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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. — In the letter, Bezos stressed the importance of having high standards in running a business.
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| Bloomberg: |
Interview with Jeff Wilke, who runs Amazon's worldwide consumer division and has been Bezos' right-hand man for 18 years, on its usage of USPS and more — Retail chief Jeff Wilke talks about the company's AI ambitions and downplays Trump concerns. — Donald Trump has hammered Amazon.com …
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| David Ingram / Reuters: |
Facebook says it will change ToS in May for 1.5B users outside EU; US, Canada to be governed by US instead of Ireland ToS, limiting GDPR impact to 400M users — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - If a new European law restricting what companies can do with people's online data went into effect tomorrow …
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Oculus begins rolling out GDPR-compliant changes including a user-facing Privacy Center, updated ToS, and new Code of Conduct for users — While Facebook is still struggling to regain user trust following a data fiasco that ultimately brought Zuckerberg to testify in front of Congress … | Aaron Tilley / The Information: |
Sources: Intel to shut down its New Devices Group, which was formed in 2013 and made fitness trackers and smart glasses — Intel's long-failing foray into wearables and augmented reality is officially dead. — The chip giant's new devices group will shut down, according to people familiar with the situation.| Bloomberg: |
An investigation of data-mining company Palantir, cofounded by Peter Thiel, which works with government agencies and law enforcement to help track US citizens — Peter Thiel's data-mining company is using War on Terror tools to track American citizens. The scary thing? Palantir is desperate for new customers.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Qualcomm is cutting ~1,500 jobs, mostly in California, in an effort to cut costs by $1B; the company employs 34K people globally — Company to reduce California workforce by about 1,500 — Management acting in response to shareholder pressure — Qualcomm Inc. has begun cutting …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon introduces Alexa Blueprints that let anyone create custom Alexa skills and responses without coding — Amazon this morning is introducing “Alexa Blueprints,” a new way for any Alexa owner to create their own customized Alexa skills or responses, without needing to know how to code.
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| Cameron Johnson / Netflix Media Center: |
Netflix launches 30-second preview videos shown in vertical slideshow format, available now on iOS and coming soon to Android — One of the best ways to know if you'll like a new series or movie is to watch a quick trailer. Today, we are excited to introduce mobile previews … | Dell Cameron / Gizmodo: |
TaskRabbit's app and website are back online after security breach, CEO says certain personally identifiable information may have been compromised — TaskRabbit, the handyman-for-hire app, is back online after being intentionally taken down on Monday following an apparent data breach.
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| Yimian Wu / China Money Network: |
Alibaba invests $717.2M in e-commerce platform Huitongda, which serves rural Chinese consumers, as Alibaba seeks to expand sales outside major cities — China's e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding will invest RMB4.5 billion (US$717.2 million) in Huitongda Network Co. …
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| Stephen Schenck / Android Police: |
Moto's new budget handsets: €250 G6 with dual cameras and USB-C, bigger €300 G6 Plus, €200 G6 Play with larger battery, €150 E5, €170 E5 Plus, and E5 Play — For smartphone fans who enjoy a good spoiler, we started the year off with a pretty substantial one …
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| Bloomberg: |
Facebook is building a team to design its own AI chips, according to job listings and sources, joining a trend among tech giants to lower reliance on chipmakers — Social network could use semiconductors for consumer devices — Move follows Apple's chip efforts, early work by Google
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| Arielle Pardes / Wired: |
Profile of “Terms of Service; Didn't Read”, launched in 2012, which crowdsources summaries of ToS and then rates them — MOST PEOPLE SPEND very little time thinking about the terms of service that govern life online. The agreement appears in a flash, we affirm that … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: cryptocurrency firms and VCs, including a16z and Union Square Ventures, are lobbying SEC to seek exemption from federal oversight of cryptocurrencies — Andreessen Horowitz and other venture-capital backers of digital-currency firms argue against regulation
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| Richard Gao / Android Police: |
Google Pay, formerly Android Pay, passes 100M installs on the Google Play Store — Nowadays, several phone manufacturers have their own payment services. There's Apple Pay, Samsung Pay, the upcoming LG Pay, and of course, Google Pay. After experiencing two rebrands and retaining …
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| 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 …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Android does a better job of corralling notifications than iOS by prioritizing, grouping, and letting users jump directly to that app's notification settings — Because they aren't going away — Everybody hates smartphone notifications. They're interruptive, distracting, annoying, and increasingly less valuable.
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| Newley Purnell / Wall Street Journal: |
The world's tech giants are betting big on India as more people go online and e-commerce grows, but low incomes and patchy connectivity remain major challenges — The world's largest internet companies are betting big on the nation of 1.3 billion, where challenges are as big as the opportunities
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Lyft announces “multimillion-dollar” initiative to invest in environmental projects as it hopes to offset 1M+ metric tons of carbon in the first year — The plan is to offset over a million metric tons of carbon — Lyft announced a multimillion-dollar investment to become …
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| 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.Sponsor Posts
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