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| Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
Google adds fact checking information to search results and Google News worldwide — Last October, Google launched support to highlight fact-checking articles within Google News in the US and the UK. Now those articles will get special presentation as part of general Google searches worldwide.
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| Walt Mossberg / The Verge: |
Walt Mossberg is retiring in June, shortly after the 2017 Code Conference, ending a 47-year career at publications including the WSJ, Recode, and The Verge — Thanks for reading, watching, listening — It was a June day when I began my career as a national journalist.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers uncover BrickerBot-powered botnet attacks that are designed to brick poorly secured Linux-based routers and other IoT devices — Ongoing “BrickerBot” attacks might be trying to kill devices before they can join a botnet. — Researchers have uncovered a rash of ongoing attacks designed … | Biz Carson / Business Insider: |
Uber responds to Waymo's lawsuit in a court filing, says it never received the documents Levandowski downloaded from Waymo, has different Lidar design, more — Uber has said from the beginning that Google's claims of intellectual-property theft involving self-driving-car technology are “meritless.”
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Department of Homeland Security has withdrawn its order to unmask @ALT_uscis Twitter account that criticized Trump, prompting Twitter to drop its lawsuit — Just one day after being sued in federal court, Homeland Security has withdrawn its order to unmask the @Alt_USCIS account …
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| Giulia Segreti / Reuters: |
Italy court blocks Uber services in Italy, citing unfair competition — A court blocked the use of smart phone apps for Uber cars in Italy on Friday, ruling that they constituted unfair competition. — The court said Uber could not use its Black, Lux, Suv, X , XL, Select and Van phone applications nor … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Israel-based Otonomo raises $25M Series B for its cloud software that helps automakers monetize data generated by connected cars — It's no secret that data is the hot new revenue source for automakers, who are seeing additional profit opportunities bloom as vehicles become more connected …
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| David Kravets / Ars Technica: |
Twitch is asking Canadian court to force PayPal, CloudFlare, others to hand over identifying info of spambot creator — PayPal, CloudFlare, Shaw, and Whois “are involved” in attacks, Twitch claims. — Amazon-owned video streaming site Twitch is taking a scorched-earth approach in a bid …
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| Anita Balakrishnan / CNBC: |
Okta closes up 38%+ on first day of trading after raising $187M in its IPO — Okta shares popped more than 35% percent on Friday morning in their debut on the public market, trading around $23. — Shares of the stock started trading on the Nasdaq with the symbol OKTA.
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TechCrunch, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, Okta, CNBC, Fortune, Forbes, cloudcomputing-news.net, and Crunchbase. Tweets: @gradypb
| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
Google says it has reduced fake Google Maps listings by 70% since June 2015 by improving business verification methods and using machine learning to fight spam — Google announced that they have heard about all the Google Maps spam issues over the years and have taken several steps to reduce the fake results in Google Maps.
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Google Online Security Blog, Fortune, Search Engine Watch, and eWeek
| Tony Romm / Recode: |
Source: Internet Association, which represents Facebook, Google, Twitter, others, will meet with FCC's Ajit Pai next week to discuss net neutrality rule changes — Some in Silicon Valley fear the draft blueprint from FCC Chairman Ajit Pai lacks teeth. — A short-lived ceasefire over net neutrality is quickly coming to an end.| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
| Pan Yue / China Money Network: |
Sources: Chinese personalized news recommendation app Toutiao raises $1B Series D led by Sequoia and CCB International at over a $12B valuation — Sequoia Capital and CCB International, an investment unit of China Construction Bank Co., have led a series D investment of around US$1 billion … Sponsor Posts
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