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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is considering bundling News+, Apple TV+, and Apple Music as soon as 2020 to attract subscribers, meaning less money for News+ publishers — - Company keeps rights to bundle News+ service with TV+, Music — Move may woo more subscribers, but lower publishers' News+ cut
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Macworld, Digital Trends, iMore, CNET, Mercury News, SlashGear, Business Insider, iPhone in Canada Blog, Engadget, iDownloadBlog.com, Neowin, KnowTechie, PYMNTS.com, The Streamable, CNBC, Fast Company, The Verge, 9to5Mac, iPhone Hacks, BGR, MacRumors, TechSpot, AppleInsider, New York Post, MacDailyNews, and USA Today
Tweets: @stevekovach, @markgurman, @mattrosoff, and @benbajarin
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Motorola announces a new Razr phone with a 6.2" touchscreen display that folds like a clamshell, launching in January on Verizon in the US for $1,500 — The Razr returns — The Razr is back, but now it's an Android smartphone that can fold in half. Motorola has officially announced its much-rumored …
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Bloomberg, Ars Technica, Business Insider, Financial Times, Android Central, Inverse, Computerworld, PCWorld, CNET, YouTube, CNBC, SlashGear, iPhone in Canada Blog, Engadget, ZDNet, KnowTechie, Quartz, International Business Times, BGR, Thurrott, Gearburn, Telecoms.com, TalkAndroid.com, WRAL TechWire, Softpedia News, Gizchina, Droid Life, Gizmodo, ZDNet, Mashable, Droid Life, Fortune, ZDNet, SlashGear, Digital Trends, and VentureBeat
Tweets: @mcwm, @dcseifert, @chainotcoffee, @ow, @backlon, @rossrubin, @benedictevans, @ideafaktory, @ow, @steimer, and @mgsiegler
| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
How Motorola created the foldable-screen Razr and why it claims it solved the problems faced by Samsung's Galaxy Fold, by focusing on a hinge design — Exclusive: Motorola, in need of a comeback, wants to reignite the excitement over foldables with a phone that's equal parts retro and cutting edge.
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The Verge, CNET, Washington Post, Business Insider, T3, The Verge, 9to5Mac, 9to5Google, and Wired
Tweets: @techledes, @cgartenberg, and @themrmobile
| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple Research app is now available to download for iPhone and Apple Watch; US users can enroll in three health studies — Following the announcement at the September event, the Apple Research app is now available to download for iPhone and Apple Watch. Users in the United States can sign …
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App Store, Apple, Financial Times, CNBC, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Yahoo Finance, iMore, AppleInsider, USA Today, iPhone Hacks, VentureBeat, MacRumors, AppAdvice.com, STAT, iDownloadBlog.com, and MacStories
Tweets: @rebeccadrobbins and @chrissyfarr
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google says it is now rolling out support for RCS messages in the Android Messages app to all of its users in the US — Google today announced that it is now rolling out to all of its users in the U.S. support for Rich Communication Services messages (you can think of it as the next generation of SMS) …
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The Keyword, CNET, Engadget, 9to5Google, VentureBeat, Android Authority, and The Verge
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram says it is expanding its test making Like counts private to the rest of the world beyond Australia, Brazil, Canada, Ireland, Italy, and New Zealand — Instagram is making Like counts private for some users everywhere. Instagram tells TechCrunch the hidden Likes test is expanding to a subset of users globally.
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
Toronto-based password manager 1Password raises $200M Series A led by Accel, its first external round of funding in its 14-year history — 1Password, a Toronto-based password manager, announced today it has raised $200 million in a massive Series A funding round that was led by Accel.
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1Password Blog, VentureBeat, BetaKit, FinSMEs, Yahoo Finance, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @joelgascoigne, @dhh, @1password, @chriseyin, @alexhern, @mariosundar, @ourielohayon, @adamfeldman, @flyosity, @stshank, and @imyke. Thanks:@bayareawriter
| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Oculus CTO John Carmack says he is stepping down but will remain as a “consulting CTO” and will work on an artificial general intelligence as a personal project — One of the driving forces behind Facebook's virtual reality efforts is leaving his post: Oculus CTO John Carmack …
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Tweets: @oculus, @tomchivers, @jank0, @devinreimer, @ku1deep, @auradeluxe, @a9felix, @jabe8, @davidgaw, and @musings_n
| Samantha Cole / VICE: |
Pornhub says PayPal is no longer supporting payments for Pornhub, affecting over a hundred thousand performers using the site as a source of income — \u003Cp\u003E Late Wednesday night, Pornhub announced that PayPal is no longer supporting payments for Pornhub—a decision that will impact thousands …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Salesforce says it will use Microsoft's Azure for its Marketing Cloud service, signaling a thaw in a complicated relationship — - Salesforce will deploy its Marketing Cloud service on Microsoft's Azure public cloud infrastructure. — Salesforce already uses Amazon Web Services …
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Microsoft, ZDNet, GeekWire, TechCrunch, Marketing Land, Bloomberg, OnMSFT.com, and MSPoweruser
Tweets: @jordannovet and @alex
| New York Times: |
How startups around the world, using SoftBank funds, got contractors like drivers and hoteliers to commit via unsustainable incentives, and then cut them off — SoftBank poured money into start-ups that use armies of contractors. That has upended the lives of drivers, hotel operators and real estate agents around the world.
