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Sources: Apple is launching AC Wellness, a group of medical clinics for its employees and their families, starting in California this spring — - The company is advertising for doctors, health coaches, and “designers” to create a program to promote healthy behavior.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google releases beta of its open-source Flutter SDK for building iOS and Android apps — Flutter is Google's open source toolkit for helping developers build iOS and Android apps. It's not necessarily a household name yet, but it's also less than a year old and, to some degree … | Tom McKay / Gizmodo: |
Google says it received ~2.4M takedown requests from 2014-2017 under EU's right to be forgotten laws and complied with 43% of them — Google has now been complying with the European Union's controversial “right to be forgotten” laws, which the European Court of Justice first ruled applied to search engines in 2014, for three years.
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Google Clips review: nice design and simple set up, but no sound recording, poor image quality, pricey, and redundant alongside a decent smartphone camera — Can you trust Google's algorithms with your most precious moments? — Picture this: you're hanging out with your kids or pets …
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| Karissa Bell / Mashable: |
Vero, an ad-free social networking app that first launched in 2015, becomes the top app on the App Store in US as frustration with Instagram's algorithm grows — Every product here is independently selected by Mashable journalists. If you buy something featured, we may earn an affiliate commission which helps support our work.
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Facebook to launch Local News Subscriptions Accelerator, a $3M three-month pilot program to help metro papers boost digital subscription efforts — Facebook Journalism Project will announce today the launch of its Local News Subscriptions Accelerator, a $3 million, three-month pilot program …
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| Shannon Liao / The Verge: |
Coinbase to comply with court order and send IRS details of ~13,000 users who moved $20K+ through their accounts in a single year between 2013 and 2015 — Within 21 days — Coinbase told its customers on Friday that it plans to comply with a court order and hand over about 13,000 customers' data to the IRS within 21 days.
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| Wendy Lee / San Francisco Chronicle: |
A look at tech real estate in the Bay Area: Google has 19.9M sq. ft. of office space for 34K+ workers, 38% more than Apple's 14.4M sq. ft. for 25K+ people — Google's parent company, Alphabet, has been adding office space more rapidly than any other tech company in the Bay Area.| Diane Bartz / Reuters: |
Sources: CFIUS, a US inter-agency panel focused on national security that can stop mergers, is examining Broadcom's bid for Qualcomm — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A national security panel that can stop mergers that could harm U.S. security has begun looking at Singapore-based chipmaker Broadcom Ltd's plan … | Caroline O'Donovan / BuzzFeed: |
Sick people in the US are increasingly using Uber or Lyft to get to the emergency room, instead of an ambulance, exposing drivers to potential legal risks — Mike Fish was driving for Uber 10 minutes outside of Boston when he picked up a second passenger in his Uber Pool who, he said, seemed “out of it, drowsy — almost sedated.”| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources detail how tech magnate Masayoshi Son invests in companies, often acting quickly and detached from fund's investor committee and Softbank's directors — SoftBank is on a shopping spree, investing billions in firms such as Uber and WeWork, both directly and through an affiliated tech fund
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Big data analytics service Splunk says it will acquire security automation platform Phantom Cyber for $350M in cash and stock; Phantom has raised $22M — Big data-crunching platform Splunk has announced plans to acquire Phantom Cyber Corporation ("Phantom"), a security automation and orchestration platform …
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| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Pinterest has hired former Google and Square executive Francoise Brougher as its first COO — Brougher joins as Pinterest is eyeing an IPO. — Pinterest just made an important new hire: The visual search company is bringing on Francoise Brougher, a former executive from both Google and Square, to be its first-ever COO.
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Apple's iOS Security Guide confirms 2016 reports that Google Cloud Platform is one of the third-party services Apple uses to store data for its iCloud services — - The collaboration is around storing iCloud users' data. There's no indication Apple is also relying on Google for additional computing work.
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| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
Researchers and tech firms are using digital phenotyping, an emerging field that aims to assess people's health based on their interactions with digital devices — An emerging field, digital phenotyping, tries to assess people's well-being based on their interactions with digital devices.| Heather Somerville / Reuters: |
Udacity says its 2017 revenue was $70M, up from $29M in 2016, and it's still not profitable but has $100M+ in the bank, as it eyes eventual IPO — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Online education company Udacity, which offers courses in high-tech subjects such as machine learning …
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