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| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Twitter finishes its review of proposals for improving the health of discourse on the platform and is working with two academic teams on echo chambers, more — Twitter is partnering with two groups of academic researchers to figure out how to measure the health of conversations happening on the platform.
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
Court docs: CA police have arrested a college student who allegedly was a member of OGUSERS and stole $5M+ worth of cryptocurrency by SIM swapping ~40 people — California authorities say a 20-year-old college student *hijacked* more than 40 phone numbers and stole $5 million …
Tweets: @lorenzofb, @josephfcox, @lorenzofb, and @mdudas
| Polina Marinova / Fortune: |
Source: Bitmain plans to file for an IPO soon; the company booked $1.1B in net profits in Q1 2018 and is raising new funding that would value it at ~$14B — The co-CEO of Bitmain Technologies, the world's largest cryptocurrency mining company, recently revealed plans to conduct …
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Tweets: @satoshilite, @twobitidiot, @katherineykwu, and @alex
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Facebook says it will shut down Partner Categories, an ad tool that allows advertisers to target users based on third-party data, by October 1 around the world — Advertisers warn of impact from closure of Facebook ad tool that integrates personal data from outside brokers
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Berlin-based Grover, which wants to be the Netflix for gadgets by offering subscribers rentals of the latest consumer tech, raises €37M Series A — Grover, the Berlin-based startup that offers “pay-as-you-go” subscriptions to the latest consumer tech as an alternative to owning products outright … | Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Serverless, Inc. raises $10M Series A led by Lightspeed Ventures to improve its developer platform for managing and deploying serverless code — Serverless, Inc came to the serverless game early, creating an open source framework for developers back in 2015.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Swift, parent company of esports organization Team SoloMid, raises $37M Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners with Stephen Curry and others participating — Swift, the parent company of esports organization Team SoloMid, has raised $37 million in a first round of funding.| Ainsley Harris / Fast Company: |
RaiseMe, a San Francisco-based startup that uses micro-scholarships to motivate students, raises $15M Series B to support expansion into community colleges — For many high school students, it's hard to feel motivated by the connection between getting an “A” in trigonometry and getting into college.| Ian Allison / CoinDesk: |
IBM, CLS debut LedgerConnect, a blockchain platform for financial services firms, 9 of which are participating in the proof of concept, including Barclays, Citi — Even private and permissioned blockchains need to build ecosystems and achieve network effects, just like their permissionless, public counterparts.| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Twitter needs to learn to multitask and start concentrating on adding new features to help it grow while simultaneously cleaning up its service — The social communications company's stock tanked on negative user growth, but CEO Jack Dorsey think efforts to clean up the service will pay off down the line.
Tweets: @stevesi and @karaswisher
| David Floyd / CoinDesk: |
Prediction markets that let users bet on assassinations of public figures or the number of days before the next mass shooting, start to appear on Augur — “Killed, not die of natural causes or accidents.” — Pretty much everyone saw them coming, but it was no less disturbing … | Raf Casert / Associated Press: |
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