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Sources: Apple's upcoming paid news service runs into resistance from major publishers as Apple seeks about a 50% cut and likely won't share subscriber data — Apple plans to keep about 50% of subscription revenue from ‘Netflix for news’ service, likely won't share customer data with publishers
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| John Paczkowski / BuzzFeed: |
Sources say Apple plans to hold a special “services focused” event on March 25 at the Steve Jobs Theater on its Apple Park campus — The company is expected to show off a long-rumored news subscription service. — Reporting From San Francisco, CA
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| Michael Futter / Variety: |
Activision Blizzard announces record $1.8B net income in 2018, but says it is laying off 8%, or ~800 of its staff, amid internal changes and unmet expectations — UPDATED: Activision Blizzard is laying off approximately 775 people — 8% of its 9,600-person staff — as it refocuses its efforts …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Amazon's acquisition of eero is met with concerns over data privacy and disappointment that eero will integrate with the tech giant's own ecosystem — Consternation, concern, and exhaustion — Amazon sure does love surprises. The original Echo came as a bolt out of the blue …
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| Max Willens / Digiday: |
TechCrunch launches a $15/month membership tier, Extra Crunch, offering exclusive content and perks like access to a community of founders and vertical experts — TechCrunch has spent nearly 15 years covering the technology and startup worlds. This week it will try to forge a new kind of relationship with those communities.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Google to “refocus” Android Things from a public developer platform to a “platform for OEM partners”, limiting support for some NXP, Qualcomm, MediaTek hardware — When Google announced Android Things at its 2015 I/O developer conference, it pitched it as a versatile …
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| Chris Williams / The Register: |
Hacker claims to have posted ~617M online account details stolen from 16 hacked companies for sale on the dark web; MyHeritage and 500px confirm stolen data — Dubsmash, Armor Games, 500px, Whitepages, ShareThis, and more said to be up for grabs for $$$s in BTC
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Tweets: @joejanecek, @lizquilty, @theregister, @theregister, @raj_samani, @iainthomson, and @zackwhittaker
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Investigation: dozens of porn and gambling apps found using iOS Enterprise Certificates to get to users outside the App Store, violating Apple's terms — Facebook and Google were far from the only developers openly abusing Apple's Enterprise Certificate program meant for companies offering employee-only apps.
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Engadget, Mercury News, MSPoweruser, 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, MacRumors, iPhone Hacks, The Verge, Cult of Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, and The Mac Observer
Tweets: @joshconstine, @joshconstine, @joshconstine, @joshconstine, @zackwhittaker, and @carnage4life
| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Jack Dorsey and Kara Swisher's live Twitter interview could have been a great conversation, but Twitter's live chat limitations made it hard to follow — Kara Swisher's live-tweeted interview with Jack Dorsey highlighted some of Twitter's product issues. — Twitter wants to be the place … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Lyft founders are preparing to take near-majority voting control when it goes public later this year, despite owning a combined stake of less than 10% — John Zimmer and Logan Green are set to join the growing club of tech entrepreneurs who stay in the driver's seat when their companies go public| Paul Thurrott / Thurrott: |
EA says Apex Legends had 10M sign ups in the first three days and 25M gamers in the first week, milestones that took Fortnite about 2 weeks and 3 months to hit — We'll see if it has staying power, but EA's new game Apex Legends has quickly rocketed past market leader Fortnite, with over 25 million sign-ups in just one week.
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Kotaku, Polygon, Reuters, and Electronic Arts Inc.
| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Reddit's latest user stats, showing 330M MAUs, gives an average revenue per user of approximately $0.30, far lower than the other major social networks — - With 330 million monthly active users and revenue of about $100 million, according to sources, the company is generating an estimated $0.30 per user.
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Tweets: @anthony, @gabewildau, @seldo, @edbott, @stevekovach, and @can
| Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: |
South Korea's Supreme Court upholds Korean FTC's antitrust charges, ordering Qualcomm to pay $180M+ — As Qualcomm fights the Federal Trade Commission on antitrust charges in the US, it has just lost a case against another FTC: the Fair Trade Commission in Korea.
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THE INVESTOR, Cult of Mac, AppleInsider, iPhone Hacks, Patently Apple, FOSS Patents, and MacDailyNews
| Alan Levin / Bloomberg: |
US government orders that all civilian drone owners must place their drone's registration number on the outside of the device beginning February 23 — - U.S. government files new regulation on drone requirements — Action follows recent proposal to expand remote flights| Recode: |
Q&A with Roger McNamee, former mentor to Mark Zuckerberg, and author of Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe, on Silicon Valley's abuse of user trust — McNamee was an adviser to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and helped recruit Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, but now he's speaking out against the social giant.
Tweets: @recode
| Ian Allison / CoinDesk: |
Chainalysis, a cryptocurrency transaction analysis startup, raises $30M Series B led by Accel and will open an office in London — Chainalysis, the cryptocurrency transaction analysis startup, has raised $30 million in Series B funding. — The firm will use some of the funding to open …
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PR Newswire, SiliconANGLE, Fortune, The Block, FinSMEs, BREAKERMAG, Cointelegraph, and PE Hub Blog
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NPD: US smartwatch unit sales rose 61% YoY for the 12 months ending November 2018, as 16% of US adults now own a smartwatch, up 12% from December 2017 — U.S. smartwatch sales experienced strong growth in the 12 months ending November 2018 compared to the same timeframe a year prior …
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