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| Jillian D'Onfro / CNBC: |
Google will ban all cryptocurrency-related advertising, including ICOs, wallets, and trading advice across all of its ad platforms, starting June 2018 — - The company will no longer allow ads about cryptocurrency-related content, including initial coin offerings (ICOs), wallets, and trading advice across any of its ad platforms.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Google removed 3.2B “bad ads” in 2017, up from 1.7B in 2016, and blocked 320K publishers, 90K sites, and 700K mobile apps for content policy violations — As the world's largest search engine and a digital advertising behemoth, Google has a lot to answer for when it comes … | U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission: |
SEC charges Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes and former president Ramesh Balwani with defrauding investors by raising $700M+ through “elaborate, years-long fraud” — Holmes Stripped of Control of Company for Defrauding Investors — The Securities and Exchange Commission today …
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| Rory Cellan-Jones / BBC: |
Facebook bans far-right anti-Islamic group Britain First and removes the group's pages and those of its leaders for repeatedly violating its community standards — Facebook has removed the pages of the anti-Islamic group Britain First and its leaders. — The social media company …
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| Bloomberg: |
French finance minister says France will take legal action against Apple and Google over “abusive commercial practices” taking advantage of French developers — Action follows investigation into application contracts — Finance minister says fines could be in ‘millions of euros’
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| Renae Merle / Washington Post: |
Former CIO of an Equifax unit, Jun Ying, faces criminal and civil charges from SEC over alleged insider trading on confidential info about 2017's data breach — Federal prosecutors on Wednesday charged a former Equifax executive with insider trading, alleging that he profited …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp commits to not sharing user data with Facebook until it complies with GDPR; UK's Information Commissioner's Office closes its investigation — Facebook, its popular messaging app WhatsApp, and the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) have reached a truce in their long-running investigation …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki says YouTube will add Wikipedia information to videos about popular conspiracy theories within weeks to provide alternate viewpoints — Pushing back on crazy theories — YouTube will add information from Wikipedia to videos about popular conspiracy theories …
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Tweets: @tradechat, @carlzimmer, @krmaher, @noupside, and @tomgara
| Bloomberg: |
Broadcom abandons its $117B takeover bid for Qualcomm after President Donald Trump blocked the deal, citing security risks — Chipmaker Broadcom Ltd. has abandoned its $117 billion takeover bid for Qualcomm Inc., Bloomberg News reports. — The decision was made after U.S. President Donald Trump blocked … | Matt Brian / Engadget: |
Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ launched with 1.4GHz quad-core processor, dual-band WiFi, gigabit ethernet over USB 2.0, Bluetooth 4.2, and Power over Ethernet for $35 — Despite selling over 14 million of its low-cost DIY computing boards, the Raspberry Pi Foundation adheres to a slow release cycle.
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| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Google's new Maps platform for games gives developers access to real-time Google Maps data, an SDK for Unity, and a new API to use real-world locations in games — The first wave of games includes Jurassic World and The Walking Dead — There's been a wave of location-based mobile games … | Allison Linn / The AI Blog: |
Microsoft says it has trained AI that can match human performance in translating news from Chinese to English — A team of Microsoft researchers said Wednesday that they believe they have created the first machine translation system that can translate sentences of news articles from Chinese …
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| Liam Tung / ZDNet: |
Stack Overflow's annual survey of 100K+ developers: Rust, Kotlin, and Python most-loved languages, 73% more excited by AI than concerned about its dangers — Stack Overflow's annual survey shows Android developer language Kotlin has soared in popularity. — Video: Apps at risk …
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| Sarah Nassauer / Wall Street Journal: |
Walmart to offer home delivery of groceries in 100 cities by year's end by partnering with delivery companies using contract workers, starting with Uber — Retailer to partner with delivery startups after Amazon, Kroger and others roll out similar services
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Calendar 2 made $2K in three days by mining cryptocurrency; app was pulled for violating Mac App Store guidelines and is back after mining features were removed — Yesterday, we reported on a macOS app called Calendar 2 that seemingly added cryptocurrency mining as an alternative to paying for premium features.| Klint Finley / Wired: |
ICANN's proposal to comply with EU's GDPR by restricting access to Whois information via an accreditation program faces criticism from privacy advocates, EFF — IF YOU HEAD over to a Whois service and search for wired.com, you'll see that this site is registered to our publisher Conde Nast at One World Trade Center in New York City.
Tweets: @eff
| Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
Warby Parker raises $75M round led by T. Rowe Price, sources say at a valuation of $1.75B — The company has now raised nearly $300 million in total. — Warby Parker's co-CEOs continue to talk about an IPO like it's a “when,” not an “if.” But the “when” still isn't now.
Tweets: @delrey
| Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter: |
Disney combines direct-to-consumer businesses including streaming services with tech and international media operations into one division, led by Kevin Mayer — Kevin Mayer will now oversee direct-to-consumer and international businesses, while Bob Chapek has added consumer products to his oversight.| Ginny Marvin / Marketing Land: |
Reddit says its iOS and Android apps account for 41% of time spent on all of its platforms and will introduce native in-feed ads to them in the coming weeks — The company says its iOS and Android apps are now the most popular way for users to access Reddit content on mobile.
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