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Facebook says most of ~3K Russia-linked ads during US Presidential campaign referenced divisive social issues, not the election, and that ~25% were geo-targeted — There have been a lot of questions since the 2016 US election about Russian interference in the electoral process.
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Facebook says it sold ~$100K of ads on politically divisive topics to Russia-linked accounts from 6/15-5/17; sources say FB told Congress ads targeted US voters — Representatives of Facebook told congressional investigators Wednesday that it has discovered it sold ads during …
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon seeks proposals from cities for a second HQ in North America, a “full equal” to Seattle HQ, and says it'll invest $5B+ and grow it to 50,000 employees — Amazon plans to build a second headquarters in a North American city to be determined, saying the new $5 billion campus will be a …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Google to sunset Drive app for desktop, with support ending December 11 and full shutdown on March 12, 2018, to be replaced by newer apps — Google will end support on December 11th — The aging Google Drive app for desktop is officially deprecated as of today, Google announced in a blog post.
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Atlassian launches Stride, a Slack-like workplace communication tool; free tier stores 25K messages, has 5GB file storage while $3/user/mo. tier removes limits — Atlassian, the company behind popular tools like Jira, Trello and Bitbucket, has also long offered a team communications service in the form of HipChat.
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Spotify and Hulu partner to offer both services in a bundle to US students for $4.99/month, will offer other bundles to more customers in future — Hulu and Spotify announced a partnership today that will see the two companies working together to market entertainment bundles offering … | Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft and Adobe advance partnership by integrating cross-cloud productivity integrations such as Microsoft Teams and Adobe's Sign e-Signature service — Microsoft and Adobe are continuing to integrate more of their cloud services — such as Microsoft Teams and Adobe's Sign e-signature service — across each other's portfolios.| Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire: |
Ookla's US Speedtest report: average mobile download speeds increased 19% YoY; T-Mobile fastest for mobile internet and Comcast Xfinity fastest for broadband — Mobile and fixed broadband internet speeds in the U.S. are improving, but not all carriers and providers are created equal …
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Sources: Apple secures deal for songs from Warner Music Group, plans to pay labels smaller percentage than it did under first streaming deal — IPhone maker plans to pay record labels smaller percentage — Paid streaming service has revived music industry; sales up| Karissa Bell / Mashable: |
Instagram says it's testing a feature for users to share their Story directly to Facebook — Facebook really wants people to view Stories on its main app, so much so that the social network is now turning to Instagram to see if its teen-friendly app can get the feature to finally stick.
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| Peter Rudegeair / Wall Street Journal: |
Square to apply for charter to form an industrial loan company, Square Financial Services, which will be capitalized with $56M in cash, chaired by Jackie Reses — The planned unit would offer loans and deposit accounts to small businesses and be capitalized with $56 million in cash| Jason Schwartz / Politico: |
Facebook is undermining its fact checking efforts by withholding data from its media partners, citing user privacy, such as which false stories are most popular — A once-touted plan to fact-check stories is being hindered by the company's refusal to share information.| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
MIT and IBM partner on $240M research lab, named MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, with 10-year research agreement focused on AI and its applications — IBM and MIT came together today to sign a 10-year, $240 million partnership agreement that establishes the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab at the prestigious Cambridge, MA academic institution.
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White hat hacker group warns that German election vote tabulating software has serious vulnerabilities, with some scenarios letting hackers change vote tallies — The Chaos Computer Club is publishing an analysis of software used for tabulating the German parliamentary elections (Bundestagswahl).
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