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Meeting with tech leaders, Trump says they can call him or his team any time, Thiel is “ahead of the curve”, and administration will work on “fair” trade deals — Looks like the tech industry has a direct line to Trump — Tech titans Jeff Bezos and Sheryl Sandberg meet with Trump transition team
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Source: Twitter was left out of Donald Trump's tech summit over refusal to create #CrookedHillary emoji, which was part of a larger $5M deal with the campaign — Twitter was told it was “bounced” from Wednesday's meeting between tech executives and President-elect Donald Trump in retribution …
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13 pictures of tech CEOs appearing unhappy at Donald Trump's tech summit — That feeling when.
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Trump transition official says Twitter was too small to be included in tech summit and that #CrookedHillary emoji ordeal had nothing to do with excluding them — Dec 14 President-elect Donald Trump left Twitter off the invitation list for a meeting of technology company executives on Wednesday …
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| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Yahoo reveals another hack where an “unauthorized third party” in Aug. 2013 stole data from 1B+ accounts including names, emails, telephone numbers, birthdates — Yahoo has disclosed that in addition to its September hacking incident, another “unauthorized third-party” obtained data from more than 1 billion user accounts.
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Two senior US officials say new intel shows Vladimir Putin directed how hacked DNC material was leaked to discredit US as global leader — U.S. intelligence officials now believe with “a high level of confidence” that Russian President Vladimir Putin became personally involved …
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| Kate Conger / TechCrunch: |
Evernote's new privacy policy, set to take effect on Jan. 23, would let some employees read user notes to aid with machine learning, although users can opt-out — Evernote announced that it will roll out a new privacy policy on January 23, and the changes have users threatening to abandon the service.
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FTC orders owner of Ashley Madison to pay $1.66M fine, as remainder of $17.5M settlement gets suspended due to inability to pay — The owner of hacked infidelity website Ashley Madison will pay $1.66 million to settle an investigation by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and several U.S. states …
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
150 prominent filmmakers sign an open letter to major camera makers, including Canon, Nikon, Sony, and others, asking for default storage encryption — In the summer of 2013, when documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras was shooting a still-secret NSA leaker named Edward Snowden in a Hong Kong hotel room, she took security seriously.| John Cook / GeekWire: |
Wynn Resorts to put Amazon Echo in 4.7K+ Wynn Las Vegas rooms, starting summer 2017 — Alexa, open the curtains? — You may soon be able to ask that question when traveling to the Wynn Las Vegas hotel, which announced today that it will place Amazon's Echo device — powered by the voice assistant Alexa — in all 4,748 hotel rooms.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple's standalone support app for accessing product docs, scheduling Genius Bar appointments, more, comes to US App Store, rolling out to more countries later — Apple's recently launched standalone support application is now hitting the U.S. App Store. The app, which had quietly debuted … | Jon Barlow / Pebble Developers: |
Fitbit to keep Pebble software and services running through 2017, but smart features dependent on third-party services will be reevaluated — Greetings, Pebble Devs, from our new home at Fitbit! — After last week's announcement and Dev Blog post, we wanted to share the latest …
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Instagram introduces bookmarking for posts, letting users save them for later in a private tab — Starting today, you can save posts you'd like to revisit later. — Now you'll see a new bookmark icon underneath posts in your feed. Simply tap it to save a post to a new, private tab on your profile.
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Facebook is in talks with TV shows and video producers about licensing content including original, licensed, scripted, unscripted, and sports programming — The company says it wants to “kickstart” its video efforts. — Facebook, which has long relied on other people to provide it with content … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Logicworks raises $135M round led by Pamplona Capital for its cloud automation and management platform — Cloud automation and managed service provider Logicworks today announced that it has raised a $135 million investment round led by Pamplona Capital. Logicworks' own management team …
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Google settles privacy suit, tentatively agrees to only scan emails for ads after they arrive in your inbox, which should have little effect on users or privacy — The company won't do ad scans until after a message hits your inbox — Yesterday, Google tentatively agreed to a series … | Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
California adopts energy standards requiring idle computers to draw less power; energy commission estimates 6% of desktops, 73% of laptops meet standards — California became the first state in the US to approve energy efficiency requirements for laptops, desktops, and monitors today … | Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
Online wedding registry Zola confirms it received $25M investment led by Lightspeed Venture Partners; Lightspeed partner Alex Taussig to join board — Lightspeed Venture Partners led the round — When Shan-Lyn Ma started Zola, there were several characteristics of the wedding registry industry …
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Amazon Prime Video's absence in China reflects other internet giants' struggles to break into that market where web services are governed by strict regulation — While Amazon boasted Wednesday that its Prime Video service is now available in more than 200 countries and territories, China … | Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
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