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Report: Apple to limit third-party tracking in apps for kids starting next week — As tech companies grapple with safety and privacy concerns, Apple will reportedly limit third-party tracking in kids apps starting next week. While the company hasn't announced the change, a source told The Wall Street Journal that it's in the works.
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Sources: DOJ is preparing an antitrust investigation into Google's practices related to search and other businesses — The Justice Department is preparing an antitrust investigation into Google's practices related to search and other business, sources say.| Mehedi Hassan / Thurrott: |
Report: Spotify is working on a new “Social Listening” feature that allows users to listen along with their friends and add songs to a shared queue — Spotify is taking its Spotify Connect features to the next level with social integration. The company is working …
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| Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic: |
A look at the terms “creators” vs. “influencers” on YouTube, Instagram, and other platforms, and how recent digital history has shaped the terms — It's not a gender thing. — It was 2011, and YouTube had a problem. The company, which was then a hub …
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| Julie Verhage / Bloomberg: |
Coinbase COO Asiff Hirji is leaving the company, to be replaced by VP of business Emilie Choi; a number of execs, including the CTO, have left Coinbase recently — - Former TD Ameritrade executive Asiff Hirji joined in 2017 — Emilie Choi named as Hirji's successor at San Franscico firm
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| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
A deep dive into the 233-page antitrust ruling against Qualcomm, which said the company's aggressive licensing tactics had strangled competition for modem chips — We did a deep-dive into the 233-page ruling declaring Qualcomm a monopolist. — In 2005, Apple contacted Qualcomm … | Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: |
Slack's final quarterly results ahead of its IPO show revenue grew 67% YoY to $134.8M, losses grew 28% to $31.9M, and paying customers increased 42% to 95,000 — - Message platform company details private share sales — Slack says CEO, other executives, directors to retain control| Andrei Frumusanu / AnandTech: |
MediaTek claims its 7nm chipset is the world's first SoC with an integrated 5G modem, will ship in devices in 2020 using Arm's Cortex-A77 CPU and Mali-G77 GPU — Today MedaTek is making quite an unusual announcement: The company is the first to announce a SoC with an integrated 5G modem.
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| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Foursquare buys location analytics service Placed from Snap, raises $150M led by Raine Group; Placed reportedly raised $13.4M before Snap acquired it in 2017 — Foursquare just made its first acquisition. The location tech company has acquired Placed from Snap Inc on the heels …
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Profile of Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram who, sources say, argued for removing fake news and demoting Breitbart in News Feed in 2017 and early 2018 — KEY POINTS — In succeeding Instagram CEO and co-founder Kevin Systrom, Adam Mosseri has to balance his staff's desire for autonomy with the greater needs of Facebook.
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| Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Kiwibots, the “parallel autonomy” food delivery bots popular with students at UC Berkeley, are remotely piloted by workers in Colombia who are paid $2/hour — Karis Tang, age 2½, squealed with excitement when she saw a Kiwibot rolling through Sproul Plaza at UC Berkeley.
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Tempus, a clinical data collection and analytics platform launched in 2015 by Groupon co-founder Eric Lefkofsky, raises $200M Series F at a valuation of $3.1B — Tempus, a health technology startup based in Chicago, raised $200 million in new funding at a $3.1 billion valuation, the company announced on Thursday.Sponsor Posts
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