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| Fred Wilson / AVC: |
From 2012 to 2015, following Facebook's IPO, early stage startup valuations soared to unsustainable levels, and are now returning back to normal — I tweeted out this article from Techcrunch in the middle of last week: … And the response from the Twittersphere was a desire to hear my views on it.
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| Cate Cadell / Reuters: |
Speaking at event organized by the CAC, China's internet censorship agency, Tim Cook says 1.8M devs have earned ~$17B so far through Apple's App Store in China — WUZHEN, China (Reuters) - Apple Inc's chief executive Tim Cook said developers using its platform in China number 1.8 million … | Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
iOS 11.2 released: fixes a bug that caused some notifications to crash iPhones starting Dec 2, adds Apple Pay Cash and faster 7.5W wireless charging — Apple today released iOS 11.2, the second major update to the iOS 11 operating system available on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. iOS 11.2 comes …
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| Fitz Tepper / TechCrunch: |
CryptoKitties, a game officially launched on Nov 28 that lets you trade and breed virtual cats, becomes top app by number of transactions on Ethereum blockchain — Launched a few days ago, CryptoKitties is essentially like an digital version of Pokemon cards but based on the Ethereum blockchain.
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| Adam Rogers / Wired: |
How scientific search engines like Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic, and Semantic Scholar are helping to bring more research papers out from behind paywalls — ANURAG ACHARYA'S PROBLEM was that the Google search bar is very smart, but also kind of dumb. As a Googler working on search 13 years ago …
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| Tom Westbrook / Reuters: |
Australia's competition regulator says it will investigate whether Facebook and Google have disrupted news media to the detriment of publishers and consumers — SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's competition regulator said on Monday it would investigate whether U.S. online giants Facebook …
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Former NSA employee Nghia H. Pho pleads guilty to taking classified files home, where, officials say, Russian hackers stole the files via Kaspersky software — BALTIMORE — A former National Security Agency employee admitted on Friday that he had illegally taken from the agency classified documents believed …
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| Joseph Cox / The Daily Beast: |
How scammers act as a middleman between Uber drivers and passengers, taking payments and relaying messages outside the Uber app — Uber's ride-sharing service has given birth to some of the most creative criminal scams to date, including using a GPS-spoofing app to rip off riders in Nigeria …
Tweets: @thedailybeast
| Matt Navarra / The Next Web: |
Instagram tests native regram button, GIF sticker search, Story archiving, closest friends list, and other new features — TNW today obtained information on a range of new features Instagram is currently testing. As with all tests, this means some of you may have already seen one or two of the new features.
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| Nicole Lee / Engadget: |
Razer Phone review: 5.7' QHD screen with up to 120Hz refresh rate provides great gameplay experience, good battery life, but camera is mediocre for a $700 phone — Razer is mostly known for its gaming hardware, so it was a little surprising when the company acquired phone-maker Nextbit earlier this year.
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Gizmodo and Business Insider
| Anil Dash / Humane Tech: |
How optimizing content for search engines in the early days of the web gave rise to today's never-ending algorithmic arms race against web and social platforms — A dozen years ago, the web started to reshape itself around major companies like Google. We can understand the genesis …
Tweets: @felixsalmon, @merbroussard, @badams, @mattcutts, @ethicistforhire, and @anildash
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Vidme Shuts Down User-Generated Video Service, Citing Inability to Compete With Google, Facebook — Startup Vidme is shutting down its user-generated video service — because it can't see a way to make money in the face of internet giants Google and Facebook.
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