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Bloomberg, musings of a wannabe …, and On my Om
Tweets: @vermontgmg, @kevinroose, @robinwauters, @nytimes, @vindugoel, @aparanjape, @nytimes, and @vindugoel
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple Music launches Replay, letting subscribers look back at their favorite music in 2019, similar to Spotify's year-end review, Wrapped, but updated each week — Apple Music is taking on Spotify with the launch of a new feature, Apple Music Replay, that will allow subscribers to take a look back at their favorite music from 2019.
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The Verge, iMore, MacStories, Kirkville, Cult of Mac, Memeburn, SlashGear, AppleInsider, Pocketnow, MacDailyNews, MacRumors, TechSpot, iDownloadBlog.com, and iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @samir_javer
| George Anadiotis / ZDNet: |
Siren, which helps build knowledge graphs from enterprise data, raises $10M Series A led by Atlantic Bridge — Siren promises the benefits of knowledge graphs, without the hassle of reinventing your existing data management and infrastructure — Graph databases are amazing, but the knowledge graph is in your data already.
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VentureBeat, FinSMEs, PE Hub Blog, and The Irish Times
| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Google search launches an experimental feature on mobile that will use AI to let users check their pronunciation of unfamiliar American English words — Speak into the microphone to be schooled by Google — Google search is launching a new feature that will let users check their pronunciation … | Emma Grey Ellis / Wired: |
A look at how scientific experts debunk “lifestyle” misinformation and bad science on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube — A lot of the hacks and diets on social media are bogus, or even dangerous. These fact-checkers are using YouTube and Instagram to battle bad info.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: SoftBank passed on investing in Cadre after Jared Kushner did not divest his stake in the real estate startup, as requested by SoftBank — SoftBank wanted Kushner to divest. He wouldn't, and deal talks died. It was a missed opportunity for a start-up beset by tech limits, high turnover and unfulfilled promise.
Tweets: @davidjoachim and @gilliantan
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Report: Google is planning to offer checking accounts to users, in partnership with banks and credit unions, starting as early as next year — Google is the latest big tech company to make a move into banking and personal financial services: The company is gearing up to offer checking accounts to consumers …
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Tweets: @waltmossberg, @mikeisaac, @koush, @adam_k_levin, @_danilo, @dhh, @mattetti, @jasonzweigwsj, @finrekt, @astrange, @retailprophet, @alex, and @backlon
| Bloomberg: |
Following EU scrutiny, Google to stop sharing info with buyers in ad auctions about the type of content on a page where an ad could appear, starting in February — - Search giant to stop sharing some info with buyers in auction — Google said it took step follow discussions with watchdogs
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Emerge, which wants to let users interact in an XR telepresence experience by mapping a tactile layer onto 3D projections or holograms, raises $12M Series A — Emerge, a cross-reality presence tech startup developing the next form of digital communication, has emerged from stealth …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Following the introduction of the 16-inch MacBook Pro, Apple is discontinuing the 15-inch model, which was refreshed in May 2019 — Goodbye to the classic screen size — The arrival of Apple's new 16-inch MacBook Pro comes with an unexpected twist: the classic 15-inch model is being phased out entirely.| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
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Tweets: @tim_cook, @markgurman, @ericajoy, @willoremus, @joannastern, @dcseifert, @dhh, @snazzyq, @zachlatta, @tonyromm, @macrumors, @chartier, @panzer, @marcoarment, @matthewkeyslive, @horwitz, @boris, @rsgnl, @llsethj, @caseyjohnston, @adrs, and @ow
| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
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Marco.org, iMore, The Daily Dot, O'Grady's PowerPage, and Relay FM
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Facebook says requests from governments for user data in H1 2019 were up 16% over H2 2018 to 128,617, the highest on record, led by 50,741 demands from the US — Facebook's latest transparency report is out. — The social media giant said the number of government demands for user data increased …
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About Facebook, CNN, About Facebook, MIT Technology Review, Social Media Today, Reuters, Inquirer, and USA Today. Tweets: @tonyromm
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