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Snap reports Q2 revenue of $262.3M, up 44% YoY, vs. $249.8M est., and 188M DAUs, up 8% YoY but down from 191M in Q1 — The Stories War has officially killed Snapchat's growth. In Q2 2018 earnings today, Snapchat's daily user count shrank 1.5 percent to 188 million this quarter …
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| Marc Vartabedian / Wall Street Journal: |
Snap's DAU decline in Q2 marks the first time Snapchat has lost daily users since the company was founded in 2011 — Report of disappointing growth follows news that Facebook and Twitter are seeing a slowdown — Snap Inc. reported its first quarterly decline in daily users …
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| Shoshana Wodinsky / The Verge: |
Following bans of Infowars' content, its mobile app has shot up iOS App Store and Google Play Store charts, going from 47th to 4th in US news category on iOS — ‘Infowars WILL NOT be silenced’ — Infowars Official, the app named after Alex Jones' controversial radio talk show …
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| Mozilla Press Center: |
Mozilla unveils Advance, an experimental machine learning-driven Firefox extension that recommends pages to read next based on browsing habits and user input — The internet today is often like being on a guided tour bus in an unfamiliar city. You end up getting off at the same places that everyone else does.
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| Dell Cameron / Gizmodo: |
Report from FCC's inspector general refutes controversial claims by senior FCC officials that a cyberattack hobbled its comment system in May 2017 — An investigation carried out by Federal Communication Commission's own inspector general officially refutes controversial claims that a cyberattack …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Video streaming startup NewTV, led by Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman, raises $1B round with Disney, Alibaba, NBCUniversal, Viacom, and others participating — Backers include Disney, Fox, Sony, Lionsgate, MGM, NBCU, Viacom, WarnerMedia, Alibaba, Liberty Global, Madrone Capital
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Instapaper returns to EU users after being unavailable since May 24 for GDPR compliance and relaunches Instapaper Premium subscription for $2.99/month — This year Instapaper celebrated its tenth birthday and, now that we are an independent company, we've been thinking a lot about the next ten years of Instapaper and beyond.| Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: |
Uber says Otto Trucking co-founder Lior Ron is returning to run Uber Freight, following a negotiation to rework terms of Uber's deal to acquire Otto Trucking — - Lior Ron is back after intense negotiations with Uber — Ron testified in Alphabet's trade secret case against Uber| Donie O'Sullivan / CNNMoney: |
West Virginia to introduce mobile phone voting in the midterm elections via Voatz's blockchain-based platform, mainly for troops serving abroad — Why voting in the US is so hard — West Virginians serving overseas will be the first in the country to cast federal election ballots using a smartphone app …
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| Eric Holmes: |
Security researcher explains how he easily gained commit access to the code repository of Homebrew, a popular package manager for developers on macOS — Since the recent NPM, RubyGems, and Gentoo incidents, I've become increasingly interested, and concerned, with the potential for package managers … | Li Yuan / New York Times: |
As young Chinese grow up without access to free speech platforms, many seem uninterested in spotting online censorship, accepting Beijing's narrative — HONG KONG — Wei Dilong, 18, who lives in the southern Chinese city of Liuzhou, likes basketball, hip-hop music and Hollywood superhero movies.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Scale, a managed marketplace for contractors who examine and categorize visual data to train AI systems, raises $18M Series B led by Index Ventures — The artificial intelligence revolution is underway in the world of technology, but as it turns out, some of the most faithful foot soldiers are still humans.| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Study: listed speeds for 11 ISPs drop as much as 41% after new UK truth-in-advertising rule — Only one of top 12 ISPs raised listed speed after new truth-in-advertising rule. — Most broadband providers in the UK “have been forced to cut the headline speeds they advertise when selling deals” …
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