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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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Facebook: Dwight Silverman. Tweets: @mattnavarra, @mmasnick, @nsqe, @mattnavarra, @alexhern, @craigsilverman, @hughstephens, and @raju
| 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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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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Business Insider, The Next Web, and New York Magazine
Tweets: @shiraovide, @fmanjoo, @runvc, @moorehn, @xander76, @ajs, @triketora, @sarahfrier, @johnwilson, @yoda, @jillianiles, @yoda, and @peterpham
| 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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The Verge, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Android Authority, GeekWire, CNET, SlashGear, CNBC, Android Police, Gizmodo, SlashGear, TechCrunch, Liliputing, TIME, Tom's Guide, and USA Today. Tweets: @backlon
| 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 …
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Kaspersky Lab official blog, The Register, Axios, and Ars Technica. Tweets: @e_kaspersky. Thanks:@dnvolz
| Chris Sonderby / Facebook: |
Facebook transparency report for H1 2017: account data requests up 21% globally YoY to ~79K; 57% of US requests included order banning FB from notifying users — Today we are releasing our Transparency Report, previously called the Government Requests Report, for the first half of 2017.
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Gizmodo, The Verge, The Hill, CNBC, SiliconBeat, Engadget, and The Daily Caller
Tweets: @cedricmanara, @matt_cagle, @agcrocker, and @kevinbankston
| Joe McDonald / Associated Press: |
Huawei says some of its phones to be sold by US carriers in 2018, starting with Mate 10; Consumer Business Group CEO says phones will be “competitively priced” — An executive of Huawei says the Chinese smartphone brand plans to start sales in the U.S. market through carriers next year …
| 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, Neowin, 9to5Mac, 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 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.| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Adidas will stop making its own wearable tech, says it will close its standalone digital sports organization and instead focus on Runtastic and the Adidas app — Wearables are hard. Some of the biggest names in technology have tried and failed to find success in the space …
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The Verge, Portland Business Journal, Axios, and Ubergizmo
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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 Daily Caller, PYMNTS.com, and TechCrunch
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