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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Sources: Uber has a program to identify enforcement officers and stealthily prevent them from successfully hailing cars, to help drivers avoid sanctions — SAN FRANCISCO — Uber has for years engaged in a worldwide program to deceive authorities in markets where its low-cost ride-hailing service …
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| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
Uber VP of product and growth Ed Baker has resigned after 3+ years; an anonymous email to Arianna Huffington and reporters included complaint about his conduct — His departure is tinged by allegations made about him to those investigating the ride-hailing company's loose culture.
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| San Francisco Chronicle: |
USCIS says it's temporarily suspending expedited processing of H-1B visas, an option often used by tech companies, for up to six months, beginning April 3 — The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will temporarily suspend expedited processing for all H-1B petitions starting April 3, according to the agency's website.
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Thanks:@owenthomas| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
As Facebook begins adding “disputed” labels, a look at how Facebook took a full week to label one made-up story from a fake news site as “disputed” — Coming to your feed: A “disputed” label for bogus stories — That bogus story about Donald Trump your uncle posted on Facebook?
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| New York Times: |
Sources and public records shed light on Pentagon program developing cyberweapons to sabotage North Korean missiles before they lift off — WASHINGTON — Three years ago, President Barack Obama ordered Pentagon officials to step up their cyber and electronic strikes against North Korea's missile program …
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Tweets: @adamnagourney, @davidakin, @nytimes, @edmundlee, @brianstelter, and @nickkristof
| Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
Appeals court invalidates Smartflash patents that Apple was ordered to pay $533M for infringing — Massive verdict would have been largest ever for a non-practicing entity. — It looked like Smartflash LLC had Apple right where it wanted it after a jury awarded the patent-holding company $533 million … | Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Researchers uncover PowerShell Trojan that uses DNS queries to get its orders — Delivered by “secure” Word doc, pure PowerShell malware fetches commands from DNS TXT records. — Researchers at Cisco's Talos threat research group are publishing research today on a targeted attack delivered … | Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
Sources: Amazon is testing Alexa-powered devices that can make phone calls and act as intercoms, may launch new devices this year — Alexa is popular, but daily usage is key. — Amazon plans to unveil one or more new Alexa-powered devices this year that will allow people to initiate phone calls by voice …
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| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
Apple's share of mobile devices shipped to schools has been surpassed by Microsoft and Google in recent years, as cheap Chromebooks and Windows laptops take off — Apple is losing its grip on American classrooms, which technology companies have long used to hook students on their brands for life.
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| T.C. Sottek / The Verge: |
JetSmarter, the “Uber for private jets”, wanted to charge a Verge reporter $2K if they didn't publish a positive story about their flight after service demo — We've seen plenty of aggressive requests from companies that want positive coverage, but perhaps none as absurd …
Tweets: @harrymccracken, @padresj, @candicechoi, @sarahbuhr, @benpopper, @chillmage, @davidmackau, @backlon, and @danawollman. See also Mediagazer
| Heather Somerville / Reuters: |
Snap joins other recent big exits for Lightspeed, which include Nutanix and AppDynamics; Lightspeed also invested early in MuleSoft, The Honest Company, Affirm — A decade ago, Lightspeed Venture Partners was an obscure firm investing in highly technical startups that were mostly unknown outside of Silicon Valley.
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Tweets: @sobedih and @sarahfrier
| Andrew Ross Sorkin / CNBC: |
NBCUniversal invested $500M in Snap IPO as part of a strategic investment and partnership, making it the only US media company with a stake — NBCUniversal, a unit of Comcast and parent of CNBC, invested $500 million in Snap during its IPO as part of a strategic investment and partnership, according to sources.
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Tweets: @joshconstine, @sacca, @reuterstech, @sdkstl, @schwindter, @ow, and @pkafka
See also Mediagazer| Tim Peterson / Marketing Land: |
Facebook adds option for Messenger bots to provide persistent menu instead of text entry field, another move away from text-based conversations for chat bots — Messenger bots can prevent people from typing in text to reply and make them use non-native menu buttons instead.
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TechCrunch, Social Media Today, Digital Trends, Softpedia News, Mashable, and Chatbots Magazine. Tweets: @farshadnayeri
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