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| David Marcus / Facebook: |
David Marcus repudiates WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton's Forbes interview, defending Facebook and calling Acton's attacks a new standard of “low-class” — [Disclaimer: no one at Facebook asked me to post this. I just had to do it. And these are my personal views exclusively.]
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Recode, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Forbes, and Mashable
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| Parmy Olson / Forbes: |
WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton talks about why he gave up $850M to quit Facebook early and his differences with Zuckerberg and Sandberg over monetization — hatsApp cofounder Brian Acton, 46, sits in a cafe of the glitzy Four Seasons Hotel in Palo Alto, California, and the only way you'd guess …
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Oculus announces the standalone Oculus Quest, shipping next spring for $399 with touch controllers and 50+ games at launch — Opening up the Oculus Connect 5 keynote with some announcements, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that its newest headset, called Oculus Quest …
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| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Oculus updates its Go headset with fixed foveated rendering to improve image quality, YouTube VR, and more — Alongside other announcements today at its Connect 5 event, Facebook-owned virtual reality company Oculus announced a number of new features for its Oculus Go standalone VR headset …
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Oculus Blog, The Verge, TechCrunch, CNET, CNET, Engadget, and Neowin
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
| U.S. Senate Committee On Commerce …: |
Video stream of US Senate hearing on “Examining Safeguards for Consumer Data Privacy” with testimony from AT&T, Amazon, Google, Twitter, Apple, and Charter — U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation … | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Breakdown of the topics covered during Wednesday's US Senate hearing on privacy: big tech prefers federal legislation, Google evades questions on China, more — Another day, another hearing of tech giants in Congress. — Wednesday's hearing at the Senate Commerce Committee with Apple …
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The Intercept, VentureBeat, AdExchanger, CNET, CNBC, Reuters, Telegraph, Engadget, Axios, and Wired
| Will Oremus / Slate: |
Sources at media outlets say they're seeing little to no ad revenue from Apple News despite huge traffic growth — The world's most valuable company is wooing the media with a human touch and a huge audience. One thing it hasn't delivered: money. — In the years leading up to the 2016 U.S. election …
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Daring Fireball, iLounge, AppleInsider, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, and VentureBeat
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| Amazon US Day One Blog: |
Amazon announces Amazon 4-star, a physical store that only sells items rated four stars and above with discounts for Prime members, with the first in NYC — Peek inside our newest store, inspired by our customers. — Tomorrow, we're opening Amazon 4-star, a new physical store where everything …
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| Ashlee Vance / Bloomberg: |
Stripe CEO Patrick Collison says the company has raised $245M at a $20B valuation, up from $9B in November 2016 — The famed Silicon Valley venture capitalist Reid Hoffman often says that his biggest investing whiff was passing on Stripe Inc. As each year ticks by, it's becoming easier …
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TechCrunch, Business Insider, Axios, PaymentsSource, Crowdfund Insider, and Reuters
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Google Maps for Android and iOS now helps you plan group events by adding places to a shortlist, sharing it via messaging services, and voting on the choices — If you've ever tried to settle on a place to eat, you know how time-consuming it can be. If you're not trying to describe each …
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The Keyword, TechCrunch, The Verge, Android Police, The Next Web, and KnowTechie
| Austin Carr / Bloomberg: |
Iowa's attorney general says Uber will pay $148M to settle claims from all 50 states related to its 2016 data breach that exposed info of 25M+ US users — Uber Technologies Inc. will pay $148 million to settle claims related to a large-scale data breach that exposed the personal information … | Anna Hensel / VentureBeat: |
Facebook says Facebook and Messenger Stories now have a combined 300M DAUs and it will roll out ads to Facebook Stories globally now and Messenger Stories soon — Facebook announced today at a press event in NYC that Stories now has 300 million daily active users across Messenger and Facebook …
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Circle launches USD Coin (USDC), its dollar-backed stablecoin first announced four months ago, initially available to partner institutions — Four months after first announcing the creation of a dollar-backed stablecoin, cryptocurrency finance firm Circle is releasing it to the world.
