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Facebook updates a March blog post to say it stored passwords of millions of Instagram users in plain text, not tens of thousands as first announced — This number is much, much bigger than Facebook originally shared. — On the same morning Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report …
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| Rob Price / Business Insider: |
Facebook says it unintentionally collected email contacts of 1.5M users who used email password verification, will notify affected users and delete contacts — - Exclusive: Facebook said that it has “unintentionally uploaded” the email contacts of 1.5 million new Facebook users since May 2016.
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| YouTube Blog: |
Google Home and Assistant-powered speakers get a free ad-supported version of YouTube Music with limited functionality, in 16 countries including the US and UK — Listening to music on your Google Home speaker right out-of-the-box seems too good to be true, right? It's not!
| Jem Aswad / Variety: |
Amazon Music launches an ad-supported tier for Alexa-enabled devices in the US, allowing users to listen to Amazon Music's top playlists and stations for free — Amazon Music today basically soft-launched its free streaming tier, in which U.S. customers of its Alexa voice assistant … | Nathan Ingraham / Engadget: |
Google and Amazon end their streaming video spat: YouTube will come to Fire TV and Prime Video will work with Chromecast and Android TV — Google and Amazon haven't historically been the best of friends, at least when it comes to their respective streaming video services.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft acquires Express Logic, which claims its real-time operating system for IoT and edge devices called ThreadX RTOS has over 6.2B deployments worldwide — Microsoft today announced that it's acquired Express Logic, a 23-year-old San Diego, California-based developer of real-time operating systems …
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Kuo: all new 2019 iPhones will feature a 12MP front camera, the 6.5" and 5.8" OLED iPhones will have a triple-camera system with a new super-wide 12MP lens — Kuo today said that Apple plans to upgrade the front camera in the 2019 iPhones from 7-megapixels to 12-megapixels.
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Pinterest closes up 28% on its first day of trading after raising $1.43B in its IPO and is now valued at nearly $13B, above the $12B valuation at its last raise — - Pinterest begins trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker “PINS,” debuting at $23.75, up 25% from its IPO price.| The Verge: |
Samsung promises to thoroughly inspect Galaxy Fold review units with faulty screens, says removing the top protective layer from the display may cause damage — Also: be careful with that screen cover — Samsung has released an official statement addressing reports of display issues with the upcoming Galaxy Fold.
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| Apple: |
Apple opens Material Recovery Lab in Austin to study future recycling processes, expands iPhone recycling program to Best Buy stores in US, KPN in Netherlands — Cupertino, California — Apple today announced a major expansion of its recycling programs, quadrupling the number of locations US customers …
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| Tom Wilson / Reuters: |
Report: VCs invested ~$850M in blockchain startups in Q1 2019; Coinbase UK had $173M in revenue in 2018, accounted for about a third of Coinbase's total revenue — LONDON (Reuters) - Major finance and tech firms are pouring money into startups building technology to develop the crypto market … | Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Zoom closes up 72% on its first day of trading after raising $356.8M in its IPO at a valuation of $15.9B — Videoconferencing software company Zoom made its debut Thursday on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol “ZM,” surging 80% to $65 and closing out the day up 72% at $62.
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| Yogita Khatri / CoinDesk: |
Binance says it has launched its Binance Chain blockchain and will activate its BNB cryptocurrency on it on April 23; BNB runs on Ethereum now — Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has released new details about the forthcoming launch of its new custom blockchain, Binance Chain …
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| Sam Rutherford / Gizmodo: |
T-Mobile's no-fee mobile-first checking account, T-Mobile Money, rolls out nationwide, offers T-Mobile customers 4% interest rate on the first $3,000 deposited — While it's not quite a pivot, it seems more and more tech companies are straying out of their lane and into the finance world.
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| Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land: |
Google to show 5 browser and search app choices when EU users first open Google Play, will offer to set newly downloaded non-Google search as default in Chrome — In a European antitrust decision last year, Google was ordered stop compelling phone makers to pre-install Google apps to gain access to Google Play.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Hacker shares source code of tools from Iranian cyber-espionage unit APT34, alleged personal info of Iranian intelligence officers, and more on Telegram — APT34 hacking tools and victim data leaked on a secretive Telegram channel since last month. — In an incident reminiscent … | Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber is testing new push alerts and Lyft rolls out continuous driver background checks after a woman was murdered allegedly by a man posing as her Uber driver — In-app reminders to verify your driver's car and license plate — This week, Uber and Lyft rolled out new safety measures designed …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: ByteDance, which is adding thousands of employees to its 40K staff, expects a net loss of ~$1B in 2018 and revenues of $18B this year and $29B in 2020 — Most nights, from around 7 till midnight, Sydney Jade is on TikTok, the smartphone app of the moment.
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| Lauren Debter / Forbes: |
Returnly, which offers users instant store credit when they decide to return items bought online, raises $19M Series B from Craft Ventures and Max Levchin — We have all been there: You buy a jacket or pair of shoes online and they don't fit or the color is all wrong.Sponsor Posts
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