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Brian Acton, who cofounded WhatsApp, which was acquired by Facebook for $16B, tweeted “It is time. #deletefacebook” — Facebook bought his app for $16 billion — In 2014, Facebook bought WhatsApp for $16 billion, making its co-founders — Jan Koum and Brian Acton — very wealthy men.
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| Jason Abbruzzese / NBC News: |
Facebook confirms Mark Zuckerberg will speak in the next 24 hours on the Cambridge Analytica scandal, after initially being focused on how to fix the problem — #WheresZuck had become a question in the past couple days — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will speak publicly in the next 24 hours with a …
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| Wired: |
With the storm over user data misuse intensifying into a hurricane, Facebook now faces several vexing questions about its opaque privacy practices — Two weeks ago, Facebook learned that The New York Times, Guardian, and Observer were working on blockbuster stories based on interviews with a man named Christopher Wylie.| Paul Ford / Bloomberg: |
In an era of data breaches, privacy violations, and stolen identities, we need a Digital Protection Agency to clean up leaks, educate the public, and levy fines — It's not just the Cambridge Analytica debacle. Ethics don't scale. — Over and over in the last 20 years we've watched low-cost … | Matthew Yglesias / Vox: |
Zuckerberg and other execs are in denial about Facebook: it's not a force for good, having helped destroy industries and break societies and should be shuttered — It's not just about privacy; its core function makes people lonely and sad. — Facebook is enmeshed in another controversy …
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Sources: Google is buying Lytro, the imaging startup that uses its light field tech in VR, for about $40M; one source describes deal as an “asset sale” — Last week, Google showed off a new app to display immersive photography in virtual reality, and a multi-camera technique for capturing it …
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| David Meyer / Fortune: |
The European Commission proposes a 3% tax on EU revenues of companies with global annual revenues of €750M+, like Google, Facebook, and Amazon — The European Commission wants to see big tech firms pay a 3% tax on some of their revenues. This is a major break from the traditional way of calculating tax based on profits.
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Sources: Apple executive Jimmy Iovine will transition into a consulting role in August and step back from daily involvement with Apple Music — The music executive and Beats co-founder will step back from daily involvement with Apple's streaming-music business
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| Jenny Brewer / It's Nice That: |
Netflix unveils its own custom typeface, Netflix Sans, to be used globally; brand design lead says it will save millions of dollars per year in licensing costs — Netflix has unveiled a new custom typeface to be used across the streaming platform's brand identity, developed by the in-house design team …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
15-year-old hacker exposes vulnerability in popular “tamper-proof” Ledger hardware cryptocurrency wallets that have sold by the millions — Backdoor allows attacker to recover private keys stored on Ledger hardware wallets. — For years, executives at France-based Ledger …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Facebook Messenger adds admin privileges to group chats, letting admins approve new members, and “joinable links” that can be created by anyone — Despite the growing controversy around the Cambridge Analytica data privacy allegations, Facebook is pushing those concerns …
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| David Streitfeld / New York Times: |
A look at Facebook's 59-acre Willow Village development in Menlo Park, with 1,500 apartments and other amenities, as it follows in Apple and Google's footsteps — In Menlo Park, Calif., Facebook is building a real community and testing the proposition: Do people love tech companies so much they will live inside them?
Tweets: @bendwalsh, @ssstrom, @davethackeray, @williamturton, and @kevinroose
| Johana Bhuiyan / Recode: |
Travis Kalanick becoming CEO of City Storage Systems, which focuses on repurposing real estate, and says his new fund is acquiring a $150M controlling interest — The company was formerly called CloudKitchens and was led by Diego Berdakin, an early Uber investor. — Former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has found his new job.
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Sources and docs detail Kaspersky Lab's plans for a data center in Switzerland, to be completed by early 2020, to handle analysis of files from EU and US users — MOSCOW/TORONTO (Reuters) - Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab plans to open a data center in Switzerland to address Western government concerns … | Rita El Khoury / Android Police: |
Amazon's in-home delivery service app Key adds fingerprint authentication support on Android — Amazon's Key in-home delivery service was announced last October and its cameras and smart door locks became available in November. Since then, Amazon has been able to use Key to place … | Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Google's global head of music, Lyor Cohen, says YouTube will start putting more ads in between music videos to encourage subscriptions to upcoming music service — It's a cultural change for a company that was built on free — YouTube will increase the number of ads that some users …
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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Omidyar Network spins out its for-profit investments into new $100M fund called Spero Ventures, investing primarily in Series A and seed deals — Shripriya Mahesh was a week from presenting to the board at Omidyar Network about the future of their startup investments last year when she got … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google announces new security features for Google Cloud Platform and G Suite, including new DDoS protections, dashboard, and increased data transparency — The enterprise is one area where Google is committing vast resources in order to gain a foothold in the lucrative market occupied by Amazon and Microsoft.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Pandora to acquire digital audio ad tech company AdsWizz for $145M; at least 50% to be paid in cash, with the remainder payable in cash or stock — Music streaming company Pandora has announced a rare foray into acquisitions today with the news that it has snapped up ad-tech startup AdsWizz.
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Dropbox increases IPO price range from $16-18 per share to $18-20 per share on strong demand; final pricing expected on Thursday — (Reuters) - Dropbox Inc [DBX.O] has raised the price range for its initial public offering by $2 following strong demand for the first big tech IPO this year.
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Snowden docs show the methods NSA tried to track down bitcoin users in 2013, including using privacy software that actually fed information back to the agency — Internet paranoiacs drawn to bitcoin have long indulged fantasies of American spies subverting the booming, controversial digital currency.
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