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| The Verge: |
Live blog and stream of Mark Zuckerberg's first hearing before Congress, titled “Facebook, Social Media Privacy, and the Use and Abuse of Data” — https://live.theverge.com/mark- zuckerberg-congress-testimony-live- blog/
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| Michelle Castillo / CNBC: |
Facebook debuts a Data Abuse Bounty to reward those who report misuse of data by app devs; payouts are for cases affecting 10K+ users and range from $500-$40K — - Facebook is launching a data abuse bounty program to ask its users to help it find companies using unauthorized data.
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| Nick Summers / Engadget: |
Facebook adds a Help Center page that tells users if they were affected by Cambridge Analytica's data abuse, as it rolls out similar announcement in News Feed — In the aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, you're probably wondering: Was I actually affected?
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| Issie Lapowsky / Wired: |
Facebook confirms some users' private messages were collected by quiz app that Cambridge Analytica used to glean data, says 1,500 people were affected — THE DATA CONSULTING firm Cambridge Analytica, which harvested as many as 87 million Facebook users' personal data, also could have accessed …
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| Christopher Knaus / The Guardian: |
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram one-ups Apple with a portrait mode feature called Focus that works with both photos and video for select Android devices and iPhones 6S and newer — Instagram is one-upping Apple with a portrait mode feature that runs on a wider variety of phones and works with video, not just photos.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
High-profile accounts and popular music videos on YouTube were hacked and defaced, and the most-viewed video of all time, “Despacito”, disappeared briefly — Lots of high-profile music videos have been defaced — YouTube appears to have fallen victim to hackers today …
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Tweets: @prosoxw3b and @karthikb351
| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
FIDO Alliance and W3C announce WebAuthn, a new open standard for password-free logins, currently supported in Firefox, and to be supported in Chrome and Edge — One small step towards a world without phishing — Web browsers are building a new way for you to log in, announced today by the W3C and FIDO Alliance standards bodies.
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| Lauren Thomas / CNBC: |
Walmart to work with Postmates for grocery delivery starting in Charlotte, NC, and expanding to other areas in the US in the coming months — - The partnership will roll out in Charlotte, North Carolina, and will grow to other areas in the U.S. in the coming months.| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Twitter endorses the Honest Ads Act, a bill introduced last year to promote political ad transparency, following Facebook's endorsement of it last week — Just hours before social media companies face a regulatory reckoning with Facebook's appearance on the Hill, Twitter is taking a step to get right with Congress.
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| Kif Leswing / Business Insider: |
Piper Jaffray: 82% of American teenagers currently own an iPhone, up from 78% last fall, and 84% say their next phone will be an iPhone — - 82% of American teenagers currently own an iPhone, the highest percentage ever in the history of a Piper Jaffray study about teens.
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| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Facebook has intentionally kept Instagram's branding independent in consumers' minds; source says Zuckerberg requested Instagram's Stories functionality — Through the glass doors, beyond the giant camera logo and before the artisan coffee stand, visitors to Instagram's headquarters in Menlo Park …
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Engadget, Wired, and iPhone in Canada Blog
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| Julie Steinberg / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Ant Financial, the fintech affiliate of Alibaba, is preparing to raise $9B in a private funding round at a valuation of almost $150B — Latest funding round could value the financial technology firm at close to $150 billion — Chinese billionaire Jack Ma's financial-technology business …
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| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Uber rolls out redesigned app for drivers that identifies areas with the best fares, starting in Los Angeles, Atlanta, and about 10 cities worldwide — Uber is rolling out a new app for drivers starting today. The hope with the redesign is to make it easier for drivers to access the information …
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| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Spotify developing a new version of its free music service to make it easier to use, especially on mobile; announcement expected within a couple weeks — Non-paying listeners are key source for subscription streaming — Fresh off going public, service seeks to boost user growth
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