today in a local vote in Fulton, WI — ElectionGuard isn't designed to make voting machines safe from hackers. It's meant to make hacking them pointless.
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