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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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Google Advertising …, The Verge, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Ars Technica, CNET, Feld Thoughts, TechCrunch, The Next Web, The Merkle, Crowdfund Insider, BuzzFeed, Reuters, Bank Innovation, International Business Times, New York Times, Gizmodo, Mercury News, Boing Boing, Engadget, Bitcoinist.com, HackRead, 9to5Google, BetaNews, The Register, TechSpot, Yourstory.com, CCN, Cointelegraph.com News, Seeking Alpha, Zero Hedge, and Financial Times
Tweets: @om, @wolfejosh, @ajkeen, and @preshit
| 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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Facebook, Recode, Reuters, Quartz, BetaNews, Mercury News, The Guardian, Bloomberg, The Verge, Axios, Hit & Run, Telegraph, Gizmodo, Engadget, Mashable, and Silicon Republic
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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 … | 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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Tweets: @alliedprogress, @w7voa, and @shaig
| 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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Tweets: @elkmovie and @drbarnard
| 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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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Josh Elman, who formerly worked on product at Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook, will join Robinhood as its VP of product while remaining a partner at Greylock — Zero-fee stock trading app Robinhood is getting some product firepower as it dives into cryptocurrency and weighs platform aspirations.| 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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Raspberry Pi, LibreELEC, The Verge, Digital Trends, BetaNews, Ars Technica, VentureBeat, PCWorld, Liliputing, Inquirer, Softpedia News, The Tech Report, YouTube, ExtremeTech, Boing Boing, The Verge, Tom's Guide, TechSpot, Thurrott.com, BGR, Mashable, BetaNews, Softpedia News, TechRepublic, Neowin, Inquirer, and The Register. Tweets: @thepihut
| 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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| 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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| 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: @phoebe_ayers, @cwarzel, @phoebe_ayers, @phoebe_ayers, @pkafka, @krmaher, @tradechat, and @carlzimmer
| 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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Stack Overflow, The Register, WordPress Tavern, TechRepublic, ADTmag, Marketing Tech News, SD Times, and Ars Technica
Tweets: @stshank and @stackoverflow
| 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.
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MacRumors, The Verge, iPhone in Canada Blog, Engadget, and Ubergizmo
| 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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Business Wire, Digital Trends, ZDNet, New York Times, Ars Technica, Adweek, GeekWire, Mashable, TechSpot, Retail Dive, Tech Times, Reuters, Recode, BuzzFeed, USA Today, CNBC, Dallas Morning News, and Business Insider. Tweets: @delrey
| 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 …
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Broadcom Limited, 9to5Google, Reuters, CNET, ZDNet, TechSpot, Mashable, VentureBeat, PhoneDog.com, Axios, TechCrunch, Associated Press, The Verge, Wall Street Journal, Engadget, and Axios
| 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.| Michelle Castillo / CNBC: |
Sources: Twitter is working on a camera-first feature to rival Snap that combines location-based photos and videos with Twitter Moments around notable events — - Twitter is working on a camera-first feature to rival a Snap service that has been popular with advertisers.| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Comparison of low light photos from Galaxy S9+ and Pixel 2 XL: the Pixel produces the best images, but S9+ more reliably produces good first shots due to OIS — Samsung's 2018 flagship phone, the Galaxy S9, is the first in the world with an f/1.5 lens aperture.
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