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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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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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Tweets: @adrianchen and @gossithedog
| 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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The Keyword, Mercury News, ZDNet, BetaNews, Nieman Lab, 9to5Google, Thurrott.com, Engadget, TechCrunch, CNBC, Bloomberg, Axios, and Mashable
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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.
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Gizmodo, Android Police, The Next Web, Reuters, Engadget, CNET, Marketing Land, Android Central, Axios, and Droid Life
Tweets: @sivavaid, @brianstelter, and @klr_editor
| 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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| 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.| 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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| 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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TechCrunch, 9to5Google, CNET, and Business Wire
| 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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Fortune, Business Insider, Computerworld, InfoQ, AppleInsider, Cult of Mac, 9to5Mac, Patently Apple, iPhone Hacks, and AppAdvice.com
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
eBay launches new AR feature that helps sellers easily find the right box to fit their products, available today in updated Android app in the US — eBay is continuing its augmented reality (AR) embrace with the launch of a new feature for sellers to easily find the right box to fit their products.
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Android Police, Engadget, Ubergizmo, and The Verge
| 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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PR Newswire, FinSMEs, Austin Business Journal, TechCrunch, and VentureBeat. Tweets: @eringriffith. Thanks:@gthuang
| 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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PC Magazine, Cointelegraph.com News, and The Register
Tweets: @sleevi_, @chr1sa, @alexhern, @eringriffith, @isskewl, and @felixsalmon
| 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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Crunchbase News, FinSMEs, PE Hub Blog, NASDAQ.com, American Banker, and VentureBeat
| 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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| Julie Verhage / Bloomberg: |
Online lending startup Affirm says it's making its platform available through Apple Pay, letting users pay in physical stores — Affirm Inc., a startup from PayPal co-founder Max Levchin, is going after millennials with a new kind of credit card alternative that only exists online.
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Fast Company, PYMNTS.com, Business Wire, MacRumors, and MacDailyNews
| 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, @homebrew, @km, @emollick, @johnbattelle, @juliahartz, @sm, @mongodb, @foursquare, @nytimesbusiness, @jencarolan, @miradu, @derekflanz, @neilblumenthal, and @joshmedia
| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Sources: Sequoia raising up to $12B for new funds in response to SoftBank, including up to $8B for a growth fund with minimum investment commitment set at $250M — - Sequoia is raising about $12 billion for several funds focusing on both global opportunities and start-ups in U.S., China and India.Thanks:@mattrosoff
| 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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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube rolls out a new feature that lets users “go live” directly from the desktop site without encoding software, currently only supported in Chrome — YouTube today is rolling out a new feature that will allow video creators to start a live stream from their web cam without …
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