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| Daniel Funke / Poynter: |
Snopes pulls out of Facebook partnership, says Facebook's closed, manual fact-checking entry system is too labor intensive and fails to benefit the whole web — Snopes is no longer debunking misinformation in partnership with Facebook. In a statement published Friday …
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Snopes.com, The Atlantic, CNBC, Engadget, The Verge, Quartz, Bloomberg, CNET, The Guardian, Adweek, Mashable, Boing Boing, Notes from Silicon Valley, and Fortune
Tweets: @shiraovide, @alexstamos, @matthewstoller, @shortformernie, @mantzarlis, @bendwalsh, @tarletong, @dkthomp, and @sarahfrier
| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
AP says it is “not currently doing fact-checking work for Facebook”, after Snopes said it also stopped; both leave possiblity for future collaboration open — Two of Facebook's four fact-checking partners in the U.S. are no longer working for the program: Snopes … | Peter Kafka / Recode: |
Source: Spotify in advanced talks to acquire popular podcast producer Gimlet for $200M+; Gimlet would be Spotify's first purchase of an original content maker — Spotify wants to break out of the music streaming business. Gimlet, the company behind shows like Crimetown and Reply All, can help.
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Wall Street Journal, The Verge, and Hollywood Reporter
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| Nitasha Tiku / Wired: |
Google's internal 2018 employee satisfaction survey: 74% of staffers “positive” that the top exec team can effectively lead in the future, down from 92% in 2017 — GOOGLE IS A data-obsessed company, but the recent cascade of employee activism can be hard to quantify.| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Court filing: widow of crypto exchange QuadrigaCX founder says it can't access most of $137M worth of coins in cold wallets to which only founder had the keys — Troubled Canadian crypto exchange QuadrigaCX owes its customers $190 million and cannot access most of the funds, according to a court filing obtained by CoinDesk.
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Mashable and BREAKERMAG
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Huawei's Mobile World Congress invite hints that the company will show off a foldable 5G smartphone on February 24 — Whether gimmicky or great, foldable devices will get their time in the spotlight this year — Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is traditionally the year's biggest show …
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Forbes, TechSpot, Patently Mobile, BGR, Droid Life, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, iPhone Hacks, Gizchina, Telecoms.com, Engadget, Tom's Guide, and Android Beat. Tweets: @huaweimobile
| Christina Farr / CNBC: |
Sources: Alphabet's Verily is looking for partners to co-develop shoes with embedded sensors to track the wearer's movement, weight, and detect falls — - Alphabet's Verily has been showing off a prototype of shoes that can track weight, movement, and potentially even detect falls.
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CNET, SiliconANGLE, Business Insider, Digital Trends, Engadget, iPhone Hacks, TechSpot, 9to5Google, PYMNTS.com, SlashGear, and The Verge. Thanks:@mattrosoff
| Todd Haselton / CNBC: |
Apple apologizes for Group FaceTime bug, says it's now fixed and a software update will re-enable the feature next week, promises better bug reporting practices — - Apple apologizes for a massive FaceTime bug that let people eavesdrop on others, even if they never answered a FaceTime call.
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Tweets: @stevekovach and @apollozac
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Apple restores Google's internal iOS apps after certificate misuse punishment — Apple has blocked Google from distributing its internal-only iOS apps on its corporate network after a TechCrunch investigation found the search giant abusing the certificates.
