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Amazon's grave NYC HQ2 mistake: the political landscape changed but the company's playbook didn't — The HQ2 contest was very Amazonian. So was its refusal to back down. — No one looks good in the wake of Amazon's decision to scrap plans for a giant New York headquarters in Long Island City, Queens.
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Records obtained via FOIA requests and interviews with local officials reveal the unusual lengths Google goes to keep its data center construction plans secret — Last May, officials in Midlothian, Tex., a city near Dallas, approved more than $10 million in tax breaks for a huge …
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Report: 17K Android apps, some with 100M+ installs, collect info that can be used to create a permanent record of user's activity on the device for ad targeting — Some apps may track your activity over time, even when you tell them to forget the past. And there's nothing you can do about it.
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US Government Accountability Office issues a report that calls on Congress to consider developing comprehensive legislation on internet privacy — Government officials, academia, and advocacy groups say it's time for the US to get its own GDPR-type law. — An independent report authored …
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Facebook engineers on how they developed intelligent video framing for Portal devices by combining computer vision tech with expertise of Hollywood filmmakers — Facebook's Portal home camera has its drawbacks-privacy concerns not least among them-but it does have one undeniably cool feature … | Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed: |
Twitter hides a tweet, reportedly from Iran's head of state, for pointing out that a previous leader's verdict to murder novelist Salman Rushdie is still valid — Twitter has previously used a newsworthiness standard to defend its refusal to apply abuse and harassment rules to President Donald Trump's account.| Patrick Clark / Bloomberg: |
Profile of real estate ad giant Zillow, as it joins the new breed of “iBuyers” who flip homes at a massive scale using algorithms for granular price predictions — With its tan stucco exterior and red tile roof, the Rittenhouse home on South Star Canyon Drive looks a lot …
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An account of the rise and untimely death of Vine and HQ Trivia cofounder Colin Kroll, based on interviews with and documents from friends, police, and others — Self-taught coder Colin Kroll shot to startup fame, allowing him to live life in a fast lane — Colin Kroll, a college dropout … | Dave Lee / BBC: |
Interview with GoFundMe CEO Rob Solomon on medical fundraisers, some campaigns becoming highly politicized, fighting scams, and more — Kelsey Colker is less than a year old but she's already spent more time in hospital than most of us will in our lifetime.| Duncan Cooper / Pitchfork: |
While some artists whose music is used in TikTok videos are compensated through their labels' sales of blanket licenses, others forgo payment for exposure — The company behind lip-sync app TikTok is reportedly worth three times as much as Spotify, but the artists whose music powers the platform are seeing very little of that money.| TechCrunch: |
Security researcher says Twitter retains direct messages for years, including messages users have deleted, which may be illegal under the EU's new GDPR laws — When does “delete” really mean delete? Not always or even at all if you're Twitter . — Twitter retains direct messages for years …
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Amazon has made $11.2B in profits in 2018 but will pay no federal income tax and will receive a rebate of $129M due to unspecified tax credits — Amazon, the ubiquitous purveyor of two-day delivery of just about everything, nearly doubled its profits to $11.2 billion in 2018 from $5.6 billion …
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