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Sheryl Sandberg says allegations that she and Zuckerberg hid info about Russian interference are untrue, claims she didn't know Facebook hired Definers — I want to address some of the claims that have been made in the last 24 hours. — On a number of issues - including spotting …
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| New York Times: |
How Definers provided reporters with ammunition to suggest senators grilling Sheryl Sandberg were hypocritical for criticizing Facebook — SAN FRANCISCO — A small firm called Definers Public Affairs brought the dark arts of Washington's back-room politics to Silicon Valley when …
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Google says Diane Greene to step down as Google Cloud CEO in early 2019, will be replaced by former president of Oracle Thomas Kurian — Diane Greene, who was hired three years ago to build Google's cloud-computing business, is being replaced in that job by former Oracle executive Thomas Kurian.
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| Brad Sams / Thurrott.com: |
Sources: Microsoft to release a disc-less Xbox in 2019 that will cost $200 or less, will let users trade in discs for digital game downloads — In the wake of the news that Sony will not be attending E3 next year, Microsoft's hardware plans for 2019 will likely be a huge win for the brand and for gamers.
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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
Verizon's My Numbers app lets users add up to four additional numbers with separate voicemail and text messaging boxes on a single phone, for $15/mo per number — The service is $15 a month per number — Carrying multiple phones for personal and business uses might be over for Verizon Wireless users.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Amazon will now allow AWS account owners to set the default access setting for all of their account's S3 buckets as non-public to prevent accidental data leaks — New settings will prevent accidental S3 bucket leaks —if customers take the time to apply them.
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| Liam Tung / ZDNet: |
Microsoft has begun accepting 64-bit ARM apps for the Microsoft Store, updated Visual Studio to support recompiling Win32 apps to run natively on ARM devices — Developers can now recompile Win32 apps to run natively on Windows 10 on Arm devices. — With new Lenovo and Samsung Windows 10 …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
BlackBerry to acquire cybersecurity firm Cylance, which provides an AI-based advanced threat detection platform, for $1.4B in cash — The rumors, it seems, were true — BlackBerry is acquiring cybersecurity startup Cylance in an all-cash deal worth $1.4 billion.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon announces Wake-on-Lan Controller, which enables Alexa to switch on devices over Wi-Fi or ethernet when they can not be woken up via the cloud — Have a smart device with a sleep mode that would normally prevent it from power toggling remotely? Amazon today announced Wake-on-Lan Controller …
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| Mike Minotti / VentureBeat: |
Sony says it has sold 86.1M units of PlayStation 4 since the console debuted 5 years ago, 777.9M copies of software were sold on the platform — Sony revealed today that the PlayStation 4 has sold over 86.1 million systems. The info came in a blog post celebrating the console's fifth anniversary.| Brian Crecente / Variety: |
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| Mehedi Hassan / Thurrott.com: |
Microsoft is testing ads in its Mail app on Windows 10 in Brazil, Canada, Australia, and India, asks users to purchase Office 365 to get rid of the ads — Update: Microsoft's head of communications claimed on Twitter that ads on the Mail app were “never intended” to be tested broadly …
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| Deirdre Bosa / CNBC: |
Sources: Airbnb recognized “substantially more” than $1B in Q3 revenue, on track to report EBITDA profits for 2018, and earned $100M on $2.6B in revenue in 2017 — - A source told CNBC the company is on track to be profitable for the second straight year, as measured by earnings before interest … | Dave Michaels / Wall Street Journal: |
SEC settles with Paragon Coin and CarrierEQ, which agree to start filing audited financial reports and refund investors of 2017 ICOs who want their money back — Agreements require startups to comply with investor-protection rules — WASHINGTON—Two startups that raised money …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Code reveals Facebook is testing a new feature that would let users watch videos together on Messenger and chat about them — Netflix and chill from afar? Facebook Messenger is now internally testing simultaneous co-viewing of videos. That means you and your favorite people could watch …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
MapAnything raises $42.5M Series C led by GM Ventures to expand its mapping platform for businesses to new markets — The location of things (LoT) market — which comprises technology that enables developers to make use of geographic data — is projected to be worth $71.6 billion by 2025 … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
MailChimp partners with Square to let its users create landing pages with built-in e-commerce features, says 50% of its revenue now comes from e-commerce — Mailchimp, the popular email newsletter service and marketing platform, today announced a partnership with Square that will allow …
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| Reuters: |
Canaan, maker of bitcoin mining hardware, let its application for a Hong Kong IPO to raise at least $400M lapse — HONG KONG (Reuters) - Canaan Inc, one of the world's leading cryptocurrency mining equipment makers, has let its application for a Hong Kong IPO of at least $400 million lapse …
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Nvidia Q3: revenue of $3.18B, up 21% YoY, vs. $3.24B est., gaming revenue of $1.76B, vs. $1.89B est., and net income of $1.2B; stock down 16%+ — Nvidia stock fell as much as 19 percent Thursday after the company reported earnings for the third quarter of its 2019 fiscal year, which ended on Oct. 28.
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