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Axios, Wall Street Journal, CNET, Bloomberg, Wired, CNBC, London Evening Standard, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Ars Technica, Axios, 9to5Google, VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, Telecoms.com, Fortune, The Next Web, Silicon Republic, Gizchina, Engadget, Naked Security, Lowyat.NET, AppleInsider, Wired, Firstpost, BuzzFeed News, CNBC, SlashGear, Washington Post, Associated Press, Pocketnow, Android Authority, Tom's Guide, ExtremeTech, Macworld, Geek News Central, Ars Technica, Neowin, Pocketables, iDownloadBlog.com, Gizmodo, Mashable, VentureBeat, Android Police, ZDNet, CNET, iPhone Hacks, MacRumors, Business Insider, Engadget, and Thurrott
Tweets: @chronic, @caseynewton, @markgurman, @chillmage, @chillmage, @sarahjeong, @inafried, @db, @matthewstoller, @tomwarren, and @chronic
| Casey Newton / The Interface: |
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ZDNet, The Verge, The Verge, BrianMadden.com, Forbes, Redmond Pie, TechCrunch, TechSpot, AppleInsider, Firstpost, Mashable, iPhone Hacks, Engadget, Business Insider, and BGR
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
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CNBC, TechCrunch, iDownloadBlog.com, AppleInsider, The Verge, Mashable, VentureBeat, and The Ringer
Tweets: @puiwingtam, @mikeisaac, @swiftonsecurity, @db, @robaeprice, @chronic, @mikeisaac, and @mikeisaac
| Josh Dzieza / The Verge: |
Days after saying it is reconsidering plans for a Wisconsin plant, Foxconn now says the plan is back on after its Chairman's “personal conversation” with Trump — At some point — Days after Foxconn's Louis Woo told Reuters that the company is no longer planning to build …
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CNBC, 9to5Mac, Fortune, Engadget, ExtremeTech, VentureBeat, Neowin, CNN, Associated Press, Boing Boing, New York Times, Patently Apple, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Nikkei, and naked capitalism
Tweets: @reckless, @reckless, and @stevekovach
| Brian Fung / Washington Post: |
In day one of arguments, the FCC faced tough questions from a three-judge panel on its definition of broadband and potential issues for public safety agencies — The Federal Communications Commission faced sharp questioning from a trio of appellate court judges Friday as the agency sought … | Alison Griswold / Quartz: |
Amazon says it got 850k applications for hourly US jobs in Oct. 2018 after announcing its $15 minimum wage, more than doubling its previous monthly record — One of the most important takeaways from Amazon's 2018 fourth-quarter and full-year earnings report, released Jan. 31, had little to do with the usual financial results.
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Fox Business and GeekWire
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On my Om, GeekWire, Light Reading, TechCrunch, RAIN News, Curbed, Telecoms.com, CNET, Marketing Land, Wall Street Journal, Amazon Chronicles, Axios, AdExchanger, The Verge, Bloomberg, Business Insider, Fortune, SiliconANGLE, Thurrott, ZDNet, Axios, VentureBeat, and Variety
| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Twitter says it removed thousands of malicious accounts that originated in Iran, Russia, and Venezuela for spreading disinformation about the 2018 midterms — Twitter revealed Thursday that it had removed thousands of malicious accounts thought to have originated in Iran …
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Twitter, New York Times, TechCrunch, Twitter, SiliconANGLE, Adweek, Reuters, Facebook, Social Media Today, Engadget, Business Insider, DFRLab, Mashable, Reuters, Gizmodo, The Register, Threatpost, Recode, and Geek News Central
Tweets: @adamjohnsonnyc, @vijayshekhar, @wiczipedia, @justinhendrix, @martyswant, @policy, @policy, @jank0, @jank0, @martyswant, and @martyswant
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Twilio closes acquisition of email marketing platform SendGrid, says the all-stock deal is now valued at $3B, up from the $2B initially announced in October — Twilio's bid to become the go-to platform for all of a business's external communication needs took a big step ahead today.
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Business Wire and socalTECH.com
| Vindu Goel / New York Times: |
400K+ items, making up about a third of Amazon's ~$6B in annual sales in India, may disappear from Amazon India, while it works to meet new compliance rules — NEW DELHI — On Friday, Indian consumers will wake up to an emptier, more expensive version of Amazon's shopping service.
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Recode, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, PaymentsSource, Investor's Business Daily, PYMNTS.com, Financial Times, The Verge, The Next Web, Reuters, MediaNama, Quartz, BGR India, Tech in Asia, Bloomberg, CNN, and Wall Street Journal. Tweets: @delrey
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