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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Source: Apple's planned game subscription service for iOS will only include paid titles, not freemium ones, and will pay developers based on user play time — - Devices take a back seat to video, news, gaming subscriptions — Company tries biggest strategy change since the iPhone in 2007
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9to5Mac, Engadget, Cult of Mac, The Verge, iPhone Hacks, MacRumors, BGR, AppleInsider, MSPoweruser, MacDailyNews, Silicon Valley Business …, and The Mac Observer
Tweets: @markgurman, @serkantoto, @rdrv3, @sub8u, @shiraovide, @jbenton, @stroughtonsmith, and @markgurman
| Ashley Rodriguez / Quartz: |
What to expect from Apple on March 25: a paid news service, a video service with original content, a content hub in the TV app, a credit card, and no hardware — iPhones, iMacs, and other hardware are likely to take a backseat to news and entertainment at Apple's first big product event of 2019.
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The Verge, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, Wired, PiunikaWeb, GameSpot, Yahoo Finance, KnowTechie, Fast Company, The Mac Observer, The Verge, and Bloomberg
Tweets: @cnet and @markgurman
| Edmund Lee / New York Times: |
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Firstpost, Fox News, Decider, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Macworld, and BGR
Tweets: @nytmedia, @nairsameer, @nytimestech, @edmundlee, @jwsherrod, @mgsiegler, @pierce, and @fmanjoo
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
A look at an early version of Microsoft's new Chromium-powered Edge browser — This could be your new default browser on Windows — Microsoft is rebuilding its Edge browser on Chromium. The software maker has been testing versions of this browser internally at Microsoft … | Ashley Rodriguez / Quartz: |
Pinterest had 250M MAUs in 2018, two thirds of them female, average user in US generated $9.04, up 47% YoY, international user generated $0.25, up 22% YoY — Pinterest revealed a trove of data about its more than 250 million monthly active users in an IPO filing on Friday (March 22).| John Herrman / New York Times: |
A profile of Citizen, a crime tracking app that notifies users in NYC, SF Bay Area, Baltimore, and LA when a crime or a major incident is reported near them — An app called Citizen promises “awareness” of nearby danger. What it provides is more complicated.
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Boing Boing. Tweets: @jwherrman, @connortryan, @nytimes, @jwherrman, @tomcritchlow, @matt_cagle, @martinsfp, @marshallproj, @digiphile, @dralycemcgovern, and @citizenapp
| New York Times: |
A look at the battle between hacking tool vendors such as NSO Group and UAE-based DarkMatter as they compete for business from authoritarian governments — Sophisticated surveillance, once the domain of world powers, is increasingly available on the private market.
Tweets: @nytimes, @calder_walton, and @snowden
| Alissa Greenberg / Pacific Standard: |
A profile of PC4R, a crowdfunded charity that is helping refugees request funds for their pay-as-you-go mobile accounts via a Facebook group with 60K+ members — A Facebook-based refugee charity can be borderless and international in a way that other charities can't. — Musap Yhia was only 10 when he left Darfur.
Tweets: @pacificstand, @pacificstand, @tentorg, and @ted_scheinman
| Clay Chandler / Fortune: |
Inside the rivalry between Southeast Asia's Grab and Go-Jek, the ride-hailing services evolving to provide everything from groceries to mortgages — The rival ride-hailing services are now dueling to deliver everything from groceries to mortgages to Southeast Asia's middle class.| Washington Post: |
DHS watchdog report says FEMA exposed personal info of ~2.3M US disaster survivors, including some personal addresses and banking info, to a federal contractor — The Federal Emergency Management Agency shared personal addresses and banking information of more than 2 million U.S. disaster survivors …
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Office of Inspector General …, CNN, ZDNet, Newser, BleepingComputer, Slate, CyberScoop, Gizmodo, CNET, and CBS Sacramento
Tweets: @padresj, @senrickscott, @senkamalaharris, @aprilaser, @dabeard, @laurahelmuth, @tonyromm, and @tonyromm
| Zheping Huang / South China Morning Post: |
A look at Chinese tech workers' struggle with burnout and work-life balance, as many are expected to work a “996” schedule, or 9am to 9pm six days a week — He is so focused on keeping his start-up alive that he can't sleep at night. She was asked in an interview if she would be willing … Thanks:@chuakongho
| Reuters: |
Finland to investigate HMD after report found some Nokia 7 Plus phones sent user data to a Chinese server; HMD says it was a software packaging error, now fixed — HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finland's data protection ombudsman said on Thursday he would investigate whether Nokia-branded phones …
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Engadget, ZDNet, Firstpost, Ars Technica, GSMArena.com, GSMArena.com, The Verge, IT PRO, and The Register. Tweets: @bing_chris
| New York Times: |
In its lawsuit over JEDI contract, Oracle claims an Amazon staffer who had a stint at Pentagon, and is now at AWS, shaped the $10B contract in Amazon's favor — Deap Ubhi is a restless guy. At 26, he quit his job in private equity in Northern California, where he had grown up and gone to college …
Tweets: @thomaskaplan, @carter_pe, @economictimes, @nytimesatwar, @defensebaron, @economictimes, and @nytimes
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