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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Sources: Apple is delaying some planned iOS updates, including improvements to core apps, to next year in order to focus on performance and reliability issues — Apple has shaken up its iOS software plans for 2018, delaying some features to next year in an effort to put more focus …
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Bloomberg, Digital Trends, The Verge, AppleInsider, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, Macworld, International Business Times, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, PhoneDog.com, Cult of Mac, Inquirer, Thurrott.com, Patently Apple, New York Magazine, Engadget, Neowin, Redmond Pie, Fortune, MSPoweruser, VentureBeat, iDownloadBlog.com, Ubergizmo, iPhone Hacks, Tom's Guide, Mashable, The Mac Observer, CNBC, TechSpot, Softpedia News, iPhone in Canada Blog, iLounge, and AppAdvice.com
Tweets: @markgurman, @markgurman, @markgurman, @lapcatsoftware, @reneritchie, @ow, @reneritchie, and @inafried
| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Facebook says it's banning all ads for cryptocurrencies, ICOs, and binary options to avoid “misleading or deceptive promotional practices” — It's an “intentionally broad” policy aimed at stopping scammers. — Facebook is banning all ads that promote cryptocurrencies …
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Facebook, TechCrunch, BuzzFeed, Bloomberg, CoinDesk, CNET, Business Insider, The Verge, Gizmodo, SiliconBeat, Engadget, Washington Post, Axios, Crowdfund Insider, Motherboard, Silicon Valley Business …, Wired, Cointelegraph.com News, and Seeking Alpha
Tweets: @edzitron, @mmasnick, @petersontee, @teddyschleifer, @nouriel, @mgsiegler, @wired, @alyssabereznak, @jason, @pkafka, @jdpeterson, @edmundlee, and @pkafka
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: US DoJ and SEC are investigating whether Apple violated securities laws concerning its disclosures about update that slowed iPhones with old batteries — The U.S. Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission are investigating whether Apple Inc. violated securities laws concerning …
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Reuters, Engadget, BuzzFeed, The Hill, Ars Technica, USA Today, SiliconBeat, AppleInsider, CNET, TechCrunch, MacRumors, VentureBeat, The Verge, Business Insider, MSPoweruser, 9to5Mac, Patently Apple, Ubergizmo, PhoneDog.com, MacDailyNews, iDownloadBlog.com, Axios, AppAdvice.com, iPhone Hacks, Seeking Alpha, and iPhone in Canada Blog
| Matthew Leising / Bloomberg: |
Source: US CFTC subpoenaed Bitfinex and its subsidiary Tether, amid lack of evidence that Tether's USDT, pegged to USD, is backed by sufficient reserves — Firms say they routinely get ‘legal process’ from regulators — Tether has yet to verify that it holds $2.3 billion in reserve
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tetherreport.com, The Register, The Hill, Business Insider, Wired, CoinDesk, Cointelegraph.com News, NEWS.com.au, SlashGear, CNBC, Mashable, Seeking Alpha, Digital Journal, Bitsonline, Coingeek, and Tony Arcieri
Tweets: @satoshilite, @satoshilite, @erikvoorhees, @whatbitcoindid, @nouriel, and @ncweaver
| Jeff Cox / CNBC: |
Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase partner to cut employee healthcare costs, will create a company targeting healthcare technology solutions — - Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase on Tuesday announced plans to partner on ways to cut health care costs and improve services for U.S. employees.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Verizon has dropped all plans to sell phones made by Huawei, including the new Mate 10 Pro, after facing pressure from the US government — Carriers pressured by U.S. government to avoid handset maker — Perceived threat draws Trump team proposal for nationalization
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Android Police, Digital Trends, Ars Technica, DSLreports, eWeek, The Verge, Engadget, Droid Life, Business Insider, PhoneDog.com, CNET, Gizmodo, Neowin, SlashGear, Ubergizmo, Android Beat, Inquirer, Mashable, RCR Wireless News, 9to5Google, TechSpot, Tom's Guide, Tech Times, Seeking Alpha, Axios, Android and Me, and Digital Photography Review
Tweets: @peter_atwater and @fattailcapital
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Google completes its $1.1B HTC deal involving the transfer of 2,000+ engineers and a non-exclusive license for HTC's intellectual property — Google has announced the completion of its $1.1 billion deal to buy a large slice of HTC's hardware business. — The acquisition was announced … | Wall Street Journal: |
Source: Apple to curtail iPhone X production in the first quarter to ~20M handsets, down from ~40M initially planned, due to weak demand — Company will offer its first report on iPhone X sales when it reports earnings Thursday — Apple Inc. AAPL -2.07% is slashing planned production …
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Kantar Worldpanel, Reuters, Computerworld, Ars Technica, MacRumors, iMore, CNET, AppleInsider, Business Insider, SiliconBeat, iPhone in Canada Blog, iPhone Hacks, CNBC, ZDNet, Cult of Mac, The Mac Observer, 9to5Mac, Above Avalon, MacDailyNews, Fortune, BGR, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, and Seeking Alpha
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Snap debuts new styles for its Bitmoji called Bitmoji Deluxe, now offers 40 skin tones, up from 25, twice as many hair colors, and 50 hair treatment options — Now you can customize your Snapchat Bitmoji avatar with 40 skin tones, 50 hair colors, 50 hair treatment options and more so it looks …
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Snap Inc., The Verge, International Business Times, CNET, Business Insider, iMore, SlashGear, 9to5Mac, Android Police, New York Magazine, Tubefilter, and Mashable
Tweets: @joshconstine and @joshconstine
