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Facebook bans 32 Pages and accounts from FB and Instagram for “coordinated inauthentic behavior”, says they were far better at covering tracks than Russia's IRA — Today we removed 32 Pages and accounts from Facebook and Instagram because they were involved in coordinated inauthentic behavior.
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Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg. Tweets: @joshconstine, @joshconstine, @eff, @thegrugq, @sarahfrier, @zackwhittaker, @carnage4life, @carnage4life, @shiraovide, @facebook, @stevekovach, @joshconstine, @dmealo, @caseynewton, @kevinroose, and @kantrowitz
| New York Times: |
Sources: Facebook has alerted Congress to new coordinated political influence campaign, with dozens of inauthentic accounts and pages, ahead of midterms — WASHINGTON — Facebook is preparing to announce that it has identified a coordinated political influence campaign …
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The Guardian, MIT Technology Review, The Hill, TechCrunch, CNET, Business Insider, Axios, Boing Boing, and Engadget
Tweets: @sarahfrier, @kevinroose, @kevinroose, @repadamschiff, @raju, @shiraovide, @kevinroose, @zackwhittaker, and @ericgeller
| Richard Kerby: |
Review of ~1,500 VCs shows about 40% attended either Stanford or Harvard, and the group is 82% male, 70% white, 26% Asian, 3% black, and 1% Hispanic — The lack of diversity within venture capital is something I have been hard at work to try and remedy and I write about frequently.
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Quartz, AVC, Axios, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @christottman1, @pitdesi, @hodges, @adambain, @kateglazebrook, @ekp, and @rrhoover
| Bloomberg: |
Inside Waymo's self driving efforts in Phoenix and its partnership with Valley Metro authority as it readies a pilot program to connect people to public transit — For the past year, Kyla Jackson has been one of the only teenagers in the world who gets a ride to high school from a robot.
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Waymo, The Verge, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, and TechSpot
Tweets: @robinsloan, @waymo, @tsrandall, and @mhbergen
| Bloomberg: |
Samsung misses Q2 estimates with an operating profit of ~$13.4B, up 5.7% YoY, on revenue of ~$52.19B, down 4% YoY, amid weak sales of Galaxy S9 — Samsung Electronics Co.'s net income fell short of analysts' estimates as slowing growth in the global smartphone market hits demand for its Galaxy devices … | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Nintendo sells 19.7M Switch consoles to date, with net sales of $1.513B in the quarter ending June 30, up 9% YoY, and profit of $394.6M, up 42% YoY — Nintendo reported net sales of $1.513 billion for the first fiscal quarter ended June 30, up 9 percent from $1.386 billion for the same period a year ago.
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The Next Web, IGN, The Verge, Thurrott.com, PCMag, TechCrunch, GeekWire, Polygon, Gamasutra, Inquirer, TechCrunch, Neowin, Telegraph, Bloomberg, Engadget, and Kotaku. Tweets: @notpatrick
| Sarah McBride / Bloomberg: |
Ecommerce startup Brandless, which sells most of its generic home-goods staples for $3, raises $240M from SoftBank's Vision Fund at a $500M+ valuation — Brandless sells about 300 generic home-goods staples, mostly for $3 each. — It's tough to wow Masayoshi Son with a bargain … | Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal: |
DHS announces the creation of a new center aimed at guarding the nation's banks, energy companies, and other industries from major cyberattacks — Center's creation is driven by growing recognition that sophisticated cyberattacks can cause systemic failure across society, official says
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CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Associated Press, Engadget, The Hill, Fortune, and Nextgov
Tweets: @ericgeller, @wsj, @dnvolz, and @dnvolz
| New York Times: |
A look at how robotic hands are evolving to perform more complex tasks on their own, thanks to advances in AI and machine learning — Robotic hands could only do what vast teams of engineers programmed them to do. Now they can learn more complex tasks on their own. — A robotic hand?| Wall Street Journal: |
Apple has recently come under fire from several Chinese state media outlets for allegedly failing to effectively counter prohibited content in iMessages — The state-controlled media criticism comes amid rising trade tensions with the U.S. — BEIJING— Apple Inc. AAPL .32% has come under fire …
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VentureBeat, AppleInsider, Cult of Mac, 9to5Mac, and MacDailyNews
Tweets: @nickmarroeiu, @wsj, @tepingchen, @evadou, and @isaacstonefish
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Despite Facebook's disappointing Q2 earnings, its moats are deeper than ever and its money-making potential is not only huge but growing — While I was mostly unplugged on my vacation last week, with the news of Facebook's disappointing earnings report and subsequent stock decline …
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| Bloomberg: |
Tencent's stock has dropped 25% from its January peak, erasing $143B in value, as global investors become warier of big tech's potential growth — If you thought the slump in U.S. technology stocks was bad, take a look at Tencent Holdings Ltd. — The Chinese Internet giant has tumbled 25 percent …
Tweets: @markets, @carnage4life, and @northmantrader
| Lily Katz / Bloomberg: |
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance buys Trust Wallet, its first acquisition, for undisclosed amount; the crypto wallet provider launched in Nov., has 10 employees — Binance, one of the world's biggest cryptocurrency exchanges, is embarking on its first acquisition as it seeks to give customers more control over their digital coins.
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TechCrunch, Business Wire, NewsBTC, and Bankless Times
| Jamie Rigg / Engadget: |
Sony reports Q1 revenue of $17.9B with ~$1.8B in profit and 3.2M PS4 sales but lost ~$97M from its smartphone division and predicts those sales will worsen — Sony's new CEO Kenichiro Yoshida has been at the company's helm for just a few short months now, but fortunately … | Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Customer messaging unicorn Intercom debuts its app store with 100+ apps from partners including Google, Stripe, Salesforce, Atlassian, and Marketo — A look at Intercom's app store. — Ask Intercom CEO Eoghan McCabe about what he calls the “p word,” and he'll wince like he's describing an overripe fruit.
Tweets: @intercomdevs
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Freshworks, which offers a range of customer support and sales software, has raised $100M Series G co-led by Sequoia and Accel Partners, at a $1.5B valuation — Freshworks, which offers a range of customer support and sales software, has raised $100 million in a series G round of funding co-led … | Nick Statt / The Verge: |
WhatsApp group calling for voice and video, announced at F8, now live globally on iOS and Android, with end-to-end encryption and support for up to four users — Up to four people can chat simultaneously — Back at Facebook's F8 developer conference in May, WhatsApp announced …
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TechCrunch, Android Authority, Pocketnow, WhatsApp.com, KnowTechie, Pocket-lint, CrackBerry.com, Digital Trends, Thurrott.com, VentureBeat, Neowin, Firstpost, 9to5Google, CNET, Softpedia News, The Next Web, XDA Developers, iPhone Hacks, Android Police, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Mashable, and Engadget
| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Skyline AI, which uses data science and machine learning algorithms to help real estate investments, raises $18M Series A led by Sequoia Capital — A mere four months after coming out of stealth mode with $3 million in seed funding, real estate investment startup Skyline AI announced …
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GeekWire, SiliconANGLE, PE Hub Blog, VentureBeat, and Crowdfund Insider
| Nat Levy / GeekWire: |
Zillow expands its Zillow Rental Manager service by letting US landlords collect applications and rent — Zillow Group today debuted new features that let people pay rent and apply for apartments through its website, the latest example of the Seattle tech giant's move to cover a bigger portion of the home rental and sales processes.
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The Verge and VentureBeat
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