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YouTube has run the Trump ad wrongly accusing Biden of corruption, which was seen 10M-30M times, but Google says it strives to ensure ads are “honest” — (CNN Business)You'd be forgiven for thinking that the only tech platform that allows politicians to run false ads is Facebook.| Emily Glazer / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Andreessen Horowitz is launching a free crypto startup school, with a seven-week program that starts in February 2020 — Last month, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) general partner Chris Dixon announced at TechCrunch Disrupt that the VC firm would run a free crypto startup school.| CNBC: |
Bob Iger says Disney+ will be on Amazon's Fire TV when it launches on November 12 — - Analysts will be looking to see if Disney gives any color on expected subscriber numbers for Disney+. — Disney shares were up about 3% after the company reported an earnings beat for its fiscal fourth-quarter on Thursday.
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US safety investigators report: dilemma for self-driving cars is not saving one innocent victim over other; it's between caution and competitive advantage — It has nothing to do with the ‘trolley problem’ — he advent of self-driving cars revived the decades-old philosophical conundrum known as the “trolley problem.”
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| Alnoor Peermohamed / The Economic Times: |
AngelList launches its VC and angel fund product in India, which will allow individuals to raise small blind pools of capital and deploy them within 6-12 months — AngelList will manage the legal and regulatory aspects of raising capital and investing it, while the byte-sized funds will be able …
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| Jane Zhang / South China Morning Post: |
Alibaba invests $3.3B in its logistics arm Cainiao, raising its stake to 63% — Cainiao will use the money raised to invest in technologies and logistics infrastructure services Cainiao also offers solutions to Alibaba's international e-commerce business, including Tmall Global …
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Sources: Alibaba is planning to launch a Hong Kong IPO next week with plans to raise as much as $15B — - It's said to proceed with listing hearing early next week — Alibaba's share sale comes after a U.S.-China agreement — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is moving ahead with plans …
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| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Internal chats from 2012 and 2013 show Facebook staff lamenting its “unethical” practices, as Zuckerberg argued that the company's survival was more important — - New documents show dissent within Facebook's top ranks — Disclosures come as company faces multiple antitrust probes
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Blackstone buys majority stake in MagicLab, owner of dating apps Badoo and Bumble, valuing the company at $3B+; Whitney Wolfe Herd to become CEO of the company — Bumble, the popular and profitable dating and networking app built around the ethos of women calling the shots on how connections … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Snapdocs, a platform that digitizes the mortgage closing process, raises $25M Series B led by F-Prime Capital — Real estate tech company Snapdocs today revealed that it has raised $25 million in series B funding to further develop its products and platform.| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Small-satellite startup Kepler provided satellite broadband connectivity to the Arctic at over 100Mbps to a German icebreaker sea vessel — Small-satellite startup Kepler has done something never before accomplished with satellite-based broadband connectivity: providing a high-bandwidth to the Arctic.
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| Alex Wilhelm / Crunchbase News: |
Cloudflare, in its first earnings report after IPO, announces Q3 revenue growth of 48% YoY to $73.9M as GAAP loss increased to $40.9M from $38M in Q3 2018 — Update: After rising in after-hours trading, shares of Cloudflare are down as we prep the Daily for publication.
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| Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed News: |
Twitter says it will begin a series of experiments within two weeks that tweak functions like the retweet and reply to promote healthier conversations — Twitter knows we treat each other terribly on Twitter. We dunk, ridiculing friends and strangers via quote-tweets. We ratio, piling on replies to bad tweets.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Pwn2Own Tokyo 2019 hacking contest: Amazon Echo speakers, Samsung and Sony smart TVs, Xiaomi Mi9, others hacked; Facebook Portal and Google Nest not attempted — Amazon Echo, Samsung and Sony smart TVs fall on first day of Pwn2Own Tokyo 2019 hacking contest.
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| Eudora Wang / DealStreetAsia: |
Lori Systems, a Kenyan logistics platform that connects cargo owners with truck fleets, raises $30M Series A led by Chinese investors — Lori Systems, an African logistics platform that connects cargo owners with truck fleets, has secured nearly $30 million in a Series A round of financing led …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Google hires Sanjay Gupta, a former Disney and Star executive, as the manager and vice president of sales and operations for its India business — Google said on Friday it has appointed Sanjay Gupta, a former top executive with Disney India and Star, as the manager and vice president of sales and operations for its India business.| Mya Frazier / Bloomberg: |
Indiana passes law, targeting Big Tech, that exempts sales taxes for an unprecedented 50 years to companies that commit $750M+ to a data center in the state — Ed Soliday likens data centers to the Spruce Goose, the enormous wooden airplane Howard Hughes flew just once.| Bloomberg: |
Google contractors recall the often absurd predicament of representing Google, like escorting job candidates around campus, while not working for the company — Kevin Kiprovski had a lofty title, “Expeditions Associate,” and a fun job — he got to demo Google virtual reality gear to young students.
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Microsoft starts shipping its $3,500 HoloLens 2 to preorder customers in the US, France, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, and the UK — New gesture controls and a bigger field of view — Microsoft's HoloLens 2 mixed reality headset is shipping today after being announced earlier this year.
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YouTube rolls out a new homepage design with larger thumbnails and features like an “add to queue” option, a desktop version of “Don't recommend channel”, more — YouTube's homepage is getting a makeover. The company announced today an updated … Sponsor Posts
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