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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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Sources: DOJ has sent subpoenas to the top 4 US mobile carriers and GSMA association 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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| Drew FitzGerald / Wall Street Journal: |
At antitrust trial, AT&T CEO announced AT&T Watch, a $15/month streaming TV bundle without sports; service is free for cellular customers, will debut in weeks — CEO unveils ‘skinny bundle’ service in testimony during antitrust case — AT&T Inc. T 0.13% plans to launch a …
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Sources: Apple's efforts to lessen its reliance on Samsung as the sole OLED display supplier for iPhones in peril due to manufacturing problems at LG Display — Manufacturing problems at South Korea's LG Display could force Apple to rely solely on its competitor for high-end and costly smartphone screens
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| Patrick Howell O'Neill / Cyberscoop: |
Twitter bans Kaspersky Lab from advertising on its network, pointing to DHS' September notice of vendor's ties to Russian intelligence services — Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab has been banned from advertising on Twitter due to its allegedly close and active ties between …
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| Joseph Tsidulko / CRN: |
Pivotal closes up ~5% on its first day of trading after raising $555M in its IPO at a valuation of ~$3.8B — Pivotal Software, the spin-out of EMC and VMware that's the leading force behind the Cloud Foundry project, became a publicly traded company Friday with its listing on the New York Stock Exchange.
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Tax forms filed by the nonprofit OpenAI provide insight into the enormous salaries and bonuses paid to AI specialists across the world — SAN FRANCISCO — One of the poorest-kept secrets in Silicon Valley has been the huge salaries and bonuses that experts in artificial intelligence can command.
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| Adam Clark Estes / Gizmodo: |
Interview with filmmaker Andrew Oleck on his spoof video “starring” Mark Zuckerberg, A World Without Facebook, which has 32M+ views and caused some confusion — A couple years ago, Andrew Oleck wondered if he could make a viral video. The Los Angeles-based filmmaker … | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
UK judge sentences Kane Gamble, a teen who hacked online accounts of the director of CIA and other prominent US government employees, to two years in prison — A judge in London sentenced a British teenager who was part of the hacking group Crackas With Attitude, which targeted prominent US government employees.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Rare Bits, a crypto-collectible trading site, raises $6M Series A led by Spark Capital with First Round, Craft Ventures, SV Angel, and Justin Kan participating — Rare Bits wants to be eBay for the blockchain, where you buy, sell and trade non-fungible crypto-goods.
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| Daniel Funke / Poynter: |
A look at Facebook's month-long rollout of its fact-checking tool and its partners in Mexico, Indonesia, the Philippines, India, and Colombia — What started as a pilot project 16 months ago is now one of Facebook's primary weapons against fake news. — During his testimony to Congress last week …
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| Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes: |
A look at surveillance companies like Area SpA, IPS, and Terrogence, which covertly infiltrate and manipulate social media — Forbes Staff I cover crime, privacy and security in digital and physical forms. — If it hasn't already been made clear by Facebook's moves to cut off AggregateIQ …
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