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| Emily Glazer / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: in a 3-2 vote, FTC commissioners have approved a record $5B settlement with Facebook over the company's privacy violations — FTC commissioners broke along party lines, 3-2, with the Republican majority lining up to support the pact while Democratic commissioners objected
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| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
Sources: FTC settlement includes more comprehensive oversight of how Facebook handles user data, but no restrictions on how it collects and shares that data — The Federal Trade Commission voted this week to fine Facebook about $5 billion for mishandling users' personal information …
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| Julia Carrie Wong / The Guardian: |
Critics say the FTC's $5B settlement with Facebook is a “parking ticket” to the company, which had more than $15B in revenue in the first three months of 2019 — The $5bn fine would be the largest ever levied by the Federal Trade Commission against a technology company
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| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Trump says cryptocurrencies including Facebook's Libra are “not money”, need to be regulated, citing their high volatility and facilitation of unlawful behavior — Just hours after a “social media summit,” the president's Twitter account posted a thread aimed at, of all things, cryptocurrency.
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| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Bird CEO says the company makes $1.27/ride on its new Bird Zero scooters, which make up 75% of the fleet, says $100M loss was a one-time accounting write-off — Bird has positive unit economics, CEO Travis VanderZanden said Friday in fiery response to a report from The Information …
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Shopify's ecosystem, with its own fulfillment network, may become the first true Amazon competitor by enabling merchants to succeed or fail on their own terms — While I am (rightfully) teased about how often I discuss Aggregation Theory, there is a method to my madness, particularly over the last year …
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| Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic: |
Less than a year after TikTok's US launch, the popularity of its stars at VidCon shows that it's poised to dominate the American social media landscape — Anaheim, Calif.—Last night, YouTube hosted its annual VidCon party, in one of the Anaheim Convention Center's large halls …
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| Louise Matsakis / Wired: |
A look at Life360, a location-sharing app aimed at families, and conversations with teens who installed the app and their concerns about privacy and autonomy — SPEND ENOUGH TIME on the social media app TikTok, and you're bound to see a Life360 meme. That's because Life360 … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
StreamElements: Twitch viewers live streamed 2.72B+ hours in Q2, compared with 735.54M hours on YouTube Live, 197.76M on Facebook Gaming, and 112.29M on Mixer — Twitch continues to lead rivals including YouTube Live, Facebook Gaming, and Microsoft's Mixer when it comes to live streaming video.| Katie Hafner / New York Times: |
Fernando Corbató, a Turing Award recipient whose work on time-sharing systems paved the way for the PC, as well as the computer password, dies at 93 — Fernando Corbató, whose work on computer time-sharing in the 1960s helped pave the way for the personal computer …
Tweets: @rodneyabrooks
| Nathan Vardi / Forbes: |
Profile of businesswoman Hanzade Dogan-Boyner, founder of Turkey's largest e-commerce site Hepsiburada, with $786M in 2018 revenue, as it tries to expand abroad — On a mild winter morning, Hanzade Dogan-Boyner rushes into her office on the fourth floor of the Trump Towers in Istanbul, overlooking the historic city's skyline.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amazon expands Transparency, its program to fight counterfeits by marking products with a QR-style code, to Europe, India, and Canada — Amazon is no stranger to the nefarious forces of e-commerce: fake reviews, counterfeit goods and scams have all reared their heads on its marketplace …
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