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A Privacy-Focused Vision for Social Networking — My focus for the last couple of years has been understanding and addressing the biggest challenges facing Facebook. This means taking positions on important issues concerning the future of the internet. In this note, I'll outline our vision …
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Mark Zuckerberg's “privacy-focused” announcement is not a dramatic pivot: it is a growth opportunity for Facebook and a challenge for regulators — What was striking about the reaction to Mark Zuckerberg's latest missive about the future of Facebook, A Privacy-Focused Vision …
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| Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed News: |
Airbnb says it is acquiring discount hotel booking app HotelTonight for an undisclosed sum; HotelTonight was valued at $463M in a March 2017 funding round — Airbnb is buying HotelTonight, the San Francisco-based service that lets people book discounted hotel rooms last minute in 40 countries around the world.
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| Monika Bickert / Facebook: |
Facebook will curb vaccine misinformation by reducing the ranking of anti-vaccine Pages and groups, halting recommendations for those pages, rejecting ads, more — We are working to tackle vaccine misinformation on Facebook by reducing its distribution and providing people with authoritative information on the topic.
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| Daniel Cooper / Engadget: |
Sony launches PS4 Remote Play app for iOS, four and a half years after it first landed on Android and three years after it arrived on PC and Mac — The latest update to the PlayStation 4 operating system has a feature that some users have craved since 2014.
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| Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic: |
An analysis of 105 “Uber for X” US companies, representing $7.4B in VC investment: four have reached unicorn status, 19 were acquired, and 28 have shut down — In March 2009, Uber was born. Over the next few years, the company became not just a disruptive …
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| BBC: |
Facebook says it has removed 23 Pages, 74 accounts, 5 Groups, and 35 Instagram accounts that were part of a UK-based, domestic-focused misinformation network — Facebook has removed more than 130 accounts, pages and groups it says were part of a UK-based misinformation network.
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| Kimberly Adams / Marketplace: |
Edison Research estimates Facebook has 15M fewer US users today compared to 2017, with the biggest drop seen in the 12 to 34 age group — Listen To The Story — Marketplace — All the bad press about Facebook might be catching up to the company. New numbers from Edison Research show …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft rolls out new Skype for Web with HD video calling, built-in call recording, and redesigned notifications — Hate installing Skype? Good news: Microsoft's revamping the messaging app's browser-based client with a slew of new features. The Seattle company today announced the rollout …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google launches Rewarded Products, a new monetization option for Android developers that lets users watch ads to earn in-app currency or other benefits — Google today is introducing a new way for Android developers to generate revenue from their mobile applications. And no, it's not subscription-related.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Twitter adds new options to its reporting process for tweets that contain personal information, allowing users to specify what type of info was shared — New options will let users flag the specific type of personal information that is being reported — Twitter is adding new options … | TechCrunch: |
Social investing and trading platform eToro, which operates in 140+ countries, launches a crypto trading platform and wallet service in 30 US states — The social investing and trading platform eToro announced that it will finally be launching its platform in the U.S. The platform …
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| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Sources: a common practice among bounty hunters and stalkers is to impersonate cops and claim there's a crisis to get real-time cell location data from telcos — In several cases, a stalker impersonated a US Marshal and reported a fake kidnapping in order to get telecom companies to give them real-time cell phone location data.| Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed News: |
YouTube has started rolling out a feature, in India, that shows info panels with fact checks on search result pages for topics prone to misinformation — YouTube will start showing “information panels” — boxes of text that provide debunks from YouTube's verified fact-checking partners … | Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Bird plans to roll out Bird Platform, which outsources its scooter-sharing business to aspiring entrepreneurs, to New Zealand, Canada, and Latin America — Bird is outsourcing the scooter-sharing business to aspiring entrepreneurs in countries outside the US and Europe
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| Brittany Vincent / Variety: |
Sensor Tower: Pokémon GO has earned nearly $2.45B and had ~550M downloads since its July 2016 launch; the six Pokémon mobile games have earned ~$2.5B combined — Mobile gamers across the globe have spent approximately $2.5 billion so far on various “Pokémon” titles, according to new data from analyst Sensor Tower.
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| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
Amazon has abruptly stopped buying products from thousands of wholesale vendors and is encouraging them to instead sell direct to customers on its marketplace — - Company wants them to sell on more profitable marketplace — Long-time suppliers panic about a sudden drought from Amazon| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
San Francisco-based Transposit raises $12.2M Series A and launches its API composition platform in beta with support for platforms like AWS, GitHub, and Slack — Integrating application programming interfaces, or APIs — sets of subroutine definitions, communication protocols …
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| CNN: |
Huawei sues the US government, challenging a law that bans federal agencies from buying the company's products — Shenzhen, China (CNN Business)Embattled Chinese tech giant Huawei is suing the US government in its most aggressive move yet to fight back against accusations that its technology poses a global security threat.
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