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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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| 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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| Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook: |
Facebook to demote borderline content in News Feed by default, publish minutes of policy meetings, and let users appeal content decisions to an independent body — My focus in 2018 has been addressing the most important issues facing Facebook. As the year wraps up, I'm writing a series …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Voxox left database unsecured, exposing a near real-time stream of millions of SMS texts including password reset links and 2FA codes from Google, Yahoo, others — A security lapse has exposed a massive database containing tens of millions of text messages, including password reset links …
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| Deirdre Bosa / CNBC: |
Sources: Airbnb recognized “substantially more” than $1B in Q3 revenue, on track to record 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 … | 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.
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| Brian Crecente / Variety: |
Sony says it will not attend next year's E3, the annual video game trade show, the first time in E3's 24-year history that Sony will not be there — Sony Interactive Entertainment, currently riding high on record sales of its PlayStation 4 gaming console, won't be hosting its annual press conference …
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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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| CNBC: |
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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| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Oracle to acquire San Jose-based SD-WAN company Talari Networks, which was founded in 2009 and has so far received $53.5M in VC funding — Oracle Corp. said today it's acquiring a software-defined wide area network company called Talari Networks Inc. in order to build out its cloud and networking businesses.
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| 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 …
Tweets: @dylanljmartin, @wsj, @coincenter, @rnr_0, and @davidamichaels
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Facebook publishes 13 NSLs between 2014 and 2017 for several Facebook and Instagram accounts, says number of worldwide government requests for data rose 26% YoY — Facebook has published the details of 13 historical national security letters it's received for user data.| Heather Somerville / Reuters: |
Airspace Technologies, an online platform for time-critical shipping like getting blood samples delivered to a lab or organs to a hospital, raises $20M Series B — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The latest startup aiming to bring new technology to the business of moving around cargo …
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple adds third-party workflow extensions to Final Cut Pro X for the first time, with support from Frame.io, Shutterstock, and CatDV at launch — Apple has released a major update to its video editing software professionals with Final Cut Pro X version 10.4.4.Sponsor Posts
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UiPath Unveils 10 Innovations that Will Shape the Agentic Future — Orchestration engine, API workflows and agentic testing among key features of new UiPath Platform™ for agentic automation, launched at UiPath DevCon 2025
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