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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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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.
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As US lawmakers on both sides of the aisle call for Mark Zuckerberg to testify, he and Sheryl Sandberg remain publicly silent on the Cambridge Analytica scandal — The bad thing about making your face synonymous with the company you run: When you go M.I.A., everyone tends to notice.
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Chris Wylie says Breitbart's Steve Bannon approved Cambridge Analytica's 2014 work to collect Facebook data; firm used focus groups to test views on Putin, more — LONDON — Conservative strategist Stephen K. Bannon oversaw Cambridge Analytica's early efforts to collect troves of Facebook data …
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Source: Mark Zuckerberg expected to address Facebook employees about Cambridge Analytica scandal at 1pm ET on Friday during the company's regular Q&A session — And Sheryl Sandberg is too — After nearly four days of silence from top executives on the unfolding controversy around …
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Cambridge Analytica execs boasted of running “all the digital campaign” for Trump, described its comms tactics to avoid paper trail: Proton Mail, deleting email — An undercover investigation by Channel 4 News has revealed how Cambridge Analytica claims it ran key parts of the presidential campaign for Donald Trump.
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| Bloomberg: |
Cambridge Analytica's board suspends CEO Alexander Nix, saying it's with immediate effect, pending a full, independent investigation — Board of Cambridge Analytica suspended CEO Alexander Nix with immediate effect, pending a full, independent investigation, according to a statement from the company.
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| 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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| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
Google and Facebook were built to destroy publishers, not help; Google's $300M pledge to journalism won't go directly to publications, who need real checks — Guess who's winning? — For argument's sake, let's believe that Google believes its newest efforts to boost publishers … | Jim Albrecht / The Keyword: |
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| Blair Hanley Frank / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft announces Windows Server 2019, the first big update since 2016, with Linux and Kubernetes support — Microsoft announced today that it will launch the next major release of Windows Server later this year with better support for hybrid workloads, Linux workloads, and hyper-converged infrastructure.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
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 … | Dan Primack / Axios: |
Salesforce will acquire MuleSoft, a SaaS integration company, for $6.5B, making it Salesforce's largest-ever acquisition — Salesforce today announced that it will acquire SaaS integration company MuleSoft for approximately $6.5 billion in cash and stock. The sale price represents …
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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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| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Amazon, with a market value of $768B, has passed Alphabet's market value of $761.4B, making it the world's second-most valuable company, trails Apple's $889.2B — Amazon has passed Alphabet and now trails just Apple among the list of the world's most valuable companies.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
CryptoKitties, a game built on top of the Ethereum blockchain, raises $12M Series A led by a16z and USV, and will be spun out of Axiom Zen game studio — CryptoKitties became a sensation after it debuted in November as a collectible game built on top of a blockchain and the Ethereum cryptocurrency.
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| Karl Bode / Motherboard: |
The response to privacy abuses in the broadband industry, where there is a lack of oversight and accountability, has been tepid at best compared to social media — If you're mad about Cambridge Analytica taking data from Facebook you should be absolutely livid about AT&T and Verizon.| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Alphabet's Jigsaw announces Outline, an open source VPN software that users can host on their own servers and that will run on Windows and Android to start — A VIRTUAL PRIVATE network, that core privacy tool that encrypts your internet traffic and bounces it through a faraway server … | TechCrunch: |
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