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| Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post: |
Deep dive on the byzantine tracking and analytics industry around credit card purchases and steps that consumers can take to improve their privacy — In a privacy experiment, we bought one banana with the new Apple Card — and another with the Amazon Prime Rewards Visa from Chase.
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Sources: Facebook is testing Threads, a messaging app for Instagram that lets users automatically share status, location, battery life, more with Close Friends — The app promotes sharing your status, location, and more with your closest friends — Facebook is developing …
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Tweets: @caseynewton, @db, @mgsiegler, @privacyproject, @ryanlawler, @andreplaut, @_danielsinclair, @manjusrii, @ealshafei, @yoda, @josephfcox, @yoda, @theunread, @jillseroka, @wongmjane, @martinsfp, and @pierce. Thanks:@varun_mathur
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Fairphone debuts Fairphone 3, its ethical, repairable smartphone made of responsibly sourced, recyclable materials, available from September 3 for €450 — Featuring a repairable design made of fairly sourced, recyclable materials — Three years after the release of its last handset …
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| Nathan Ingraham / Engadget: |
Yelp adds personalized search results based on users' diet, lifestyle, accessibility, and other preferences, to its iOS app — For good or ill, it's common for internet services to track what you do and offer “personalized” suggestions. But Yelp, that stalwart of internet reviews …
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Yelp, The Verge, VentureBeat, Search Engine Land, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, CNET, OneZero, and Wired. Tweets: @wongmjane
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Verizon will enable spam call filtering by default on many Android phones, after an FCC vote to let carriers do so; iOS users will need the Call Filter app — Available on select Android handsets at first — Verizon is starting to opt in customers to its call filtering service so they can better identify and block spam calls.
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| Jim Waterson / The Guardian: |
BBC says it will launch a voice assistant called Beeb next year, that will understand British accents and be built into its website and iPlayer app on smart TVs — Corporation recording voices of staff across UK to help Beeb software understand accents — The BBC is preparing to launch …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces Surface event on October 2 in New York City — We might see a new dual-screen Surface — Microsoft is holding a special Surface hardware event in New York City in October. The event, which will be held on October 2nd, could serve as the first unveiling of Microsoft's dual-screen Surface device.
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| Jalopnik: |
Data from 14,756 fares: Uber and Lyft have slashed driver pay in recent years by taking a larger portion of each fare, far more than they publicly report — In July, an Uber driver we'll call Dave—his name has been changed here to protect his identity—picked up a fare in a trendy neighborhood of a major U.S. metropolitan area.
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Google Maps is rolling out the ability for users to combine different transit modes, like biking, public transit, and ride-sharing, in their directions — Google Maps is going multimodal — Google Maps is going multimodal. The navigation app announced the launch of a new feature today …
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The Keyword, 9to5Google, VentureBeat, Engadget, and TechCrunch
| Shoshana Wodinsky / Adweek: |
Documents show TikTok is beta testing a native audience ad network that lets advertisers target users across third-party apps in addition to TikTok — The program is being beta-tested in East Asia right now — TikTok's viral videos of the #GuacDance and kombucha taste tests might soon be used to target you with ads in other apps.| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Lenovo unveils ThinkPad X1 Carbon and X1 Yoga updated with Intel's 10th-gen chips, available in September starting at $1,479 and $1,609 respectively — Along with a bunch of updated ThinkPads — Intel's 10th Gen chips are making their way into the world, and Lenovo has a bunch of new ThinkPads …
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AnandTech, Windows Central, Engadget, and SlashGear
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
E-commerce startup Enjoy, led by ex-Apple VP of retail operations Ron Johnson, raises $150M Series C to fuel its UK expansion, has now raised $350M to date — Enjoy, the e-commerce startup led by former Apple VP of retail operations, Ron Johnson, has raised an additional $150 million …
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PE Hub Blog
| Bernie Sanders / Columbia Journalism Review: |
Bernie Sanders pledges to protect news orgs from tech monopolies if elected, including stronger antitrust enforcement, taxing targeted ads to fund public media — Walter Cronkite once said that “journalism is what we need to make democracy work.” He was absolutely right … | Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Source: judge rules Craig Wright must turn over half of his bitcoin holdings and IP from before 2014 to the estate of Dave Kleiman in $10B lawsuit filed in 2018 — Craig Wright must turn over half of his bitcoin holdings and intellectual property to the estate of Dave Kleiman, a judge ruled Monday.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Platform9, which offers a SaaS-based, fully managed, hybrid cloud platform raises $25M Series D led by NGP Capital, says its revenue grew 130% in the last year — Platform9, the startup best known for its SaaS-based, fully managed hybrid cloud platform, today announced that it has raised …
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FinSMEs, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, and ZDNet
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Sensor Tower: daily US downloads required to reach No. 1 on the App Store Top Charts for non-game apps is 94K, down ~30% since 2016, but 174K for games, up ~47% — With the App Store's big makeover in fall 2017, Apple attempted to shift consumers' attention away from the Top Charts and more toward editorial content.
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The Mac Observer
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Ethos, which uses predictive analytics and big data to issue life insurance policies, raises $60M Series C led by GV at a ~$500M valuation — Ethos, a company that's using predictive analytics and big data to issue life insurance policies, has raised $60 million in a series C round … Sponsor Posts
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