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| Dane Glasgow / The Keyword: |
Google Maps turns 15 and updates its app with five tabs: Explore, Commute, Saved, Contribute, and Updates, new transit features, and more — In 2005, we set out to map the world. Since then we've pushed the limits of what a map can do: from helping you easily navigate from point A to B …
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Tweets: @google, @googleplay, @laurengoode, @laurengoode, @julianchokkattu, @timoreilly, @googlemaps, @sarthakgh, and @sundarpichai
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Report: Apple shipped 30.7M Watches worldwide in 2019, up 36% YoY, outselling the entire Swiss watch industry, which shipped 21.1M units, down 13% YoY — The Apple Watch continues to dominate the market — The Apple Watch wasn't just the best-selling smartwatch last year …
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| David Kirton / Reuters: |
Sources: Xiaomi, Huawei, Oppo, and Vivo are creating a platform to let developers outside China upload apps onto all of their app stores simultaneously — SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) - China's Xiaomi, Huawei Technologies, Oppo and Vivo are joining forces to create a platform for developers outside China …
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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Huawei is suing Verizon, accusing it of using 12 patents relating to its network technology without authorization — US carrier accused of using 12 patents without authorization — Huawei has announced that it's suing Verizon for alleged patent violations, marking the latest twist …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Twitter Q4: revenue of $1.01B, up 11% YoY, net income of $119M, down from $255M in Q4 2018, monetizable DAU of 152M compared to 126M a year ago; stock up 15%+ — As Twitter continues to try to find the right balance between making its platform easier to use while also less prone to toxicity and abuse …
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
SEC commissioner proposes a three-year grace period from a startup's first token sale to achieving a level of decentralization sufficient to pass SEC evaluation — SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce wants to give legitimate crypto projects a shot at success without running afoul of U.S. securities laws.
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| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Nuro receives a two-year driverless exemption for its new delivery vehicle called R2 and says it is the first company to receive such an exemption from NHTSA — Nuro, the autonomous delivery startup that raised $940 million in financing from Softbank Vision Fund last year …
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| Robert Heaton: |
Software engineer finds that Wacom drawing tablets track the name of every application opened on a user's computer and send the data to Google Analytics — Chapter 1: The discovery — I have a Wacom drawing tablet. I use it to draw cover illustrations for my blog posts, such as this one:
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| Nat Levy / GeekWire: |
Amazon says it plans to expand its headcount in Bellevue, WA to more than 15,000, an increase of more than 7x over the 2,000 Amazon staff in the city today — Amazon said it plans to expand its headcount to more than 15,000 people in Bellevue, Wash., the growing city 10 miles east of Seattle …
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| Maddie Stone / VICE: |
Lawyers and repair advocates say Apple's contract for its independent repair provider program is onerous for shops and invasive for consumers — Last August, in what was widely hailed a victory for the right-to-repair movement, Apple announced it would begin selling parts, tools …
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Cloud security company Netskope raises $340M led by Sequoia Capital Global Equities at a valuation of nearly $3B — Netskope has always focused its particular flavor of security on the cloud, and as more workloads have moved there, it has certainly worked in its favor.| The Information: |
Sources: Amazon has considered selling Twitch's live-streaming technology to other companies as a service — Twitch hasn't turned into the advertising powerhouse Amazon might have expected when it bought the live-streaming gaming service in 2014. But Amazon may have found a new way to generate …
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| Linda Kinstler / protocol: |
An in-depth look at the role of ethicists within tech companies, spurred by scandals like Cambridge Analytica, and their somewhat limited power to effect change — Fifty-two floors below the top of Salesforce Tower, I meet Paula Goldman in a glass-paneled conference room where the words EQUALITY OFFICE …
Tweets: @rachaelmyrow, @dsilverman, @protocol, and @benioff
| Jeff Kauflin / Forbes: |
Profile of Multicoin Capital, a $100M crypto hedge fund which, between Oct. 2017 and Nov. 2019, had returns of 143%, compared to bitcoin's rise of 109% — I cover fintech, cryptocurrencies, blockchain and investing. — Sitting side-by-side in a trendy Manhattan cafe where a glass … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon launches Brand Voice, a fully managed service within Amazon Polly for letting brands work with Amazon's engineers to build custom text-to-speech voices — If Amazon has its way, companies will soon tap Amazon Web Services (AWS) en masse to create voices tailored to their brands.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple adds universal purchases for iOS and macOS apps to the Xcode 11.4 beta, letting developers bundle apps — The new Xcode 11.4 beta update, released today alongside the iOS 13.4, tvOS 13.4 and macOS Catalina 10.15.4 betas, includes support for universal purchases … | Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: EU antitrust investigators have deepened their inquiry and sought internal Facebook documents related to alleged efforts to squash potential rivals — Authorities have sought documents related to allegations that company leveraged access to user data to stifle competition
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Tweets: @larakiara, @justinhendrix, @dseetharaman, @profgalloway, @brexit_sham, @samschech, and @jason_kint
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says Chrome's ad blocker will expand to target disruptive video ads in August, including long pre-roll ads, mid-roll ads, and overlays ads on video — Last year, Google made Chrome's standards-backed ad blocker fully available around the world. The Better Ads Standards today announced a … | Reuters: |
US Attorney General William Barr says the US and its allies should consider investing in Nokia and Ericsson to counter Huawei — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General William Barr on Thursday stressed the threat posed by Huawei Technologies and said the United States and its allies …
Tweets: @campuscodi and @g_ratnam
| Christina Farr / CNBC: |
After layoffs at 23andMe, Ancestry says it is laying off 6%, citing slowdown across entire DNA testing category, now that most of early adopters have enrolled — - Ancestry, following 23andMe, made the decision to lay off some employees. It confirmed to CNBC that the cuts affected 6% of its workforce.
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Tweets: @chrissyfarr, @amyjohnsoncrow, @joshelman, @hidrees, @shiraovide, @emilylmullin, @jakejakeny, and @joemckendrick. Thanks:@mattrosoff
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Clear, which wants to build a high-volume transaction system on the blockchain, raises $13M Series A led by Eight Roads — Clear is an early stage startup with a big ambition. It wants to build a blockchain for high-volume transaction systems like payments between telcos.
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