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Facebook is clamping down on “engagement bait”, posts that ask people for Likes or shares, by demoting them in the News Feed — Facebook has identified a new kind of spam: Engagement baiting. — Facebook is cracking down on a new type of clickbait: Posts that ask people to …
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| Thuy Ong / The Verge: |
Twitter starts enforcing new policies on violence and hateful conduct both on platform and off it, but changes don't apply to military or government entities — Policies now extend to hateful imagery and to conduct both on platform and off — Twitter says it will now begin enforcing …
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| Nicole Lee / Engadget: |
Amazon Echo Spot review: appealing design, great for video calls, touchscreen enhances Alexa experience, but mediocre audio, screen is bad for video playback — When Amazon unveiled the Echo Show earlier this year, we questioned if we really needed an Echo with a touchscreen.
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Sources: at least three prominent investors have decided not to fund HQ Trivia after finding troubling conduct on part of the founders, particularly Colin Kroll — Former Vine co-founders Rus Yusupov and Colin Kroll don't have a lot of fans from their time at Twitter.
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| Dustin Volz / Reuters: |
Kaspersky Lab sues the Trump administration in US court, arguing it was deprived of due process rights when DHS banned its software from US government agencies — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Moscow-based anti-virus company Kaspersky Lab sued the Trump administration in U.S. federal court on Monday … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Reddit updates its Android and iOS apps with support for real-time comments, chat, mod tools, and more — Reddit today is giving its mobile apps a major upgrade - the first since their launch last year, when the company decided to take back control over the official Reddit experience on mobile …
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Upvoted, MacRumors, Marketing Land, The Verge, 9to5Mac, Neowin, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Engadget. Tweets: @alexisohanian
| Jeremy Herron / Bloomberg: |
The stock of a small fintech company, Longfin, surged 2,400% in a week after acquiring Ziddu, a “blockchain-empowered global micro-lending solutions provider” — LongFin buys microlender that transacts only in digital coins — Latest small company to see gains based tied to bitcoin mania| Chris Sonderby / Facebook: |
Facebook transparency report for first half of 2017: account data requests rose 21% globally YoY to 78,890; 57% of data requests in US had non-disclosure order — Today we are releasing our Transparency Report, previously called the Government Requests Report, for the first half of 2017.
| Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat: |
Bloomberg launches TicToc, a 24-hour news channel only on Twitter that combines live video, reported segments, and a curated Twitter stream — For for the first time in several years, we can say without irony that Twitter appears to have a slight wind at its back.| Susan Crawford / Wired: |
How a Koch brothers-backed campaign against KentuckyWired, a public-private project to build statewide fiber network, energized Louisville to back the project — THE THREE REPUBLICAN commissioners now in power at the FCC voted this week to erase the agency's legal authority …
Tweets: @nxthompson, @wired, @greglangdon, @stevedittmore, and @mattcalcara
| Reuters: |
France files complaint against Amazon seeking a fine of €10M for abusing its dominant position with some suppliers — PARIS (Reuters) - The French government has filed a complaint with the Paris Commerce Court against e-commerce company Amazon for abusing its dominant position with some suppliers …
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The number of AmazonBasics products available on Amazon.com grew from about 250 products in June 2013 to over 1,500 products now, according to Internet Archive — Amazon launched a house brand, called AmazonBasics, in 2009. It was originally a way for Amazon to sell low-cost …
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