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| Nancy Scola / Politico: |
Source: FTC and Facebook are negotiating a settlement where Facebook must appoint a federally approved privacy official and create a privacy oversight committee — Facebook and the Federal Trade Commission are negotiating a possible settlement that would require the company …
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New York Times, CNET, SiliconANGLE, The Verge, Reuters, Engadget, Fortune, IT PRO, Business Insider, MediaNama, and Seeking Alpha
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| Bloomberg: |
How Satya Nadella led Microsoft to have more subscribers than Netflix, more cloud computing revenue than Google, and a near-trillion-dollar market cap — The congratulatory texts and tweets started the last week of November. Microsoft had overtaken Apple to become the world's most valuable company …
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Business Insider and Reuters
Tweets: @lanceulanoff, @eroston, @kyweise, @sebangelist, @itsmanibro, @jimaley, and @carnage4life
| Human Rights Watch: |
Researchers reverse engineer an app used by Chinese authorities in Xinjiang which connects to a mass surveillance system for tracking Muslim minorities — ‘Reverse Engineering’ Police App Reveals Profiling and Monitoring Strategies — Languages — Chinese authorities are using …
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Human Rights Watch, BuzzFeed News, The Guardian, and Agence France-Presse
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify launches voice-enabled ads, which encourage the listener to say a command to take action on the ad's content, in a limited test in the US — Spotify is increasing its investment in voice technology, as hinted at earlier this week on the company's earnings call with investors.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Google says it will roll out a new tool that lets users limit how long it keeps location, search, and browsing data to either three or 18 months — Last August, the Associated Press reported that various Google apps store the timestamped locations of the devices on which they're installed.
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| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Qualcomm reports Q2 revenue of $4.98B, down 4.6% YoY, profit of $663M, up from $330M YoY, but lackluster Q3 guidance due to weak demand for smartphones in China — - CEO points to ongoing soft demand in biggest market for phones — Apple licensing terms will be ‘consistent’ with program
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
LG's mobile division continues its slide into irrelevance with Q1 loss of $181M on sales of just $1.34B, down 30% YoY and its lowest in at least eight years — LG was once a stalwart of the smartphone industry — remember its collaboration with Facebook back in the day? — but today the company is swiftly descending into irrelevance.
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| Max Seddon / Financial Times: |
Putin signs bill that intends to give Russia a “sovereign internet” the Kremlin could disconnect from the global web; the bill goes into effect on November 1 — Russian president Vladimir Putin signed a law on Wednesday that intends to give the country a “sovereign internet” …
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Engadget, CNN, MediaNama, BetaNews, Firstpost Tech, Associated Press, Forbes, and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
At F8, Facebook emphasized products and features it aspires to become dominant tomorrow, but despite much talk, didn't actually launch any new privacy features — Zuckerberg gets aspirational — In Facebook's dreams, it's a clean and private place. People spend their time having … | Richard Nieva / CNET: |
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| Satyajit Sinha / Counterpoint Research: |
Global smartwatch shipments up 48% YoY in Q1 2019: Apple Watch grew 49% YoY for a 35.8% market share, followed by Samsung's 127% YoY growth for an 11% share — Top nine brands contribute to 75% of the market shipment. Samsung, Fitbit, and Huawei grew exponentially in Q1 2019
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| Matt Perez / Forbes: |
Behind the fiasco of Star Citizen, a primarily crowdfunded video game that has raised ~$300M and isn't close to full launch after seven years of development — It's October 2018 and 2,000 video game fanatics are jammed into Austin's Long Center for the Performing Arts to get a glimpse of Star Citizen …
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| Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: |
Pluralsight, an IT training and certification platform, will acquire GitPrime, an analytics and productivity tool for developer teams, for $170M — Pluralsight, an online training platform focusing on subjects like web development, IT certification, and security training … | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Sense, a contractor engagement and communication platform, raises $13.5M Series B led by GV with participation from Accel, bringing total raised to $23.5M — The rise of the “gig economy” has created a slew of billion-dollar companies eager to capitalize on the growth of smartphones and ubiquitous connectivity.
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| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
FreightHub, which offers transport services for sea, air, and rail freight built on digitized processes, raises $30M Series B led by Rider Global, Maersk Growth — FreightHub, the European digital freight forwarder, has raised $30 million in Series B financing.
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| OurPact: |
OurPact says Apple's MDM comments are misleading, compares Apple's claims in defense of removing apps that use MDM with quotes from Apple's documentation — Apple Removed OurPact From the App Store. Here's What You Need to Know. — On Saturday, April 27th, The New York Times exposed …
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Tweets: @techstarteacher, @steipete, @preusslerberlin, @jgordonshare, @ourpactapp, @onovotny, and @trendless
| Tara Seals / Threatpost: |
Flashpoint says April Wipro attack was done by hackers who may have been operating under the radar since '15, have the hallmarks of an advanced, organized group — New details are emerging in the April attack on systems consulting behemoth Wipro, which saw its network hacked and used for mounting attacks on a dozen of its customers.
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Flashpoint, Dark Reading, and Forbes
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
CirrusMD, a “chat-first” virtual care provider that connects patients with doctors, raises $15M Series B led by Drive Capital — The global telemedical market, which encompasses tech that facilitates remote medical diagnosis and treatment, is expected to climb …
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PR Newswire and FinSMEs
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Indio raises $20M Series B led by Menlo Ventures, with participation from 8VC, for its white-label platform that digitizes insurance applications — Indio Technologies, an insurance technology platform that's setting out to “modernize” the insurance application and renewal process …
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FinSMEs, Crunchbase News, and FinTech Futures
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer and others on AI techniques and progress in identifying image, video, and multi-lingual text content violating Facebook's rules — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg often asserts that AI will substantially cut down on the amount of abuse perpetrated by millions of ill-meaning Facebook users.
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Facebook Technology, Facebook AI, ZDNet, UploadVR, The Next Web, Engadget, and Facebook Technology
Tweets: @wholenewwworld, @waynenh, @nicholaslfuller, @stevenlevy, @fredericl, @waynenh, @stshank, @mshannahmurphy, @stshank, @stshank, and @stshank
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Sean Parker-backed Brigade says civic issues service Countable has acquired its IP, deletes “non-essential” user data, open sources voter file matching software — Causes grew to a jaw-dropping 200 million users as one of the first 10 Facebook platform apps.Sponsor Posts
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