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| Jessica Davies / Digiday: |
With the arrival of GDPR, ad platform vendors like DoubleClick warn publishers about steep EU ad volume declines, at least for the short term — The arrival of the General Data Protection Regulation's enforcement May 25 has hurled the digital media and advertising industries into a tailspin.
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BloombergQuint, Android Central, CNET, The Merkle, Fortune, Gizmodo, Pocketables, Forbes, Bloomberg, New York Times, BetaNews, Wired, reddit.com, and The Hill
| Adam Satariano / New York Times: |
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American Prospect, Digital Trends, The Parallax, VentureBeat, The Hill, Fortune, and TechCrunch
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| David Meyer / Fortune: |
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CNET, Financial Times, Singularity Hub, eWeek, Silicon Valley Business …, Digital Trends, None Of Your Business, PYMNTS.com, Stock Market News …, Washington Post, Nieman Lab, AdExchanger, MSPoweruser, The Register, TechSpot, Android Authority, TIME, New York Times, and Quartz
Tweets: @canthardywait and @aflyttet
| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Report: Apple to give some developers more access to iPhone NFC chip for Apple Pay-like contactless interactions like opening doors or replacing transit cards — The Information reports that Apple will be taking a big leap in iOS 12, giving some third-party developers full access … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
FBI and DOJ ask users to restart routers and NAS devices to disrupt VPNFilter malware and help identify infected devices, which Cisco estimates is 500K+ devices — Feds take aim at potent VPNFilter malware allegedly unleashed by Russia. — The FBI is advising users of consumer-grade routers … | Ana Swanson / New York Times: |
Trump tweets that ZTE will have to pay $1.3B fine, give high-level security guarantees, and change its management and board to have US sanctions lifted — WASHINGTON — The Trump administration told lawmakers it had reached a deal that would keep the Chinese telecom firm ZTE alive …
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Tweets: @realdonaldtrump, @paulkrugman, @chrisvanhollen, and @damianpaletta
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: China to approve Qualcomm-NXP deal in next few days, but with conditions, as regulators fear merged company's dominance in areas like mobile payments — Chinese regulators have expressed concerns that the merged company would crowd out domestic businesses in areas such as mobile payments
Tweets: @lingling_wei
| Charles Fitzgerald / Platformonomics: |
Analysis: IBM and Oracle are tens of billions behind Amazon, Google, and Microsoft in CAPEX, and grow much slower in cloud infrastructure from a much lower base — In previous installments (2017, 2018) of Follow the CAPEX™ (merch store opening soon!), we've looked at the capital expenditures behind …
Tweets: @timsneath, @jonathansorum, @charlesfitz, @jaypipes, @marypcbuk, and @timoreilly
| Reuters: |
In a final ruling, Egypt's court orders regulators to block YouTube for one month over the 2012 “Innocence of Muslims” video that denigrates Prophet Mohammad — CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's top administrative court ruled on Saturday that regulators must block the video file-sharing site YouTube … | Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Leaked training documents show how Facebook classifies hate speech groups, allowing praise for white nationalism and white separatism but not white supremacy — After a white supremacist killed a protester in Charlottesville in 2017, Facebook pushed to re-educate its moderators …
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Motherboard, Quartz, CNET, TechCrunch, Engadget, The Verge, and Boing Boing
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Apple to start reporting government requests to remove apps from App Store, satisfied 79% of ~30K government requests for info on devices from July to Dec. 2017 — Apple issued one of its bi-annual transparency reports today, and apart from the usual numbers on account takedown requests …
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Axios, 9to5Mac, Patently Apple, ZDNet, Reuters, BetaNews, Gizmodo, MacRumors, The Mac Observer, TechCrunch, and MacDailyNews
| Eugene Wei / Remains of the Day: |
Behind Amazon's approach to identifying factors limiting its growth, and how Twitter, Snapchat, Facebook, Instagram can benefit from adopting a similar strategy — My first job at Amazon was as the first analyst in strategic planning, the forward-looking counterpart to accounting, which records what already happened.
Tweets: @billsweet, @rezendi, and @caseynewton
| Nicholas Thompson / Wired: |
Interview with nine members of the Facebook team tasked with fighting misinformation on how recent product changes affect the way the News Feed works — On Monday, I sat down with nine members of the team at Facebook fighting fake news: Eduardo Ariño de la Rubia, John Hegeman … | Victor Luckerson / The Ringer: |
Lawyers, journalists, and other key players talk about the antitrust case against Microsoft, and how it may relate to today's dominance of Google and Facebook — Twenty years ago, Microsoft tried to eliminate its competition in the race for the future of the internet. The government had other ideas.Sponsor Posts
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