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Facebook will now select stories and excerpts automatically for Trending topic pages, show topics instead of story descriptions in Trending section — Today, we're making some changes to the Trending feature on Facebook that will make the product more automated and will no longer require people …
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Sources: Facebook letting go of entire Trending Topics editorial staff, consisting of 15-18 workers contracted through a third party — Facebook will no longer employ humans to write descriptions for items in its Trending section, which attracted controversy over allegations of political bias in May.
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Sources: Spotify retaliates against artists who give exclusives to rivals by excluding tracks from promoted playlists and demoting their songs in search results — Service said to tell labels it may keep tracks off playlists — Apple Music emerges as largest challenge to streaming leader
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Spotify calls report that it demotes songs in search due to artists' exclusives with rivals “unequivocally false” — Spotify doesn't like exclusives. But it says it won't bury Frank Ocean and other acts in its search results. — Spotify doesn't like it when big-name acts take their music to Apple or Tidal first.
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| Ina Fried / Recode: |
White House proposing new federal rules letting foreign entrepreneurs with $345K+ in US funding remain in country for 5 years; no congressional approval needed — The move, which won't require congressional approval, allows people to stay up to five years, provided their startup has significant U.S. investment.
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| Matthew Braga / Bloomberg: |
As major tech firms focus on voice assistants, microphone makers face pressure to improve product that hasn't seen much change since 2012 — The billion-dollar digital mic industry hasn't seen much improvement since the launch of the iPhone 5. — Subscribe Reprints
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| Akin Oyedele / Business Insider: |
PE firm Apollo Global taking Rackspace private in $4.3B deal, valuing firm at 38% premium over August 3 closing price when first reports about buyout surfaced — Apollo Global, a private-equity firm, has agreed to buy Rackspace in a $4.3 billion deal that would take the cloud-computing company private.
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| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Twitter is working on an anti-harassment tool to let users filter posts using keywords — Abuse has led to depature of several high-profile users — New solution is similar to Instagram's keyword-based filter — Twitter Inc. is working on a keyword-based tool that will let people filter …
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See also Mediagazer| Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes: |
Everything we know about the secretive NSO Group and its founder Omri Lavie, who are behind the latest iPhone hacks — NSO Group employees' lives must seem no different from others in the Israeli tech scene. They turn up every morning at their office in Herzelia, in Tel Aviv's northern district …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple to use Sony's FeliCa chip, a mobile tap-to-pay standard, in new iPhones in Japan to let users pay for transit with their smartphones — Company planning new iPhone model with Sony's FeliCa chip — Apple in talks with financial insitution for mobile payments
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| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Dropbox prompting users to reset passwords that haven't been changed since mid-2012, calls it a preventative move, says no evidence accounts improperly accessed — Dropbox is requiring users who have not changed their passwords since mid-2012 to reset their passwords this afternoon.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Wallet introduces feature that lets users automatically transfer funds to their bank accounts, skipping the manual “cash out” process — Google today is stepping up its battle with Venmo, Square Cash and other person-to-person payment applications with an update …
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Android Authority, Engadget, TheStreet.com, Digital Trends and Phandroid
| Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal: |
PitchBook: VCs invested $1.2B+ in marketing tech, compared to around $860M in ad tech firms in 2015, betting on a more predictable revenue model — The distinction between the two sectors is increasingly blurring, but investors say a predictable revenue model is keySponsor Posts
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