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Sources: Facebook has quietly built a tool to enable monitoring and suppression of posts based on location, to get back into China; Zuckerberg defended effort — SAN FRANCISCO — Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, has cultivated relationships with China's leaders, including President Xi Jinping.
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See also Mediagazer| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
AWS cuts S3 standard storage prices by up to 28% in certain regions effective December 1 — Public cloud market leader Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced changes to the pricing structure for its Glacier cold storage service, as well as price cuts for its widely used S3 standard cloud storage.
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| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Telegram launches Telegraph, a long-form publishing tool similar to Medium and Quip; no account is needed to publish posts — Telegram is branching beyond being a messaging app into something more well-rounded. The company on Tuesday launched Telegraph, a publishing platform with striking similarities to Medium and Quip.| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
AppNexus, second to Google in the automated ad serving market, bans Breitbart News from using its network, citing several violations of its hate speech policy — AppNexus takes a stand as bigger rivals, Google and Facebook, face scrutiny over their handling of ‘fake news’
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Oculus Rift will be able to stream Xbox One games via Windows 10 starting December 12 — At Xbox, we're continuously exploring new ways for you to get the most out of your gaming experiences by providing the choice to play how you want, where you want and with whomever you want.| Amina Elahi / Chicago Tribune: |
Social media monitoring firm Geofeedia lets 31 of 60 employees go after losing access to Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram data streams earlier this year — Twitter has cut off Geofeedia's access to its data after a report found that law enforcement has been using Geofeedia to monitor activists and protesters.
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| Rishika Sadam / Reuters: |
HP Inc.'s quarterly revenue up 2% to $12.51B, vs $11.9B expected, on strong PC sales, but forecasts weaker than expected Q1 adjusted profit — HP Inc (HPQ.N), the legacy printer and PC business of the former Hewlett-Packard Co, forecast a current-quarter adjusted profit largely below analysts … | Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Facebook is testing an in-app feature which shows where to find free and public Wi-Fi — Facebook has begun early testing of a feature designed to highlight places where you can access free and public Wi-Fi near you. The social networking company confirmed that its Wi-Fi discovery feature … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google launches its redesigned Google Sites out of beta, with collaborative editing — For the longest time, Google Sites felt like the forgotten app in Google's productivity suite. Earlier this year, though, the company announced that it would finally give Sites a full overhaul.
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| Sue Shellenbarger / Wall Street Journal: |
Study of 7.8K students from middle school through college finds most can't spot fake news; 82% middle-schoolers couldn't tell “sponsored content” from real news — Teens absorb social media news without considering the source; parents can teach research skills and skepticism
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Link to a malicious video can cause iOS devices to freeze when the video is played in Safari, requiring a hard reset to fix — Every so often, a weird bug related to iOS will emerge that causes some sort of temporary misbehaving for users affected by it. For instance, nearly two years ago the infamous …
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| Bloomberg: |
NTSB is investigating the crash of Facebook's Aquila internet drone during its test flight in June — @AlanLevin1 More stories by Alan Levin — NTSB investigating aircraft's structural failure on approach — Company founder Zuckerberg called June test flight successful
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Tweets: @alexhern, @williamturton, @sarahfrier, @caseynewton and @mhbergen
| Erin Griffith / Fortune: |
BuzzFeed buys e-commerce startup Scroll; founder Ben Kaufman now leads BuzzFeed Product Lab, which is turning its NY office into a physical store to test ideas — Two years ago, Ben Kaufman, then-CEO of well-funded consumer product startup Quirky, delivered one of the most awkward, and candid … | Todd Spangler / Variety: |
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