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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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| 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.
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Report: Snap CEO Evan Spiegel sent a company-wide note to employees several months ago outlining goal to break even in 2018 — Snap CEO Evan Spiegel sent a company-wide note to employees “several months ago” outlining a zealous goal to break even in 2018, according to The Information.
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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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| 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.| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Dropbox announces deeper integration with Salesforce ahead of IPO, enabling Dropbox folders to be embedded in Salesforce Commerce Cloud and Marketing Cloud — Dropbox is not messing around. Two weeks ago it announced its IPO. Just last week it announced a big partnership with Google …
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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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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Twitter appoints Parag Agrawal as new CTO, replacing Adam Messinger, who left in late 2016; his appointment was announced internally in October — - Twitter's COO Anthony Noto announced his plan to leave in January to become CEO of SoFi in January. — Twitter on Thursday updated its website … | 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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Waymo is piloting self-driving cargo trucks in Atlanta for carrying cargo bound for Google's data centers starting next week — Waymo's mission has always been to make it safe and easy for people and things to move around. So far, the focus has mostly been on people … | 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.| 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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