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Facebook's David Marcus is stepping down from Coinbase board citing his new assignment to lead the social media giant's blockchain strategy — David Marcus is stepping down from the board of directors at cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, citing his new assignment at Facebook leading the social media giant's blockchain strategy.
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| Ada Hui / CoinDesk: |
Leaked prospectus: Bitmain to file for up to $18B Hong Kong IPO at $40B-$50B valuation in Sept., had $2B in revenues in Q1 and forecasts $2B+ in profits in 2018 — Bitmain Technologies, Ltd. is about to go public. — According to documents obtained by CoinDesk, the cryptocurrency mining company …
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Tweets: @coindesk, @nathanielpopper, @fattailcapital, @joonian, @tradingroomapp, @parabolictrav, @brianmcc, and @coindesk
| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Sources describe how Mark Zuckerberg arrived at the decision to take down Infowars, finally making up his mind after seeing news of Apple's removal of podcasts — Late on Sunday, after returning to his hotel room on a trip away from home, Mark Zuckerberg made a decision he had hoped to avoid.
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| Kathryn Watson / CBS News: |
Law firm serves Wikileaks a lawsuit via Twitter on behalf of the DNC; a federal judge approved the move after attempts to serve the lawsuit via email failed — The Democratic National Committee on Friday officially served its lawsuit to WikiLeaks via Twitter, employing a rare method to serve …
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| Munsif Vengattil / Reuters: |
Facebook changes authorization process for users who manage Pages with a large US following, requiring them to use 2FA and confirm their primary location — (Reuters) - Facebook Inc (FB.O) will introduce an authorization process for users who manage Facebook pages with a large U.S. following …
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Facebook, The Verge, CNET, Engadget, Mashable, Marketing Land, Neowin, Gizmodo, and TechCrunch. Tweets: @mattnavarra
| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Doug Field, former SVP of engineering at Tesla, returns to Apple, sources say to work in Bob Mansfield's project Titan group — Here's some interesting hiring news I've heard through the little birdie grapevine:1 Doug Field — who left Tesla in May after overseeing Model 3 production …
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| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Facebook announces Facebook Connectivity, a new umbrella organization for all of its broadband and infrastructure projects, including Internet.org — If Facebook's founding mission was to make the world “more open and connected,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg seemed hell-bent on doing it in more ways than one.| Nat Levy / GeekWire: |
SEC filing: mobile marketplace OfferUp is raising a $150M round and has already raised $39M of it — OfferUp is raising a huge round of funding as the mobile marketplace continues to grow and battle a crowded field of competitors. — According to a filing with the U.S. Securities …
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Macs can be remotely hacked when connecting to Wi-Fi for first time; issue fixed in macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, but machines with older OSes remain vulnerable — APPLE'S SUPPLY CHAIN is one of the most closely monitored and analyzed in the world, both because of the control the company exerts and keen interest from third parties.| Anton Shilov / AnandTech: |
A look at how software for a new manufacturing tool, which was not checked to be malware-free, got WannaCry into TSMC's fabs and shut them down for several days — TSMC announced this week that it suffered a computer malware outbreak, resulting in a roughly 3 day outage for parts of the fab while systems were restored.| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Regulatory filings show that Hulu lost about $357M in Q2 due to higher programming and marketing costs; parent companies to invest an additional $1.5B in 2018 — Parent companies to invest additional $1.5 billion in streaming venture in 2018 — Hulu's cash burn has accelerated … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitch says it will close its Communities and will implement a tagging system in September to help users better find streams — Say goodbye to Twitch's Communities. The game streaming service says it's soon killing off this still relatively new addition to its site in favor of implementing a tagging system instead.
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