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| Sara Salinas / CNBC: |
FTC says it has an open non-public probe into Facebook's privacy practices; a violation of consent decree signed in 2011 could carry a penalty of $40K/violation — The FTC confirmed Monday it's investigating Facebook and its data practices in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal.
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Tweets: @alexeheath, @campuscodi, @kowsmann, @technology, @20committee, @tedkempcnbc, @shiraovide, and @jason_kint
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google unveils $329 Acer Chromebook Tab 10, the first Chrome OS tablet, with a 9.7" 2048x1536 display and Wacom EMR stylus that slides into device, coming April — Ahead of Apple's education-focused event tomorrow, which in itself is a reaction to the dominance of Chromebooks in schools …
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Tweets: @pierce, @tomgrissom, @pradeepviswav, and @backlon
| Ian Bogost / The Atlantic: |
How every Facebook app in 2010 collected users' personal data, what devs could do with it, and why Facebook can't close the Pandora's box it opened a decade ago — For a spell during 2010 and 2011, I was a virtual rancher of clickable cattle on Facebook. — It feels like a long time ago.
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Slate, DSLreports, Business Insider, FactorDaily, Memex 1.1, and Stratechery
Tweets: @max_read, @ibogost, and @catherinecronin
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
New complicated privacy and transparency regulations might be a mere speed bump for Facebook but an insurmountable burden for startups — You know what tech startups hate? Complicated legal compliance. The problem is, Facebook isn't a startup any more, but its competitors are.
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Axios, Marketing Land, USA Today, Vanity Fair, CBS New York, South China Morning Post, Beyond Search, Reuters, The Verge, CNET, The Hill, NBC Bay Area, and Engadget
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| Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note: |
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| Johana Bhuiyan / Recode: |
Uber CEO says they spent $700M in Southeast Asia before deal with Grab; source: Uber feels confident enough in India and Middle East to not retreat from there — As part of the deal, Uber will get a 27.5 percent stake in the company and CEO Dara Khosrowshahi will join the Grab board.
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Tweets: @shiraovide and @bbcleisha
| Bloomberg: |
Grab to acquire all of Uber's operations in Southeast Asia, including UberEats; Uber gets 27.5% stake in Grab, and Uber CEO will join Grab's board — Grab to buy ride-sharing, food delivery businesses in region — Uber gets 27.5% stake in rival, CEO to join Grab's board
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Ars Technica, Grab SG, Fortune, TechSpot, TechCrunch, Digital Trends, MediaNama, Forbes, Mashable, and Seeking Alpha
Tweets: @samzabbel, @noahpinion, @jonrussell, @teddyschleifer, @tjmanotoc, and @gwendolynregina
| David Meyer / Fortune: |
Leader of hacker gang known as Carbanak, who used malware attacks to steal €1B+ from banks and ATMs, caught in Spain — For the past five years, a gang of hackers known as Carbanak has been targeting banks around the world, stealing well over $1 billion in total.
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Europol, International Business Times, Inquirer, Business Insider, Gizmodo, Engadget, BBC, ValueWalk, Reuters, ZDNet, and Bloomberg
Tweets: @mikko, @troelsoerting, and @europol
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google starts using the mobile version of webpages for indexing on more sites that “follow the best practices” — Google today announced it has started rolling out mobile-first indexing for its search results. The company is migrating sites that follow best practices for mobile …
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Google Webmaster Central Blog, TechCrunch, Android Police, Domain Name Wire, Engadget, 9to5Google, and Search Engine Land. Tweets: @spencerchen
| John Koblin / New York Times: |
Since October, Apple has signed 12 TV projects, nine of them “straight-to-series”; sources say the company aims to roll them out between March and summer 2019 — Known for its bold designs and its big marketing campaigns, Apple relishes its status as a dominant force in the corporate world.
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9to5Mac, Ars Technica, BGR, Macworld, TechSpot, TechCrunch, FierceCable, AppleInsider, VentureBeat, iPhone in Canada Blog, Ubergizmo, MacRumors, Engadget, The Verge, AppAdvice.com, Patently Apple, iPhone Hacks, Cult of Mac, The Mac Observer, SlashGear, Mashable, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Fortune, MacStories, iLounge, and MacDailyNews
Tweets: @corybarker, @corybarker, @ohmdee, and @vilkomerson
| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
Spotify issues guidance for 2018: 96M subs, up 36% YoY, $6.9B in revenue, up 30% YoY, 25% gross margin, up from 21%, $409M operating loss, down from $500M — Ahead of its IPO, the streaming service is offering its first-ever guidance: Revenue, subs and margins will be up, operating losses will go down.| Lauren Goode / The Verge: |
Fitbit Versa review: 4-day battery in compact design, tracks lots of data, but it has poor notification support, data isn't shared with helpful third-party apps — The Versa is better than Fitbit's earlier smartwatches, but it still has issues — Fitbit needs a win.
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TechCrunch, Gizmodo, MacRumors, Ars Technica, iMore, Engadget, Macworld, PC Magazine, Tom's Guide, AndroidHeadlines.com, and CNET
Tweets: @laurengoode and @laurengoode
| Roman / infosec.rm-it.de: |
iOS camera app bug means maliciously-crafted QR codes can prompt notification previewing a completely different URL destination, was reported to Apple on Dec 23 — I've learned recently that the iOS 11 camera app will now automatically scan QR codes and interpret them.
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9to5Mac, iMore, InvestorPlace, The Mac Observer, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, Softpedia News, iPhone in Canada Blog, Ubergizmo, iPhone Hacks, Cult of Mac, and iLounge. Tweets: @faker_
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: SoftBank is investigating who was behind the smear campaign that called for the ouster of its top execs Nikesh Arora and Alok Sama — Series of letters to board called for removal of Nikesh Arora and Alok Sama; ‘sabotage’ effort also involved media leaks, complaint to SEC| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
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