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In unsealed court docs, Facebook managers appeared to admit to major flaws in ad targeting capabilities in 2016 and wondered if they were misleading advertisers — Facebook is currently waging a PR campaign purporting to show that Apple is seriously injuring American small businesses through its iOS privacy features.
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| Dipayan Ghosh / Wired: |
Facebook claims about big losses to small businesses from iOS privacy changes look shaky when one examines the technical changes Facebook announced in response — The social media giant would have you believe that Apple's privacy update will hurt the little guys. But Facebook's motives aren't so altruistic.
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| Lorraine Longhi / The Copper Courier: |
Some GoDaddy employees are upset after the company sent a phishing email scam to test its employees, with the email promising a $650 one-time holiday bonus — GoDaddy surpassed 20 million customers this year and laid off or reassigned hundreds of employees during the coronavirus pandemic in Arizona, Iowa, and Texas.| Financial Times: |
China's market regulator announces an antitrust investigation into Alibaba for alleged monopolistic practices, the first investigation of its kind in China — Probe into China's biggest tech group is one of the first of its kind for country's internet sector
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| South China Morning Post: |
The Alibaba antitrust probe was likely triggered by online merchants being forced to pick only one platform as their distribution channel, a widespread practice — Chinese regulators will look into the ‘picking one from two’ practice as part of their probe into Alibaba Group Holding … | Bloomberg: |
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| Joe Tidy / BBC: |
UK cosmetic surgery chain The Hospital Group confirms a ransomware attack after hacker group REvil claims it has obtained more than 900GB of patient photographs — Hackers have stolen the data of a large cosmetic surgery chain and are threatening to publish patients' before and after photos, among other details.| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Bloomberg has acquired Second Measure, a data analytics firm offering consumer behavior and company performance insights; Second Measure previously raised ~$25M — Bloomberg today announced that it has acquired data analytics platform Second Measure, a San Mateo-based startup that leverages big data … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Citrix confirmed ADC networking equipment is being actively exploited to amplify DDoS attacks against a “small number of customers”; patch expected mid-January — Citrix says it's working on a fix, expected next year. — Threat actors have discovered a way to bounce … | Andy Maxwell / TorrentFreak: |
Leaked docs show Nintendo carried out a surveillance operation, with a “carrot and stick” approach, on a hacker who was researching exploits for 3DS — Leaked Nintendo documents have revealed a frightening surveillance operation carried out against a hacker who was researching exploits for the 3DS handheld.
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TechRaptor, ScreenRant, TechNadu, Future Game Releases, Fudzilla, and Slashdot
| Eric Newcomer / Newcomer: |
An interview with Keith Rabois, who has championed Miami as a tech destination after moving there, and whose investment portfolio has seen major exits this year — Keith Rabois just moved to South Florida. Now he wants Silicon Valley to join him. — 15 hr ago — Keith Rabois is ubiquitous these days.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Amazon's $250 Echo Frames review: good as a Bluetooth headset, little noise bleed, good mic quality, but middling battery life, falls short as an Alexa device — Great in concept, but there's a limit to what Alexa can do on a phone — I did not expect to like the Amazon Echo Frames as much as I do.| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
UK-based Brightpearl, which offers operations management software for logistics and more, raises $33M Series C led by Sage — Brightpearl, which allows retailers to streamline their operations thus boosting sales, has raised $33 million in funding to scale its business.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Nuro says it has been granted a permit to test and charge for its commercial autonomous delivery service by California's DMV, the first company to do so — Hours after announcing that it acquired self-driving truck startup Ike, Nuro revealed it's the first company to receive permission …
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The Hill, Nuro, California DMV, Internet of Things News, Digital Trends, Bloomberg, Neowin, SiliconANGLE, Engadget, and Slashdot. Tweets: @avgregr
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