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Facebook gave 60+ device makers, including Apple, Amazon, and Samsung, deeper access to users' personal info than previously known, through private APIs — The company formed data-sharing partnerships with Apple, Samsung and dozens of other device makers, raising new concerns about its privacy protections.
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| Ime Archibong / Facebook Newsroom: |
Facebook says device-integrated APIs allowed vendors to recreate Facebook-like experiences, were governed by strict contracts, and are being faded out — The New York Times has today written a long piece about our device-integrated APIs — software we launched 10 years ago to help get Facebook onto mobile devices.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says it has reached an agreement to acquire GitHub for $7.5B; Nat Friedman, the founder of Xamarin, to be the new CEO of Github — Microsoft is acquiring GitHub. After reports emerged that the software giant was in talks to acquire GitHub, Microsoft is making it official today.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Nvidia launches Isaac robot platform with Jetson Xavier robot processor that it says delivers 30 trillion+ operations per second, for $1,300 — Nvidia launched its Nvidia Isaac robot platform today to power the next generation of autonomous machines, bringing artificial intelligence capabilities …
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Asus announces 6" ROG phone with a 90Hz display, a 2.96GHz Snapdragon 845 chip, and gaming accessories including an attachable fan; price and availability TBD — This is the latest, zaniest attempt at making gaming phones happen — Asus is starting off Computex 2018 on a high-spec note with the announcement of its ROG Phone.| Nathan Vardi / Forbes: |
Some funds founded by Nathan Myhrvold, which raised ~$3B to invest mostly in patents, had negative IRR of 15% to 24% in last decade; many key people have left — Forbes Staff Following the money trail — The other fund, Invention Development Fund, has posted an IRR of -24.7%.
Tweets: @mgsiegler, @deaneckles, @wilbanks, @fredbenenson, and @kennwhite
| Steven Sinofsky / Learning By Shipping: |
Overview of insights from Code Conference 2018 interviewees, many of whom treated the opportunity as a platform to apologize — A collection of quotes, one-liners (and apologies) that were interesting, insightful, thought-provoking from #CODECON. — The annual Code Conference continues …
Tweets: @riskreversal and @stevesi
| Sheera Frenkel / New York Times: |
Some political ads slipped or bypassed Facebook's new restrictions for disclosure and authorization in California's Fourth Congressional District primary — SAN FRANCISCO — Regina Bateson had just finished an Easter egg hunt with her children on April 1 when her phone started buzzing.| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
TransferWise to partner with BPCE Groupe, France's second largest bank with ~15M customers, to integrate its API within the bank's mobile apps from early 2019 — TransferWise might be best known for its international money transfer app, but the European fintech unicorn has always had ambitions …
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| Timothy Geigner / Techdirt: |
Federal judge approves class action status for Illinois residents that claim Facebook has violated the state's Biometric Information Privacy Act — The last time we discussed Illinois' Biometric Information Pirvacy Act, a 2008 law that gives citizens in the state rights governing …
| Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab: |
Profile of Verificado 2018, a fact checking service for Mexico's elections, where WhatsApp users send in information to verify and receive individual replies — “Instead of using broadcast to spread our debunks, we opted for an individual relationship.” — The growing stream of reporting … | Akash Senapaty / FactorDaily: |
A look at the mechanics of Bigo Live, a live streaming app from China, which is popular in South East Asia and claims 40M+ downloads in India, 200M+ worldwide — - Bigo sits comfortably in the top-10 grossing lists in India and other countries. In March 2018 alone Bigo was downloaded over 4 million times and grossed $8m worldwide.
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