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WordPress.com owner Automattic will buy Tumblr from Verizon for an undisclosed amount, taking on about 200 staffers — Carrier sheds blogging site for nominal amount as part of media unit revamp — Verizon Communications Inc. VZ -.20% has agreed to sell its blogging website Tumblr …
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How YouTube radicalized Brazil, diverting users to conspiracy and far-right channels, elevating Bolsonaro's party, and possibly creating a public health crisis — NITERÓI, Brazil — When Matheus Dominguez was 16, YouTube recommended a video that changed his life.| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Sources: Facebook halted acquisition talks with Houseparty late last year due to antitrust concerns and began internal changes to make itself harder to break up — SAN FRANCISCO — Senator Elizabeth Warren has called for the breakup of big tech companies like Facebook.
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Samsung has unveiled ISOCELL Bright HMX, a 108MP smartphone camera sensor developed in collaboration with Xiaomi, one of the largest ever at 1/1.33-inches — With the smartphone megapixel camera wars raging on, Samsung has fired a significant shot. It unveiled a 108-megapixel smartphone …
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Attentive raises $40M Series B led by Sequoia for its mobile messaging tools for retailers — Attentive, a startup helping retailers personalize their mobile messages, is announcing that it has raised $40 million in Series B funding. — The startup was founded by Brian Long and Andrew Jones … | Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
AI-powered search company Lucidworks raises $100M from investors including Francisco Partners and TPG Sixth Street Partners, following last year's $50M Series E — AI-powered search venture Lucidworks has raised $100 million from Francisco Partners and TPG Sixth Street Partners …
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As researchers find more ways to detect browser incognito mode despite Chrome 76 protections against it, NYT's paywall is back up for Chrome Incognito visitors — With the release of Chrome 76, Google attempted to put a stop to web developers and publishers detecting people using Chrome's Incognito Mode.| Canalys: |
Canalys: Samsung shipments in Europe grew 20% YoY in Q2 to give it a market share of 40.6%, while Xiaomi's grew 48%, Huawei's fell 16%, and Apple's fell 17% — Shanghai (China), Bengaluru (India), Singapore, Reading (UK) and Portland (US) - Monday, 12 August 2019
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The FBI is seeking an early alerting tool that scans public data from social media to monitor threats to the US, which may violate Facebook and Twitter policies — Agency solicits vendor proposals to collect data from Facebook, other social media to head off safety threats
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| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
An in-depth look at the feasibility, progress, and experts' opinions of lidar-based vs Tesla-like camera-only approaches to fully autonomous cars — “They're all going to dump lidar,” Musk said about self-driving rivals in April. — Lots of companies are working to develop self-driving cars.
Tweets: @aparanjape, @arstechnica, and @ghosthayes
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Roblox says it has 2M+ game creators worldwide who are on track to earn $100M in 2019, debuts a Developer Marketplace for creators' development assets and tools — A week after gaming platform Roblox announced its new milestone of 100 million monthly users — topping Minecraft … | Robert Frank / CNBC: |
Wheels Up, a subscription-based private aviation company that wants to be the Airbnb of private aviation, raises $128M Series D at a valuation of $1.1B — KEY POINTS — Wheels Up, the private aviation start-up that counts Tom Brady and Serena Williams as members, says it completed …
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Light Field Lab raises $28M Series A with Samsung Ventures, Comcast, and others investing, to start building modular holographic displays for commercial venues — Holographic display startup Light Field Lab has raised a $28 million Series A round of funding led by Bosch Venture Capital and Taiwania Capital.
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