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October 18, 2018, 4:27 PM
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A look at how SoftBank, whose Vision Fund received $45B from Saudi Arabia, is handling the growing crisis over Khashoggi's disappearance — Since the disappearance and apparent killing of a dissident journalist in a Saudi Arabian consulate, some of the most powerful figures in business are distancing themselves from the kingdom.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple sends out invites for an event on October 30 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City, where updated iPads and MacBooks are expected — Apple today sent out media invites for a second major 2018 event set to be held in New York City on Tuesday, October 30 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Howard Gilman Opera House.
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| Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab: |
A close look at the suit against Facebook on video metrics and a look back at many statements from publishers pivoting to video as Facebook touted the medium — “It will probably be all video.” — In June 2016, Nicola Mendelsohn, Facebook's VP for Europe, the Middle East and Africa …
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Sources: Uber is developing a short-term staffing business, called Uber Works, that would utilize its database of workers for events and corporate functions — Uber is developing a new short-term staffing business, dubbed Uber Works, that would help to diversify its business ahead of next year's planned initial public offering.
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| Rob Copeland / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: data mining giant Palantir is weighing an IPO as soon as H2 2019; some bankers have told the firm it could IPO with a valuation of as much as $41B — Bankers have told the firm it could go public with a valuation as high as $41 billion — Data-mining giant Palantir Technologies Inc. …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Samsung debuts $1,000+ Galaxy Book 2, a Windows 2-in-1 to compete with Surface, with 12-inch OLED display, LTE, 4GB RAM, Snapdragon 850, on sale from November 2 — A couple weeks after Microsoft announced the Surface Pro 6, Samsung is today unveiling the $1,000 Galaxy Book 2 …
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| Dave Zohrob / Chartable: |
An in-depth analysis of how the Apple Podcasts top charts are being manipulated, and how that affects the podcast ecosystem, which relies on Apple's directory — How did an unknown show about real estate beat out Serial, Dr. Death, and The Daily? — Something weird has been happening on the Apple podcast charts lately.
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| Anton Shilov / AnandTech: |
Samsung says it has started mass production of 7nm chips using an EUVL process that it claims enables 50% power and 20% performance improvements over 10nm chips — Samsung Foundry on Wednesday said that it had started production of chips using its 7LPP manufacturing technology …
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Spotify Premium gets streamlined navigation, personalized search, and endless artist radio, rolling out globally on iOS and Android starting today — We're always looking for ways to provide the best possible methods for people to discover and enjoy the music they love.| Valentina Palladino / Ars Technica: |
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Google makes Compose actions, a feature for Gmail Add-ons, generally available to all users with integrations from Box, Dropbox, Atlassian, and Egnyte — Lately, Google has been all about shaving time off your everyday activities when sending emails. First they came out with smart responses …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon says Whisper Mode for Alexa is rolling out to all users in the US and works in US English — At Amazon's Alexa event last month in Seattle, the company teased a new feature soon coming to its voice assistant: the ability to whisper. The company demonstrated how whispering a request …
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| Dami Lee / The Verge: |
Square launches Terminal, an all-in-one device for card and mobile payments from Apple Pay and others, available for $399 — Square is launching a new point-of-sale hardware device called Terminal, which can accept credit card and mobile payments through Apple Pay, Google Pay, Samsung Pay, and NFC.| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google Play gets better support for larger app bundles, subscription improvements, in-app updates, an expanded Google Play Instant, more — Google today unveiled a slew of Google Play developer news, including better support for larger Android app bundles, subscription improvements …
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| Lily Katz / Bloomberg: |
BitGo, which makes multi-signature cryptocurrency wallets, raises $58.5M Series B from Goldman, Mike Novogratz, and others, bringing total raised to $70M — - Startup guards digital currencies for institutional investors — Bank calls custody a ‘logical precursor’ to market making
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| John Voorhees / MacStories: |
Tweetbot 5 for iOS released as a free update, with a new icon, a new darker theme, Giphy integration, a tip jar for the developers, more — Tweetbot 5 for iOS is out with a new look that more closely resembles the latest Mac version, which was redesigned in May. Tapbots has also added … | Bloomberg: |
Twitter has published data sets of millions of tweets, images, videos, and thousands of accounts linked to Russia and Iran meddling for analysis by researchers — - Data includes images and videos from thousands of accounts — Tech firms remain under fire from lawmakers in EU, U.S.
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Twitter, DFRLab, The Next Web, BuzzFeed News, Malwarebytes Labs, Kate Starbird, Adweek, ZDNet, and Business Insider
Tweets: @policy, @benimmo, @katestarbird, @redstaranon, @alfredwkng, @atlanticcouncil, @derella, @jack, @apolyakova, @markdistef, @ridt, @kpoulsen, @karlbode, @benimmo, @jeffjarvis, @craigsilverman, @business, and @ia
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Atlassian makes its redesigned Jira Software tool, which includes new APIs and more, available to all Jira users, after previewing it earlier this year — Atlassian previewed the next generation of its hosted Jira Software project tracking tool earlier this year. Today, it's available to all Jira users.
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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
A deep look at the emergent Chinese phone market, where the hardware is now on par or better than flagships popular in the West but the software lags behind — 2018 will go down as the year when it became impossible to ignore the increasing advancements of Chinese smartphone hardware … Sponsor Posts
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