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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram launches Data Download tool, which is equivalent to Facebook's Download Your Information feature and necessary to comply with EU's GDPR privacy law — Two weeks ago TechCrunch called on Instagram to build an equivalent to Facebook's “Download Your Information feature so if you wanted …
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| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Spotify launches a redesigned mobile app for its free users that lets them listen on-demand to any song on one of 15 personalized discovery playlists — Today at the Gramercy Theater in NYC, Spotify's Chief R&D Officer Gustav Söderström announced a brand new free version of the Spotify mobile app.
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Amazon partners with GM and Volvo to launch in-car package delivery service for Prime subscribers in 37 cities in the US — New service in collaboration with GM and Volvo will launch in 37 cities in the US — Last year, Amazon asked for permission to unlock your front door …
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| Monika Bickert / Facebook: |
Facebook publishes the internal guidelines it uses to enforce its public Community Standards, will allow users to appeal when their posts are taken down — One of the questions we're asked most often is how we decide what's allowed on Facebook. These decisions are among the most important …
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| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
Researchers reveal seemingly unpatchable vulnerability in Nvidia Tegra chips that make all currently available Nintendo Switch consoles hackable — Newly published Tegra bootROM exploit could be a big headache for Nintendo and others. — A newly published “exploit chain” …
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Attackers successfully rerouted DNS requests for myetherwallet.com, showing visitors an unsigned SSL cert and apparently taking $13K+ in Ethereum in two hours — At midnight ET last night, MyEtherWallet users started noticing something odd. Connecting to the service …
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Tweets: @coindesk, @francisckrs, and @russellbrandom
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
To better protect user data, Facebook and Instagram announce they will shut down or make changes to several APIs, with some going into affect today — Facebook is making good on Mark Zuckerberg's promise to prioritize user safety and data privacy over its developer platform.| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Conflict of interest concerns raised over FTC settlements that let Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Uber choose third-party responsible for compliance assessments — Facebook's mishandling of its users' personal information prompted stiff penalties from the U.S. government in 2011 …
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| Scott Moritz / Bloomberg: |
Verizon added ~359,000 subs last quarter who use watches, wearables, and other devices, helping offset the loss of ~24,000 phone and ~75,000 tablet customers — New users top Wall Street estimates, sending shares higher — Results help ease pressure to find new sources of growth
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| Sara Ashley O'Brien / CNNMoney: |
Uber's second annual global diversity report shows women in technical roles up to 18%, from 15% in 2017; black representation is up in tech but down overall — Uber says it will go public in 2019 — CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says Uber is “just getting started” when it comes to improving diversity and inclusion.
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| Arthur Beesley / Financial Times: |
Apple will pay Ireland €13B in back taxes starting in May, after deal is reached on where to store the funds, 19 months after EU ruled tax scheme was illegal — Apple will start paying €13bn in back taxes to the Irish government from May in a move that comes 19 months after Brussels ruled …
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| Shannon Liao / The Verge: |
Human Rights Watch: Chinese tech giants like Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent discriminate against women in some job listings by posting “men only” job ads, more — Qualifications for the job: Must be a man — Silicon Valley isn't the only tech hub guilty of widespread gender discrimination.
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| Andrew Chung / Reuters: |
US Supreme Court upholds legality of patent review process called inter partes review, which has been a relatively cheap way to combat “patent troll” firms — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday gave its stamp of approval to a government review process prized …
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| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
DoorDash begins a pilot program for grocery delivery with Walmart in Atlanta, wants to work behind the scenes to power delivery networks for larger companies — DoorDash is about to make a huge move into grocery delivery, but instead of going all out as a delivery service on its own …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Enterprise communications firm Mitel to be acquired for $2B by Searchlight Capital Partners in an all-cash transaction — Mitel, the enterprise communications company that tried but failed to buy Polycom for $2 billion, is now being acquired for $2 billion itself.
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GetVoIP, VoIPWatch, Reuters, and PE Hub Blog
| Kif Leswing / Business Insider: |
SEC says Altaba, the holding company that owns the remains of Yahoo, must pay a $35M fine to settle charges that it misled investors over 2014 hack by Russians — - In 2014, Yahoo was hacked by a state-sponsored actor identified as Russia. — Investors didn't learn about the incident until 2016.
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Tweets: @markwarner, @alisonfrankel, @alisonfrankel, and @ericjackson
| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Marble, a robotics startup that does last-mile logistics for food companies and others, raises $10M Series A from Tencent, CrunchFund, and others — San Francisco-based robotics company Marble announced this morning that it's just closed a $10 million Series A. The round …
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