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Facebook begins testing Facebook News with a subset of people in the US across four categories of select publishers: general, topical, diverse, and local news — Testing a dedicated place for news in the US — Journalism plays a critical role in our democracy.| Peter Kafka / Vox: |
Sources say Facebook will pay some news partners up to $3M a year for appearing in its news tab, coming today to a couple hundred thousand US users — Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the House Financial Services Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building … | Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed News: |
TikTok says its content moderation policies are led by a US-based team and it will not remove content, including posts about Hong Kong, at the behest of China — Short-form video app TikTok can't shake an air of suspicion that surrounds it in the United States.| Washington Post: |
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Tom Cotton ask US intelligence officials to determine whether TikTok poses “national security risks” — Two senior members of Congress, Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) … | Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
Google says it's improving 10% of English searches in the US by using NLP techniques to better understand query context and words' relationship with each other — For Google's namesake search engine, delivering the right results is about understanding what people are asking for.| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
Michael “Shroud” Grzesiek, one of the gaming world's most watched streamers, announces a move to Microsoft's Mixer from Twitch, following Tyler “Ninja” Blevins — 'I'm making moves' — Michael “Shroud” Grzesiek is the latest Twitch megastar to abandon … | Megan Graham / CNBC: |
Twitter says some users will start seeing more ads after it changed its historical approach of showing fewer ads to users with high follower counts — - Twitter's third-quarter earnings were marred by issues in a product that advertisers use to market mobile apps.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
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Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint announce the Cross Carrier Messaging Initiative to bring RCS to Android phones in 2020 — Here's a shocker. All four major US carriers — Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile — have just announced that they're joining forces to deliver RCS messaging in the US for Android smartphones in 2020.| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Gene Levoff, who was in charge of enforcing Apple's Insider Trading Policy, indicted for insider trading between 2011 and 2016; Levoff was fired in Sept. 2018 — - Gene Levoff, who was a senior director of corporate law, was aware of Apple financial results before they were public … | Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Jack Dorsey criticizes Mark Zuckerberg's free speech comments, says there wasn't any talk of reach and amplification and his Iraq War mention was not authentic — Twitter Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey called out his counterpart at Facebook Inc., saying Mark Zuckerberg has a … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Fair.com, a flexible car ownership marketplace valued at $1.2B that raised $500M from SoftBank and others, says it is laying off 40% of its staff — As the market continues to turn against the wave of highly valued, venture-backed startups operating with little end in sight to their huge losses … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: SoftBank is planning to take a writedown of at least $5B to reflect a plunge in the value of some of its biggest holdings, including WeWork and Uber — SoftBank is planning to take a writedown of at least $5 billion to reflect a plunge in the value of some of its biggest holdings … | Shannon Liao / CNN: |
Caffeine, which aims to compete with Twitch, signs rapper Offset to live stream video games, after having raised $146M from 21st Century Fox and others — New York (CNN Business)In the world of live-streamed video games, there's Twitch and then there's everything else.| James Shields / Xbox Wire: |
Ahead of Project xCloud's launch, Microsoft adds mobile gaming gear, like a new smartphone-holding clip for Xbox controllers, to its Designed for Xbox program — As Kareem Choudhry shared last month, our vision for Project xCloud is to empower gamers to play the games they want, with the people they want, anywhere they want.
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