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Sources: Barack and Michelle Obama are nearing a content deal with Netflix; Apple and Amazon said to be interested as well — WASHINGTON — Former President Barack Obama is in advanced negotiations with Netflix to produce a series of high-profile shows that will provide him a global platform …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google says it is taking the lessons it has learned from AMP and is applying them to web standards that could allow instant loading for non-AMP web content — Can the most contentious piece of the web form the basis of a new standard? — In a blog post today, Google is announcing …
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| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
Netflix data shows that while only 25% of users sign up on TVs, most viewing, ~45% after one month and 70% after six months, happens on TVs — Most Netflix subscribers sign up on phones or computers. But 70 percent of viewing happens on TVs. — You can watch Netflix in almost every country in the world, on any device you want.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
CIRP report finds that Android brand loyalty rate in the US has remained at a steady high since 2016, at 91% today, while iOS has a loyalty rate of 86% — Samsung's new Galaxy S9 may not quite live up to the iPhone X when it comes to Samsung's implementation of a Face ID-style system or its odd take on AR emoji.| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Galaxy S9 and S9+ review: great design, display, and speed, better fingerprint sensor placement, but average battery life, gimmicks galore, Bixby still sucks — The Galaxy S9 is all of the good and all of the bad we've come to expect from Samsung — There comes a point …
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| Natt Garun / The Verge: |
Jack Dorsey says Twitter is working on getting users to verify themselves; product director says it would help users spot suspicious accounts easier — Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said in a Periscope livestream today that the company is working to allow any user to become verified.| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
Uber's VP of Product, Daniel Graf, is leaving and will be replaced by Assaf Ronen, Amazon's VP of Voice Shopping — Assaf Ronen has been running the e-commerce giant's voice shopping efforts. — In another high-profile executive departure at Uber, product head Daniel Graf is leaving the company, according to sources.
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| Maria Temming / Science News: |
Study of 4.5M+ tweets from 2006 to 2017 confirms inaccurate news spreads faster and further than true stories, and humans, not bots, are primarily to blame — An analysis of 4.5 million tweets shows falsehoods are 70 percent more likely to get shared — There's been a lot of talk …
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Tweets: @sulliview, @coreypud, @jeff_lleru, @hadip, and @sciencenews
| Louise Matsakis / Wired: |
Ad-blocker Ghostery goes open source, changes revenue stream to opt-in notifications about deals and paid insights about the web tracking ecosystem — IN PRIVACY-FOCUSED, ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT corners of the internet, going open source can earn you a certain amount of street cred.| StarWars.com: |
Iron Man director Jon Favreau to write and produce a live-action Star Wars series for Disney's new streaming service — The director of Iron Man and The Jungle Book will helm the series for Disney's new direct-to-consumer platform. — Lucasfilm is excited to announce that Emmy-nominated producer …
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| Frank Chaparro / Business Insider: |
Coinbase hires Eric Scro, previously head of finance at the NYSE, as its VP of Finance — - The New York Stock Exchange lost an executive to cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, according to a blog post by the company. — Eric Scro is set to join the San Francisco-based company as vice president of finance.
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| Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss / Reuters: |
Digital currency asset management firm Multicoin raises capital from Marc Andreessen, David Sacks, others, says it will hit $250M crypto fund target by June — NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S.-based Multicoin Capital, an asset management firm with a long-term positive view on digital currencies …
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