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Sources and leaked docs: Google is planning to launch a censored version of its search engine in China that will blacklist websites and filter search results — Google is planning to launch a censored version of its search engine in China that will blacklist websites and search terms about human rights …
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Facebook and Instagram add activity dashboards to help people manage their time on social apps — Today we are announcing new tools to help people manage their time on Facebook and Instagram: an activity dashboard, a daily reminder and a new way to limit notifications.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp says businesses can now buy ads on Facebook that launch WhatsApp conversations, and it will gradually debut ads in Status, its Stories clone, in 2019 — Today WhatsApp launches its first revenue-generating enterprise product and the only way it currently makes money directly from its app.| Shannon Liao / The Verge: |
WhatsApp expands business-focused features by adding real-time support, shortcut buttons to start conversations, and more, in an effort to monetize — Ads that link Facebook users to WhatsApp — Facebook is getting serious about monetizing WhatsApp after the social network reported sluggish earnings growth last Wednesday.
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Techmeme introduces ads under stories matching news topics that an advertiser wants to target, letting companies automatically “respond” to news — Today, Techmeme is introducing ads that are automatically placed under stories matching news topics that an advertiser wants to target.| Christopher Slowe / Reddit: |
Reddit says a few employees had their work accounts compromised via 2FA SMS intercepts, leading to a few systems being compromised and some user data leaking — TL;DR: A hacker broke into a few of Reddit's systems and managed to access some user data, including some current email addresses …
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| Reuters: |
DoJ has secured arrests of several Ukrainian members of Carbanak group charged with allegedly stealing payment card and other data from US businesses — (Reuters) - Three Ukrainians associated with the hacking group FIN7 have been arrested in Europe in connection with hacks …
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| Swapna Krishna / Engadget: |
Snap announces new Snapchat Lenses that respond to English language voice prompts, not movement, rolling out globally today — Today, Snapchat announced that it is rolling out a new set of Lenses that will respond to your voice. There's no need to make a facial gesture … | ABS-CBN News: |
France bans the use of smartphones in schools for students up to 15 years old starting in September — PARIS, France - French schoolchildren will have to leave their smartphones switched off or at home as the new academic year begins in September, after lawmakers voted for a ban on Monday.
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| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Bird is launching a pilot program of its electric scooter service in Paris Tuesday with about 100 scooters followed by Tel Aviv in the coming weeks — Electric scooter startup Bird, the one worth $2 billion, is going international. This does not come as a surprise given TechCrunch's June report … | IDC: |
IDC: 342M smartphones were shipped worldwide in Q2 2018, down 1.8% YoY from 348.2M, with Huawei passing Apple to ship the second-most smartphones — According to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, smartphone vendors shipped …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft releases Windows 10 test build with Your Phone app feature for Android 7.0 and above that syncs most recent photos to PCs automatically — Microsoft is starting to test its new Your Phone app for Windows 10. The software maker first unveiled the app back at the company's Build … | Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Samsung announces Galaxy Tab S4 with 10.5-inch Super AMOLED display, 16:10 aspect ratio, and 64GB or 256GB options for $650+, shipping on August 10 — At a small press gathering in Manhattan today, just one week before the company heads over to Brooklyn for its big Galaxy Note 9 event, Samsung announced the new Galaxy Tab S4 tablet.| Sara Salinas / CNBC: |
Apple reports $9.55B in services revenue, up 31% YoY, vs. $9.21B est., as the company moves toward its goal of $14B in quarterly services revenue by 2020 — - Wall Street had expected software and services revenue to remain essentially unchanged from the previous quarter, according to StreetAccount.| Matt Weinberger / INSIDER: |
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| Maria Armental / Wall Street Journal: |
Baidu's video streaming service iQiyi says its Q2 loss more than doubled to ~$316.9M on ~$932.5M revenue and reported 66.2M paid subscribers as of June 30 — Driving Baidu's growth is artificial intelligence — Baidu Inc.'s BIDU -1.68% revenue reached a record $3.93 billion in the June quarter … Sponsor Posts
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