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Uber and Lyft driver in St. Louis has live-streamed hundreds of rides on Twitch without passenger consent; Uber and Lyft say the practice is legal in Missouri — It's legal — An Uber and Lyft driver in St. Louis, Missouri has given around 700 rides since March 2018 …
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| Marrian Zhou / CNET: |
Venmo says user transaction history is public by default because it's fun to share info with friends and the option to go private is clearly marked in the app — If you haven't noticed, your Venmo transaction history is public by default. Unless you change the settings, people can see when you buy things.
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| Kirsten Grind / Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook suspends data analytics firm Crimson Hexagon, which boasts repository of 1T social media posts, as it investigates the company's government contracts — Facebook says it was probing whether data-analytics firm Crimson Hexagon's government contracts comply with Facebook policies
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Tweets: @sarahfrier, @dmac1, @wsj, and @dseetharaman
| Louise Matsakis / Wired: |
Facebook plans to launch Athena, likely a constellation of small internet-delivering satellites, starting in 2019, after downgrading a drone project last month — FIBER OPTIC CABLES are the gold standard of a good internet connection, but laying them can be expensive, and in some parts of the world, a physically daunting task.| Stacy Cowley / New York Times: |
UpGuard: sensitive documents from 100+ companies including VW, Toyota, and Tesla were exposed on a publicly accessible server belonging to Level One Robotics — Automakers like Tesla, Toyota and Volkswagen go to great lengths to keep their technical information confidential.| Sean Hollister / CNET: |
Google says it got duck.com after buying video compression startup On2 in 2010; will now redirect domain to a page with links to DuckDuckGo, Wikipedia, and more — Google owns Duck.com, which has been driving rival search engine DuckDuckGo up the wall for over six years.
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| Richard Waters / Financial Times: |
With EU Android fine, some see futile effort to curb Google's dominance; others see first steps to check Google's data hoovering and guaranteed ad distribution — The tightly knit package of services Google has assembled around its Android smartphone software has supported one of the tech world's most profitable businesses.
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| Jackie Wattles / CNNMoney: |
Coinbase's Federal Election Commission filing says it has formed a political action committee (PAC) to raise money to spend on U.S. elections — Coinbase, the popular cryptocurrency exchange, formed its own political action committee. — It's a sign Coinbase is angling for more sway …
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CoinDesk, Bitcoinist.com, Reuters, Bitsonline, CryptoGlobe, and Cointelegraph
| Bloomberg: |
Inside state-sponsored trolling efforts that combine virtual hate mobs, surveillance, and misinformation to silence critical voices and spread disinformation — Sitting cross-legged on a charpoy, an Indian day bed, Mahaveer Prasad Khileri taps on his laptop, his face lit by the screen …
Tweets: @standupideas, @carljackmiller, @benimmo, @benimmo, @benimmo, @benimmo, and @benimmo
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: event-planning company Eventbrite has filed confidentially for an IPO; the company has raised more than $350M and was valued at more than $1B in 2014 — Event-planning company has filed confidentially for an IPO — Event-planning company Eventbrite Inc. has filed …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Interview with Roku's CEO about how the company is growing its ad business and software licensing to OEMs, which generated more revenues than device sales in Q1 — Roku wants to build out a ‘big, next-generation’ targeted ad platform — Roku sells more dedicated streaming devices than perhaps any other company in the world.| Mark Kleinman / Sky News: |
Sources: Alibaba, Tencent, and CMC are in early-stage discussions about buying roughly 20% of WPP China, valuing the business between $2B and $2.5B — Alibaba Group and Tencent Holdings, the two biggest names in China's technology industry, are in talks to buy a stake in the $2.5bn (£1.9bn) Chinese operations of WPP Group.
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