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Interviews with more than 50 people show how Facebook stumbled in dealing with multiple crises, which Zuckerberg and Sandberg initially tried to obscure — Sheryl Sandberg was seething. — Inside Facebook's Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters, top executives gathered in the glass-walled conference room of its founder, Mark Zuckerberg.
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Source: Facebook has ended its relationship with Definers Public Affairs, the consulting firm which cast George Soros as a force behind Facebook's critics — SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook has ended its relationship with a Washington-based consulting firm, Definers Public Affairs …
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| Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal: |
Internal Facebook survey shows just 52% of its staff are optimistic about its future, down 32% from last year, amid scandals and a sharp stock decline — Employee surveys show weaker optimism about future, confidence in platform's mission — Facebook Inc.'s FB .77% difficult year is taking …
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Google adds business messaging to Google Maps for iOS and Android, helps keep track of conversations with local businesses — Last year we enabled users in select countries to message businesses from the Business Profiles on Google. Sending messages to businesses gives you the opportunity …
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Uber reports Q3 net loss of $939M, up 32% QoQ, as revenue rose 38% YoY to $2.95B; gross bookings rose to $12.7B; Eats had gross bookings of $2.1B, up 150% YoY — Uber, which is expected to go public sometime next year, just released its Q3 2018 financial results.
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| Dami Lee / The Verge: |
Instagram rolls out activity dashboard that shows users how much time they have spent in the app with time limiting tools and the option to mute notifications — Back in August, Facebook and Instagram announced they would introduce new activity dashboards that tracked how much time users spent inside …
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Google releases Night Sight, a software update that dramatically improves low-light photos, to Pixel users — The mighty Night Sight mode is being released to Pixel phones today — Two years ago, Google's release of the first Pixel smartphone radically raised the bar for the image quality we could expect from mobile cameras.
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Mozilla publishes a privacy and security guide for 70 popular connected devices, including drones, wearables, and more, ahead of the holiday season — If you're planning on picking up some cool new smart device for a loved one this holiday season, it might be worth your while to check whether it's one of the good ones or not.
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Cortana's mobile redesign, in beta last month, is out now for iOS, adding conversational experiences, the ability to play music and podcasts, and more — A voice assistant for those entrenched in the Microsoft ecosystem — Cortana's version 3.0 redesign, which we first saw released in beta last month …
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| Rose Behar / Android Police: |
Google Assistant adds Routines integration into clock app, ability to reply to intercom-style Broadcasts, and a command to put devices into Do Not Disturb mode — In the voice assistant market, the most meaningful features often don't sound that impressive: more often than not …
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| Bloomberg: |
US GAO dismisses Oracle's argument that the Pentagon's $10B cloud contract violated federal standards and unfairly favored Amazon — - GAO decision deals setback to Oracle's federal contracts push — Rejection frees Pentagon to pursue single-source solution
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| Angus Berwick / Reuters: |
Investigation shows how ZTE helped Venezuela's government build a system, used by as many as 18M, similar to China's national identity card program — TRICKS OF THE TRADE: Critics say China exports tools that help autocratic governments monitor citizens. Venezuelan President Nicolás …
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
LinkedIn says it expects $2B in revenue from its media business, driven mostly by ad revenue, by the end of the fiscal year — LinkedIn, the business and employment network, says it expects to bring in roughly $2 billion from its media business — mostly via ad revenue — by the end of this fiscal year.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook launches Unsend for Messenger, letting users delete messages within 10 minutes of posting, in Poland, Bolivia, Colombia, Lithuania; global rollout soon — Not just for Zuckerberg anymore — Facebook secretly retracted messages sent by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, TechCrunch reported seven months ago.
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Amazon has spawned very few successful startups in Seattle, for a variety of reasons, suggesting it is unlikely to do so in New York or Virginia — Greetings from New York City, where the local tabloids are aghast at the more than $1.8 billion in incentives used to lure Amazon to Queens.| Wall Street Journal: |
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft acquires AI and bot developer XOXCO for an undisclosed amount; XOXCO built Howdy.ai, a commercially available bot for Slack for scheduling meetings — Microsfot is acquiring XOXCO, a conversational-AI development firm known for its Howdy.ai bot tools for Slack.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Uber launches rider loyalty rewards program with upgrades to nicer cars, access to premium support, and a waiver on cancellations if rebooked within 15 minutes — Uber's new loyalty program incentivizes you not to check Lyft or the local competitor. Riders earn points for all the money …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Cisco beats with Q1 revenues of $13.07B, up 8% YoY, vs. $12.87B est., revenues of $7.64B for its Infrastructure Platforms business, up 9% YoY, vs. $7.4B est. — Cisco stock rose slightly after the company reported better-than-expected earnings for the first quarter of its 2019 fiscal year.
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| Harish Jonnalagadda / Android Central: |
Samsung unveils 8nm Exynos 9820 chipset with a dedicated NPU for on-device AI and 8K video recording, likely to be used in next year's Galaxy S10 — Samsung is betting on a dedicated NPU to introduce a host of AI-enabled features in its upcoming flagship. — Huawei was the first to roll …
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