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Highlights from the first day of F8: AR camera effects and group calling on Instagram, sharing to Stories from third-party apps, Oculus Go available now, more — Today, our global developer community gathered in San Jose for F8, an annual two-day event where developers come together to explore the future of technology.
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Facebook announces dating feature for its app that will recommend matches and let users create a separate dating profile, with testing to begin later this year — The world's largest social network is adding dating app features — Facebook is adding a dating layer to its main mobile app …
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Facebook announces Clear History feature, letting users stop Facebook-collected browsing history from being associated with their account — It's arguably the company's biggest update since the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke. — Facebook users will soon be able to opt …
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| Thuy Ong / The Verge: |
Mark Zuckerberg announces new Instagram features, including a redesigned Explore page and video chat — The Explore tab will also feature more topics — Instagram is rolling out a host of new features today, including video chat and a redesigned Explore page.
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Interview with Mark Zuckerberg on his recent Congressional testimony, goals for F8 keynote, the three-year timeframe for fixing Facebook, and more — Mark Zuckerberg knew his keynote speech at F8 this year would not be like any other. His previous appearances at Facebook's annual developer's conference …
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| Laura M. Holson / New York Times: |
Instagram says it will expand anti-bullying tools, including hiding comments that attack appearances — Instagram said Tuesday it was expanding its online anti-bullying initiative, adding a new filter to weed out comments meant to harass or bully the 800 million users of the popular social media site.
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Facebook and Instagram Stories open to sharing from other apps, letting developers integrate a button for users to easily share content from app — Facebook is recruiting help to make its Stories more interesting than Snapchat's. Starting with Spotify, SoundCloud and GoPro … | Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Review of Oculus Go, which launches today: works without a phone or computer, solid hardware, $199 price is reasonable, but ecosystem is lacking and looks bulky — Oculus' first portable all-in-one VR headset is good, but not great — For the past few years, consumer virtual reality headsets …
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Tweets: @geoffreyfowler, @geoffreyfowler, and @thedextriarchy
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook announces updates to Messenger: chat translations, slowly rolling out starting with English/Spanish; AR features in closed beta; and a simplified UI — Facebook could use more evidence that it brings the world together rather than tearing it apart.| 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.
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| Bloomberg: |
Filings: Jan Koum's remaining Facebook stock options were not due to fully vest until November, and he may be forfeiting up to $1B if he leaves before May 15 — WhatsApp co-founder still has amassed a $10.4 billion fortune — He's said to have clashed with other executives over strategy
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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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| 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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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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SiliconANGLE, Mercury News, Cisco Blog, Silicon Valley Business …, TechCrunch, GlobeNewswire News Room, FierceCable, PE Hub Blog, and Reuters
Tweets: @ciscospvideo and @business
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Hustle, a grassroots mass-texting tool that does not “sell to Republican candidates or committees”, raises $30M Series B with GV and Salesforce participating — Hustle 20X'd its annual revenue run rate in 15 months by denying clients that contradict its political views.
Tweets: @mims and @joshconstine
| 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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Amazon Web Services, BleepingComputer.com, ZDNet, and SecurityWeek
Tweets: @colmmacc and @malcomvetter
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Inside the increasingly divisive and nonstop debates among Google employees, often over social and political topics — The tech giant, trying to navigate an age of heightened political disagreement, struggles to tame a workplace culture of nonstop debate — Ingrid Newkirk …
Tweets: @kirstengrind, @trippmickle, @saraheneedleman, @ceodonovan, @eliotwb, @scottmaustin, @caseynewton, and @dmac1
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
To combat cord cutting, Comcast gives some plans free internet speed increases in OR, WA, and Houston but only to subscribers of both internet and TV service — Comcast keeps losing TV subscribers, but it has a new way to fight cord cutting. — As streaming video continues to chip away … | 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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| Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
Seattle-based SkyKick, which builds software to help SMBs build their IT strategy, raises $40M, mostly from individuals, bringing total raised to $65M — Tectonic shifts in information technology strategies are hard to navigate, even for the biggest companies on the planet.| 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.Sponsor Posts
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