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| Ben Fox Rubin / CNET: |
Amazon signs a deal with Apple, will start selling its latest devices, except the HomePod, in the US, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Japan, and India — Amazon has signed a deal to expand the selection of Apple products on its sites worldwide. — The world's largest e-commerce company …
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| Jason Koebler / Motherboard: |
As part of its deal with Apple, Amazon will only allow authorized resellers on its site, kicking independent Apple device refurbishers off its platform — Amazon told independent refurbishers that it will now only allow “authorized resellers” to sell Apple products on Amazon Marketplace.| CoinDesk: |
SEC fines the owner of decentralized cryptocurrency exchange EtherDelta $388K, prompting fears of further enforcement action against crypto trading platforms — The Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) settlement with the founder of EtherDelta is likely the first of many enforcement actions …
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| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
The New York Times is digitizing its 5-7M photo archive using Google AI to recognize text describing the photos and will use Google's storage services — Google's computer brains are helping The New York Times turn a historic archive of more than 5 million photos into digital data that'll appear …
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| Colin Lecher / The Verge: |
PayPal says it will cancel accounts of Proud Boys, Gavin McInnes, Tommy Robinson and a number of anti-fascist groups like Atlanta Antifa and Antifa Sacramento — PayPal said today that it will cancel accounts used by far-right group the Proud Boys as well as multiple accounts from anti-fascist groups.
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| Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook to end forced arbitration for sexual-harassment claims, require execs at director level or above to disclose if they are dating someone in the company — Social-networking giant also revises policy for senior executives dating employees — Facebook Inc. FB -1.97% is ending … | Jim Edwards / Business Insider: |
Medium CEO Ev Williams says he will be raising more money; Medium has raised $132M, has 90M MAUs, and publishes 20K articles per day — - Ev Williams needs more money for Medium, which he says is still not profitable. — Medium has received $132 million from investors so far.| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Secret Service warns via internal alert that Informed Delivery, USPS's service to view scans of incoming mail, is being used to commit identity theft and fraud — A year ago, KrebsOnSecurity warned that “Informed Delivery,” a new offering from the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) …
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| Zoë Bernard / Business Insider: |
Sources: Mary Meeker is seeking to raise around $1.25B for her new growth fund — - The famed tech investor Mary Meeker is aiming to raise about $1.25 billion for her new growth fund, multiple sources tell Business Insider. — Meeker, a longtime partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers … Thanks:@stevetweedie
| Camilla Hodgson / Financial Times: |
Apple supplier Finisar, a laser chip maker that received $390M from Apple's Advanced Manufacturing Fund, acquired by optical product company II-VI in $3.2B deal — Optical products company II-VI Incorporated announced on Friday it planned to acquire Finisar, a maker of specialised laser scanners …
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| Anna Hensel / VentureBeat: |
LinkedIn says it is testing a new events tool with a select group of users in SF and NYC with plans to roll out the feature globally in the next few months — LinkedIn is getting into the event business. The professional networking site announced today that it's starting to test … | Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft says it has fixed an issue deactivating licenses on some Windows 10 Pro machines, says update will be automatically applied over next 24 hours — Microsoft's back-end activation issues which caused a number of Windows users to get false product-activation-error messages seems to be nearly fixed.
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| Shannon Liao / The Verge: |
Facebook has quietly released an app for iOS and Android called Lasso, designed to compete with TikTok, that lets users create short videos — The aging social media platform wishes to win teens over — Facebook has quietly released an app called Lasso that lets users create fun short videos designed … | Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Study using Wehe app, which detects net neutrality violations, finds that Sprint is throttling Skype across the US and almost exclusively on Android phones — - Researcher says the behavior seems ‘directly anti-competitive’ — Sprint says it doesn't single out individual content providers
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn says its e-learning portal LinkedIn Learning now has more than 11,000 enterprise customers, adds interactive Q&A features and third-party content — LinkedIn, the Microsoft-owned social network for the working world with some 580 million users, took a big step into professional development … | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Utah resident Austin Thompson, aka @DerpTrolling, pleads guilty to DDoS attacks on EA's Origin, Sony Playstation and Valve's Steam gaming services in Dec. 2013 — A Utah man has pleaded guilty to computer hacking charges, after admitting to knocking several gaming services offline five years ago.
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| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
Giphy unveils its short-form video platform and showcases the 118 finalist videos from the first Giphy Film Fest, held earlier this week — Giphy is again moving beyond the traditional confines of everyone's favorite animated image format, the GIF. The company is soft launching its video platform Friday … | Google Walkout For Real Change: |
Google walkout organizers say Google made progress toward addressing their demands but it must still address systemic racism and discrimination at the company — Last week, 20,000 Google employees and TVCs (Temps, Vendors and Contractors) walked out to protest discrimination, racism …
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Tweets: @googlewalkout, @lhawthorn, @thistechgirl, @felixsalmon, @kneath, @mcmillen, @karaswisher, @spacekatgal, @ceodonovan, @ceodonovan, @jmbooyah, and @alyssabereznak
| Christina Farr / CNBC: |
Google hires David Feinberg, CEO of health services organization Geisinger, to lead its health initiatives; sources say he will report to AI head Jeff Dean — - Feinberg will work to coordinate health care efforts across many groups, including Google Brain, Nest and Google Fit.| Michelle Castillo / CNBC: |
Disney says its new streaming service will be called Disney+ and will launch in the US in late 2019 — - Disney's new streaming service, Disney+, will be a home for its past titles and original series, including new content from the Marvel and Star Wars franchises.
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| Davey Alba / BuzzFeed News: |
Amazon staff meeting transcript: AWS CEO Andy Jassy defends Rekognition, says it's the government's duty to help specify regulations for facial recognition tech — Amazon executives defended the company's controversial facial recognition technology at an all-hands staff meeting on Thursday …
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| Telis Demos / Wall Street Journal: |
Wall Street is now selling more data like social media sentiment and geospatial mapping, and less analysis as only ~21% of research emails are opened — Research units take different tack to refine information for clients; geospatial mapping for mall trips and Googling interest in ‘Luke Cage’
Tweets: @briantimoney and @charlesraaii
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