| Theodore Schleifer / Recode: |
Dog-walking app Wag accepts $300M in deal expected to give SoftBank 45% of the company and says cofounder Josh Viner will step aside as CEO — Hilary Schneider, a former top Yahoo executive, is the new CEO. — The dog-walking company Wag is replacing its CEO as it prepares to accept … | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google says it removed 700,000+ apps from the Play Store last year for policy violations, up 70% YoY, credits new machine learning techniques for the increase — Google today shared details of Google Play's efforts to protect Android users with its teams of engineers, policy experts …
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Android Developers Blog, Engadget, The Verge, CNET, Android Authority, ZDNet, PCWorld, and 9to5Google. Tweets: @thurrott
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Waymo says it will buy “thousands” more Chrysler Pacifica self-driving minivans from Fiat Chrysler, with the first deliveries starting at the end of 2018 — Google's self-driving unit deepens its partnership with one of Detroit's Big Three — Waymo, the self-driving unit … | Hamza Shaban / Washington Post: |
Over 100 child advocates, pediatric and medical experts urge Facebook to discontinue Messenger Kids, saying it poses health and development risk to children — More than 100 child advocates, civil society groups, medical experts and other individuals are urging Facebook to discontinue …
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Engadget, The Next Web, The Verge, Wired, Android Authority, Gizmodo, The Guardian, Ubergizmo, New York Times, TechSpot, and iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @caseynewton. Thanks:@hshaban
| AppleInsider: |
Apple Pay accepted at 1 out of 2 U.S. stores, says Apple VP Jennifer Bailey — Speaking at NRF 2018 Retail's Big Show in New York earlier this month, Apple Pay VP Jennifer Bailey presented a speech detailing how iPhone changed the retail landscape, and outlined the tech company's ongoing efforts in the mobile payment marketplace.| Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: |
SEC announces it has obtained a court order to halt and recover the assets of Dallas-based “decentralized bank” AriseBank's ICO, which allegedly raised ~$600M — - U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announces it has obtained a court order to halt AriseBank's initial coin offering.
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Bloomberg, U.S. Securities …, Gizmodo, Business Insider, CoinDesk, PYMNTS.com, Reuters, CoinDesk, and Cointelegraph.com News. Tweets: @jason
| Nico Grant / Bloomberg: |
Google partners with MobileIron, which offers a cybersecurity tool for phones, to create a new marketplace for cloud services, to challenge Amazon — The tool will increase Google G Suite's application offerings — Alphabet Inc.'s Google is launching a digital store offering cloud-based software …
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| Kif Leswing / Business Insider: |
Andrew Ng raises $175M AI fund from Sequoia, Greylock, SoftBank, others, and makes first public investment in Landing.AI, a startup using AI in manufacturing — - Andrew Ng is one of the world's most respected artificial intelligence researchers and executives.
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TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Axios, and Seeking Alpha
| Alan Travis / The Guardian: |
UK court of appeal rules mass digital surveillance powers under the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act are unlawful — Appeal ruling means significant parts of 'snooper's charter' legislation must be changed … Appeal court judges have ruled the government's mass digital …
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Liberty Human Rights, Gizmodo, The Verge, Al Jazeera English, TechSpot, WIRED UK, Engadget, The Register, CNET, BetaNews, Inquirer, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @hackneyabbott, @ggreenwald, and @arusbridger
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft makes its event routing service Azure Event Grid generally available in about 10 Azure regions — With Event Grid, Microsoft introduced a new Azure service last year that it hopes will become the glue that holds together modern event-driven and distributed applications.
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Microsoft Azure Cloud …, Neowin, VentureBeat, GeekWire, and MSPoweruser
| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Pinterest hires Chuck Rosenberg, Google's computer vision research lead, to be the company's head of computer vision and lead its visual search engineering team — Pinterest today announced it has hired Google computer vision research lead Chuck Rosenberg to be the company's head …
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TechCrunch and Engadget
| Bérénice Magistretti / VentureBeat: |
Next Trucking, which matches shippers and truck carriers through an online marketplace, raises $21M Series B led by Sequoia Capital — Next Trucking, which matches shippers and truck carriers through an online marketplace, announced today that it has raised $21 million in funding, in a round led by Sequoia Capital.
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| Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed: |
Study: Twitter cuts into Facebook's lead on traffic sent to publishers; this month FB sent 2.5 visitors for each one Twitter sent; in Oct '17, ratio was 4.7:1 — Facebook is now sending just 2.5 visitors to publishers' sites for every one visitor Twitter sends.| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
AMD reports Q4 revenue of $1.48B, up 34% YoY, vs $1.41B est., and is expecting $1.55B in revenue in Q1 2018, vs $1.25B est. — - The company has been busy dealing with the fallout from the disclosure of the Spectre security vulnerability. — AMD stock fell as much as 7 percent after hours …
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