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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Report: Apple will charge $9.99/mo each for HBO, Showtime, and Starz subscriptions, and will monetize its own content; premium news service will cost $9.99/mo — For the first time, Apple will present its Services vision to the public at tomorrow's March 25 event.
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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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| Ashley Rodriguez / Quartz: |
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| Robert Peck / Wired: |
A moderator for the /r/aww, a cute animal subreddit with 19M subscribers, details his processes for identifying and banning bots, trolls, and propagandists — THESE ARE THE rules: Users of /r/aww aren't allowed to post about dogs that are dying, or sick, or just back from the vet.
Tweets: @nxthompson and @kfury
| Ashley Rodriguez / Quartz: |
Pinterest had 250M MAUs in 2018, two thirds of them female; avg. US user generated $9.04, up 47% YoY, while avg. 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).
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Uber to announce the $3.1B acquisition of Dubai-based Careem soon, paying $1.4B in cash and $1.7B in convertible notes at a price of $55 per Uber share — Uber Technologies Inc. is set to announce a $3.1 billion cash-and-share deal to acquire its Dubai-based rival Careem Networks FZ …
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| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
LA to limit scooter companies that don't share GPS data with the city to 30-day permit and 3K scooter fleet, while those that do can have fleets of up to 10.5K — Los Angeles is pumping the brakes on scooter companies that won't tell it what part of the city you're wheeling around.| Alex Wilhelm / Crunchbase News: |
WorkBoard, a SaaS platform that helps companies assess their strategic plans, raises $23M Series B led by GGV after it more than tripled total revenue last year — This morning WorkBoard announced that it raised a $23 million Series B round of capital. GGV led the event … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Early version of Microsoft's new Chromium-powered Edge browser shows support for Chrome extensions, limited sync, a mixed Chrome/Edge UI, and dark mode support — This could be your new default browser on Windows — Microsoft is rebuilding its Edge browser on Chromium.
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The Verge, BleepingComputer, 9to5Google, Thurrott, MSPoweruser, HotHardware, Thurrott, Mashable, Windows Central, OnMSFT.com, and Computerworld
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| Stephen O'Grady / Redmonk: |
A Redmonk study, combining GitHub and Stack Overflow data, finds TypeScript, Kotlin, and Julia usage is up, while Go, R, Scala, Clojure, Groovy usage is down — This iteration of the RedMonk Programming Language Rankings is brought to you by IBM. From Java to Node.js, IBM remains at the forefront of open source innovation.| Yasmin Yablonko / Globes Online: |
Alibaba acquires Israel-based startup InfinityAR, sources say for $10M+; in 2016, Alibaba invested $15M in the startup at an implied valuation of $80M — The Ramat Gan-based company's technology can turn any device into a content augmentation platform, using basic hardware.
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Popular people-tracking app Family Locator left real-time location data of more than 238,000 users exposed online for weeks via an unprotected database server — A popular family tracking app was leaking the real-time locations of more than 238,000 users for weeks after the developer left a server exposed without a password.
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Engadget, SlashGear, and Motherboard
Tweets: @dez_blanchfield, @chirayunix, @zackwhittaker, and @zackwhittaker
| Emma Best: |
In-depth profile of Maksym Igor Popov, an infamous Ukrainian hacker whose stated goal was to create conflict and cyberwar between nations using disinformation — Years before the Russian-operated persona Guccifer 2.0 appeared on the internet to claim they were a hacktivist responsible for the DNC breach …
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