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Twitter is funding bluesky, an independent effort to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media, with the goal of Twitter being a client of it — Twitter is funding a small independent team of up to five open source architects, engineers, and designers to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media. The goal is for Twitter to ultimately be a client of this standard. 🧵
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YouTube bans videos that “maliciously insult” people based on their race, gender, or sex, and will remove some of Steven Crowder's videos targeting Carlos Maza — The change comes after controversy around a right-wing comedian's homophobic slurs aimed at a gay Latino journalist.
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| Hadas Gold / CNN: |
Facebook confirms that a bug caused tens of thousands of now restored ads to disappear from its political ad library, days before UK's general election — London (CNN Business)Tens of thousands of political ads went missing from Facebook's archive this week, according to researchers …
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Former PayPal COO Bill Ready, who announced he was leaving in June, will join Google as the company's president of Commerce — In June, PayPal announced its Chief Operating Officer Bill Ready would be departing the company at the end of this year. Now we know where he's ending up: Google.| Bloomberg: |
Investigation finds how Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook handle voice assistant transcriptions relies heavily on contractors and downplays user privacy — Ruthy Hope Slatis couldn't believe what she was hearing. She'd been hired by a temp agency outside Boston for a vague job …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Tines, which helps enterprise security teams automate repetitive workflows, adds $11M to its $4.1M Series A round from six weeks ago, led by Accel — Tines, a cybersecurity startup that helps enterprise security teams automate repetitive workflows, has added a further $11 million to its series A funding round.
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BMW will finally add Android Auto compatibility to its cars starting in July 2020, after initially focusing on Apple's CarPlay — And it will be wireless, too — BMW is finally going to start integrating Android Auto into its cars starting in July 2020, the automaker announced Wednesday.
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DOJ arrests 3 men behind the BitClub Network cryptocurrency mining pool, says it was a Ponzi scheme which defrauded investors of $722M since 2014 — United States authorities in New Jersey have announced the arrest of three men who are accused of defrauding investors of over $722 million …
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| Vikas SN / The Economic Times: |
Sources: Netflix is testing three-month, six-month, and 12-month discounted plans for new users in India, with savings ranging from 20% to 50% — This test comes days after Netflix chief executive Reed Hastings announced that they are set to spend Rs 3,000 crore on content programming in India in 2019-2020
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Sources: PE firm Francisco Partners and hedge fund Elliott Management are in advanced talks to acquire LogMeIn for over $4B and take the company private — - Firms in advanced talks, could announce deal in coming weeks — No final decision has been made and talks could fall through| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple's support document says the Pro Display XDR with the optional nano-texture glass can only be cleaned with a special Apple-provided cloth — Apple's new Pro Display XDR comes with an optional nano-texture glass, which is etched at the nanometer level to cut down on reflectivity and glare for a matte look.
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Glassdoor: Google and Facebook drop out of top 10 of US “best places to work” list, Google to 11, Facebook to 23; Microsoft only tech giant to jump in rankings — - Facebook fell 16 places, Google drops out of the Top 10 — Microsoft one of the only tech giants to jump in the rankings
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Nielsen's SuperData Research: Oculus Quest sales are helping to boost the whole VR hardware industry, with users spending $2.1B on hardware in 2019, up 31% YoY — Virtual reality may be starting to grab people's attention. — Virtual reality's promise has always been at least a little enticing … | Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Interview with the co-founders of VC firm Pear, which has just announced $160M in new fundraising to focus on seed-stage startups — Pear, a six-year-old, Palo Alto, Calif.-based seed-stage firm whose bets on nascent startups are closely watched by early-stage investors … | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
US-Indian startup Observe.ai, which uses natural language processing to analyze speech for call centers, raises $26M Series A led by Scale Venture Partners — Countless tech platforms are setting out to help call centers automate conversations with their customers.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Ordr, a network-level cybersecurity platform that flags suspicious events in real time, raises $27.5M Series B, after emerging from stealth in Feb. with $16.5M — Woe be the enterprise that pinches pennies and opts for a lax cybersecurity policy. Kaspersky Lab reported a threefold year …
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| Matt Phillips / New York Times: |
Despite strong headwinds, from a trade war to regulatory scrutiny, Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Facebook have seen their stocks soar in 2019 — Giant tech stocks have posted a remarkable year, shrugging off the trade war, bipartisan political hostility and regulatory threats.
Tweets: @stevelohr and @nytimes
| Annie Musgrove / Tech.eu: |
Secure Code Warrior, which offers gamified coding security training for developers, raises $47.6M led by Goldman Sachs — Secure Code Warrior, the global cybersecurity training company with a base in Belgium, has raised a Series B funding round of $47.6 million led by Goldman Sachs.| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Berlin-based insurance tech startup Wefox Group adds $110M to the $125M Series B it raised in March; sources say its pre-money valuation is now $1.65B — Wefox Group, the Berlin-based insurtech startup behind the consumer-facing insurance app and carrier One and the insurance platform Wefox … Sponsor Posts
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