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Circle, Circle, Cointelegraph, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, ETHNews, Bitsonline, CryptoGlobe, Virtual Mining Bitcoin News, and NewsBTC
| Kashmir Hill / Gizmodo: |
Study: Facebook lets ads target your account using info given for security purposes, like your phone number, as well as info from your friends' address books — Last week, I ran an ad on Facebook that was targeted at a computer science professor named Alan Mislove.
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mislove.org. Tweets: @kashhill, @kashhill, @lorenzofb, @ngreenberg, @mikaelthalen, @hugojonker, @kennwhite, @dseetharaman, @jguynn, and @ellenhuet
| Sean Captain / Fast Company: |
Alphabet's DeepMind partners with Unity to accelerate machine learning by building virtual environments to develop and test AI algorithms — Intelligent design versus evolution isn't just a divide in people's worldviews. It's also been a divide in the artificial intelligence community.| Zach Koch / The Keyword: |
Google says that in Chrome 70, coming mid-October, it will allow users to disable linking Google website and Chrome sign-ins — We recently made a change to simplify the way Chrome handles sign-in. Now, when you sign into any Google website, you're also signed into Chrome with the same account.
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TechCrunch, New York Times, The Verge, CNBC, CNET, Android Police, Nextgov, ExtremeTech, Softpedia News, PYMNTS.com, Gizmodo, TechSpot, Firstpost, Thurrott.com, Liliputing, and Threatpost. Tweets: @lukolejnik
| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: late 2017 probe of Cameron Poetzscher, a top dealmaker at Uber, found troubling behavior like sexually charged comments; he was censured, then promoted — Uber gave Cameron Poetzscher a warning, reduced his bonus and mandated sensitivity coaching after investigation found pattern of sexually suggestive comments
Tweets: @realrobcopeland, @kirstengrind, @eliotwb, @scottmaustin, @scottmaustin, @jacquiemcnish, @scottmaustin, and @gregbensinger
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Study shows 3,695 of Alexa's top 100,000 sites in mobile browsers access motion and light sensor data without asking user permission — WHEN APPS WANTS to access data from your smartphone's motion or light sensors, they often make that capability clear. That keeps a fitness app, say, from counting your steps without your knowledge.
Tweets: @lilyhnewman and @chumunculus
| Kim Zetter / New York Times: |
Two years after many voter-registration networks were penetrated by hackers, voting infrastructure in US remains largely unchanged, despite officials' warnings — As the midterms approach, America's electronic voting systems are more vulnerable than ever. Why isn't anyone trying to fix them?
Tweets: @ilvestoomas, @kimzetter, @kimzetter, @kimzetter, @justinhendrix, and @jakesilverstein
| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
A close look at USAReally, a pro-Kremlin, pro-Trump site with overt Russian ties and frequent links on the /r/the_donald subreddit as it depicts a declining US — To an untrained eye, USAReally might look like any other fledgling news organization vying for attention in a crowded media landscape.| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber says it will spend $10M over three years to support eco causes in cities it operates in and will install bike charging stations starting in Sacramento — Including $1 million to support congestion pricing in New York City — Uber made a series of announcements Wednesday designed …
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TechCrunch, Engadget, Uber Newsroom, VentureBeat, Uber Under the Hood, Slate, CNBC, and Curbed. Tweets: @andyjayhawk
| CoinDesk: |
Crypto mining company Bitmain files for Hong Kong IPO; draft filing shows $2.8B in revenue as of June 30 and $422.05M raised in funding round that ended Aug. 7 — Bitmain, the Beijing-based cryptocurrency mining giant, has officially filed an application to go public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX).
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CNBC, Stock Exchange …, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Crypto Briefing, Business Insider, Reuters, and Business Insider
Tweets: @francispouliot_, @ampressman, @jonrussell, @kr00ney, and @jonrussell
| Daniel Roberts / Yahoo! Finance: |
Coinbase announces a new process to more rapidly list digital assets compliant with local law and will now publicly announce new listings only at or near launch — announced on Tuesday a new policy for adding assets, and it constitutes a major change for America's biggest cryptocurrency brokerage.Sponsor Posts
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