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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
EU fines Google a record €4.3B (~$5B) in antitrust case for illegal practices regarding Android mobile devices to strengthen dominance of Google's search engine — Google has been hit with a record-breaking €4.3 billion ($5 billion) fine by EU regulators for breaking antitrust laws.
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| The Keyword: |
Google CEO Sundar Pichai says Android has created more choice, not less, and that Google will appeal the EU ruling — If you buy an Android phone, you're choosing one of the world's two most popular mobile platforms—one that has expanded the choice of phones available around the world.
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| Timothy W. Martin / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Samsung to launch phone with a 7" display that can be folded in half like a wallet early next year; Bixby speaker launching in about a month for ~$300 — The phone will feature a roughly 7-inch display that folds in half — SEOUL— Samsung Electronics Co. is planning to introduce …
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| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg about Russia, fake news, InfoWars, Myanmar, and why he thinks Facebook shouldn't take down posts that deny Holocaust — Everything was on the table — and after Facebook's wildest year yet, that's a really big table. — Yesterday, I motored my Ford Fiesta …
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| Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal: |
Netflix is creating a comedy-focused radio channel in partnership with Sirius XM, due to launch in January 2019 — Satellite-radio comedy channel expected to launch by January — Netflix is coming to radio. — The streaming-content giant has cut a deal with Sirius XM Holdings Inc. SIRI 1.20% … | Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Apple's iCloud user data in China is now being stored by a division of state-owned China Telecom — If you're an Apple customer living in China who didn't already opt out of having your iCloud data stored locally, here's a good reason to do so now. That information, the data belonging … | Jessica Toonkel / The Information: |
Sources: Walmart is considering launching a subscription streaming video service that would undercut Netflix and Amazon Prime Video on price — Walmart is considering launching a subscription streaming video service to compete with Netflix and Amazon Prime Video, people familiar with the situation told The Information.
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| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Google says Nest CEO to exit, sources say after employee revolt; sources: Alphabet tried selling Nest to Amazon; Nest now part of Google's home devices unit — Five months after Nest rejoined Google, the search giant told employees Tuesday that Marwan Fawaz will no longer be CEO of Nest … | Sheera Frenkel / New York Times: |
Researchers: Trump and his PAC spent $274K on Facebook ads viewed by at least 37M users since early May, making him the biggest political advertiser on the site — SAN FRANCISCO — It's official: President Trump is the single biggest political advertiser on Facebook.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
A reporter posing as a Dublin Facebook moderator found that pages from far-right groups face looser content standards; Facebook vows to improve its training — A new documentary details how third-party Facebook moderators ignore the company's rules — An investigative journalist …
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| Olivia Solon / The Guardian: |
Researcher shows Venmo transactions, which are public under default user settings, reveal details including real names, comments, and dates through a public API — A researcher has analysed millions of public transactions to prove just how much the app reveals about our life and habits
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| Angela Moscaritolo / PCMag: |
Google says it's building Dunant, a transatlantic cable between US and France, its second private intercontinental cable after Curie, connecting US and Chile — Google today announced a new private subsea cable project. — Expected to be operational by late 2020, the Dunant cable will cross …
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| Supantha Mukherjee / Reuters: |
Despite glitches, Amazon sold more than 100M products on Prime Day driving record levels of Prime sign-ups, sales; Fire TV Stick was the most popular purchase — (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) said online shoppers purchased more than 100 million products worldwide during its Prime Day sale …
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| George Avalos / Mercury News: |
eBay notifies California's Employment Development Department it's eliminating nearly 300 Bay Area jobs, including more than 200 in San Jose — SAN JOSE — eBay has decided to eliminate nearly 300 Bay Area jobs, including more than 200 in San Jose, the company has told a state labor agency.
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| Kif Leswing / Business Insider: |
Light, which makes a 16-lens camera, raises $121M Series D led by SoftBank's Vision Fund to bring its camera tech to smartphones and self-driving cars — - Light, a Palo Alto-based company that makes a 16-lens camera, just raised a whopping $121 million from investors led by SoftBank's Vision Fund.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Y Combinator will award grants of $10K to 100 graduates of the third year of its 10-week online Startup School program — Y Combinator wants to lure more companies into the funnel for its accelerator while democratizing free access to startup knowledge. It's simultaneously moving …
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| Patricia Hernandez / The Verge: |
Twitch streamers describe the sometimes psychologically taxing nature of broadcasting to no one and trying to get noticed to start building an audience — Looking for connections in 2018 — When John Hopstead first descended into the virtual world of Dark Souls in 2013, his mission was to save a decaying world.
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| Ryan Smith / AnandTech: |
Consortium backed by AMD, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Oculus, and Valve announces VirtualLink spec for connecting next-gen VR headsets via single USB Type-C cable — While PC VR headsets are fun, no one has especially enjoyed the number of cables required to hook one up.
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TechSpot, GlobeNewswire News Room, The Verge, Digital Trends, Firstpost, MSPoweruser, Tom's Hardware, PCWorld, CNET, AppleInsider, and Road to VR. Tweets: @ryansmithat
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Twitter product lead Kayvon Beykpour says the company is pausing work on fixing its verification policy to focus on more important areas like election integrity — The company will return to the issue over the coming weeks and months — Twitter doesn't presently “have the bandwidth” … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram says it is building a non-SMS two-factor authentication system that works with security apps like Google Authenticator or Duo to thwart SIM hijackers — Hackers can steal your phone number by reassigning it to a different SIM card, use it to reset your passwords …
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