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Angela Ahrendts to leave Apple in April after five years, as Apple names 30-year company veteran Deirdre O'Brien SVP of Retail + People reporting to Tim Cook — Angela Ahrendts Plans April Departure After Five Successful Years — CUPERTINO — Apple today announced that Deirdre O'Brien … | Jeremy Burge / Emojipedia: |
Unicode Consortium finalizes its emoji list for 2019, including 230 new emojis like “yawning face” and “pinching hand”, likely coming to major platforms soon — The final emoji list for 2019 has now been approved by the Unicode Consortium and includes a total of 230 … | The Keyword: |
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 may 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 …
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| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
Snap reports Q4 revenue of $389.8M, up 36% YoY, DAUs of 186M in Q4'18 from 187M in Q4'17 and 186M in Q3'18, as Android design refresh rolls out; stock pops 20%+ — Snap, the parent of disappearing message app Snapchat, stemmed recent declines in users and beat revenue expectations …
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| Shannon Liao / The Verge: |
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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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amazon announces Baby Skill Activity API for Alexa devices, available initially in the US, and invests in Hatch Baby, which makes baby-focused smart products — Amazon today is one of the biggest retailers of gear for babies and other parenting aides, and today the company is taking another … | Joan E. Solsman / CNET: |
YouTube CEO says the number of channels with 1M+ subs nearly doubled and the number of creators who earned five or six figures grew 40%+ in the last year — In a post Tuesday about her goals for 2019, YouTube Chief Executive Susan Wojcicki touted several milestones Google's massive video site surpassed …
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| Rebekah Valentine / GamesIndustry.biz: |
EA reports Q3 net revenue of $1.289B, missing its own projection of $1.375B, digital net revenue of $908M, and net income of $262M; stock down 16%+ after hours — Q3 net revenue of $1.3 billion didn't quite meet guidance for Battlefield V release period — With December solidly behind them … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Citing data privacy and security flaws, EU orders recall of Safe-KID-One, a kids' smartwatch made by German company ENOX, the first recall of its kind in the EU — EU warns that ENOX Safe-KID-One smartwatches contain several security flaws that let third-parties track and call children's watches.
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European Commission, Telegraph, The Verge, Gizmodo, SecurityWeek, WeLiveSecurity, Threatpost, BBC, and The Register. Tweets: @carnage4life
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
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 … | Brian Feldman / New York Magazine: |
The rise on Instagram of “meme accounts” like @fuckjerry, which steal jokes, videos, and other content, is a platform failure Instagram refuses to acknowledge — The past few weeks have been rough for Elliot Tebele. Tebele is the morally compromised founder of Jerry Media …
Tweets: @joshconstine and @carnage4life
| Saqib Shah / Engadget: |
After shutting down in September, the Newton Mail email service is available again for $49.99/year; CloudMagic, its maker, was acquired by Essential in December — The Newton Mail email service bid subscribers farewell in September, but now it seems to be back. 9to5Mac has spotted …
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| Leigh Cuen / CoinDesk: |
Winklevoss' crypto exchange Gemini has reportedly been shutting down accounts after large redemptions of its stablecoin, GUSD — Two over-the-counter trading desks say their accounts at Gemini, the crypto exchange founded by U.S. investors Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss …
Tweets: @la__cuen, @fintechfrank, and @mo_lazarus
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Disney says ESPN+, its standalone subscription streaming service that launched in April, has 2M+ users, up from 1M in September — Disney's sports streaming service is growing fast — thanks in part to UFC content — ESPN+, Disney's standalone premium subscription service for sports fans, now has over 2 million subscribers.
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AdExchanger, Engadget, and CNBC
| 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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Facebook, Reuters, Engadget, BuzzFeed News, Financial Times, Boing Boing, Frontier Myanmar, Gizmodo, Mashable, Quartz, Adweek, CNET, and The Hill
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube says its experimental Instagram-like Explore tab has expanded beyond the iOS app to more devices and now suggests smaller, up-and-coming creators — YouTube is expanding the test of its “Explore” feature, a new discovery tool it first introduced as an experiment within its iPhone app last year.
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Gizchina, Digital Trends, and Social Media Today
| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Facebook bans 22 more Alex Jones-linked Pages as it implements a new policy update, after finding admins repurposing old Pages with content from banned Pages — The company says it's cracking down on people gaming the system — Facebook today removed 22 pages associated … Sponsor Posts
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