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| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
YouTube begins rolling out Stories, which last for seven days on its mobile app and can be viewed by everyone, to accounts with over 10,000 subscribers — Amid some concern from the community — YouTube is expanding its Instagram-like Stories capability to more creators today …
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YouTube Creator Blog, Engadget, Marketing Land, Digital Trends, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, and Mashable
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft rolls out a search function, powered by Bing, for SwiftKey on Android in the US, UK, India, France, Canada, and elsewhere — Microsoft-owned mobile keyboard company SwiftKey is today rolling out a search feature for Android users that lets them browse the internet for content directly from within the keyboard.
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SwiftKey Blog, The Verge, Windows Central, Android Police, Thurrot, Engadget, and SlashGear
| Ryan Gallagher / The Intercept: |
Sources detail the measures Google took to keep Dragonfly under wraps, including shutting out some members of the security and privacy teams from key meetings — The secrecy surrounding the work was unheard of at Google. It was not unusual for planned new products to be closely guarded ahead of launch.
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CNET and TechCrunch
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| Gabe Rivera / Techmeme News: |
Techmeme now publishing paid and free “Leaderboards” showing the most influential reporters around a specific news topic — Today Techmeme has begun publishing Topic Leaderboards, which list the top authors and publications covering 24 topic areas such as cloud computing, autonomous vehicles …
Tweets: @the_spinmd, @dtunkelang, @ianchaffee, @yoda, @mkakav, @mgsiegler, @steverubel, @ashleymayer, @rsingel, @gaberivera, and @kingkool68
| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Coinbase Pro says it is adding Zcash to its professional trading platform in the US, UK, European Union, Canada, Singapore, and Australia — Crypto exchange Coinbase Pro is adding privacy coin zcash to its listings. — The platform announced Thursday that customers can transfer zcash … | Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
Facebook will exempt ads from eligible news outlets from its political ad archive in the UK, a policy it plans to extend to the US and Brazil pending UK tests — Social network to act against ‘dark adverts’ with compulsory disclaimers saying who paid — Every political advert on Facebook …
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Facebook Media, TechCrunch, Windows Central, CNET, Nieman Lab, The Hill, VentureBeat, Bloomberg, Reuters, BBC, and Axios
| Wall Street Journal: |
Memo: the White House plans to host a roundtable on December 6 to discuss innovation with tech executives, including Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, and others — Guest list includes heads of Microsoft, Google, Qualcomm, Oracle — The Trump administration will hold a roundtable discussion …
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Engadget, TechCrunch, and The Hill
Tweets: @kennethn, @stevekopack, @shiraovide, and @kifleswing
| Nat Levy / GeekWire: |
New book outlines Microsoft's product roadmap: new Surface Pro and Laptop, “ambient devices”, and cheaper Xbox One S in 2019; new Surface Book and Hub in 2020 — Next year will be a busy one for Microsoft's Surface division, if a new book about the organization is any indication.
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The Verge, Thurrot, Digital Trends, On MSFT, The Next Web, ZDNet, VentureBeat, Neowin, and GeekWire
Tweets: @toddbishop, @zacbowden, and @tomwarren
| Sam Kim / Bloomberg: |
South Korea charges nine people and two companies with illegally selling Samsung's bendable OLED screen technology to Chinese rivals — - Suspects accused of stealing tech used to bend Galaxy screens — Samsung spent 150 billion won on technology, prosecution says
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Reuters, Android Authority, Android Central, Engadget, Mashable, and Gizmodo
Tweets: @samkimasia and @pelstrom
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft debuts redesigned icons for its Office suite, alongside other cosmetic changes, and says Outlook Mobile is getting a redesign soon — A new modern look — Microsoft is modernizing its Office icons as part of a broader focus on design for its various Office apps.
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Tweets: @tomwarren and @alexmuench
| David Barnard: |
How iOS developers game the App Store: naming apps with popular keywords, tricking users to sign up for subscriptions, buying fake ratings and reviews, and more — I've been pestering Apple for years publicly and privately about the manipulation and outright scams going on in the App Store.
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iPhone Hacks, 9to5Mac, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @drbarnard, @jamesthomson, and @steipete
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Sennheiser's HeadSetup software makes PCs and Macs vulnerable to MITM attacks due to flawed self-signed TLS certificate, which users should now manually remove — Poorly secured certificate lets hackers impersonate any website on the Internet. — Audio device maker Sennheiser has issued …
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Tweets: @__agwa, @spazef0rze, @dakami, @gayleyoungs, @alshakarti, and @patrickmoorhead
| Katie Roof / Wall Street Journal: |
Vista Equity Partners takes majority stake in Wrike, a work management platform that says it has nearly a $100M run rate, source says at a valuation of ~$800M — Software company is said to be valued at nearly $800 million — Vista Equity Partners has taken a majority stake in Wrike Inc., a workplace management software startup.
