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Donald Trump criticizes social media companies for allegedly “discriminating against Republican/Conservative voices”, says “we won't let that happen” — President Donald Trump on Saturday took to Twitter to allege social media companies are discriminating …
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| Casey Newton / The Interface: |
Reports indicate Sergey Brin only recently learned about Dragonfly, Google's censored search project for China, which may be further along than execs claim — On Thursday afternoon, a critical meeting at Google was derailed by a handful of tweets. Employees who had been pressing top executives …
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| Ellen Huet / Bloomberg: |
Sources: as Google considers return to China, Sundar Pichai talks about potential positive impact, while Sergey Brin, who led 2010 pullout, now sounds neutral — Mozilla, another progressive U.S. internet player, ceded moral high ground to stay in China — Google executives admitted …
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Source: Amazon is working on a DVR that will record live TV, wirelessly connect to Fire TV boxes, and stream the video to smartphones — - Box would record live TV and stream that video to smartphones — Device competes with offerings from TiVo, Dish's Slingbox
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| Anirban Sen / Livemint: |
Walmart says it has completed its $16B acquisition of Flipkart — Flipkart's existing management team led by CEO Kalyan Krishnamurthy will continue to lead the business
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| Sean Hollister / CNET: |
After Valve registered Steam.tv domain, the site is now live as a game streaming website currently only showing its annual Dota 2 international tournament — Over the past couple hours, we've seen a smattering of reports that PC gaming giant Valve had registered a new domain name: Steam.tv.
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Twitter's actions to limit third-party apps illustrate the company's indecisiveness, which sources say stems from Jack Dorsey's cautious leadership style — What the Alex Jones controversy and its move to limit third-party apps have in common — Why does Twitter move so slowly?
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| Adam Segal / Foreign Affairs: |
How President Xi Jinping plans to turn China into a “cyber-superpower” that will dominate the web through domestic regulations, innovation, and foreign policy — For almost five decades, the United States has guided the growth of the Internet. From its origins as a small Pentagon program …
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A look at Facebook's plans to avert interference in the midterms, including putting people from various teams in a physical war room, a first for a US election — Is it enough? — Two weeks ago, on a hastily scheduled conference call with journalists, Facebook executives announced … | Bruce Brown / Digital Trends: |
Amazon updates Alexa with skill to show last recorded event from Ring, Arlo, August, and Cloud Cam security cameras in the US and releases skill API — As of today, Amazon Alexa devices with displays can play video stream recaps from select smart home cameras, Amazon announced.
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SEC filing: Tencent-backed Qutoutiao, a China-based content aggregator, files for a $300M IPO on Nasdaq and says it had 32.1M MAUs in the last quarter — (Reuters) - Chinese content aggregator Qutoutiao Inc, which is backed by technology giant Tencent Holdings Ltd, filed for an initial public offering …
| Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk: |
JD.com announces the launch of its blockchain-as-a-service platform alongside its first live blockchain app that tracks invoices for China's Pacific Insurance — Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com has launched a blockchain-as-a-service platform alongside its first app - one that digitally …
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