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Facebook Messenger now lets you delete messages from everyone's view, for up to 10 minutes after you have sent them — You can now delete messages from everyone's view on Facebook Messenger — Facebook has come out with a feature that lets you delete messages from a conversation after you've sent them …
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Sources: Facebook to allow unified messaging for businesses so they can access and manage messages from Instagram Direct alongside Facebook Messenger — Facebook is building a unified messaging for businesses feature that will let businesses access and manage Instagram Direct Messages alongside …
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Google launches Password Checkup, a Chrome extension that alerts users to breaches and prompts resets, and Cross Account Protection for apps with Google Sign in — Editor's note: Today is Safer Internet Day, but we'll be talking about it all week with a collection of posts from teams from across Google.
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| Robert Hackett / Fortune: |
Zcash discloses a flaw, first discovered in-house last March and fixed in October, that could have allowed “infinite” counterfeiting — On March 1 of last year, Ariel Gabizon was tidying up a presentation he was preparing to deliver the following day at a financial cryptography conference … | Simon Carraud / Reuters: |
Apple reaches a deal with France to pay backdated taxes, with reports putting the sum at around €500M — PARIS (Reuters) - U.S. technology giant Apple said it had reached a deal with France to pay an undeclared amount of back-dated tax, with French media putting the sum at around 500 million euros ($571 million).
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Facebook says it has banned four armed groups in Myanmar and will remove all “related praise, support, and representation” — Facebook is taking action in Myanmar, the Southeast Asian country where the social network has been used to incite racial tension and violence, after it banned four armed groups from its service.
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| Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic: |
A dozen Harvard students and faculty reflect on Facebook's early days, how the platform worked, and how it made them feel as its first users — There was a time when Facebook was small. After all, it only existed in one place on Earth: Harvard University, where Mark Zuckerberg was a sophomore.
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Sources: Reddit is raising $150M to $300M in a Series D led by Tencent at a $2.7B pre-money valuation — Reddit is raising $150 million to $300 million to keep the front page of the Internet running, multiple sources tell TechCrunch. The forthcoming Series D round is said to be led …
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| Daniel Heyman / Hacker Noon: |
Looking at 2017's crypto frenzy through the lens of Carlota Perez's tech life cycles: blockchain is likely in the “gestation” stage and more bubbles are coming — Why another bubble is likely and what the blockchain space should focus on now — In the aftermath …
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| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Ike, the autonomous trucking startup founded by three veterans of Apple, Google, and Uber ATG, raises $52M Series A led by Bain Capital Ventures — Redpoint Ventures, Fontinalis Partners, Basis Set Ventures, and Neo also participated in the round. Bain Capital Ventures partner Ajay Agarwal has joined Ike's board.
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Alphabet Q4: revenue of $39.3B, up 22% YoY, net income of $8.9B, CPC down 29%, and paid clicks on Google properties up 66% YoY — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - February 4, 2019 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2018.
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| Bloomberg: |
In a filing, Apple says it stores Russian users' data, like names, addresses, email addresses, and phone numbers, on Russian servers to comply with a local law — - User information limited to customer names and contact details — Apple made similar agreement in China last year for iCloud
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| Paul Tassi / Forbes: |
EDM artist Marshmello held two in-game concerts in Fortnite this weekend, with the first reportedly having 10M+ concurrent players watching — I'm still trying to process just how cool yesterday's live Marshmello concert in Fortnite was, and I found myself wondering just how many people were actually “in attendance,” so to speak.
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| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Blue Hexagon, a real-time deep learning platform for network threat protection, emerges from stealth with $31M in funding from Benchmark and Altimeter — Nayeem Islam spent nearly 11 years with chipmaker Qualcomm, where he founded its Silicon Valley-based R&D facility …
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| Jason D. Rowley / Crunchbase News: |
Databricks, which runs an Apache Spark-based data analytics platform, raises $250M Series E led by Andreessen Horowitz at a $2.75B valuation — Today Databricks is announcing that it has raised $250 million in a Series E funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz, a firm which has led three …
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| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Mattermost, a platform that helps teams of software developers collaborate on DevOps, raises $20M Series A led by Redpoint Ventures — Aiming to pinch business away from its larger rival Slack Technologies Inc., collaboration platform provider Mattermost Inc. today said it has landed $20 million in new funding.
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
LA-based web app cybersecurity startup Signal Sciences raises $35M Series C led by Leading Edge Capital and says it protects over 10,000 apps — Signal Sciences, an LA-based firm that helps customer secure their web applications, announced a $35 million Series C investment today.
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| Pradeep / MSPoweruser: |
TomTom expands its partnership with Microsoft to bring its location data to mapping services across Microsoft including Bing, Cortana, and Windows — Back in 2016, TomTom first announced a partnership with Microsoft to bring enterprise-grade location-based services to Azure, based on TomTom's maps, traffic and navigation software.
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| Chris Pearce / Mozilla Hacks: |
Beginning with the upcoming release of Firefox 66, Firefox for Android and desktop will block auto-playing audio and video by default — Isn't it annoying when you click on a link or open a new browser tab and audible video or audio starts playing automatically?
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple's iOS 12.2 beta has a new Motion & Orientation Access toggle in Privacy settings, off by default, that limits gyroscope and accelerometer access in Safari — Last month, Apple released iOS 12.2 in beta with several new features, including the Apple News app in Canada …
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