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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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| 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 Oculus Go with new visual rendering features to improve image quality, YouTube VR support, casting feature to share its content to a TV, and more — Alongside other announcements today at its Connect 5 event, Facebook-owned virtual reality company Oculus announced a number …
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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 … | 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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| 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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| 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, Bloomberg, CryptoSlate, Cointelegraph, SiliconANGLE, and ETHNews. 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 …
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Uber Newsroom, State of California, CNBC, Gizmodo, SiliconANGLE, Wall Street Journal, Axios, Cyberscoop, Mercury News, TechCrunch, and USA Today. Facebook: Attorney General Maura Healey
| 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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Tweets: @joshconstine and @caseynewton
| 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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SiliconANGLE, Stock Exchange …, TechNode, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Forbes, Business Insider, Crypto Briefing, Coingeek, CNBC, and SludgeFeed
Tweets: @francispouliot_, @kr00ney, @ampressman, @jonrussell, and @jonrussell
| 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
| 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 … | 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, VentureBeat, Curbed, and CNBC
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| 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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