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| Scott Spencer / The Keyword: |
Google announces new political ad rules, limits microtargeting to age, gender, and general location categories, will start enforcing them in UK within a week — We're proud that people around the world use Google to find relevant information about elections and that candidates use Google …
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| New York Times: |
Google's limits on microtargeting of political ads for state and federal candidates shakes up ad plans and frustrates both Democrats and Republicans — The company said the ads would not be directed specifically to audiences based on their public voter records or political affiliations.| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is overhauling how it tests software,making daily builds disable unfinished features by default, after a swarm of bugs marred the iOS 13 debut — Apple Inc. is overhauling how it tests software after a swarm of bugs marred the latest iPhone and iPad operating systems, according to people familiar with the shift.
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| NBC News: |
President Donald Trump hosted an undisclosed dinner with Mark Zuckerberg and Peter Thiel at the White House in October, Facebook confirmed on Wednesday — The meeting took place during Zuckerberg's most recent visit to Washington, where he testified before Congress about Facebook's new cryptocurrency Libra.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
PayPal to acquire Honey, a comparison shopping and rewards platform that has 17M MAUs, for ~$4B — PayPal announced today it has agreed to acquire Honey Science Corporation, the makers of a deal-finding browser add-on and mobile application, for $4 billion, mostly cash.| Jack Nicas / New York Times: |
Tim Cook and Apple did not correct Trump after he took credit for opening a Texas manufacturing plant that has been in operation since 2013 — President Trump said on Wednesday that he opened a facility that makes computers for Apple. It's been operating since 2013.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google Duplex launches on the web as Google Assistant in Chrome, lets users buy movie tickets from 70+ cinemas and ticketing services in the US — At I/O 2019, Sundar Pichai announced that Google Duplex was “moving beyond voice” and coming to the web. After publicly testing in late September …
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| Faiz Siddiqui / Washington Post: |
Uber plans to test letting riders and drivers in the US record audio of their trips “soon”, as a similar pilot program debuts next month in Brazil and Mexico — Uber plans to record audio during rides in the United States as part of a new security feature, its latest push …
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| Kate Conger / New York Times: |
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| Amnesty International: |
Amnesty International says Facebook and Google's omnipresent surveillance is inherently incompatible with the right to privacy and is a danger to human rights — Facebook and Google's omnipresent surveillance of billions of people poses a systemic threat to human rights …
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| Buster Hein / Cult of Mac: |
Guilherme Rambo, who has published scoops about unreleased Apple products by examining beta software, says Apple locked his dev account with no stated reason — Guilherme Rambo, one of the top Apple secret-spillers, says Apple locked him out of his developer account, preventing …
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Alphabet's Loon signs deal with Telefonica to provide internet to remote parts of the Amazon — Alphabet-owned Loon, the high-altitude balloon company that is using its stratospheric technology to provide internet connectivity on Earth, has signed a new commercial agreement with Telefonica-owned Internet para Todos (IpT).| New York Times: |
Google has hired IRI Consultants, an anti-union consulting company, signaling the feud between some activist employees and management has escalated — After nearly two years of unrest, the company appears to be cracking down on employee activism. — Google has hired an anti-union consulting firm …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Celonis, which providers an AI-powered data and process mining platform, raises $290M Series C led by Arena Holdings — More than $1 trillion is spent by enterprises annually on “digital transformation” — the investments that organizations make to update their IT systems …
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| Crystal Tse / Bloomberg: |
Canaan, the China-based maker of Bitcoin mining machines, prices its US IPO at the bottom of the range at $9 per share, raising $90M — Canaan Inc., a maker of Bitcoin mining machines, raised $90 million after pricing its U.S. initial public offering at the bottom of its marketed range.
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Coinspeaker, Crypto Briefing, Pandaily, Crunchbase News, and Cointelegraph
| Matthew Gault / VICE: |
Apple tells Congress it is losing money on its device repair services, but critics say that Apple is being deliberately vague and may be misleading public — \u003Cp\u003E In July, Congress pressed Apple on its repair policies, which Motherboard and others have repeatedly shown to be anticompetitive …
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| Thomas Germain / Consumer Reports: |
How outdoor ad networks like Five Tier let clients plan and target billboard ads based on mobile phone data about passersby such as gender, age, race, and more — How the most intrusive parts of the web are expanding into the real world, complete with data collection and targeted ads| Nat Levy / GeekWire: |
Amazon unveils Dash Smart Shelf, a WiFi-enabled scale for businesses that can automatically reorder office supplies when they run low — Amazon today introduced a smart shelf that knows when supplies are low and automatically reorders them, a new twist on the tech giant's Dash Replenishment Program …
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Engadget, TechCrunch, and CNBC
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Stream Remote Play Together comes out of beta, lets users play local multiplayer PC games over the internet with other gamers across desktop, iOS, and Android — Steam Remote Play Together is out of beta — Last month, Valve announced a beta of Steam Remote Play Together …
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PC Gamer and Windows Central
| Sahil Patel / Wall Street Journal: |
Ad measurement firm Integral Ad Science has acquired European ad tech firm ADmantX, which provides info on context and content of articles on which ads run — ADmantX helps brands understand the content on web pages where their ads could run — Integral Ad Science Inc. has acquired ADmantX SpA … | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
N3twork, maker of the popular mobile game Legendary, raises $40M for its games publishing platform that helps mobile games gain traction — N3twork, the maker of the hit mobile game Legendary, has raised $40 million for its live games publishing platform, which helps mobile game developers scale …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Route, which tracks all e-commerce orders in one app, raises $12M through a $500K pre-seed round in January and new $11.5K seed round from Album VC and Pattern — Between Amazon, FedEx, UPS, and indie merchants, it's easy to lose track of when your online purchases will be delivered.
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