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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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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Court filing: QuadrigaCX founder's widow says the crypto exchange can't access most of coins worth $137M in cold wallets to which only the 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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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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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Google bans 29 apps downloaded 4.3M+ times from the Play Store after researchers discovered they were being used to perform malicious acts like serve scam ads — The 29 apps concealed their malice and were hard for many infected users to uninstall. — Google has banned dozens … | Sara Ashley O'Brien / CNN: |
As NYC's driver minimum wage law goes into effect, Uber increases its prices and Lyft sues NYC's Taxi and Limousine Commission and says prices will increase — New York (CNN Business)Uber and Lyft customers will have to pay more for their rides as a result of the first-of-its-kind driver minimum wage law in New York City.
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| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
Report: Bill Stasior no longer in charge of Siri as team's strategy shifts from minor updates to long-term research as part new Apple AI chief's restructuring — Apple executive Bill Stasior, who has led the Siri team since joining the company in 2012, has been removed as head of the project …
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| 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 …
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| Jennings Brown / Gizmodo: |
A look inside Blind's anonymous chat forum used by Google employees shows transphobic and racist comments and messages critical of Google's diversity efforts — In early January, Google systems reliability engineer Liz Fong-Jones announced she was leaving the company after 11 years … | 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.
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| Karl Bode / Motherboard: |
AT&T lost 14% or 267K DirecTV Now subscribers in Q4 after a $5 price hike in the summer, as it struggles with managing debt from DirecTV and Time Warner deals — Massive merger debt forced company to raise rates, only driving users to cut the cord even faster.
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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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| Salvador Hernandez / BuzzFeed News: |
DNA testing firm FamilyTreeDNA is working with the FBI and allowing agents to search its 1M+ DNA profiles, raising user concerns about data privacy — Family Tree DNA, one of the largest private genetic testing companies whose home-testing kits enable people to trace their ancestry and locate relatives …
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