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Facebook's General Counsel Colin Stretch, who led the company's investigation into Russian election interference, is leaving at the end of the year — Colin Stretch's announced exit marks the second high-level departure in recent weeks — Facebook Inc.'s FB 1.78% top lawyer …
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Facebook CSO Alex Stamos told peers in memo about his departure to “intentionally not collect data where possible” and be willing to pick sides on moral issues — In March, days after confirming his plans to leave the company, Facebook's highest-ranking security official implored …
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TechCrunch, Reuters, The Hill, Wired, The Daily Caller, Silicon Valley Business …, Engadget, Silicon Republic, Fortune, Gizmodo, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, CNET, CNBC, Business Insider, Mashable, and The Verge
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| Paul Mozur / New York Times: |
Source: Chinese government has withdrawn its approval for Facebook's new subsidiary in the country — SHANGHAI — For Facebook, success in China was brief. Very brief. — For several hours, a Chinese government database showed that Facebook had gained approval to open a subsidiary in the eastern province of Zhejiang.
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| Edgar Alvarez / Engadget: |
Facebook rolls out Watch Party, a feature that lets users simultaneously watch, comment, and react to Facebook videos together, to all users — Facebook has made it clear that it wants to make video a crucial part of its business, as it looks to compete with the likes of YouTube, Amazon and Netflix.
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| Phil LeBeau / CNBC: |
Waymo partners with Walmart, AutoNation, Avis, and others to ferry their customers to various locations in Phoenix, Arizona — Waymo, the Alphabet company that spun out of Google's former self-driving car division, is partnering with some of the country's largest companies to expand how many people ride in its self-driving vehicles.| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Grubhub to acquire Boston-based LevelUp, which offers a platform to manage digital ordering, payments and loyalty, for $390M in cash — Grubhub announced this morning that it's agreed to acquire LevelUp for $390 million cash. — Founder and CEO Matt Maloney told me that while previous Grubhub acquisitions …
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| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Gym membership startup ClassPass raises $85M Series D led by Temasek, bringing the total funding raised to $255M — ClassPass today announced the close of an $85 million Series D financing round led by Temasek, the same firm that led the startup's Series C financing.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Steam is rolling out Steam Chat, with new text and voice features to compete with gaming chat app Discord, to all users — In a bid to keep Discord from dominating the social space around PC gaming — Steam has begun rolling out its new text and voice features, as well as its updated friends list, to all users beginning today.| Patrick Howell O'Neill / Cyberscoop: |
Google unveils Titan Security Key, a Yubico-like phishing resistant 2FA device, currently available to Google Cloud customers and soon to everyone, pricing TBA — Google says its workforce has been phish-proof for more than a year. The impressive security stat is due to small USB security keys issued … | Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Equidate, a San Francisco-based marketplace that makes privately held shares available to accredited investors wanting to buy them, raises $50M Series B — Equidate, a 4.5-year-old, San Francisco-based marketplace that makes privately held shares available to accredited investors wanting to buy them …
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| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
BitTorrent confirms it has been acquired by blockchain startup Tron; filings suggest about $126M in cash was paid for the company — File sharing veteran BitTorrent has finally confirmed that it has a new owner: “We are excited to announce that Tron has officially closed its acquisition of BitTorrent … | Colin Lecher / The Verge: |
Q&A with Sen. Ron Wyden, who co-wrote Section 230 of Communications Decency Act, on privacy, content moderation, First Amendment, and tech giants like Facebook — There may not be a lawmaker in Congress who has done more to shape the internet than Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR).| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
DARPA sets aside $75M for partners under the Electronics Resurgence Initiative, which is expected to receive $1.5B over the years to fund new ideas in chip tech — The Defense Department's research arm, DARPA, is throwing a event around its “Electronics Resurgence Initiative,” …
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EE Times, National Defense Magazine, IEEE Spectrum, Science, and EE Times. Tweets: @techcrunch
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Washington AG says Facebook signed legal agreement to change ad platform so third parties can't discriminate based on ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation — The agreement with Washington state forces Facebook to make nationwide changes — Facebook has signed a new …
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Gizmodo, Mercury News, Ars Technica, Washington State, Engadget, Fast Company, GeekWire, Reuters, Axios, and Bloomberg. Tweets: @propublica
| Sahil Patel / Digiday: |
Snapchat has been showing non-exclusive video shows from publishers like BuzzFeed, Wired, GQ, and Complex Networks in its Discover feed since June — Complex Networks' “Sneaker Shopping,” which follows host Joe La Puma as he goes shopping with celebrities ranging from Kevin Hart to Marshawn Lynch … | Catalin Cimpanu / BleepingComputer: |
Encryption bug found in many Bluetooth implementations and OS drivers, affecting vendors including Apple, Broadcom, Intel, Qualcomm; some fixes are on way — A cryptographic bug affects the Bluetooth implementations and operating system drivers of Apple, Broadcom, Intel, Qualcomm, and possibly other hardware vendors.
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| Dan Ackerman / CNET: |
Apple issues a fix for 2018 MacBook Pro CPU throttling/thermal management issues via macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 Supplemental Update — Apple has been catching heat over the performance of its new MacBook Pro laptops, but the company hopes a new software update will cool off outraged power users.
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| Fei-Fei Li / The Keyword: |
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