Tweets: @jordannovet and @katie_roof
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google Assistant adds Broadcast Replies, notes and lists integration, visual lyrics, and Pretty Please on Smart Displays and Google Home — With the holiday season underway, Google is announcing a slew of new features for Assistant speakers and Smart Displays.
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Engadget, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, CNET, VentureBeat, Digital Trends, and The Verge
| Mark Wilson / Fast Company: |
Airbnb's innovation lab Samara announces Backyard, an initiative to design and prototype new ways of building homes, starting in 2019 — After launching a home-sharing revolution, Airbnb's founders started asking themselves, “What's next?” They successfully created a global network … | Thomas Ricker / The Verge: |
Tidal is now available on Plex for $9.99/month, the first streaming music service to be fully integrated into Plex — A milestone moment for the XBMC fork — Plex users can now stream Tidal music directly from the Plex app. Moreover, subscribers can save up to $60 a year on the price of both Tidal and Plex Pass subscriptions.
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AppleInsider, Plex, Engadget, The Mac Observer, Variety, Pocketables, 9to5Mac, Android Authority, TechCrunch, and iLounge
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Asana, which provides work management and collaboration software for teams, raises $50M Series E led by Generation Investment Management at a $1.5B valuation — Asana, a service that teams and individuals use to plan and track the progress of work projects, is doubling down on its own project …
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Telegraph, Business Insider, Forbes, VentureBeat, and Bloomberg
| New York Times: |
Law enforcement authorities, working with Microsoft, have arrested dozens of scammers in New Delhi over fake PC virus pop-up alert ads during the past month — MUMBAI, India — You know the messages. They pop up on your computer screen with ominous warnings like, “Your computer has been infected with a virus.
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ZDNet, Microsoft on the Issues, GeekWire, BBC, CNET, TechSpot, and The Next Web
Tweets: @vindugoel, @cogregoire, @nytimesbusiness, and @kitboga
| DW.COM: |
CeBIT, an IT trade show with 850K visitors per year, has been canceled for 2019, after facing declining visitor numbers and space rentals — Despite turning the trade fair into a fun fair, organizers could not save the beloved but struggling trade fair. CeBIT once boasted 850,000 visitors a year … | Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
GM's President Dan Ammann to become CEO of self-driving car unit Cruise; current Cruise CEO and co-founder Kyle Vogt will stay on as unit president and CTO — General Motors on Thursday announced that company president Dan Ammann will take a new job as CEO of its self-driving unit, Cruise.
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TechCrunch and ABC News
| Jeff Barr / AWS News Blog: |
A summary of AWS launches, previews, and pre-announcements from AWS re:Invent 2018 — As promised in Welcome to AWS re:Invent 2018, here's a summary of the launches, previews, and pre-announcements from Andy Jassy's keynote. I have included links to allow you to sign up for previews, as appropriate.
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CNBC, AWS News Blog, AWS News Blog, Cointelegraph.com News, Beyond Search, The Next Web, SiliconANGLE, and ZDNet
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
DOJ indicts two Iranian nationals for creating and deploying the SamSam ransomware, which crippled Atlanta, caused $30M in losses, and had 200+ victims — U.S. federal prosectors have indicted two Iranian nationals for creating and deploying the notorious SamSam ransomware.
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U.S. Department …, U.S. Department of Justice, MIT Technology Review, CoinDesk, Virtual Mining Bitcoin News, ETHNews, Wired, Trustnodes, Security Boulevard, Bitsonline, SiliconANGLE, CryptoGlobe, WeLiveSecurity, ZDNet, Coingeek, Bitcoinist.com, SecurityWeek, PYMNTS.com, Naked Security, CryptoSlate, and Reuters
Tweets: @zackwhittaker, @kevincollier, @ustreasury, @campuscodi, @campuscodi, @x0rz, @lookner, and @bluestein
| Bloomberg: |
Germany's Federal Cartel Office says it has opened an antitrust investigation into Amazon's “double role” as retailer and host for other stores — - German Cartel Office looking at how firm treats site's sellers — Probe focuses on terms, adding to EU scrutiny of data abuse
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Reuters, VentureBeat, Associated Press, GeekWire, The Hill, Fast Company, Fortune, Neowin, Business Insider, and TechCrunch. Tweets: @aoifewhite101
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