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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
In EU, Google to start charging OEMs for Play Store and Google apps, offer separate licenses for Search and Chrome, let OEMs make devices with forked Android — Android will still be “free and open source” — Google is changing the way it licenses its suite of Android apps in Europe …
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Tweets: @reckless, @franciscof_1990, @alohabrowser, @ow, @backlon, @suka_hiroaki, @reckless, @stevesi, @reckless, and @dennisbednarz
| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
After saying last week no data collected through Portal would be used to target users with ads, Facebook now says the data can be used to target ads — Who you call and what apps you use could determine what ads you see. — Facebook announced Portal last week, its take on the in-home …
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| Alex Heath / Cheddar: |
Source: Facebook is building a hybrid video chat/TV set-top box, internally called Ripley, which it plans to announce in Spring 2019 — Facebook is developing hardware for the TV, Cheddar has learned. — The world's largest social network is building a camera-equipped device that sits atop …
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TechCrunch, The Verge, AndroidHeadlines.com, SlashGear, Pocket-lint, Engadget, Business Insider, VentureBeat, Mashable, iPhone in Canada Blog, BGR, Marketing Land, and CNET
Tweets: @alexeheath, @cheddar, @joshconstine, and @shiraovide
| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Hands-on with Huawei's fitness-focused Watch GT, which has two versions for €199 or €249, a 1.39" OLED display, GPS, and runs a proprietary OS called LiteOS — How does two weeks' battery life sound? — At a time when the Apple Watch is miles ahead of any other smartwatch …
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
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Tweets: @themrmobile, @vladsavov, and @stevekovach
| Karl Bode / Techdirt: |
Stanford study: of the 800,000+ unique comments submitted to the FCC concerning repeal of net neutrality, 99.7% of them opposed what the FCC did — A new study has once again confirmed that the vast, vast majority of the public opposed the FCC's ham-fisted repeal of net neutrality.
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| Nicholas Confessore / New York Times: |
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| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
GitHub debuts Actions for devs to automate workflows and build, share, and execute code inside containers, security alerts for Java and .NET projects, and more — The GitHub code repository, which has been used by 31 million developers around the world in the past year … | Wall Street Journal: |
As the scandal of Khashoggi's disappearance grows, Silicon Valley is mostly quiet on its connections to Saudi Arabia, the largest funding source for US startups — The kingdom is now the largest single investor for U.S. startups, with stakes in Uber, WeWork and Magic Leap
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Uber could be valued at $120B in an IPO as soon as early 2019, nearly double its valuation two months ago, according to proposals from banks — Eye-popping offering, which could take place early next year, is nearly double the ride-hailing company's valuation in a fundraising round two months ago
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Chartbeat: traffic to publishers from Facebook down nearly 40% since January 2017, but direct mobile traffic to publishers' websites and apps has grown 30%+ — Facebook and Twitter are declining as news and media referral sources on mobile, according to a report from traffic analytics company Chartbeat … | Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
YouTube says it has resolved widespread access issues that also affected YouTube TV and YouTube Music — Google's services are ubiquitous enough that it's pretty noteworthy when they go down. Tonight, it seems multiple services are suffering an outage, including YouTube …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple says devs can now sell 10 apps in a bundle, create app bundles for Mac apps, and make bundles that include free apps with auto-renewable subscriptions — Apple today announced expanded features for App Store bundles, introducing support for both Mac apps and free apps with subscriptions for the first time.| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google launches Chrome 70 with option to disable linked sign-ins, which are enabled by default, support for PWAs on Windows and an AV1 decoder, and more — Google today launched Chrome 70 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The release includes an option to disable linking Google site and Chrome sign-ins …
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| Alex Sherman / CNBC: |
Source: Lyft has hired JP Morgan to lead its IPO, scheduled for early 2019, which could value company at more than $15B — - Lyft could be valued at more than $15 billion in the public markets, according to a source familiar with the matter. — Lyft has hired J.P. Morgan Chase to lead …
