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| Fred Vogelstein / Wired: |
Facebook's head of News Feed Adam Mosseri says the recently announced overhaul, designed to help people better connect, will result in less video appearing — Facebook on Thursday announced sweeping changes to the way it plans to manage the newsfeed, the front door to the service for its 2 billion monthly users.| Nellie Bowles / New York Times: |
Inside the community of early cryptocurrency investors, now multimillionaires, and how they manage newfound riches and the explosion of interest in the industry — SAN FRANCISCO — Recently the founder of something called Ripple briefly became richer than Mark Zuckerberg.
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| Karl Bode / Motherboard: |
Harvard study: community-owned broadband prices are up to 50% cheaper than lowest-cost services offered by private ISPs, are more transparent and less confusing — A new study out of Harvard once again makes it clear why incumbent ISPs like Comcast, Verizon and AT&T are so terrified by the idea …
Tweets: @greenawakening, @jason_kint, and @leolaporte
| Bloomberg: |
More Chinese-born tech workers now return home from the US for faster salary growth, no “bamboo ceiling”, and chance to work with high volumes of intimate data — An exodus triggered by abundant capital, growing innovation and flourishing career opportunities| Nikkei: |
Google relaunches its map service in China after an eight year absence, with a China-specific version of the Google Maps website and an iOS app — US tech giant begins return to market it left in 2010 — BEIJING — Google has relaunched its map service in China after an eight-year absence …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: China is escalating clampdown on cryptocurrency trading, targeting platforms that offer exchange-like services, following last year's ban on exchanges — Focus on exchange-like platforms follows uptick in activity — Regulators around the world are scrutinizing cryptocurrencies
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Reuters, PYMNTS.com, CNBC, TechSpot, and Cointelegraph.com News
| Elvis Chidera / CNN: |
How a teenage developer from Nigeria learned to code on a Nokia feature phone and ended up at an MIT-backed startup that makes online education more accessible — Elvis Chidera is a developer at dot Learn in Lagos, a startup which builds educational apps for students in emerging markets.
Tweets: @cnnafrica
| Horace Dediu / Asymco: |
Analysis: iOS users will be spending about $100M/day in 2018 on apps in the App Store, which has been growing at about $5B/year since mid-2011 — In its latest update on the App Store Apple reported that iOS developers earned $26.5 billion in 2017. A year ago the figure was $20 billion.
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VentureBeat, iDownloadBlog.com, and 9to5Mac
| Yonhap News Agency: |
Cryptocurrency investors in South Korea have until the end of month to convert their virtual accounts into real-name ones or face fines, authorities said Sunday — Cryptocurrency investors in South Korea will be fined for refusing to convert their virtual accounts into real-name ones, financial authorities said Sunday.
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CoinDesk, Cointelegraph.com News, and Crowdfund Insider
| Felicity Hannah / The Independent: |
Open Banking rules go into effect in UK, making it mandatory for banks to share account info with third parties like fintech startups upon customer request — It's going to transform the ways you manage your money but you've probably never heard of it — This weekend a major change …
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Business Insider, Financial Times, Telegraph, Forbes, and Quartz
| Frances Schwartzkopff / Bloomberg: |
Danish police charge 1,004 youths with distributing sexually explicit material of two 15-year-olds following a tip-off from Facebook — Police have charged more than 1,000 young people in case — Crackdown comes as global #MeToo movement focuses on sex abuse
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The Local and Ars Technica
| Nikkei: |
Source: SoftBank is planning an $18B IPO of its Japanese mobile telecom unit, filing this spring with start of trading this autumn in Tokyo and possibly London — Japanese group looking at offerings in Tokyo and London this year — TOKYO — SoftBank Group aims to list its mobile phone unit SoftBank Corp …
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Reuters, SoftBank Group, SiliconANGLE, Bloomberg, CNNMoney, VentureBeat, BBC, Seeking Alpha, Silicon Republic, Light Reading, and Reuters
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