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Sources: Facebook CSO Alex Stamos to leave amid disagreements with top execs over disinformation, will stay until August; his team is down from 120 to 3 people — Facebook's chief information security officer, Alex Stamos, will leave the company after internal disagreements over how the social network …
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| Bloomberg: |
Source: US FTC is investigating Facebook's use of personal data and whether it violated policies by letting Cambridge Analytica receive some user information — The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is probing Facebook over whether it violated terms of a consent decree over its use of personal data …
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| Channel 4 News: |
Cambridge Analytica execs filmed boasting of entrapping politicians with sex and bribes, explaining how to spread info online without it looking like propaganda — Senior executives at Cambridge Analytica - the data company that credits itself with Donald Trump's presidential victory …
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| Jim Albrecht / The Keyword: |
Google debuts Subscribe with Google, which lets users buy subscriptions to news sites using Google Accounts and access them from apps, sites, and search results — If you've ever subscribed to a news site, you know that it can sometimes be an onerous task. This isn't the publisher's fault, it's just the way websites work.| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Google says it will spend $300M over the next three years to support journalism and fight disinformation through the newly announced Google News Initiative — ‘We need to do more’ — Google is announcing new efforts today to support the media industry by fighting misinformation and bolstering journalism …
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| Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Tempe, AZ police say Uber likely not at fault for self-driving car fatality after preliminary investigations reveal collision was unavoidable in any mode — Pushing a bicycle laden with plastic shopping bags, a woman abruptly walked from a center median into a lane of traffic and was struck …
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| Alexandria Sage / Reuters: |
Uber pauses self-driving tests in all cities after a pedestrian was struck and killed in AZ by one of its cars in autonomous mode that had a human safety driver — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A woman was killed by an Uber self-driving sport utility vehicle in Arizona, police said on Monday …
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| David Radcliffe / The Keyword: |
Google confirms it purchased Manhattan Chelsea Market building for $2.4B, says there will be “little or no impact” on current operations — It's been 18 years since Google NYC first established our single-person sales “office” in a Starbucks on 86th St. After moving from 86th St …
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| Ilya Khrennikov / Bloomberg: |
Telegram plans to appeal after it loses bid in Russia's Supreme Court to block security services such as FSB from getting access to encryption keys of user data — Messaging service plans to appeal Supreme Court's decision — Regulators could block Telegram service if it fails to comply
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Salesforce is in advanced talks to acquire MuleSoft, with a deal possible as soon as this week; MuleSoft stock jumps 20%+ — (Reuters) - Salesforce.com Inc is in advanced discussions to acquire U.S. software maker MuleSoft Inc, people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.| Bernadette Tansey / Xconomy: |
AI startup Mythic raises $40M Series B led by SoftBank to help bring its high-speed low-power AI chip to market — Mythic, which last year unveiled its novel computer chip designed for artificial intelligence, announced today that it has raised $40 million in a Series B fundraising round led …
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
German fintech company N26 raises $160M Series C led by Tencent and Allianz, bringing its total raised to $215M, and says it has attracted 850K customers — German startup N26 just raised a $160 million Series C round led by Tencent and Allianz — some of N26's existing investors are also participating.
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| Nitasha Tiku / Wired: |
A look at the potential impact of EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which grants standardized data protection rights to users across 28 countries — CONSUMERS HAVE LONG wondered just what Google and Facebook know about them, and who else can access their personal data.
Tweets: @aweissman, @sarahludford, and @nitashatiku
| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Expedia's Orbitz says it was hacked, giving the attacker access to customer data, including ~880,000 payment cards in total from January 2016 to December 2017 — The travel booking site said about 880,000 payment cards were affected. — Travel booking website Orbitz has been hacked, the company said.
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| Samuel Gibbs / The Guardian: |
Researchers say ~1.6K files are stored in bitcoin's blockchain; at least one thought to be an image of child abuse; two others contain 274 links to child abuse — Researchers discover illegal content within the distributed ledger, making possession of it potentially unlawful in many countries
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| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Instagram expands its Shopping feature for businesses to Canada, Brazil, the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, and Australia, after launching in US last year — Instagram is launching its Shopping feature for business accounts to eight new countries: Canada, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Australia.
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| Pui-Wing Tam / New York Times: |
Profile of Founders for Change, a group of 400+ tech entrepreneurs and CEOs that are pushing the VC industry to diversify its ranks — SAN FRANCISCO — When Trevor McFedries set out last year to raise money for Brud, his robotics and artificial intelligence start-up, he found himself in many meetings with …
Tweets: @puiwingtam, @mongodb, @foursquare, @derekflanz, @neilblumenthal, @joshmedia, @juliahartz, @miradu, @sm, @jencarolan, and @nytimesbusiness
| Jeff Baumgartner / Multichannel News: |
Roku says The Roku Channel, its free, ad-supported VOD offering, is set to debut this summer on select Samsung smart TVs — Roku's free, ad-based curated VOD service to expand to another major streaming platform — In an important move that extends a bridge beyond its own streaming device ecosystem … | Katie Roof / TechCrunch: |
Sources: DocuSign plans to IPO within six months and has filed confidentially; the company has raised $500M since 2003 and has been valued at $3B — The company, which pioneered the e-signature, has now filed confidentially, we are hearing. Utilizing a commonly used provision of the JOBS Act …
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Apple and IBM partner to add IBM Watson to Apple Core ML platform, in an effort to make business apps more intelligent — Apple and IBM may seem like an odd couple, but the two companies have been working closely together for several years now. That has involved IBM sharing its enterprise expertise …
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