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Apple acquires digital newsstand Texture, which gives its readers access to ~200 magazines for $10/month, as it doubles down on content “from trusted sources” — As the debate continues over fake news and the role that aggregators like Facebook have played in spreading it …
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Apple, Recode, Ars Technica, Washington Post, Quartz, MacStories, Gizmodo, Associated Press, BBC, ZDNet, The Verge, Android Central, Mercury News, Macworld, BetaNews, Neowin, Silicon Valley Business …, iMore, Financial Times, CNET, TechSpot, Engadget, and Reuters
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| Zeynep Tufekci / New York Times: |
YouTube could be one of the most powerful radicalizing tools of this century, given its billion users and algorithms that recommend ever more extreme videos — At one point during the 2016 presidential election campaign, I watched a bunch of videos of Donald Trump rallies on YouTube.
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Facebook: Zeynep Tufekci. Tweets: @zeynep, @nytopinion, @danielwcooper, @paulkrugman, @zeynep, @john_sipher, @mayawiley, @tdietterich, @sanhotree, @nathanjurgenson, @dangillmor, @clairlemon, @zeynep, @radleybalko, @malachybrowne, @jasonabbruzzese, @chrisalbon, @jawillick, @sherwoodstrauss, and @carnage4life
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Lyft says it surpassed $1B in revenue for fiscal '17; Q4 revenue up 168% YoY vs Uber's 61% YoY rise; this quarter likely to be 20th straight of 100%+ YoY growth — Lyft made a lot of progress in 2017, helped by strong market expansion within the U.S. and riding some very bad news from its primary rival, Uber.
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Recode, CNET, Axios, and Seeking Alpha
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
A year after its launch, Microsoft says Teams is used by 200K organizations and will soon have support for Cortana and inline message translation — Microsoft has never shared how many individuals are using Teams, its chat-based collaboration tool that's part of Office 365 and competes …
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Office Blogs, SiliconANGLE, Digital Trends, Engadget, The Register, Office Blogs, TECHCOMMUNITY.MICROSOFT.COM, TechCrunch, Windows Central, ZDNet, Neowin, On MSFT, GeekWire, and The Verge
Tweets: @patrickmoorhead, @lewis_lin, @officenews, @microsoftteams, @epro, and @msftenable
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Calendar 2 for Mac updated to mine Monero by default; after poor reviews, dev removes app from App Store, says mining will be gone in new version, citing bugs — Popular Calendar 2 app mines Monero by default, but at least it discloses it. — Resource-draining currency miners … | Andrew Marantz / New Yorker: |
Inside Reddit as it rolled out the October 2017 policy update that resulted in the ban of numerous subreddits, including ones for Nazis and bestiality — The trolls are winning. How do we fix life online without limiting free speech? — Which Web sites get the most traffic?
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BGR and Recode
Tweets: @newyorker, @brendanbordelon, @max_read, @daveleebbc, @daveleebbc, @andrewmarantz, @saraashleyo, @oliviasolon, and @jackmurphylive
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Twilio launches Flex, a programmable contact center platform with a full graphical user interface — Earlier this year we reported that Twilio was going to launch a full contact center solution called Flex on March 12 — lo and behold, today is March 12 and Twilio today announced the launch …
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ZDNet, GetVoIP, The Diversity Blog, and Seeking Alpha
| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
US district judge Lucy Koh rejects bid by Verizon to dismiss many claims brought against Yahoo, allowing data breach victims to move ahead in legal battle — (Reuters) - Yahoo has been ordered by a federal judge to face much of a lawsuit in the United States claiming that the personal information … | Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
In yet another ICO scam, over 1,000 investors who put $2M+ into a project called Giza have lost their money — Cryptocurrency scammers run off with over $2 million from fake ICO — Scammers appear to have made off with more than $2 million in cryptocurrency after carrying … | Gabriele Boland / NewsWhip: |
Study: reporters driving Facebook engagement come from hyper-partisan sources like Breitbart and the Daily Wire; two in the top 50 write for fake news sites — With social platforms like Facebook putting an emphasis on meaningful engagements, publishers and content creators have to reassess …
Tweets: @mattyglesias, @jwherrman, @serena, @broderick, @redsteeze, @caseynewton, @mattrosoff, @jason_kint, and @jason_kint
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President Trump signed an order blocking Broadcom's proposed acquisition of Qualcomm, citing national security concerns — President Donald Trump killed Broadcom's proposed buyout of Qualcomm, citing national security concerns, according to a statement issued by the White House on Monday.| Jamie Rigg / Engadget: |
UK government's plan to police porn sites by compelling them to verify the age of British visitors has been delayed until the end of the year — Ever since the Digital Economy Act became UK law this time last year, we've known there would come a time when porn sites would be compelled … | Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: |
Dropbox seeks to raise as much as $648M in its IPO, plans to sell 36M shares at $16-$18, which would give it a valuation of ~$7.5B at the midpoint of the range — Dropbox, the online file storage company, said on Monday that it hoped to raise as much as $648 million in its forthcoming stock market debut …
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Tweets: @mikeisaac and @bloombergquint
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