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| Eugene Kim / CNBC: |
Jeff Bezos says Prime has 100M+ members worldwide in his annual shareholder letter, the first time Prime membership numbers have been shared by Amazon — - Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has released his latest annual shareholder letter. — Bezos has published a shareholder letter every year since 1997.
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Ahead of GDPR, Facebook debuts enhanced privacy controls for all users globally, starting in EU, with more choices about ads, allowing face recognition, more — In recent weeks we've announced several steps to give people more control over their privacy and explain how we use data.
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Tweets: @shiraovide, @adfichter, and @ow
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
With an interface designed to push users to consent, Facebook's privacy changes comply with the letter of GDPR law but with questionable spirit — Facebook is about to start pushing European users to speed through giving consent for its new GDPR privacy law compliance changes.
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| M.G. Siegler / 500ish Words: |
Silicon Valley's tech industry appears increasingly out of touch with reality, the latest example being Facebook's response to recent scandals, as IQ trumps EQ — As we slip out of touch with reality... There's something that has been in the back of my mind for some time now.
Tweets: @mattrosoff, @lpolovets, @samirkaji, @ashleymayer, @yoda, @martinsfp, @josephschmitt, and @triketora
| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Amazon and Best Buy announce multi-year partnership to sell smart TVs made by Toshiba and Best Buy's brand Insignia, with built-in Fire TV — In its quest to get more consumers to use its Fire TV products, Amazon announced an unusual partnership Wednesday: The company has teamed up with Best Buy …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft Translator gets full offline support on Android and iOS; third-party Android developers can now pay to use Translator in their own apps — Chances are you mostly need a translator app on your phone while you are traveling. But that's also when you are most likely to not have any connectivity.
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| Julia Alexander / Polygon: |
YouTube CEO addresses demonetization and Partner Program concerns, says company will pilot a new video upload flow to decrease monetization icon changes — “We are working to make this faster,” Susan Wojcicki said — YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki today addressed ongoing frustration …
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| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Filing with Russia's EEC database shows several unreleased iPhone models; previous filings of suspected Apple products appeared 1-2 months before official debut — French website Consomac has discovered a new Russian-language regulatory filing in the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) …
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| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Researcher finds a public and unprotected AWS storage bucket, belonging to data firm Localblox, containing 48M individuals' records scraped from public profiles — Exclusive: Profile data was scraped without user consent or knowledge to “build a three-dimensional picture” on millions of people.
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Tweets: @zackwhittaker, @cwarzel, @ron_miller, @trycatchhcf, @jamespmcleod, @anncavoukian, and @trialbytruth
| David Gelles / New York Times: |
Interview with Marissa Mayer, her first since leaving Yahoo, on her new Lumi Labs project, time at Google, thoughts on #MeToo movement, and more — The former Yahoo chief is renting Google's original office, where “there's a lot of good juju,” and planning her next act. She just won't say what it is.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Stripe launches Radar for Fraud Teams, a premium service that's an extension of its free AI-powered anti-fraud service, which has also been updated — Cybersecurity continues to be a growing focus and problem in the digital world, and now Stripe is launching a new paid product that it hopes … | Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Snap begins rolling out a direct response ad unit in the Snapchat camera screen, encouraging users to perform an action when using a sponsored lens — These new Snapchat ads won't blend in as well as the old ones. — Snap likes to say that it's a camera company — the camera … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Researchers: 3rd-party JavaScript trackers embedded on sites using Login With Facebook can grab Facebook user data; abusive scripts found on 434 of top 1M sites — Facebook confirms to TechCrunch that it's investigating a security research report that shows Facebook user data can be grabbed … | Nat Levy / GeekWire: |
T-Mobile says it will spend $500M this year on expanding LTE coverage and preparing for 5G on US military bases, doubles veteran hiring goal to 10K over 5 years — T-Mobile is embarking on a military initiative that the company says includes its biggest hiring push ever … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google's Area 120 incubator launches Grasshopper, a learn-to-code mobile app for beginners, with an initial curriculum teaching JavaScript — Google's internal incubator, Area 120, is today releasing its next creation: a learn-to-code mobile app for beginners called Grasshopper.
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| Johana Bhuiyan / Recode: |
Interview with Susan Fowler, who exposed Uber's toxic workplace culture, on her new mission: ending forced arbitration for all workers, starting in California — The Uber whistleblower is working with the California Labor Federation to help bring awareness to a new bill.
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Tweets: @susanthesquark, @jmbooyah, @susanthesquark, @jmbooyah, @laurenberson, @jmbooyah, and @susanthesquark
| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
New Jersey-based Basis, which aims to develop a “stable coin” that stays valued at ~$1 by altering supply, raises $133M from a16z, GV, Bain Capital, and others — If you own any Bitcoin, you're probably in the habit of watching its price fluctuate wildly.
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Basis Blog, Salil Deshpande, CNBC, Reuters, Bloomberg, Business Insider, NewsBTC, Crunchbase News, and CoinDesk
Tweets: @prestonjbyrne, @prestonjbyrne, @mdudas, @pascalbouvier, and @seldo
| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
Florida man, who the FCC claimed made 96M robocalls during a three-month period in 2016 and said should pay a $120M fine, denies wrongdoing before US Senate — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Florida man alleged to have made almost 100 million robocalls to trick consumers with “exclusive” …
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| Dan Strumpf / Wall Street Journal: |
ZTE says it's delaying release of quarterly earnings to undetermined “later date” to assess implications of US Commerce Dept. ban on sales of US products to ZTE — Commerce Department found the Chinese company violated terms of a deal settling allegations of sanctions-busting involving North Korea and Iran
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| Kate Conger / Gizmodo: |
Google pulls five Chrome Web Store extensions with 20M+ users combined that cloned ad-blocker code and added scripts to manipulate browsers and track browsing — A researcher with AdGuard discovered five fake ad-blocking extensions in the Chrome Web Store that used hidden scripts to manipulate users' browsers.
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MSPoweruser, BetaNews, AdGuard Blog, and HackRead
| Matthew Garrahan / Financial Times: |
Sources: Netflix plans to spend ~$1B on original productions in Europe this year, more than double what it spent last year, across multiple languages — Netflix will escalate its assault on European broadcasters by sharply increasing its content investment across the continent … Sponsor Posts
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