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Source: Xiaomi raises $4.7B after pricing IPO at the low end of the range at HK$17 each, valuing Xiaomi at about $54B, roughly half the company's initial goal — Xiaomi Corp. and some existing investors raised $4.7 billion after pricing a Hong Kong initial public offering at the low end of a marketed range …
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Twitter is reorganizing its teams into groups, like engineering, instead of individual products; Kayvon Beykpour, former Periscope CEO, named head of product — - Ed Ho, who has been on leave since May, explained in a series of tweets his decision was based largely on an unexpected family loss.| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Brave ad-blocking browser releases update with Tor-powered Private Tabs in beta — Want more online privacy? Brave, the ad-blocking browser, has a new way to get it on the web. — A new version of the browser released Thursday adds technology called onion routing from the Tor Project as an option to its private tabs.
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Brave Browser, The Register, PC Gamer, Cyberscoop, reddit.com, and Infosecurity.US. Tweets: @torproject. Thanks:@rogerwcheng
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Instagram adds the ability to add licensed songs as background music for Stories starting today in 7 countries and says it has 400M daily Stories users — The right music can make a boring photo or video epic, so Instagram is equipping users with a way to add popular songs to their Stories.
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Android Police, Instagram, BuzzFeed, International Business Times, MacRumors, 9to5Google, The Next Web, Firstpost, Social Media Today, Pocket-lint, Neowin, MSPoweruser, Ubergizmo, SlashGear, POPSUGAR Culture, iDownloadBlog.com, 9to5Mac, Tubefilter, Android and Me, Droid Life, iPhone Hacks, Refinery29, Engadget, The FADER, Business Insider, Mashable, The Verge, and CNBC. Tweets: @joshconstine
| Colin Lecher / The Verge: |
The California Consumer Privacy Act, one of the toughest data privacy bills in the US, has been signed into law and will go into effect in 2020 — California lawmakers passed one of the toughest data privacy laws in the United States today, as they faced pressure from an even stronger ballot measure in the state.
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| Sahil Patel / Digiday: |
Verizon is shutting down go90; sources say it will be discontinued by July 31 and that shows and all content rights will be returned to production partners — Verizon is finally calling it quits on its expensive mobile video bet, Go90. — The wireless communications giant is shutting … | Inti De Ceukelaire: |
Researcher: Facebook quiz maker NameTests exposed personal info of ~120M users for years, in a data leak that was fixed after the Cambridge Analytica scandal — Ever took a personality test on Facebook? For years, anyone could have accessed your private information, friends, posts and photos.
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BGR, TechCrunch, Business Insider, KnowTechie, Inquirer, Firstpost, CNET, Digital Trends, The Hacker News, The Register, Engadget, YouTube, Gizmodo, reddit.com, and The Verge. Tweets: @securinti
| Catalin Cimpanu / BleepingComputer: |
Report: 2,446 Android and 600 iOS apps using Google's Firebase service found to have misconfigured databases exposing 100M+ records of a wide range of user data — Thousands of iOS and Android mobile applications are exposing over 113 GBs of data via over 2,271 misconfigured Firebase databases …
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Niantic Labs, which helped develop Pokémon Go, says it will open the underlying AR platform, called Real World Engine, to third-party developers — Niantic Labs, the San Francisco-based game developer responsible for creating the massively successful augmented reality game Pokémon Go …
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The Verge, International Business Times, XDA Developers, AndroidHeadlines.com, Engadget, KnowTechie, Fast Company, Niantic, Digital Trends, Road to VR, Android Central, IGN, Variety, CNET, SlashGear, TechSpot, Niantic, Android Authority, VentureBeat, iPhone Hacks, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, and Business Insider
Tweets: @andrewprojdent, @chetfaliszek, @nianticlabs, and @tim_stevens
| Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss / Reuters: |
Report: ICOs raised $13.7B in the first five months of 2018, up from $7B in 2017; only 30% of the 3,470 ICOs since 2013 closed successfully — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Digital currency sales jumped to $13.7 billion in the first five months of the year, nearly double the amount raised for the whole of 2017 …
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Twitter makes its Ad Transparency Center, announced before Congressional hearings in October, available to all users — Twitter is unveiling the Ads Transparency Center that it announced back in October. — This comes as Twitter and other online platforms have faced growing political scrutiny around …
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SiliconANGLE, Bloomberg, Social Media Today, Firstpost, AndroidHeadlines.com, MediaNama, Bloomberg, AdExchanger, MSPoweruser, Marketing Land, VentureBeat, Business Insider, Twitter, CNET, Axios, Engadget, Reuters, ZDNet, and CNET. Tweets: @twitter
| Anna Hensel / VentureBeat: |
Facebook rolls out a button users can click to see the ads a Page is running, even if not targeted to the user, across Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger — Facebook today released a new tool that will allow users to see what advertisements a Page is running — whether or not all of those advertisements …
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Digiday, Social Media Today, Facebook, Mashable, Marketing Land, Wired, Facebook, Wall Street Journal, CNET, CNBC, Engadget, and Center for Public Integrity
Tweets: @sarahfrier, @robleathern, @facebook, and @mikeisaac
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