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Instagram debuts IGTV, a hub for high-profile creators, and says it will begin letting users upload videos up to an hour long, up from previous one minute limit — Instagram is ready to compete head on with YouTube. Today at a flashy event in San Francisco, the company announced …
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EU Parliament panel passes copyright measures with final vote to come much later; Article 11 is “link tax”, and Article 13 mandates filtering uploaded content — In a key vote this morning the European Parliament's legal affairs committee has backed the two most controversial elements …
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Tesla sues former employee Martin Tripp for allegedly exporting gigabytes of confidential data, after Musk sent memo saying an ex-staffer committed sabotage — - Tesla is suing former process engineer Martin Tripp for allegedly illegally exporting data and making false claims to reporters.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook begins letting Group admins test a feature that charges members $4.99 to $29.99 per month for access to exclusive sub-groups — Facebook is starting to let Group admins charge $4.99 to $29.99 per month for access to special sub-Groups full of exclusive posts.
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Microsoft News launches on Android and iOS as a rebranded MSN app, also powers news on Windows 10, Skype, Xbox, and Outlook.com — Microsoft has been in the news business for more than 23 years. When we launched MSN in 1995, the news industry was just beginning to provide content online.| Axios: |
Source: White House has begun planning a federal approach to data privacy, led by Trump's special assistant for tech Gail Slater, as EU rolls out GDPR — The White House is in the early stages of determining what a federal approach to online data privacy should look like, Axios has learned.| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
FTC announces 15+ public hearings in US cities, starting September, to gauge how academics and web users think US government should address digital challenges — The Trump administration's privacy, competition and consumer protection cops plan to embark on a cross-country listening tour … | Jack Morse / Mashable: |
Over a hundred pages' worth of complaints from Coinbase customers to a California regulator and the SEC show a firm that was ill-equipped for its own success — Life savings lost. Desperate cries for help. Allegations of fraud. — In the six years since its founding … | BuzzFeed: |
Tech CEOs from Apple, Facebook, Google, Airbnb, Twitter, and others have spoken out against the Trump administration's “zero-tolerance” immigration policy — “It's heartbreaking to see the images and hear the sounds of the kids,” Tim Cook said.
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| Stephanie Chan / VentureBeat: |
Sensor Tower data: Epic Games' Fortnite has generated $100M revenue on iOS in its first 90 days on the platform — Epic Games' hit game Fortnite has hit yet another milestone on mobile. Since its iOS launch in mid-March, it has generated $100 million in revenue on those devices in 90 days, according to market analyst Sensor Tower.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon expands its Prime Wardrobe service, which lets users try between three and eight items, to all US users — Prime Wardrobe, Amazon's “try before you buy” shopping service first announced last summer, is officially out of beta and open to all Prime members in the U.S. as of today.
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Microsoft to acquire Bonsai, which had raised $13.6M and helps add AI capabilities to firms' systems; Bonsai's 42 staff to join Microsoft's AI and Research unit — Microsoft is adding more firepower to its artificial intelligence arm. The tech giant has agreed to acquire Bonsai … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase announce that doctor and writer Dr. Atul Gawande will be CEO of their as-yet unnamed joint healthcare venture — Amazon, BerkshireHathaway and JPMorgan Chase have not been especially public about their plans for how they plan to take on employee healthcare …
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Theater chain AMC announces AMC Stubs A-List, a MoviePass-like $19.95/month service that lets patrons watch three films a week — It'll be twice as expensive, but it boasts fewer restrictions than MoviePass — The largest theater chain in America has announced that it will now offer …
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| Issie Lapowsky / Wired: |
University of Cambridge professor Jon Rust warned about dangers of Cambridge Analytica in '14; Facebook now accuses his department of being complicit in scandal — IN DECEMBER 2014, John Rust wrote to the head of the legal department at the University of Cambridge, where he is a professor, warning them that a storm was brewing.| Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk: |
Bithumb, one of South Korea's largest cryptocurrency exchanges, suspends asset deposit and withdrawal services after ~$31M hack, promises full reimbursement — Bithumb, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchange in South Korea by trading volume, is halting asset deposit and withdrawal services …
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| Patricia Zengerle / Reuters: |
Bipartisan group of US lawmakers sends Google a letter questioning why it stopped Project Maven collaboration but continues to work with China's Huawei — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of Republican and Democratic U.S. lawmakers asked Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google on Wednesday to reconsider … | Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
GDPR means firms using browser fingerprinting, which makes tracking virtually impossible to control, have to back up claims that doing so is in users' interest — Browser fingerprinting is on a collision course with privacy regulations. For almost a decade, EFF has been raising awareness …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Meditation app Calm raises $27M Series A led by Insight Venture Partners at a pre-money valuation of $250M — Meditation startup Calm has raised $27 million in a series A round of funding led by Insight Venture Partners, with participation from Ashton Kutcher's Sound Ventures and … | Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Open source web server developer Nginx raises $43M Series C led by Goldman Sachs, bringing total raised to $103M — Nginx, the commercial company behind the open source web server, announced a $43 million Series C investment today led by Goldman Sachs Growth Equity.| Michael Moritz / Financial Times: |
Chinese tech companies now surpass almost all their global rivals in size and value, even US giants, which will fundamentally reshape the world — Cast your eyes down the list of the world's most valuable private technology companies and you might be put in mind of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
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| Anna Hensel / VentureBeat: |
Walmart Labs CTO Jeremy King says it plans to hire 2,000 more “technologists” by the year's end to work on Walmart's tech, adding to its 6,000 current staff — As Walmart's continues to face stiff competition in the ecommerce space, most notably from Amazon … Sponsor Posts
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