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Twitter decides to ban advertising from all accounts owned by Russia Today and Sputnik and will donate estimated $1.9M earnings since 2011 to misinfo research — Twitter has made the policy decision to off-board advertising from all accounts owned by Russia Today (RT) and Sputnik, effective immediately.
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Tweets: @m_simonyan, @jack, @markwarner, @cwarzel, @kpoulsen, @reuterstech, @yashalevine, @therickwilson, @ggreenwald, @cwarzel, @rt_com, and @cwarzel. Thanks:@brianmcc
| Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal: |
Twitter overstated MAUs by 1-2M since Q4 2014 by including users of a service for third-party apps; according to revised numbers, its MAUs shrank in Q2 by 2M — Social media company says it had been including users of service for third-party apps as monthly users that shouldn't have been counted
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Tweets: @wsj, @chrismaddern, and @emilybell
| Selina Wang / Bloomberg: |
Twitter Q3: $589.6M revenue tops estimates, net loss down to $21.1M; MAUs grew 4% YoY to 330M, DAUs grew 14% YoY; stock up 19%+ as Q4 guidance suggests profit — Monthly active users grew 4% year-over-year to 330 million — Quarterly sales of $589.6 million topped analysts' estimates
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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
AMD debuts Ryzen Mobile CPUs for ultrathin notebooks: 2.2GHz Ryzen 7 2700U with 3.8GHz Turbo, 10 Vega cores; 2GHz Ryzen 5 2500U with 3.8Ghz Turbo, 8 Vega cores — It's been a revival year for AMD. Its Ryzen chips thrust it back into the desktop arena — so much so that it practically forced Intel …
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
Researcher recounts warning Equifax about vulnerability on public-facing site that exposed user data months before breach, six months before Equifax patched — Months before its catastrophic data breach, a security researcher warned Equifax that it was vulnerable to the kind of attack …
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Tweets: @lorenzofb, @jason_koebler, @selenalarson, and @derektmead
| Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
Three female engineers sue Uber for sex and race discrimination, claim Uber pays female engineers less than male, white, and Asian-American counterparts — Three female engineers claim that “stack ranking” was stacked against them. — A new lawsuit claims Uber pays female engineers …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Facebook launches Workplace Chat desktop app and will roll out group video chat soon, says 30K organizations use Workplace and that 1M groups have been created — It's been once year since Workplace, Facebook's social network designed specifically for businesses and other organizations …
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Workplace Stories, Fortune, Digital Trends, MacRumors, Adweek, Recode, cloudpro.co.uk, Ubergizmo, MSPoweruser, ZDNet, and Business Insider. Thanks:@ingridlunden
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Uber launches multi-stop trips in the US and Canada, with other markets like UK and Ireland expected soon — It's been a long time coming, but Uber is finally rolling out multi-stop trips to riders in North America. — You may have noticed a hullabaloo about this earlier in the year.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google Pixelbook review: beautiful hardware, great Chrome apps performance, but has average battery life, and Android apps need to be updated for screen and pen — Can a supercomputer for web apps challenge the iPad Pro?
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| Erica Anderson / The Keyword: |
Google announces partnership with International Fact-Checking Network to focus on increasing number of fact checkers, expand service globally, more — With so much information available around the clock and across devices, the ability to quickly understand what's true and what's false online is increasingly important.
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TechCrunch, Engadget, BetaNews, Search Engine Land, Fact-Checking, and Axios
Tweets: @googlenewslab and @mantzarlis
| Samantha Liss / St. Louis Post-Dispatch: |
Amazon gains wholesale pharmacy licenses in 12+ states, including Nevada, Arizona, Louisiana, Alabama, New Jersey, Michigan, Connecticut, Oregon, and Tennessee — Throughout the past year, and without much fanfare, Amazon.com Inc. has gained approval to become a wholesale distributor …
Tweets: @reuterstech
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
GoFundMe announces GoFundMe Studios to make short videos for select campaigns to aid promotion — GoFundMe has racked up over $4 billion in donations as the world's biggest platform for people setting up donation campaigns, in part by leveraging the power of social media to get people …
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| Nancy Scola / Politico: |
Study: interviews with tech staffers show how Facebook, Twitter, and Google helped Trump team as part of ad services; Clinton team declined embeds — A study reveals employees the companies placed in the Trump campaign played a surprisingly active role in shaping its message and targeting voters.
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