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| Alex Stamos / Lawfare: |
Alex Stamos, former Facebook CSO, says 2016 failures still weigh on him, warns US elections risk becoming “World Cup of information war” without better security — In the swirl of news this week, it would be easy to miss recent announcements from two of America's largest …
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| Bloomberg: |
Source: autonomous driving startup Zoox, valued at $3.2B, dismisses CEO and co-founder Tim Kentley-Klay, names co-founder and CTO Jesse Levinson president — - Co-founder Jesse Levinson will become company president — Zoox just raised $500 million, at a $3.2 billion valuation
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| Jez Corden / Windows Central: |
Sources: Microsoft to unveil “Xbox All Access”, a contract-based US monthly subscription offering an Xbox One, Xbox Live, and Xbox Game Pass, later this month — We've heard Microsoft is soon planning to debut a new contract-based monthly subscription service dubbed “Xbox All Access …
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| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
Dan Rose, Facebook's VP of partnerships who led deals such as its Instagram buy, leaving in Feb.; sources: Facebook has likely identified replacement internally — It's the second big-deal Facebook departure this summer. — Dan Rose, a top Facebook executive who oversaw …
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| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Apple pulls Facebook's Onavo VPN app from the App Store, says that apps should not collect information about other installed apps for the purposes of analytics — - Facebook acquired Israeli security app developer Onavo in 2013 and has used it to offer consumers access to a virtual private network.
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| Ime Archibong / Facebook: |
Facebook says it has suspended 400+ apps since launching investigation into app data use, including myPersonality, which may have misused data of 4M+ users — Today we banned myPersonality — an app that was mainly active prior to 2012 — from Facebook for failing to agree to our request …
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| CoinDesk: |
SEC rejects nine bitcoin-backed ETF proposals from ProShares, Direxion, and GraniteShares, weeks after rejecting a proposal from the Winklevoss twins — The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued rejections to bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETFs) proposals from both ProShares and Direxion.| Charisse Jones / USA Today: |
Walmart partners with Rakuten Kobo to launch Walmart eBooks, with a catalog of 6M+ titles and a $9.99/month Audible-like subscription service for audiobooks — Walmart ratcheted up its battle with Amazon, planting a stake on the e-commerce giant's turf by selling e-books for the first time.| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Inside Snap's “Council” where employees discuss their inner thoughts, and Evan Spiegel's attempts at self-improvement after company's DAU decline — On the second floor of the new headquarters of Snap Inc. in Santa Monica, Calif., is a room dedicated to helping employees open up.
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| Bloomberg: |
Report looks at financial impact on Google and Apple of falling app store commission rates, amid pushback from devs like Valve, Netflix and regulatory scrutiny — - Backlash and workarounds begin to worry Wall Street analyst — ‘Middlemen distributors’ no longer required, Epic Games says| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Latch, an NYC-based startup that makes keyless lock systems for apartments, raises $70M Series B led by Brookfield Ventures — Latch announced this morning that it has raised $70 million in Series B funding. — The round was led by Brookfield Ventures, the investment arm of Brookfield Asset Management.| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Nokia says its licensing fee for 5G standard essential patents will be a flat rate of €3 per device, lower than those announced by rivals Qualcomm and Ericsson — Trade wars generally aren't good for technology companies or consumers, and neither are patent battles …
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