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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram launches Threads, a Close Friends-only messaging app with auto-status based on location, accelerometer, and battery level, globally on iOS and Android — What if Instagram could automatically tell you're Close Friends you're 🏠 (home), 🤓 (working), 🚗 …
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| Lara O'Reilly / Digiday: |
Content recommendation company Taboola has bought rival Outbrain for $250M in cash and 30% equity; Taboola says it will hit $1B in revenue in 2019 — Outbrain and Taboola — the Ross and Rachel “will they, won't they” online advertising story of our times — could finally have its happy ending.
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Ming-Chi Kuo: Apple to launch the iPhone SE 2 in Q1 2020 with an iPhone 8-like design and an A13 chip — Apple is set to launch the next version of the iPhone SE 2 in the first quarter of 2020, according to renowned Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. The new phone will be more affordable …
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| Adam Satariano / New York Times: |
EU's top court rules that an individual country can order Facebook to take down defamatory content and restrict global access to that material — Comments posted on the social network about an Austrian politician became a battle over the reach of European defamation laws on the internet.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Shopping gets a redesign and new features including price tracking, options to shop from local stores, and style ideas via Google Lens — Google Shopping is getting a redesign with several new features, including options to shop local stores, track prices and even find style inspiration through Google Lens.| BuzzFeed News: |
US AG and officials from UK and Australia to call on Facebook to stop plans for end-to-end encryption across its messaging apps, citing public safety risks — Attorney General Bill Barr, along with officials from the United Kingdom and Australia, is set to publish an open letter …
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| Kieren McCarthy / The Register: |
Apple has banned an app that lets people in Hong Kong keep track of protests and police activity, claiming it facilitates illegal activity — Trying to avoid cops, live rounds, tear gas? Oh no, you don't, say Cook & Co — Apple has banned an app that allows people in Hong Kong to keep track …
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| Financial Times: |
Uber launches Uber Works, a new app in Chicago that will match temporary workers looking for shift work with businesses looking for staffing — Uber is launching a new app on Friday in Chicago that will match temporary workers looking for shift work with businesses looking to fill gaps in their rosters …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
First look at Surface Duo, Microsoft's foldable Android phone and the first pocketable Surface device — The mythical Surface phone is here — Microsoft surprised us all with the Surface Duo this week. It's the long-awaited Surface phone that has been rumored for years …
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| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
| Helene Fouquet / Bloomberg: |
France is rolling out a nationwide digital identity enrollment app with facial recognition in November, despite concerns from its data regulator — - Digital identity enrollment app to be rolled out in November — Privacy, absence of consent and security among concerns raised
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Tweets: @adfichter, @hshaban, @bopinion, @common_sense_71, @onekade, and @accessnow
| Max Weinbach / XDA Developers: |
Samsung launches a Travelex integration for international money transfers and Samsung Pay Cash virtual debit card for Samsung Pay beta users in the US — Samsung Pay is, in my view, the best mobile payment app out there. It supports making payments through MST on Samsung Galaxy flagships …
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Samsung US Newsroom, Finablr, PYMNTS.com, PaymentsSource, Droid Life, MSPoweruser, Neowin, and 9to5Google. Tweets: @swissxrp
| Peter Rubin / Wired: |
Sony says PlayStation 4 cross-platform gaming has finished beta testing and is now open to all game developers — With a price cut and a new commitment to high-profile games, Sony's PlayStation Now makes its case to customers. — “I typically prefer doing to talking,” says Jim Ryan …
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Tweets: @craigharris456 and @smetaldave64
| New York Daily News: |
Sources say Google contractor Randstad used dubious tactics targeting people of color to gather facial scans for improving the face unlock system on Pixel 4 — Tech giant Google wants your face — especially if you've got “darker skin.” — To get it, the company has funded …
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The Verge, CNBC, Android Central, Softpedia News, The Next Web, Android Authority, Tom's Guide, Fossbytes, Firstpost Tech, and SlashGear
Tweets: @nydailynews, @lenubienne, @oknox, @sa0un, @tnewmstweet, @c_sommerfeldt, @monteiro, @bacontribe, @melissagira, @thedextriarchy, @jane__bradley, and @greene_dm
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Fire TV has no deal yet to carry Disney+ because Amazon is pushing for the right to sell a percentage of the ad inventory on other Disney apps — Disney resists Amazon push for some of the ad revenue from entertainment giant's apps — Amazon.com Inc. AMZN .13% and Walt Disney Co. DIS -.64% … | Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Bird raises $275M Series D led by CDPQ and Sequoia Capital, sources say, at a $2.5B pre-money valuation — Bird has closed a $275 million Series D round led by CDPQ and Sequoia Capital, Bird CEO Travis VanderZanden announced at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco today.| Joshua Brustein / Bloomberg: |
Profile of Palmer Luckey's Anduril, which is now shipping drone interceptors to US and UK military clients and has raised $120M from Founders Fund, a16z, others — Jason Levin stood on a craggy hill on a Southern California ranch in late July and prepared to destroy a drone.
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Engadget, The Verge, NBC News, PR Newswire, and CNBC
Tweets: @_danielsinclair, @silviakillings, @shloky, and @luerverte
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Unqork, which is creating a platform for developing enterprise app without code, raises $80M Series B led by CapitalG, bringing its total raised to $110M+ — Two-year-old New York-based software company Unqork, which is developing a no-code platform for enterprise insurance and financial services …
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