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Sen. Warren proposes tech regulation, including breaking up big tech and rolling back acquisitions at Amazon, Google, and Facebook, as part of her 2020 bid — Team WarrenBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing — Twenty-five years ago, Facebook, Google, and Amazon didn't exist.
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Sam Altman steps down as president of Y Combinator, will transition into a chairman role — Sam Altman is stepping down as president of influential startup incubator Y Combinator, in order to spend more time on outside interests like the OpenAI research organization.
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Ming-Chi Kuo: Apple to start manufacturing its AR headset between Q4 2019 and Q2 2020; the headset will rely on iPhone for rendering and connectivity — Apple talks about augmented reality at any opportunity it gets, but so far its fierce ambition has only materialized to consumers as ARKit apps on the iPhone and iPad.
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| Dennis Crowley / Foursquare Intersections: |
Foursquare's Hypertrending app uses Pilgrim, its SDK used by thousands of apps on millions of phones, to show where people congregate in Austin, in real time — Where 10 Years of Foursquare Has Led Us — It's been 10 years since we launched Foursquare at SXSW in 2009.
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Sources: Amazon teams up with the NY Yankees, Sinclair Broadcasting, and others in a bid to buy the YES sports network from majority owner 21st Century Fox — Amazon is coming to New York — to grab a piece of the Yankees sports network. — Jeff Bezos' tech giant has teamed … | Alex Sherman / CNBC: |
An overview of Amazon's media strategies, which include partnering with channels, expanding sports rights, and connecting content to products it sells — - Jeff Bezos gives the Amazon Studios team a massive budget to win “Lord of the Rings” and even sends Echo speakers to the Tolkien estate.| Joe Maring / Android Central: |
Google is rolling out Continued Conversations, Assistant's feature to avoid saying “Hey Google” repeatedly in a conversation, to smart displays in the US — Smart Displays, like the Google Home Hub and Lenovo Smart Display, are great. They're helpful smart home gadgets … | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Dutch data protection agency says that blanket “cookie walls” that require visitors to accept all the cookies before accessing a site, violate GDPR — Cookie walls that demand a website visitor agrees to their internet browsing being tracked for ad-targeting as the “price” … | Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
As Twitter experiments with some metrics to improve the health of conversations, privacy issues have delayed partnerships with the outside researchers — Twitter wants to limit snark and get “healthy.” So far, it's gone nowhere. — There are few things the internet loves more than a vicious Twitter dunk.
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| Stan Black / Citrix Blogs: |
Citrix says it was informed by the FBI that Citrix's internal network has been breached, believes some business documents may have been accessed and downloaded — On March 6, 2019, the FBI contacted Citrix to advise they had reason to believe that international cyber criminals gained access to the internal Citrix network.| CNN: |
Sources: House Judiciary Committee asks Facebook for docs on issues including how it has been used for voter suppression or by people who committed hate crimes — San Francisco and Washington DC (CNN Business)Facebook could soon have another headache on Capitol Hill: Democrats …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman share content plans for Quibi, their streaming service launching in April 2020, including a show on Evan Spiegel and Snapchat — Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman today announced a slate of new series and projects heading to their forthcoming video streaming service, Quibi.Sponsor Posts
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