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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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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, which spread disparaging information …
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Facebook responds to the NYT exposé, lists “number of inaccuracies” in the story, and denies it knew about Russian activity as early as spring of 2016 — Yesterday The New York Times published an article about the past two years at Facebook. There are a number of inaccuracies in the story, including:
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Google adds business messaging to Google Maps for iOS and Android, which 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 … | Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google Maps is being overburdened with so many features and design changes that it is becoming difficult to just get directions in the app — Yelp must be thrilled — Earlier today, 9to5Google pointed us to a blog post from Google announcing a new feature for Google Maps: messaging businesses.
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Alphabet to close its Schaft robotics unit and dissolve the project later this year, after seeking other options when a deal to sell it to SoftBank collapsed — Tokyo-born unit Schaft lost its way after departure of robot chief Andy Rubin — TOKYO — Alphabet, the holding company behind Google … | Tom Spring / Threatpost: |
Hackers breach iPhone X, Galaxy S9, and Xiaomi Mi6 and earn $325K for exposing 18 exploits at the Pwn2Own Tokyo 2018 contest — Three major mobile phone models - the Samsung Galaxy S9, iPhone X and the Xiaomi Mi6 - failed to survive the hacker onslaught at this year's Pwn2Own Tokyo 2018.| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Microsoft Surface Headphones review: stylish look, great wireless performance, and excellent noise canceling, but battery life and sound need improvement — Simple in look and sophisticated in function but suboptimal in practice — For anyone who grew up with Microsoft as the stodgy PC monopoly …
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How a DARPA program is developing recovery tools that aim to restore power to an electric grid after a cyberattack — IN HIS YEARS-LONG career developing software for power grids, Stan McHann had never before heard the ominous noise that rang out last Wednesday.| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Twitter's Explore tab starts sorting stories into topic-based sections, such as News, Sports, Fun, and Entertainment, in the US for iOS — Twitter has updated its Explore tab for iOS, sorting entries into separate sections depending on their topics. The platform says it implemented … | Steven Bertoni / Forbes: |
Airtable, which makes a coding platform for non-techies, raises $100M at a $1.1B valuation, led by Benchmark, Thrive Capital, and Coatue Management — n the frenetic world of tech, where the ruling ethos is to move fast and break things, Howie Liu moves at a glacial pace.
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Robotic process automation startup Automation Anywhere raises $300M from SoftBank's Vision Fund at a $2.6B valuation, says it now has 1,500 enterprise customers — Vision Fund's backing of Automation Anywhere marks the latest escalation of bidding war for software-process specialists
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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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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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Apple, Alphabet, Cisco, Microsoft, and Oracle spent $115B+ in the first 3 quarters on share buybacks after tax reforms, nearly double what they spent last year — The five US tech companies with the largest cash piles took advantage of President Trump's tax reforms to spend more than $115bn … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon Go competitor Standard Cognition raises $40M Series A led by Initialized Capital to expand its cashierless store solution — Cashierless shopping feels a little bit like magic. There's something indescribably awesome about being able to grab something from a shelf, stuff it in a coat pocket …
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Instagram adds new shopping features: redesigned business profiles, shop items from video posts, and save items to a shopping collecting — Instagram is continuing to build out its shopping features today with the announcement of three new product updates.
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Discord launches Discord Early Access, giving its users access to unfinished games and the ability to give feedback to game studios — The Early Access concept is coming to Discord. After launching its game store and subscription service in October, the communications platform is expanding …
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