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September 26, 2018, 10:05 PM
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| David Marcus / Facebook: |
David Marcus responds to Brian Acton's interview, defending Zuckerberg and his protection of WhatsApp within Facebook, says Acton's attack was “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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| 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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TechCrunch, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, CNBC, Quartz, ZDNet, The Verge, Axios, The Interface, Motherboard, iPhone in Canada Blog, Business Insider, CNET, Bloomberg, TechSpot, and BGR
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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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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
| 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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| 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.| 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, CNET, CNBC, VentureBeat, AdExchanger, Reuters, Axios, Boing Boing, Engadget, and Wired
| 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 …
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The Guardian, Wired, Reuters, Marketing Land, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Quartz, TechSpot, and AndroidHeadlines.com
| 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, Crunchbase News, Axios, PYMNTS.com, Business Insider, Reuters, Crowdfund Insider, and PaymentsSource
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| 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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iLounge, Daring Fireball, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, and VentureBeat
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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
| 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, Bloomberg, Circle, CryptoSlate, Cointelegraph, TechCrunch, Bitsonline, CryptoGlobe, ETHNews, Virtual Mining Bitcoin News, and NewsBTC. Tweets: @circlepay
| 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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Facebook, Business Insider, CNBC, Neowin, Engadget, KnowTechie, and Search Engine Journal
Tweets: @joshconstine and @caseynewton
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
TechInsights teardown: iPhone XS Max components cost an estimated $443 for the 256GB model, nearly $50 more than last year's 64GB iPhone X — The iPhone XS Max with 256GB of storage costs an estimated $443 to make, according to estimates shared by TechInsights in a teardown of the new device.
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Seeking Alpha, Android Authority, ZDNet, AppleInsider, and InvestorPlace
| 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.
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Engadget, SiliconANGLE, and ZDNet
| 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
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Mercury News. Tweets: @realrobcopeland, @jacquiemcnish, @scottmaustin, @kirstengrind, @eliotwb, @gregbensinger, @scottmaustin, and @scottmaustin
| 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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Uber Newsroom, TechCrunch, Engadget, Uber Under the Hood, SlashGear, VentureBeat, Curbed, and CNBC
Tweets: @uber and @andyjayhawk
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
UK-based Darktrace, a cybersecurity startup that uses machine learning to detect and stop malicious network behavior, raises $50M Series E at a $1.65B valuation — U.K.-based cyber defense firm Darktrace has raised $50 million in its latest Series E round of funding, putting the company's valuation at $1.65 billion.
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SiliconANGLE, Cyberscoop, Telegraph, Crunchbase News, Reuters, CNBC, and Forbes
| 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?
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| 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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Stock Exchange …, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Forbes, Coingeek, Business Insider, CNBC, Crypto Briefing, Reuters, Business Insider, and SludgeFeed
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| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Sources: Lyft's revenue more than doubled in the first half of 2018 to $909M but its net loss grew 46% to $373M — Lyft appears to be getting better at controlling its costs. — The ride-hailing firm more than doubled revenue to $909 million in the first half of 2018 compared with a year earlier … Sponsor Posts
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