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Apple launches repair program for small percentage of iPhone 7 devices affected by a bug that shows no available cell service even when cell coverage available — Apple today launched a repair program for iPhone 7 devices that are impacted by an ongoing bug that causes them to have no available service … | 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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| 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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| 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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| Matt Weinberger / Business Insider: |
Former employee of Ripcord, a paper record digitization service, says she was fired after reporting harassment, asserts CEO made lewd comments about her — - A former female employee of high-flying startup Ripcord said she was fired after reporting harassment and a toxic environment at the company.| 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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| 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: @smetaldave64, @ynakamura56, and @time
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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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Tweets: @asymco and @techbarnold
| Aarian Marshall / Wired: |
Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs spins out Coord to develop APIs for tolls, parking, and curb space data for bike-sharing, ride-hailing, and public transport services — IN OCTOBER OF last year, Alphabet, Google's parent company announced it was taking its data-hoovering powers out of purely digital realm and into 3-D space.
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Sidewalk Talk, The Verge, Curbed, and Engadget
| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Owl raised $18M Series A for its dashboard camera with break-in and accident detection, voice control, and smartphone app, for $349 with 1 year of LTE included — With $18 million in funding from Defy Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Sherpa Capital and others …
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| Mya Frazier / Columbia Journalism Review: |
Facebook, Amazon stifle public debate on tax incentives they receive by demanding prior notice before state and local govt. officials respond to FOIA requests — It was whispered like some secret oracle: Sidecat, sidecat is coming. — Negotiations over the tax incentive deal began in Ohio … | 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.Sponsor Posts
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