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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon acquires Ring, maker of video doorbells and other smart home devices; reports put the price tag at $1B+ — Amazon has reached an agreement to acquire Ring, the Santa Monica, Calif.-based maker of video cameras, doorbells and other smart home technologies, GeekWire has learned.
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Google Clips review: nice design and simple set up, but no sound recording, poor image quality, pricey, and redundant alongside a decent smartphone camera — Can you trust Google's algorithms with your most precious moments? — Picture this: you're hanging out with your kids or pets …
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| Tom McKay / Gizmodo: |
Google says it received ~2.4M takedown requests from 2014-2017 under EU's right to be forgotten laws and complied with 43% of them — Google has now been complying with the European Union's controversial “right to be forgotten” laws, which the European Court of Justice first ruled applied to search engines in 2014, for three years.
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| Nat Levy / GeekWire: |
T-Mobile and Sprint announce the 30 and six cities respectively they plan to build out 5G for, including Dallas and LA, which will be available next year — The race to the next generation data network — 5G — is heating up. — T-Mobile and Sprint — the nation's third …
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Venmo reaches FTC settlement over bad security and transaction practices, with FTC Chairwoman Maureen K. Ohlhausen noting “consumers suffered real harm” — ‘Consumers suffered real harm,’ says commissioner — The Federal Trade Commission has announced a settlement with Venmo …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google releases beta of its open source Flutter SDK for building iOS and Android apps — Flutter is Google's open source toolkit for helping developers build iOS and Android apps. It's not necessarily a household name yet, but it's also less than a year old and, to some degree … | Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Facebook to launch Local News Subscriptions Accelerator, a $3M three-month pilot program to help metro papers boost digital subscription efforts — Facebook Journalism Project will announce today the launch of its Local News Subscriptions Accelerator, a $3 million, three-month pilot program …
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| Johana Bhuiyan / Recode: |
Ford chooses Miami to test autonomous ride-hail and delivery businesses, including pilot with Postmates and Domino's, and is setting up fleet-management center — The company is testing its cars in a delivery service, mapping out the streets for a driverless ride-hail service and setting up a fleet-management center.
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| Caroline O'Donovan / BuzzFeed: |
Sick people in the US are increasingly using Uber or Lyft to get to the emergency room, instead of an ambulance, exposing drivers to potential legal risks — Mike Fish was driving for Uber 10 minutes outside of Boston when he picked up a second passenger in his Uber Pool who, he said, seemed “out of it, drowsy — almost sedated.”
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| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Square reports Q4 revenue of $283M, up 47% YoY, versus estimates of $266.3M, and 2017 subscription and services-based revenue of $253M, up 95% from 2016 — Square posted a largely successful fourth quarter that showed continuing growth with its Cash App — with users spending around $90 million …
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| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Pinterest has hired former Google and Square executive Francoise Brougher as its first COO — Brougher joins as Pinterest is eyeing an IPO. — Pinterest just made an important new hire: The visual search company is bringing on Francoise Brougher, a former executive from both Google and Square, to be its first-ever COO.| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
AT&T describes post-net neutrality plans for paid prioritization, to “enable innovative new technologies” like autonomous cars, remote surgery, and VR services — “AT&T is not interested in creating fast lanes and slow lanes,” ISP claims. — AT&T is talking up the benefits … | Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Asus announces 6.2" Zenfone 5 and $499+ flagship 5Z with iPhone X-like design and notch, Snapdragon 636 and 845 respectively; 5 available in April, 5Z in June — 'Some people will say it's copying Apple, but we cannot get away from what users want' — Ahead of today's Zenfone 5 launch …
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| Marek Majkowski / Cloudflare Blog: |
Cloudflare says it's spotted massive DDoS amplification attacks that abuse Memcached servers and the UDP protocol, has mitigated attacks of up to 260Gbps — Over last couple of days we've seen a big increase in an obscure amplification attack vector - using the memcached protocol, coming from UDP port 11211.| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
Uber's SVP of leadership and strategy, Frances Frei, departs after joining the company in June 2017 to run program aimed at leadership development — The Harvard Business School professor will remain an adviser to the car-hailing company, but she's off to educate other execs.| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
Entertainment Software Rating Board says “in the near future” all physical, boxed games that contain in-game purchases will include a label notifying purchasers — The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) today announced that all physical, boxed games that contain …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten will roll its $9B loyalty program into a new blockchain-based cryptocurrency, Rakuten Coin — Back in 2016, Amazon's Japanese rival Rakuten acquired Bitnet, a bitcoin wallet startup that it had previously invested in, to help it work on blockchain technology and applications.| Michelle Castillo / CNBC: |
Etsy quarterly gross merchandising sales hit $1B for the first time, up 17.8% YoY, and Q4 revenue was $136.3M, vs. $132.5M estimated; stock up 13%+ after hours — - Earnings per share: 15 cents vs. 9 cents estimated according to a Thomson Reuters consensus estimate| Christina Farr / CNBC: |
Sources: Alphabet's Verily has been talking with insurers about joint bids for contracts that would involve taking on risk for hundreds of thousands of patients — - The company is looking to take on risk for patient populations and sharing in the upside if it can bring down health-care costs, sources tell CNBC.| Diane Bartz / Reuters: |
Sources: CFIUS, a US inter-agency panel focused on national security that can stop mergers, is examining Broadcom's bid for Qualcomm — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A national security panel that can stop mergers that could harm U.S. security has begun looking at Singapore-based chipmaker Broadcom Ltd's plan … | John Shinal / CNBC: |
Facebook VP Andrew Bosworth shares chart that shows the Trump campaign paid slightly higher CPM prices compared to Clinton in 2016 election, disputing reports — - Facebook executive Andrew Bosworth shared a tweet showing that President Trump paid more than Hillary Clinton did to reach users on the platform.
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