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Sources: Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom has had preliminary talks about becoming TikTok's new CEO — The video app is also looking for a new chief executive and has talked to candidates including a founder of Instagram. — WASHINGTON — The Chinese company that owns TikTok has accepted …
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Sources: ByteDance plans US IPO for new global TikTok business if Trump approves deal including Walmart and Oracle, which will take less than a 20% global stake — - President Trump is expected to decide on TikTok's fate in the U.S. in the next 24-36 hours, sources told CNBC's David Faber.
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A look at the alliance of convenience between Facebook and Trump admin as sources say Zuckerberg told employees that Facebook is likely to fare better under GOP — In late 2019, during one of Mark Zuckerberg's many trips to Washington to defend Facebook in front of Congress … | Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
A bug in the first public release of iOS 14 is making the default browser or mail app settings reset to Apple's Safari or Mail when the device reboots — One of the new features in iOS 14 is the ability to change the default email or browser app to a third-party alternative such as Chrome, Edge, or Outlook.
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Data analytics company Sumo Logic's stock closed at $26.88 per share, up 22% from opening, raising more than $325M in its IPO and valuing the company at ~$2.2B — Shares of Sumo Logic Inc. jumped more than 20% when they hit the stock market Thursday after the cloud-based machine data analytics firm raised … | Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Facebook says it will specify which parts of its internal Workplace are for discussing political issues so staffers don't have to confront such issues at work — - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday outlined to employees a new set of principles to guide debates and conversations within Workplace …
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Facebook launches Facebook Business Suite, which lets SMBs manage their pages and profiles across Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger from a single interface — Facebook on Thursday launched a new app named Facebook Business Suite that lets small businesses manage their pages and profiles across Facebook …
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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
Twitter rolls out security features for high-profile political accounts, including enabling password reset protection and security prompts, ahead of US election — It's automatically turning on password reset protection — Twitter will start prompting high-profile political accounts …
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Docs: Amazon generated ~$3.9B in revenue and $1.6B in profit for USPS during FY2019; USPS delivered 1.54B packages for Amazon, or 30% of Amazon's 2019 volume — Nearly 10,000 pages of emails, memos and other private documents offered new details about the agency's struggles and the pro-Trump figures to whom it turned for advice.| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Apple Watch Series 6 hands-on: always-on screen is bright and the best feature, but it's an iterative update and blood oxygen monitor gave some failed readings — Also a very red smartwatch — I've had just under 24 hours with the new Apple Watch Series 6, which is just enough time to gather a handful of impressions.
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Facebook says it will limit the spread of private groups focused on health advice and those with ties to violence, and will archive groups without admins — - Facebook announced new policies that will limit the spread of private groups on its social network that focus on giving users health advice …
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| Eric Geller / Politico: |
US charges 3 alleged state-backed Iranian hackers with stealing sensitive info on aerospace and satellite tech from 2015-2019, detailing spear phishing attack — The hackers allegedly impersonated real U.S. citizens in the targeted industries. — A participant looks at lines of code … | Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
Mozilla's new browser extension RegretsReporter aims to crowdsource research into harmful YouTube recommendations — RegretsReporter will let users send in reports about recommended harmful videos — YouTube's recommendations algorithm can lead you down some very weird rabbit holes …
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Mozilla says it is permanently shutting down Firefox Send after some users sent malware and conducted spear phishing attacks using the file-sharing service — Expanding beyond the Firefox browser to online services isn't simple. — Mozilla permanently shut down its Firefox Send service …
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Affirm, e-commerce point-of-sale lender, raises $500M Series G, bringing its total raised to $1.3B; in July, sources said Affirm was preparing for an IPO — Affirm, a San Francisco-based point-of-sale (POS), buy now, pay later (BNPL) lender, announced a $500 million series G round of funding Thursday …
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A critique of The Social Dilemma documentary, which seems to exist only to stoke fear and outrage while promoting a distorted view of how social platforms work — The world is more complicated than filmmakers want to believe — I. A dilemma — On Sunday night, after being encouraged … | Jeff Grubb / VentureBeat: |
PS5 will launch on Nov. 12 in North America, Japan, Mexico, AU, and NZ for $500 for Blu-Ray version and $400 for Digital Edition and then elsewhere on Nov. 19 — Sony provided more details about the upcoming PlayStation 5. During a video event today, the company explained what you can expect in terms of a PS5 release date and price.
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