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Valve acquires Firewatch developer Campo Santo, which will be left intact as a team, weeks after CEO said Valve will return to “making and shipping games” — Dev team will continue to make its own games — Firewatch developer Campo Santo announced today that it's joining Valve.
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| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at the many ways Google harvests user info via Gmail, apps on devices, its Analytics service, more; Google likely knows more about us than Facebook — Google gathers more personal data than Facebook does, by almost every measure—so why aren't we talking about it?
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| Alan Boyle / GeekWire: |
EarthNow comes out of stealth with backing from Bill Gates, Airbus, and SoftBank, plans to operate a satellite constellation providing real-time video of Earth — The latest spinout from Intellectual Ventures, EarthNow, says it's coming out of stealth mode with backing from Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates …
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How hate speech and misinformation spread on Facebook in developing countries like Sri Lanka, where reputable sources are scarce, leading to real-world violence — MEDAMAHANUWARA, Sri Lanka — Past the end of a remote mountain road, down a rutted dirt track, in a concrete house …
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| Jessica Guynn / USA Today: |
Photo-sharing and storage company SmugMug acquires Flickr from Oath, promises to revitalize and maintain Flickr as a standalone service — SAN FRANCISCO — Flickr has been snapped up by Silicon Valley photo-sharing and storage company SmugMug, USA TODAY has learned.
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| Symeon Brown / The Guardian: |
How Instagram influencers portray themselves as self-made wealthy traders to build up affiliate marketing schemes, often targeting teens — Their hero is Jordan Belfort, their social media feeds display super-rich lifestyles. But what are these self-styled traders really selling? By Symeon Brown
Tweets: @randfish, @anabmap, @mattzarb, and @rationalhill
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Sources: DOJ has sent subpoenas to the top 4 US mobile carriers and GSMA over alleged collusion to impede eSIM features for easier carrier switching — AT&T, Verizon at center of probe into whether major carriers are making it harder for subscribers to switch providers
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Tweets: @markgurman, @cnbcnow, @ceciliakang, @ceciliakang, @edbott, and @reckless
| Alexandra Lange / New Yorker: |
Profile of Susan Kare, designer of the classic Macintosh suite of icons, whose influential work lives on in modern art museums — Every fifteen minutes or so, as I wrote this story, I moved my cursor northward to click on the disk in the Microsoft Word toolbar that indicates “Save.”| Emilia Petrarca / The Cut: |
Two computer-generated Instagram influencers had an orchestrated feud where one “hacked” the other's account and “revealed” she was not a real person — If you need any further proof that we're living in The Matrix, here it is. — On Tuesday, the Instagram account … | Nellie Bowles / New York Times: |
Profile of Campbell Brown, Facebook's head of news partnerships; sources say she controls a $90M budget that will pay partners to make original news programs — It was another terrible day for Facebook and the company had dispatched Campbell Brown, its head of news partnerships, to do some damage control.| Reuters: |
Amazon India head Amit Agarwal expects groceries and consumables to be more than half of company's business in the country in the next five years — BENGALURU (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc expects groceries and household products to account for over half of its business in India in the next five years … | Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber details tech that uses GPS data and 3D maps to substantially improve the location accuracy in urban environments where traditional GPS is inaccurate — GPS can't see through tall buildings, so Uber set out to fix the problem using 3D maps, probability, and mathSponsor Posts
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Pro Tips: 4 tips to overcome data problems in your CRM — Most CRM data problems don't look like problems. At a glance, your CRM looks fine: records exist, fields are filled, and reports run.
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