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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
GSMA says it has canceled Mobile World Congress after the coronavirus made it “impossible” to hold the event — MWC 2020 is no more — The world's biggest phone show, Mobile World Congress, is no longer taking place this year. After coronavirus threatened to throw MWC into chaos …
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| New York Times: |
Andy Rubin's Essential Products, which raised $330M to build smartphones and was valued at $1B, says it is ceasing operations — The smartphone company founded by Mr. Rubin, a former Google executive, struggled to win over customers. — SAN FRANCISCO — Essential Products …
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| John Detrixhe / Quartz: |
Research: Apple Pay makes up about 5% of global card transactions and is on pace to double that share by 2025 — Future of Finance — New technology is upending everything in finance. — Apple's mobile wallet is gobbling up a growing chunk of card payments around the world.
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Business Insider, CNET, 9to5Mac, MacDailyNews, The Next Web, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, MacRumors, iMore, and iPhone in Canada Blog
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Book excerpt from Steven Levy's Facebook: The Inside Story, with a look at Zuckerberg's lost handwritten journal, in which he noted plans for world domination — In the early days of Facebook, Zuck kept his plans for world domination in handwritten journals. He destroyed them.
Tweets: @joshconstine, @a_greenberg, @nxthompson, @rachellarris, @wired, @hipcityreg, @stevenlevy, @stevenlevy, @stevenlevy, and @stevenlevy
| Financial Times: |
Facebook says it has banned a network of two dozen fake pages and accounts linked to two Southeast Asian telecoms for using disinformation against rivals — South-east Asian providers said to have used fake accounts to discredit rivals — Facebook has alleged that one of south-east Asia's …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp says it now has 2B users worldwide, up from the 1.5B it announced two years ago — WhatsApp, the most popular messaging service, revealed today just how big it has become. The Facebook-owned app said it has amassed two billion users, up from 1.5 billion it revealed two years ago.
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| Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
UK proposes plans to put media regulator Ofcom in charge of regulating social media, with a focus on removing illegal content and minimizing “harmful” content — Ministers unveil plans to block harmful content, while guaranteeing free speech — Ofcom will be put in charge …
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Google rolls out Emoji Kitchen, which mashes up two emojis into a sticker, for Gboard on Android — Compatible with WhatsApp, Messenger, Telegram, and more — There are already hundreds of emoji available to cover every emotion from yawning to being a straight-up drunk weirdo.
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| Data Protection Commission: |
Ireland's Data Protection Commission: Facebook has postponed launching Dating on Valentine's Day in Europe after DPC resorted to an inspection to procure docs — Facebook Ireland first contacted the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) in relation to its intention to roll-out a new Dating feature in the EU on Monday 3 February.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Reuters launches a new Reuters Fact Check business unit and blog and partners with Facebook to review news headlines, deepfakes, and user generated content — Eye-witness photos and videos distributed by news wire Reuters already go through an exhaustive media verification process.
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| Bojan Pancevski / Wall Street Journal: |
US officials claim Huawei has, for over a decade, been able to covertly access mobile-phone networks globally through back doors designed for law enforcement — Trump administration ramps up push for allies to block Chinese company — U.S. officials say Huawei Technologies Co … | Andrew Morse / CNET: |
Flipboard launches Flipboard TV, an in-app feature that offers professional short-form video, for $2.99/mo; will be a Galaxy S20 exclusive for first 3 months — Flipboard , the popular news aggregator app, is introducing a new subscription video service. Called Flipboard TV …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
GitHub launches a subsidiary in India, saying it's home to its third-largest community of developers and it saw 22% growth there over the past year — GitHub has launched an Indian subsidiary as it looks to capitalize on recent growth in the country. — The code-hosting platform … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
FBI says it received 467,361 cybercrime complaints in 2019, with attacks involving business email compromise causing about half of the estimated $3.5B in losses — Average loss per BEC scam amounted to nearly $75,000, per complaint, on average. — The FBI received 467,361 internet … | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Radar, a location data startup that positions itself as privacy-focused, raises $20M Series B led by Accel to build out its platform — Pick any app on your phone, and there's a greater than average chance that it's tracking your location right now. — Sometimes, they don't even tell you.
Tweets: @vas
| Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter: |
Profile of DOJ antitrust chief Makan Delrahim who has been privately telling people to expect a criminal antitrust case in Silicon Valley in the next few months — As Hollywood scales up to battle big tech, Makan Delrahim, the nation's top antitrust regulator (and a former movie producer) … | David Gelles / New York Times: |
Profile of Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf, who has led it through several crises since 2014, including Broadcom's failed takeover and a vicious spat with Apple — After a career spent working on “very important backup plans,” Steve Mollenkopf has steered Qualcomm through one rough patch after another.
Tweets: @nytimesbusiness, @nytimesbusiness, and @nytimesbusiness
| The Verge: |
A look at online coding program Lambda School, which lets students defer tuition payments until they have jobs, but that many say is costly and under-delivers — Students at Lambda School say the program hasn't delivered on its promise — Bethany Surber was sleeping on friends' couches … | Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
Meditation app maker Headspace raises $53M in equity, led by Blisce, and $40M in debt and will use the funds to build tools for users with chronic diseases — Meditation app maker Headspace has raised $53 million in new equity funding and another $40 million in debt.
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| Hired: |
State of Software Engineers 2019: global demand for AR/VR engineers up by 1,400%, gaming developers up 146%, security engineers up 49% but slower than in 2018 — Overview — The worldwide process of digital transformation, while something of a buzzword, reflects a critical truth: every company is now a technology company.
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| John Herrman / New York Times: |
Third-party sellers from China and other countries are flooding Amazon with thousands of new brands, overwhelming the USPTO as applications soar for trademarks — How Amazon is causing us to drown in trademarks. — Maybe it's cold, and you need some winter gloves.
Tweets: @abhabhattarai, @annehelen, and @profcarroll
| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Battery Ventures closes on $2B in commitments across two funds, a $1.2B flagship and another $800M companion vehicle, two years after its last fundraise — Battery Ventures, the now 37-year-old investment firm, just closed on two new funds that — at $2 billion in capital commitments … | Sam Nussey / Reuters: |
SoftBank's Vision Fund posts an operating loss of $2.05B in Q4 compared to a $1.6B profit a year earlier; Vision Fund invested $74.6B in 88 companies as of Q4 — TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's SoftBank Group Corp said on Wednesday its third-quarter operating profit fell 99%, well short of analyst estimates … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Irish startup Fenergo, whose platform helps financial institutions onboard customers, meet compliance, and more, raises $80M at an $800M post-money valuation — Europe has emerged as a key region for hatching and scaling fintech companies, and today one of the bigger hopefuls is announcing … | Jem Aswad / Variety: |
Research: over the past year, 95M people in the US used a major streaming service, 25M had a family plan, 13M had a free trial, and 10M+ were sharing a login — Over the past year, 95 million people in the U.S. used a major streaming service, 68 million were self-paying … | Edward Ongweso Jr / VICE: |
Consumer advocacy group DoNotPay launches Robo Revenge, an app that fights robocallers by giving them burner credit card info and then helping users sue them — DoNotPay, the family of consumer advocacy services meant to protect people from corporate exploitation, is launching a new app aimed …
Tweets: @jbrowder1, @billbrowder, @jbrowder1, and @qdwoods
| Kadhim Shubber / Financial Times: |
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