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Twitter comes under Congressional scrutiny as Russia-linked accounts found to tweet about NFL protests, spread misinformation, and share anti-Clinton stories — SAN FRANCISCO — After a weekend when Americans took to social media to debate President Trump's admonishment of N.F.L. players …
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Twitter finds that Russia Today accounts purchased $274K in ads and promoted 1,823 tweets in US market during 2016 — Earlier this summer we outlined some of our work to combat bots and networks of manipulation on Twitter. Since then, we have received a number of questions about how malicious bots … | Craig Timberg / Washington Post: |
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Ikea has acquired TaskRabbit and will run it as an independent subsidiary; TaskRabbit has raised around $50M — The Swedish home goods giant is looking for some digital help from the contract labor marketplace — Swedish home goods giant Ikea has bought TaskRabbit, according to sources close to the situation.
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GoPro announces the Hero6 with 4K video at 60fps, 2.7K at 120fps, and 1080p at 240fps, available today for $499 — Today, on a massive planetarium screen at San Francisco's Academy of Sciences museum, GoPro CEO Nick Woodman revealed the next generation of the company's venerable Hero action cam series, the Hero6.| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
LG V30 availability: Oct. 5 on Verizon, price TBD; Oct. 6 on AT&T for $810 or $27/month for 30 months; Oct. 13 on T-Mobile for $800 or $30/month for 24 months — Expect to pay around $800 — The LG V30 now has a release date in the US. Well, release dates is more accurate.| Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat: |
EU regulators say tech giants are still not doing enough to voluntarily remove hate speech and terrorist content, will review rules in six months — European regulators are giving Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube six months to voluntarily get more aggressive about blocking …
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Facebook is launching a new tool in India on October 1 to help match blood donors with hospitals, blood banks, and individuals in need — In India, people use Facebook for keeping in touch with family, sharing photos and finding blood. — Facebook is launching a new tool in India on Oct. 1 …
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Toshiba signs final agreement to sell its flash memory chip business for ~$18B to group led by Bain Capital, which includes Apple, Dell, SK Hynix, and Hoya Corp — Toshiba Corp. signed a final agreement to sell its flash memory chip business to a group led by Bain Capital for about 2 trillion yen … | Hannah Karp / Billboard: |
Interview with Apple Music's Jimmy Iovine, Zane Lowe, and Larry Jackson on how to continue to grow the service, as it tops 30M paying subscribers — From left: Zane Lowe, Larry Jackson and Jimmy Iovine photographed Sept. 18 at Apple Music's Beats 1 Studio in Los Angeles.| Jennifer Surane / Bloomberg: |
Equifax to launch a new free service by February 2018 which allows users to lock and unlock access to their credit files — New ‘safe and simple’ service to be introduced by January — CEO Barros lays out plan in newspaper op-ed on 2nd day in job — Equifax Inc. will debut a new service … | Chad Bray / New York Times: |
Rovio sets IPO price at €11.50/share, valuing firm at around $1B, will begin trading on Friday on Nasdaq Helsinki — LONDON — It turns out Angry Birds is a billion-dollar idea. — Rovio Entertainment, the company behind the Angry Birds empire that encompasses video games … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Snap announces sponsored 3D World Lenses, with Warner Bros and Bud Light as launch partners — Snapchat is taking its World Lenses augmented reality feature and opening them up to brands. Snap's Imran Khan just announced the availability of the new advertising product on stage at Advertising Week … Sponsor Posts
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