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Streaming services like Netflix that operate in the EU will need to dedicate 30%+ of their catalogs to local content after new law comes into effect in December — Quotas obligating Netflix, Amazon and other streaming services operating in the European Union to dedicate at least 30% …
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| Davey Alba / BuzzFeed News: |
A look at the human cost of Facebook's rise in the Philippines: truth matters less, propaganda is ubiquitous, lives are wrecked, and some have died as a result — In August 2016, a handful of crude images began circulating widely throughout Facebook's Filipino community … | Sara Salinas / CNBC: |
Amazon shares rose to $2,050.50 in intraday trading, valuing the company at $1T, a month after Apple reached the milestone — Amazon market cap hit $1 trillion on Tuesday, becoming the second publicly traded U.S. company to reach the record valuation after Apple.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Chrome 69 arrives with revamped design, more powerful omnibox that shows Google-sourced answers without having to open a new tab, and improved password manager — Google today launched Chrome 69 for Windows, Mac, and Linux, Android, and iOS, just a few days after the browser's 10-year anniversary.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Evernote has lost its CTO, CFO, CPO, and HR head in the last month; source says the company is currently fundraising, potentially in a down round — Evernote, the productivity app with 225 million users that lets people take notes and organise other files from their working and non-work life …
Tweets: @caseynewton and @epandu
| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Experts say Facebook's public cleanup is pushing toxic content into private Facebook groups, WhatsApp, and Messenger, making it harder to monitor and moderate — Much of the empire built by Alex Jones, the Infowars founder and social media shock jock, vanished this summer when Facebook suspended …
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| Jack Nicas / New York Times: |
Analysis: since last month's Facebook and YouTube ban, Infowars' audience has dropped by roughly half to about 715,000 daily site visits and video views — SAN FRANCISCO — After Silicon Valley internet giants mostly barred Alex Jones from their services last month, traffic to his Infowars website … | Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Samsung's head of mobile says the company will bring new features and tech to its mid-end smartphones first as it changes strategy to attract millennial users — - Samsung plans to overhaul its smartphone strategy at the mid-range price point in order to appeal more to millennials, the company's mobile CEO told CNBC.
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| Vindu Goel / New York Times: |
Amazon launches a Hindi website and apps to court India's 500M Hindi speakers — BANGALORE, India — Only 10 percent of India's 1.3 billion people know English. Yet most of the country's e-commerce services have been offered only in English, closing off online shopping to the vast majority of people here.
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| Issie Lapowsky / Wired: |
Interview with Senator Mark Warner, ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, on the forthcoming Big Tech hearings, Google's absence, and more — THERE ARE PLENTY of lawmakers who know next to nothing about technology. Senator Mark Warner isn't one of them.
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
For second time in three years, mobile spyware maker mSpy leaks millions of sensitive records including passwords, call logs, text messages, contacts, and notes — mSpy, the makers of a software-as-a-service product that claims to help more than a million paying customers spy on the mobile devices …
Tweets: @lorenzofb
| Bloomberg: |
Atlassian buys OpsGenie, an incident management platform for IT service disruptions, for $295M — Company will use $295 million deal, new product to boost efforts to sell programs for IT workers — Atlassian Corp., a maker of programs for coordinating software development …
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Tweets: @thenewstack and @mcannonbrookes
| Michael Corkery / New York Times: |
Retailers that have learned to match Amazon's ease and instant gratification of e-commerce shopping are flourishing as the pace of store closings has slowed — Malls are being hollowed out. Shops are closing by the thousands. Retailers are going bankrupt. — But it may be too early to declare the death of retail.| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
HTC announces that its Viveport VR subscription service will launch on the Oculus Rift, partnering with a rival as it tries to find a winning business model — HTC is cozying up to its main competitor in the VR space, Facebook-owned Oculus as it looks to find a business model that will wrestle it out of the VR market doldrums.| Joel Gascoigne / Open: |
Buffer co-founder Joel Gascoigne explains why the company spent $3.3M, about half of all its cash, to buy out seven of its sixteen Series A investors — Last month, Buffer spent $3.3 million - about half of all the cash we had in the bank - to buy out our main venture capital (VC) investors.
Tweets: @laurenjcapelin, @monkchips, @dhh, @hunterwalk, and @polotek
| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
A Google staffer hacked the Software House smart locks of Google's Sunnyvale offices last July and says fixing this make of lock means replacing onsite hardware — I cover crime, privacy and security in digital and physical forms. — Last July, in Google's Sunnyvale offices … | Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
US telcos are throttling services like YouTube and Netflix, led by Verizon while Sprint throttles the least, says study using streaming info from 100,000 phones — - Wehe app shows videos streaming at fraction of available speed — As FCC backs off, researcher becomes net-neutrality watchdog
Tweets: @haroldfeld and @karlbode
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