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| Charlie Warzel / New York Times: |
Shadow's Iowa failure was a dangerous combination of techno-utopianism and laziness, which led to slapdash software engineering, procurement, and deployment — Democrats desperately need to win the internet to beat Trump. Their first big test was a massive failure. — Mr. Warzel is an opinion writer at large.
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| @rabble: |
[Thread] Democratic campaign tech projects suffer from one-off startup-like funding with no money for further development, lack of trust between campaigns, more — If you want to understand what happened with Shadow and the failure of the Iowa Caucus app you have to understand how electoral campaign tech work is done and funded. Let me tell you a story to make sense of it.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Amid coronavirus fears, ZTE cancels its MWC 2020 press conference, LG Electronics says it is withdrawing from exhibiting and participating in the Barcelona expo — The second big company to cancel its MWC appearance — LG Electronics, the division of LG Corporation responsible for mobile phones …
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| Twitter: |
Twitter says users “may not deceptively share synthetic or manipulated media” likely to cause harm; such tweets will be labeled or removed — It's our responsibility to create rules on Twitter that are fair and set clear expectations for everyone on our service.
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| Emily McCormick / Yahoo Finance: |
Disney beats analyst expectations for Q1, reporting $20.86B in Q1 revenue, up 36% YoY, 26.5M subscribers for Disney+, and 30.4M for Hulu, up 33% YoY — DIS) posted better than expected results in the company's first report since the launch of its eponymous streaming service.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: NYSE owner Intercontinental Exchange has made a takeover offer for eBay that could value the marketplace at more than $30B; eBay stock closes up 8.78% — A deal could value the online marketplace at more than $30 billion — New York Stock Exchange owner Intercontinental Exchange Inc …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Instagram generated ~$20B in advertising revenue in 2019, making up more than a quarter of Facebook's revenue — - Unit brought in about $20 billion in 2019, people familiar say — Photo-sharing app has gained in importance since 2012 purchase
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| David Ingram / NBC News: |
A look at the wave of hundreds of tech companies helping enterprises comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act — Privacy-focused technology companies are offering a variety of services, from personal data scrubbing to business-focused software meant to help companies comply with the law.
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| Danish Khan / The Economic Times: |
India's premium smartphone segment grew 29% YoY in 2019; Apple was the fastest growing brand with 41% YoY growth, OnePlus maintained its No. 1 position — Apple was the fastest growing premium smartphone brand in 2019 with 41% yearly growth even as China's OnePlus maintained its leadership …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Google Fiber says it will no longer offer a linear TV package to new customers, and is partnering with streaming service FuboTV, after adding YouTube TV in Dec. — Google Fiber, a service under the Access division of Alphabet that provides fiber-to-the-premises service in the U.S. … | Asha Barbaschow / ZDNet: |
Australian logistics company Toll Group says it was targeted by a ransomware attack on Friday, causing delivery delays; Toll disabled some systems as precaution — The targeted attack has forced the company to disable its systems and revert to manual processes, causing delays across the country.| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Nvidia's GeForce Now game streaming service launches from beta with Steam, Epic Games Store, Battle.net, and Uplay support, rivaling Google Stadia at $5/month — The BYOG cloud gaming service with Steam, Epic, Battle.net, and Uplay support — For the past eight years …
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| David McCabe / New York Times: |
How the big companies like Marriott, Disney, and IBM, are pushing to limit Section 230 of the CDA, challenging Facebook, Google, and the internet as we know it — A motley group of powerful companies have their knives out for Section 230, which shields platforms from lawsuits over content posted by users.| Amanda Albright / Bloomberg: |
ConsenSys, a blockchain app developer started by Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin, buys broker-dealer Heritage Financial Systems to tokenize municipal bonds — - ConsenSys buys Heritage Financial Systems; Terms undisclosed — Firm seeks to ease issuance of tokenized bond offerings| Praveen Nagaraj / News Landed: |
Apple updates iCloud.com with mobile web support for Photos, Notes, Reminders, and Find iPhone — iCloud Photo Library on Android! — Apple has silently begun allowing native support for iCloud.com on mobile browsers for both iOS and (most importantly) Android.| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Google makes its Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2 AR headset available for direct purchase, nearly a year after its launch — Designed for businesses and developers and still $999 — Google is making its latest augmented reality headset, Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2 …
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| Sarah Buhr / TechCrunch: |
Real estate startup Homie, which employs realtors who don't take commission, raises $23M Series B and plans to expand to more US cities — Homie has made an impression among younger, first-time home buyers in the Utah and Arizona markets for cutting out the traditional closing costs …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Toronto-based BenchSci, which is using AI to accelerate drug discovery research and reduce related costs, raises $22M Series B led by F-Prime Capital — Assessing the health of pharmaceutical R&D by unearthing hidden patterns in procurement data is a task made simpler by AI.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Q&A with the general manager of Microsoft Game Stack, the cloud gaming services for developers, on how games are changing, the problem of discoverability, more — James Gwertzman started PlayFab to provide cloud-based tools and services for game developers, offloading … | Associated Press: |
Irish regulators have launched separate inquiries into Google, over location data, and Tinder, examining how they process user data after a number of complaints — LONDON (AP) — Irish regulators have launched separate inquiries into Google and dating app Tinder over how they process user data …
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