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| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
WhatsApp cofounder and CEO Jan Koum leaving Facebook; sources say over attempts to weaken WhatsApp's encryption and use its data, and he plans to leave board — SAN FRANCISCO — The billionaire chief executive of WhatsApp, Jan Koum, is planning to leave the company after clashing with its parent …
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| Barry Levine / MarTech Today: |
Trade groups representing 4,000 publishers criticize Google's GDPR policies, say proposal to get consent from EU visitors if Google ads are served “falls short” — The organizations point to Google's requirements that publishers collect consent and assume liability as some of the many issues.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amazon launches Prime Book Box, an invite-only subscription service for kids' hardcover books for $23/box sold as part of Prime membership — Along with the higher price that Amazon is introducing to Prime this month, the company is also bringing another first to its membership service: physical books.| Dan Frommer / Recode: |
T-Mobile and Sprint merger may help them to stop wasting resources on stealing customers from each other and take on the industry goliaths AT&T and Verizon — Should T-Mobile be allowed to join forces with rival Sprint? — T-Mobile is trying to make a huge move: Yesterday …
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| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Suki announces it has raised $20M, led by Venrock, to build an AI-enabled voice assistant for doctors — When trying to figure out what to do after an extensive career at Google, Motorola, and Flipkart, Punit Soni decided to spend a lot of time sitting in doctors' offices to figure out what to do next.
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| Bob Egelko / San Francisco Chronicle: |
California Supreme Court adopts much stricter standard for classifying workers as contractors and not employees, a ruling that may affect many gig economy firms — Companies that want to classify their workers as contractors and avoid paying them wages and benefits that state law requires …
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Tehran court orders Iranian telecoms to block Telegram, saying the app gave Islamic State “safe ground” and also citing the app's role in recent protests — Tehran court ruling prohibits the messaging platform used to organize protesters — Iran moved to shut …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Twitter announces 30 new or renewed video content deals, details live programming from ESPN, NBCUniversal, Live Nation, Vice News, MLB, and more — Twitter is ready to pump even more premium video into your tweet-stream from a range of new and existing partners — with an emphasis on live-streamed content.
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| Bloomberg: |
Private equity firm Permira is buying Cisco's video software business, known as the NDS Group, sources say for ~$1B; Cisco had bought it from Permira for $5B — Cisco bought NDS Group from Permira in 2012 for $5 billion — Cisco is shifting away from tech such as satellite boxes
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
AWS starts blocking domain-fronting, a technique used by services to evade state-level internet blocks, following a similar move by Google's App Engine — A week after Google shut down a method for app developers to skirt internet censorship, Amazon is doing the same.
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| Evan Hill / BuzzFeed: |
Tech firms and governments can't be trusted to preserve digital history, which adds import to the role of new archives like the Egyptian 858 and Syrian Archive — We create almost everything on the internet, but we control almost none of it. — Recently, a 7-year-old photo of mine appeared at the top of my Facebook feed.
Tweets: @tomgara, @davewiner, @digiphile, @dangillmor, and @neerajka
| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Facebook is investigating a report that one of its security engineers may have used privileged access to stalk women online — On Monday, a member of the information security community said they passed Facebook details concerning a security engineer allegedly using their work position to stalk women.
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| Pew Research Center: |
Survey: 70% of US adults say the internet has been good for society, down 6 percentage points from 2014; 25% of those opposed cite time spent with devices — Americans tend to view the impact of the internet and other digital technologies on their own lives in largely positive ways … | CNNMoney: |
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