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Sources: Facebook and Google helped Secure America Now, a conservative nonprofit advocacy group, target ads for an anti-refugee campaign in swing states — The big tech companies worked closely with Secure America Now to target an audience the group felt could be swayed by the message.
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Fantastical launches an intelligent new contacts app for the Mac called Cardhop, available today for $14.99 for a limited time, later at $19.99 — Flexibits, the team behind the excellent calendar app Fantastical, is out with a brand new Mac app that turns your messy contacts database into something completely usable and interactive.
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| Erin Griffith / Wired: |
Internal email details Twitter's plans to update rules on abuse, including expanding reporting options, hiding hate symbols behind warnings, more — WHEN TWITTER COULD take credit for revolutionary political movements like the Arab Spring, it was easy for the company's executives to joke about their liberal stance on free speech.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Adobe turns Lightroom CC into a new cloud photography service, providing 1TB of storage with support for RAW images, and introduces new pricing plans — Adobe's annual Adobe MAX conference kicks off today, and the company is introducing a whole slew of updates to its Creative Cloud platform.
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| Peter Rudegeair / Wall Street Journal: |
JPMorgan Chase to acquire online payment startup WePay; source says deal is for more than WePay's 2015 valuation of ~$220M — WePay, which serves e-commerce and crowdfunding customers, was valued at roughly $220 million in a 2015 fundraising — J.P. Morgan Chase JPM -.22% & Co … | Corinne Reichert / ZDNet: |
Microsoft says it is in the “second half of the dev process” of testing mobile PCs made with Qualcomm ARM chips — Windows 10 on Snapdragon is coming soon, with the always-connected PCs in the final stages of development and testing while Microsoft and Qualcomm enter discussions with carriers on sales channels.| Alex Webb / Bloomberg: |
Apple partners with General Electric to develop industrial mobile apps for managing machinery, factories, and power plants — Businesses want same experiences as consumers, executive says — Apple makes GE's Predix its preferred industrial platform — General Electric Co. is teaming …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
“Nude” app uses machine learning locally on device to find nude pics of users before moving them to PIN-protected vault, available for iOS, Android app to come — Making the camera roll safe for sharing — Nudes are an inconvenient truth of the mobile era.| Adam Ludwin / Chain: |
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| Kunal Dua / NDTV Gadgets 360: |
WhatsApp to roll out real-time location sharing to Android and iOS users in coming weeks — WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned messaging service, is giving its over 1 billion users another reason to keep coming back to the app multiple times a day: live location sharing.
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| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
UAE-based sovereign wealth fund Mubadala is launching a $400M fund in partnership with SoftBank, a $200M VC fund-of-funds, and is opening a San Francisco office — Mubadala, an Abu Dhabi-based sovereign wealth fund with $125 billion in assets under management, is opening its first U.S. office …
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| Chavie Lieber / Racked: |
An in-depth look at how eBay, with 171M users and 1.1B listings, has remained stagnant in the shadow of competition, and is struggling for relevancy — Even with 171 million users, the online shopping giant is grasping for relevancy. — “Fill your cart with color,” read several giant …
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| New York Times: |
Politifact and Snopes, using Google AdSense, unwittingly hosted ads by fake news publishers; source says AdSense has terminated the ads — SAN FRANCISCO — The headlines are eye-catching. Melania Trump is leaving the White House! Home renovation cable star Joanna Gaines has abandoned her HGTV show and husband Chip Gaines!| Matt Burns / TechCrunch: |
Michigan-based SaaS firm Duo Security raises $70M Series D at a valuation of $1.17B, led by Meritech Capital Partners and Lead Edge Capital — Duo Security today announced its Series D funding that puts the company in unicorn territory. The company raised $70 million led by Meritech Capital Partners …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon opens up Alexa's list feature, letting users create a list for any purpose — Amazon today announced it's improving one of Alexa's most-used features: lists. The company is expanding both the Shopping list and To-Do list functionality to allow Alexa device owners to create …
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| Bloomberg: |
Amazon expands beyond just selling books in Brazil as it opens an electronics and appliances marketplace — Online retailer introduces electronics, appliances marketplace — E-commerce giant has sold books in Brazil for five years — Amazon.com Inc. is ready to commit to Brazil. Kind of, sort of.
Tweets: @thestalwart
| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Regina Dugan, head of Facebook's Building 8 hardware lab, announces she's leaving the firm within next “several months” after joining 18 months ago — Dugan is departing after just 18 months to “lead a new endeavor.” — Regina Dugan, the head of Facebook's secretive hardware …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Canadian point-of-sale firm Lightspeed POS raises $166M Series D led by Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, hopes to be IPO-ready by mid-2019 — E-commerce and digitally-based financial transactions have consistently been one of the biggest and most lucrative areas of the tech world … | Rachel Kaser / The Next Web: |
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