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China appears to block Microsoft's Bing, despite the company's self-censorship of its search results in the country — SHANGHAI — Under China's president, Xi Jinping, the last vestiges of the global internet have slowly disappeared from an online world that had already shut out Twitter, Google and Facebook.
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Sources: Apple laid off 200+ employees this week from Project Titan; Apple acknowledges it has restructured its autonomous systems tech team — - Apple dismissed just over 200 employees from Project Titan this week, its stealthy autonomous vehicle initiative, people familiar with the group told CNBC.
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Sources: Sonos is planning to launch wireless, over-ear headphones with the ability to work with multiple digital assistants next year, for $300 or more — - Audio device maker seeks new markets after disappointing IPO — Company targets growing but crowded market that includes Apple| CNBC: |
Verizon Media Group, which owns Yahoo and AOL, plans to cut 7% of its global workforce, according to an email to employees from CEO Guru Gowrappan — Verizon Media Group — formerly known as Oath — is laying off 7 percent of its workforce, a person familiar with the change told CNBC.
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| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
As smartphone makers strive for differentiation in a crowded market, 2019 will see more devices with pop-up cameras, hole-punch displays, and foldable displays — THIS WEEK, CHINESE smartphone-maker Vivo released a video calling out one of the brand's signature innovations from 2018 … | Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Inside Google's 27-person in-house counterespionage team, the Threat Analysis Group, which tracks 200+ hacker groups, many of which are linked to US adversaries — Google likely has 'the most useful data set available to any private company for tracking state adversaries and intelligence services,' an expert says
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Twitter is testing an “Original Tweeter” tag to make it easier to see who started a thread; test has rolled out to “a small percentage” of iOS and Android users — Twitter is testing a new tag that will make it easier to parse who started a thread.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
In a video posted online, Xiaomi teases a working prototype of a phone with a double-folding display and a more symmetrical design than Samsung's foldable phone — China's Xiaomi has become the latest smartphone maker to tease a folding smartphone, dropping the below video clip of its president …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
AWS launches WorkLink, a fully managed service for $5 per month per user, that aims to make accessing mobile intranet sites and web apps easier — If your company uses a VPN and/or a mobile device management service to give you access to its intranet and internal web apps, then you know how annoying those are.
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The Linux Foundation launches the Hyperledger Grid project to let developers create blockchain-based supply chain apps running atop the distributed ledger tech — The Linux Foundation's blockchain initiative - Hyperledger Project - has created a set of developer tools to allow the creation …
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Spain-based Sherpa.ai, which makes a Spanish language voice assistant, expands Series A by $8.5M to $15M as it passes 5M users — When we think of the AI platforms that are shaping how we use voice to interact with phones, home devices and other services, we tend to think of Amazon's Alexa … | OpenSignal: |
OpenSignal Mobile Networks Experience report: Verizon leads in 4G availability and video experience, but ties with T-Mobile for fastest download speeds — Verizon surges forward in our metrics — For the last two years T-Mobile has been the dominant operator for mobile network experience across …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Researcher: 24M+ financial and banking documents, representing tens of thousands of loans and mortgages, were left exposed online by Texas-based firm Ascension — Exclusive: The database included highly sensitive financial data on customers who have taken out loans with U.S. banks
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| Yogita Khatri / CoinDesk: |
The UK's Financial Conduct Authority publishes draft guidelines on cryptoassets and how they fit within the UK's current regulatory framework — The U.K.'s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has set out proposed guidance for how crypto assets should be regulated in the country.
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Research firm says China had 713 VC deals in Q4, down 25% YoY, worth $18.3B total, down 12% YoY, amid cooling valuations and tighter hiring for tech startups — - The number of venture capital deals in China dropped 25 per cent year on year to 713 in the fourth quarter| Facebook: |
Facebook to launch Page Quality tab for admins, showing when content is removed for policy violations and when post distribution is reduced due to fact-checking — We're taking new steps in how we handle Page content that goes against our policies. First, starting tomorrow people who manage …
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| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Wag founders Jonathan and Joshua Viner, who left the dog-walking startup last year, announce $37M funding for their new electric bike-sharing startup Wheels — Wag founders Jonathan and Joshua Viner are leaving dogs behind for bikes. Wheels, the Viner brothers' new electric bike-share startup … | Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Patreon says it has 3M+ patrons, up by 1M+ in 2018, who support 100K+ creators; the company will pay creators $500M in 2019, reach $1B paid since launch in 2013 — Membership services platform Patreon now has more than 3 million patrons who pay to support any of its over 100,000 creators every month, the company announced Wednesday.
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Sequoia India announces Surge, an accelerator focused on fledging startups in India and Southeast Asia, says it will offer selected companies a $1.5M investment — ‘Surge’ offers a $1.5M check and access to the firm's global network — Sequoia India is going deep into early-stage investing …
Tweets: @jonrussell, @jonrussell, and @jonrussell
| Bloomberg: |
Amazon Go, now one year old, is sparking cashierless imitators from startups like Mighty AI, and also established companies like Walmart, Kroger, and Microsoft — Mighty AI spent much of its first five years building software that helps self-driving cars recognize real-world objects.
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Cision, a public relations software company, has agreed to buy AI-powered analytics company TrendKite for $225M as it continues to invest in software automation — - Purchase will help Cision automate parts of PR campaigns — TrendKite is company's second acquisition announced this month
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