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| Jack Nicas / Wall Street Journal: |
YouTube says it will start labeling videos from state-funded broadcasters like PBS and RT, considers surfacing videos from credible sources alongside hoaxes — Google unit to provide more context around some videos — YouTube said it is planning changes to give users more context …
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YouTube Creator Blog, The Next Web, Ars Technica, SlashGear, Mashable, Tubefilter, 9to5Google, The Verge, and Android Police
Tweets: @carnage4life and @shannonzkiller
| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
YouTube CEO Wojcicki promises more transparency, better appeals process for demonetization, including more human reviews, and consequences for “egregious” cases — YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki took to the service's Creator Blog last night to issue some broad goals for the year forward.
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| Steve Costello / Mobile World Live: |
Sony CEO Kazuo Hirai to be succeeded by current CFO in April; Sony reports record Q3 profits of $3.2B boosted by games division; smartphone shipments down to 4M — Sony trimmed the sales forecast for its mobile business following a weak fiscal Q3, as it also announced changes in its top management.
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Tweets: @ynakamura56, @time, and @smetaldave64
| Steve Ranger / ZDNet: |
IDC says global smartphone unit shipments fell 6.3% YoY in Q4, while Strategy Analytics sees 9% drop in Q4, but 1% growth on a full-year basis in 2017 — Even with a good performance from Apple's newest devices, smartphone sales dropped dramatically in the last three months of 2017.
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| Apple: |
Apple Q1: 77.3M iPhones, down 1% YoY, with $796 ASP; 13.2M iPads, up 1% YoY; 5.1M Macs, down 5% YoY; $8.5B services revenue, up 18% YoY — Revenue and EPS Hit New All-Time Records — Active Installed Base of Devices Reaches 1.3 Billion in January — Apple today announced financial results …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
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| Mike Dano / FierceWireless: |
Sprint aims to be the first nationwide mobile 5G network by early 2019, says its 160 MHz of 2.5 GHz spectrum gives it advantage against competition in mobile 5G — Sprint's CEO today promised the carrier will launch mobile 5G services on its 2.5 GHz spectrum holdings on a nationwide basis in the first half of 2019.
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Tweets: @patrickmoorhead and @fiercewireless
| Bloomberg: |
JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America are halting credit card transactions with known cryptocurrency exchanges; Bank of America debit card purchases not affected — A growing list of card issuers are declining crypto purchases — After recent price drops, JPMorgan doesn't want credit risk
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| Eric Lam / Bloomberg: |
Bitcoin briefly dropped below $8K, for the first time since November, amid the broad cryptocurrency market sell-off — Biggest digital token takes losses since peak to about 60% — Rival coins including Ripple, Ether and Litecoin tumble — Bitcoin fell below $8,000 as a miserable 2018 continued …
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CoinSpeaker, CNBC, Techweez, Gizmodo, Neowin, Axios, NewsBTC, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, CNBC, and Wall Street Journal
Tweets: @charlieshrem, @officialmcafee, @apompliano, @dandrezner, @vinnylingham, and @vinnylingham
| Dara Kerr / CNET: |
Drivers discover that Uber limits tipping; company says the limit is 200% of the total, up to $100 to safeguard against mistakes; Lyft's limit is $50 or 200% — If you want to leave a generous tip for your Uber driver, you may have to use cash because the ride-hailing app has a ceiling.
Tweets: @johnwilson
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
California DMV self-driving report: Waymo and GM lead with 63 disengagements over 352K+ miles and 105 disengagements over 131K+ miles, respectively — So how'd everyone do? — California's Department of Motor Vehicles released its annual autonomous vehicle disengagement report today.
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Bloomberg, The Register, Gizmodo, CleanTechnica, Forbes, TechCrunch, Silicon Valley Business …, Ars Technica, Ubergizmo, SlashGear, and Engadget
| Sonam Rai / Reuters: |
Dell says it is evaluating a potential public offering or a combination with VMware — (Reuters) - Dell Technologies Inc said on Friday it is evaluating a potential public offering of its common stock or a potential business combination between the U.S. computer maker and business software provider VMware Inc (VMW.N).
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Investor Relations, The Register, SiliconANGLE, VMware, Inc., Bloomberg, Business Insider, Fortune, and TechCrunch. Tweets: @lexnfx
| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Sources: HQ Trivia is raising a $15M round led by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund at a $100M+ valuation — Founders Fund partner Cyan Banister is leading the round. — HQ Trivia, the popular trivia gameshow app, plans to raise money in a new round of financing that values the company north of $100 million …
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