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Tweets: @tomgara, @ericnewcomer, and @timkhiggins
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Lyft launches All-Access Pass subscription plan for $299 per month for 30 rides costing up to $15 each, for single-passenger trips and carpooling rides — Netflix, but for rides — Lyft's monthly subscription experiment is going national. The ride-hailing company has been tinkering …
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Tweets: @romaindillet, @alexhern, @dakami, and @trengriffin
| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Coinbase now lets users buy and sell ZRX, the token representing the 0x Project, joining BTC, BCH, ETC, ETH, and LTC a week after adding ZRX to Coinbase Pro — Coinbase's newest asset is live. On Tuesday the popular U.S.-based cryptocurrency platform added support for ZRX, the token representing the 0x Project.| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Research: CIA, NSA, DOD among federal agencies that have yet to implement DMARC email security on all their domains, despite a DHS directive to do so by Tuesday — Some of the most sensitive U.S. government departments and agencies still aren't using a basic email security feature …
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Agari, The Hill, Axios, Nextgov, BleepingComputer, and SecurityWeek
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
After criticism from FCC's Pai and Florida Gov. Scott, Verizon offers 3-month credit to customers hit hardest by Hurricane Michael; AT&T also giving credits — Since the landfall of Hurricane Michael last week, Verizon has been under scrutiny for its seemingly poor efforts to restore service in the Florida Panhandle.
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Verizon Fios & Custom TV, Ars Technica, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, Florida Governor Rick Scott, Tampa Bay Times, The Verge, The Register, and Fortune
Tweets: @jimmypatronis, @hansvestberg_, and @hansvestberg_
| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Twitter bans ~1,500 accounts, source says for spreading misleading election-related content; the “NPC” accounts were 4chan and Reddit users posing as activists — Twitter has barred hundreds of right-wing users for posing as soulless, “nonplayable” liberal activists.
Tweets: @joemanna, @w7voa, and @kevinroose
| Michelle Castillo / CNBC: |
Netflix Q3: streaming revenue of $3.91B, up 36% YoY, and global membership surpassing 130M paid and 137M total; stock up 13%+ after hours — - Earnings per share (EPS): 89 cents vs. 68 cents estimate, according to a Refinitiv consensus estimate — Netflix shares soared 15 percent …
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Tweets: @lucas_shaw, @lucas_shaw, @daveleebbc, and @daveleebbc
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
A look at how some top utility apps on the App Store are making millions of dollars by using dark patterns, tricking users into signing up for subscriptions — Subscriptions have turned into a booming business for app developers, accounting for $10.6 billion in consumer spend on the App Store in 2017 …
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AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com, Business Insider, and iLounge
Tweets: @techcrunch, @kifleswing, and @thomasbcn
| Brad Chacos / PCWorld: |
Gaming chat company Discord says its digital game store, which first launched in Canada back in August, is now launching globally in public beta with 22 titles — Discord's war on Steam (which only started after Steam declared war on Discord) is escalating.
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The Verge, VentureBeat, Gamasutra, Engadget, Polygon, IGN, The Next Web, PC Gamer, Thurrott.com, Variety, NDTV Gadgets 360, GameSpot, Eurogamer.net, and TechCrunch
| Matthew Iles / Civil: |
Journalism blockchain network Civil says the sale of its CVL token fails to hit $8M goal, buyers will be offered full refunds, and another token sale in works — A setback, and the path forward. — Key takeaways: — The CVL token sale didn't succeed.| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Irish Data Protection Commission says about 3M Europeans were affected by Facebook's security breach, announced in Sept., where personal info was accessed — - A September Facebook security breach affected about 3 million European users, according to a spokesperson from the Irish Data Protection Commission.| Washington Post: |
Facebook's ex-CSO Alex Stamos to announce the Stanford Internet Observatory, an institute to help companies work together on solving tech's “negative impacts” — For two years, Alex Stamos was the Facebook executive tasked with defending the company's systems against Russian interference and other critical threats.| Kate Clark / TechCrunch: |
Pinterest revamps product pins, which now include up-to-date pricing and stock info alongside a link to the retailer, “Products like this” suggestions, and more — Visual search engine Pinterest is rolling out new features this morning that will make it easier for people to purchase the products on its platform.
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