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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo announces it will use Apple Maps to power map and address-related searches, using Apple's MapKit JS framework — Apple's MapKit JS has a big, new user — DuckDuckGo has spent the last few years making the case that it's the search engine …
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DuckDuckGo Blog, TechCrunch, CNET, Search Engine Land, SlashGear, Neowin, MAC blog, AppleInsider, Thurrott, MacStories, TechSpot, Search Engine Journal, Macworld, MacRumors, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @lutherlowe, @waltmossberg, @backlon, and @duckduckgo
| Heather Kelly / CNN: |
Evan Spiegel says Snap CFO Tim Stone, who joined the company from Amazon eight months ago, has resigned but will remain until February 5 to help with transition — San Francisco (CNN Business)Snap is losing another high-profile executive. Chief Financial Officer Tim Stone told Snap …
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TechCrunch, CNBC, Cheddar, Business Insider, SiliconANGLE, Variety, Axios, Notes from Silicon Valley, Fortune, Hollywood Reporter, Recode, and 9to5Mac
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| Dami Lee / The Verge: |
Twitter launches the reverse-chronological feed as an option on Android — Twitter brought its traditional reverse-chronological timeline back to iOS last month, and now the optional feature is available to Android users in a new update. It's a welcome choice that brings back some stability to the Twitter feed.
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The Next Web, Digital Trends, Android Police, 9to5Google, Android Central, MSPoweruser, Android Authority, Neowin, Adweek, Droid Life, Geek.com, and CrackBerry.com. Tweets: @twitter
| Michael Liedtke / Associated Press: |
Netflix raises prices for US subscribers by 13%-18%, its biggest hike ever, immediately affecting new subscribers, over next three months for existing customers — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Netflix is raising its U.S. prices by 13 percent to 18 percent, its biggest increase since the company launched its streaming service 12 years ago.
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| CoinDesk: |
Ethereum's long-anticipated Constantinople fork has been delayed after an audit firm discovered a critical flaw in one of the planned changes — Ethereum's long-anticipated Constantinople upgrade has just been delayed after a critical vulnerability was discovered in one of the planned changes.
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| Rachel Yang / Variety: |
Roku says it is removing two Infowars channels on its platform after criticism from users and a rebuke from some Sandy Hook families — Roku has taken the Infowars channel off its platform after the streaming device faced criticism for carrying the controversial program hosted by right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft partners with Walgreens, which will migrate infrastructure to Azure and roll out Office 365 to staff while jointly developing new health care tech — A week after unveiling a plan to reinvent grocery shopping with Kroger, Microsoft announced another major retail partnership …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple launches $129 battery cases with Qi charging support for iPhone XR, XS, and XS Max — Apple today released new Smart Battery Cases designed for its 2018 iPhone lineup, including the iPhone XS, XS Max, and XR. — Available in black or white, each Smart Battery Case is priced at $129 …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google says it has started rolling out Material Design to Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Sites on the web — Google today announced that it has started the long-expected rollout of its Material Design update for Google Docs, Sheets, Slides and Sites, after first testing this update … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Nielsen: US homes receiving over-the-air broadcast channels without a traditional cable or satellite TV subscription increased 48% to 16M over the past 8 years — The number of U.S. households without a traditional cable or satellite TV subscription that instead receive broadcast stations using … | Daniel Victor / New York Times: |
A simple picture of an egg, posted by an anonymous Instagram user, has set the record for most likes, with over 40M, surpassing Kylie Jenner's 18M record — There's nothing special about the egg. Seems like a fine enough egg. But more than 22 million people have liked it, dethroning Kylie Jenner's birth-announcement post.
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Tweets: @danlamothe, @jaboukie, @caucasianjames, @mikeymurphy, @gizmodo, @thegee232, and @rickypdillon
| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
US authorities charge Ukrainian hacker and several others for alleged roles in trading on nonpublic corporate earnings news obtained by hacking an SEC database — (Reuters) - U.S. authorities on Tuesday charged several individuals and companies in a scheme to trade on information …
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Tweets: @chrisbrummerdr and @enforce_update
| Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
AWS acquired TSO Logic, a Vancouver startup that helps customers determine how much it would cost to run their workloads in the cloud, on Dec. 22, 2018 — It has been an acquisitive start to the year for Amazon Web Services, which has reached an agreement to purchase Vancouver's TSO Logic … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Bytedance reached the lower end of its ~$7.4B to ~$8.1B revenue target for 2018, the first time in years it hasn't beaten its forecast — - 2018 revenue said to hit lower-end of 50-55 billion yuan goal — Tik Tok owner said hit by slowing economy, monetization delay
Tweets: @elliottzaagman and @luluyilun
| Kate Conger / New York Times: |
Data from Portland's 4-month scooter program, which capped the number of scooters to ~2K and recorded 700K+ rides, shows scooters often replaced short car trips — SAN FRANCISCO — The e-scooter boom began in Santa Monica, Calif., about 16 months ago. Electric scooters … | Celia Chen / South China Morning Post: |
Tencent's Q3 profits grew 30% YoY on investment gains, offsetting slower growth in its gaming business; research: Tencent made 163+ investment deals in 2018 — - In the third quarter, Tencent's profit increased 30 per cent mainly due to gains from investment-related items
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| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
YouTube updates its policies, says it prohibits harmful and dangerous challenges and pranks following stunts like the Bird Box and Tide Pod challenges — YouTube to creators: don't — YouTube has a new message for creators looking to participate in dangerous or potentially harmful stunts … | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Researcher finds that Voipo, a communications provider based in Lake Forest, CA, left a server with millions of call logs, texts, and more exposed for months — An unprotected server storing millions of call logs and text messages was left open for months before they were found by a security researcher.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: PagerDuty, which makes performance monitoring tools for developers, has filed confidentially for an IPO; it was valued at more than $1B in September — - Startup had expected to generate $100 million in 2018 revenue — PagerDuty is valued at more than $1 billion by mutual funds| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Pandora launches a personalized voice assistant on iOS and Android that will deliver personalized search results and allow users to control music playback — Pandora today announced the launch of its own, in-app voice assistant which you can call up at any time by saying “Hey Pandora,” …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Investigation finds ads on Instagram for several services selling fake followers or automated notification spam for luring in followers — Instagram has been earning money from businesses flooding its social network with spam notifications. Instagram hypocritically continues to sell ad space …
Tweets: @joshconstine, @joshconstine, @joshconstine, @joshconstine, and @joshconstine
| Jan Wolfe / Reuters: |
US appeals court upholds judgment worth $440M that was won by intellectual property licensing firm VirnetX against Apple in patent infringement case — (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday upheld a judgment worth $440 million that was won by intellectual property licensing firm VirnetX Inc …
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