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CNN is closing Beme and Casey Neistat is leaving following 2016 buyout, which sources say valued it at $20M+; CNN will continue to develop some of its products — CNN acquired Beme in late 2016 with hopes that it would become a major piece of its digital business. Now Neistat's leaving the company.
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Sources: Apple is working on a redesigned Books reading app that includes a Reading Now section, dedicated tab for audio books, and redesigned store — Company working on new digital book reader for iPhones, iPads — iPhone maker hires former Amazon, Barnes & Noble exec for unit
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| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Lyft investigating whether staff abused access to customer data after online post claims workers tracked ex-partners, pulled info of celebs including Zuckerberg — Lyft is investigating whether employees abused access to its customers' data, a spokeswoman said on Thursday …
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| Alex Webb / Bloomberg: |
California DMV says Apple has expanded its self-driving test fleet to 27 vehicles, up from three in April 2017 — Company received first permit from California DMV in April — CEO Tim Cook has said Apple is focusing on autonomous systems — Apple Inc. has expanded …
| Ted Greenwald / Wall Street Journal: |
Intel reports Q4 revenue of $17.05B, up 4% YoY, vs. $16.34B analyst expectations, net loss of $687M after $5.4B expense due to recent tax overhaul; stock up ~4% — Books a $5.4 billion charge after recent changes in U.S. tax law — Intel Corp. INTC -.46% said it had record fourth-quarter revenue …
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Zero-fee stock trading app Robinhood says it will let users trade bitcoin and ether starting in February using its Robinhood Crypto platform — No-commission stock trading app Robinhood will let you buy and sell Bitcoin and Ethereum without any added transaction fees starting in February …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Twitter says it's now using machine learning to identify the most salient part of an image and crop picture previews accordingly — The machine knows what you want to look at — The lure of machine learning isn't always about big new features; often, what it does best are small tweaks that subtly improve user experience.
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| Theodore Schleifer / Recode: |
Delaware judge permanently dismisses Benchmark suit against Travis Kalanick, after all parties agree it should be dismissed — The former Uber CEO has one less thing to worry about. — Benchmark's controversial, explosive lawsuit against Travis Kalanick is officially history.| Selina Wang / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Twitter is working on a Snapchat-style tool to more easily share videos and photos, but its design and launch aren't yet finalized — Social network is experimenting with new products to woo users — Company seeks to streamline process of posting photos, videos
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Tweets: @tdechant, @alexhern, and @selina_y_wang
| David McCabe / Axios: |
San Jose Mayor quits FCC advisory committee on broadband deployment, alleging that it was dealing ISPs “a very favorable hand” of policy recommendations — San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo resigned today from a panel that advises the Federal Communications Commission on broadband deployment …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
App Annie: Google Play downloads topped 19B in Q4 2017, surpassing Apple's App Store by 145%; App Store had $11.5B consumer spend, surpassing Play by 95% — Smartphone adoption in emerging markets just delivered the highest number of app downloads Google Play has ever seen in a quarter.
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Investigation finds Pentagon, NASA, FBI, State Dept., other agencies used HP, SAP, Symantec, McAfee software that underwent code reviews by Russian government — WASHINGTON/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Major global technology providers SAP (SAPG.DE), Symantec (SYMC.O) and McAfee have allowed Russian authorities … | Jon Krafcik / The Keyword: |
Google now lets users mute ads that remind them to revisit sites to make a purchase, expands muting to work across devices and on more partner apps and sites — In 2012, we introduced “Mute This Ad” to enable you to block an ad that you don't want to see. The momentum we've seen with this tool is really encouraging.
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Tweets: @stopsatgreen and @kateconger
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
LG's mobile division cuts its losses in Q4 2017 to $192.33M, down from $331.37M in Q3, with total sales of $2.77B in Q4 and $10.52B in 2017 — LG's smartphone business still continues to lose money at an alarming rate. — The Korean firm cut its losses in its Q4 2017 financial period … | Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Amazon debuts single sign-on for Fire TV with support for Spectrum, DirecTV, Dish, Optimum, Verizon FiOS, and others; Comcast Xfinity not supported — Amazon joins Apple in offering Single Sign-On, but Roku still doesn't have it — Amazon is eliminating the frustration of having …
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| Issie Lapowsky / Wired: |
DNC hires Yahoo's former Chief Information Security Officer Bob Lord, who led response to 2013 and 2014 hacks, as its chief security officer — THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL Committee has hired Bob Lord, most recently Yahoo's head of information security, to be its chief security officer … Sponsor Posts
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Bringing local models and sandboxed tools to Windows and GitHub Copilot — GitHub Copilot will soon determine when a task is best handled by on-device AI and when it needs cloud-scale models.
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