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Facebook testing News Feed change in six countries, moving non-promoted posts from Pages to a secondary feed, decreasing engagement for some media — New system could destroy smaller publishers if implemented, after journalists report drop in organic reach - but users will still see their friends' posts
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| Adam Mosseri / Facebook Media: |
Facebook says its News Feed test is about emphasis of personal stories, no plans to expand to more countries or ask publishers to pay for all distribution — There have been a number of reports about a test we're running in Sri Lanka, Bolivia, Slovakia, Serbia, Guatemala, and Cambodia.
| Bloomberg: |
Cisco to buy telecommunications software company BroadSoft for ~$1.9B to expand further into software and cloud services — Cisco Systems Inc. agreed to buy BroadSoft Inc. for about $1.9 billion to expand further into software and cloud services. — Cisco will pay $55 a share in cash …
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SiliconANGLE, Cisco Newsroom, Axios, ZDNet, Cisco Blog, Telecompetitor, VentureBeat, Light Reading, Reuters, Neowin, Silicon Valley Business …, Reuters, and PE Hub Blog
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| Tom Dotan / The Information: |
Sources: Snap overestimated demand for Spectacles, has hundreds of thousands of unsold units in warehouses; Evan Spiegel previously said sales beat expectations — Snap badly overestimated demand for its Spectacles and now has hundreds of thousands of unsold units sitting in warehouses …
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Android Police, CNET, Gizmodo, Engadget, GeekWire, Slate, Neowin, Phandroid, The Verge, Quartz, MSPoweruser, Digital Trends, SlashGear, Marketing Land, and TechSpot
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
FTC failed in allowing Facebook to acquire Instagram, WhatsApp; it should intervene on tbh, regardless of whether the purchase price is enough to mandate review — There was one line in TechCrunch's report about Facebook's purchase of social app tbh [sic] that made me raise my eyebrows (emphasis mine):
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft Azure customers now can run workloads on Cray supercomputers — Microsoft and Cray are teaming to give Azure customers with data-intentsive HPC, AI workloads access to Cray supercomputers running in select Microsoft datacenters. — Microsoft and Cray are enabling Azure customers … | Michael Balsamo / Associated Press: |
FBI Director Christopher Wray says in first 11 months of fiscal year, agents were unable to unlock over half the mobile devices it tried to access, over 6,900+ — PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The FBI hasn't been able to retrieve data from more than half of the mobile devices it tried to access in less than a year …
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9to5Mac, BBC, Ars Technica, MacRumors, Mashable, iDownloadBlog.com, and Gizmodo
Tweets: @zackwhittaker, @josephfcox, @schreckreports, and @bartongellman
| Kim Zetter / The Intercept: |
Kaspersky offers source code and business operations for review by independent third parties after Russian spying claims — Responding to U.S. government suggestions that its antivirus software has been used for surveillance of customers, Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab is launching what it's calling …
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CNET, Reuters, Kaspersky Lab official blog, Ars Technica, Business Wire, Neowin, The Hacker News, The Guardian, CSO, Engadget, TechCrunch, WRAL Tech Wire, BetaNews, Fortune, and Wall Street Journal
Tweets: @theintercept, @miriamelder, and @kaspersky
| Monica Nickelsburg / GeekWire: |
Amazon says it received 238 proposals from across North America for its second HQ — More than 200 metro areas entered to win Amazon's massive HQ2 contest before the Oct. 19 deadline — 238 to be exact. — Those proposals came from 54 states, provinces, districts, and territories across North America, Amazon announced Monday.
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New York Times, CNBC, East Bay Times, Business Insider, The Hill, CityLab, Wall Street Journal, and iPhone in Canada Blog. Thanks:@johnhcook
| Saqib Shah / Engadget: |
Google rolls out “Pay With Google”, which lets Android users shop faster by using a debit or credit card setup previously on a Google service, like YouTube — As promised, Google is streamlining online purchases made through Android devices by rolling out Pay with Google.
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The Keyword, CNET, TechCrunch, MacRumors, TechSpot, MSPoweruser, Fortune, Droid Life, Digital Trends, iDownloadBlog.com, The Memo, Inquirer, BetaNews, 9to5Google, The Verge, VentureBeat, Neowin, ZDNet, The Next Web, and Android Beat
| Stan Higgins / CoinDesk: |
E-sports betting startup Unikrn, backed by Mark Cuban, raises $31M in ICO; Unikoin Gold token to act as a medium of exchange for bettors to use on the platform — E-sports betting startup Unikrn has raised roughly $31 million in an initial coin offering. — The firm collected 112,720 ethers …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat updates iOS app with link sharing from other apps, introduces temporary opt-out options for Snap Map — Snapchat is embracing links beyond its native content and will now allow you to briefly disappear from its Snap Map. In an update to Snapchat's iOS apptoday, Snap began rolling out two important new features.Sponsor Posts
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