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| J. David Goodman / New York Times: |
Amazon says it has canceled plans to build HQ2 in New York City, focusing instead on Northern Virginia and Nashville, following backlash — Amazon on Thursday canceled its plans to build an expansive corporate campus in New York City after facing an unexpectedly fierce backlash from some lawmakers …
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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Sources: the FTC and Facebook are negotiating a record multi-billion dollar fine to settle the agency's investigation into the company's privacy practices — The Federal Trade Commission and Facebook are negotiating over a multi-billion dollar fine that would settle the agency's investigation …
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| Hugh Son / CNBC: |
JP Morgan has created JPM Coin, a digital token tied to the US dollar that will be used to instantly settle transactions; trials set to start in a few months — - Engineers at the lender have created the “JPM Coin,” a digital token that will be used to instantly settle transactions between clients of its wholesale payments business.
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
OpenAI says it won't release the dataset behind GPT-2, its new text generator algorithm that can write, translate, and summarize text, due to fears of misuse — OpenAI's researchers knew they were on to something when their language modeling program wrote a convincing essay on a topic they disagreed with.
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| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Apple says it will resume selling banned iPhone 7 and 8 models in Germany using only chips from Qualcomm, after it had “no choice” but to stop using Intel chips — (Reuters) - Apple Inc said Thursday that it will resume selling older iPhone models in its stores in Germany …
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Sources: Facebook keeps a “lookout” list of ex-employees and users who made threats against the company, and sometimes uses its products to track their location — - Facebook maintains a list of individuals that its security guards must “be on lookout” for that is comprised …
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The Verge, Engadget, CNET, and MSPoweruser
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| TechCrunch: |
Alibaba's Ant Financial buys London-based payments company WorldFirst in a deal that sources say is valued at around $700M — Ant Financial, the financial services giant affiliated with Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, has made its first big move into Europe.
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Bloomberg, South China Morning Post, Bloomberg, PaymentsSource, PYMNTS.com, PE Hub Blog, and TechNode
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
DigitalOcean launches a managed database service; only supports PostgreSQL for now, will add support for MySQL and Redis later this year — DigitalOcean started as an affordable but basic virtual private server offering with a pleasant user interface. Over the last few years …
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The DigitalOcean Blog, SiliconANGLE, Database Trends …, and DevOps.com
| Vindu Goel / New York Times: |
Critics say India's proposed internet rules, which could let Indian officials compel companies to remove posts, violate constitutional free speech protections — NEW DELHI — India's government has proposed giving itself vast new powers to suppress internet content, igniting a heated battle …
Tweets: @histoftech, @keithbradsher, and @matthewstoller
| The Daily Beast: |
Sources: two teams of federal officials assembled to secure election infrastructure and fight foreign influence efforts are being dramatically downsized — 'It's very curious why the leadership has not committed resources to prepare for the 2020 election,' one Homeland Security official tells The Daily Beast.| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Facebook says it is exploring ways to address anti-vaccine misinformation including reducing or removing it from recommendations and demotion in search results — Facebook Inc., under pressure to reduce harmful, misleading and fake content, said it is exploring removing anti-vaccine information …
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The Verge, The Daily Beast, and Business Insider
Tweets: @lachlan, @lachlan, @alex, @melissaryan, and @walldo
| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Canalys: 32% of smartphone shipments in Europe in 2018 were from Chinese vendors; Huawei shipped 13.3M units in Q4 2018, up 55.7% YoY, Xiaomi was up 62% — US antipathy to Chinese brands hasn't crossed the Atlantic — The latest figures from market analysts Canalys have quantified a trend … | Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
JibJab, one of the first companies that let people insert selfies into videos, GIFs and e-cards, has been acquired by Catapult Capital for an undisclosed sum — JibJab, one of the first companies that let people insert selfies into videos, gifs, and e-cards, has been acquired by Catapult Capital.| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Nvidia Q4: revenue of $2.21B, down 24% YoY, vs. $2.20B est., gaming revenue of $954M, vs. $1.21B est., and net income of $567M; stock up 6%+ after hours — - The company beat expectations on the top and bottom lines after providing updated guidance last month.| Reuters: |
Illicit software distributors are using iOS enterprise developer certificates to distribute hacked versions of popular apps like Spotify and Minecraft — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Software pirates have hijacked technology designed by Apple Inc to distribute hacked versions of Spotify …
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AppleInsider, Ars Technica, KnowTechie, PYMNTS.com, Mashable, ExtremeTech, SlashGear, Gizmodo, Patently Apple, CNET, iPhone in Canada Blog, Neowin, TechSpot, and Cult of Mac
Tweets: @wongmjane and @stephennellis
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Pinpoint, which is building a data analytics platform for software engineering, raises $13.5M Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners — For those without the technical know-how, software development — which more often than not involves a tangled web of commits, reviews, bug testing …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amazon launches Amazon Moments, a rewards program that lets developers give users physical gifts for specific actions, in 100 countries — App and web developers are always trying to figure out better ways of keeping their users engaged on their platforms for longer.| Nellie Bowles / New York Times: |
Profile of Atlassian founders Scott Farquhar and Mike Cannon-Brookes, Australia's first startup-to-IPO tech billionaires, whose company is now worth $20B — SYDNEY, Australia — Atlassian is a very boring software company. It develops products for software engineers and project managers …
Tweets: @nytimes and @tonytassell
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
DriveNets, which builds cloud-based network management tools for carriers, emerges from stealth, raises $110M, source says at a valuation between $300M to $500M — Software is eating the world, and today a startup that's taking this maxim to the world of telecoms has raised a big round of funding as it comes out of stealth.
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FinSMEs, VentureBeat, DriveNets, CTech - 24/7, and Reuters
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Walmart's tech incubator Store No. 8 launches Spatial&, a VR merchandising startup that is partnering with DreamWorks Animation VR at 16 Walmart stores — Walmart's tech incubator Store N°8 today launched its next startup, a VR merchandising company called Spatial&.
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Walmart News and VentureBeat
| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Figma, maker of cloud-based collaborative interface design tools, raises $40M Series C, bringing the total raised to $82.9M at a post-money valuation of $440M — With more industries and organizations recognizing design as a pillar of business, a battle is brewing among makers of design tools.
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Sequoia Capital, Figma Blog, and Index Ventures
Tweets: @figmadesign, @rrhoover, and @matthuang
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