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| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Facebook disbands its widely publicized “War Room”, says it wasn't a permanent solution, touts Strategic Response Team as its way to handle future crises — COO oversaw social-media company's meteoric rise, but her leadership is being questioned now
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TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, Financial Times, Washington Post, Politico, Mashable, Fast Company, New York Times, CNBC, Forbes, The Guardian, Neville Hobson, Slate, The Hill, Business Insider, and Engadget
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| Andrew Chung / Reuters: |
During a hearing SCOTUS justices appeared open to letting Apple App Store antitrust lawsuit proceed; the plaintiffs have backing from 30 state attorneys general — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday appeared open to letting a lawsuit proceed against Apple Inc …
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SCOTUSblog, Gizmodo, Associated Press, CNBC, Fortune, Engadget, Reuters, Motherboard, The Verge, Washington Post, iPhone Hacks, MacRumors, Cult of Mac, Computerworld, Axios, PYMNTS.com, Thurrot, MSPoweruser, and Mashable
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Hacker gains access to the repo of Event-Stream, a JS library with 2M+ weekly downloads on npm.org, to inject BitPay's wallet apps with code that steals funds — Users of BitPay's Copay desktop and mobile wallet apps are affected. An update has been released earlier today that doesn't contain the malicious code.
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CCN, Chris Northwood, Ars Technica, SiliconANGLE, GitHub, The Register, The Block, and Boing Boing
Tweets: @shah_sheikh, @gossithedog, @okdistribute, @buttcoin, @sebastiengllmt, and @bad_packets
| George Avalos / Mercury News: |
Google buys a 51.8 acre Mountain View business park with 12 buildings for $1B, in what is the Bay Area's largest real estate purchase so far in 2018 — MOUNTAIN VIEW — In an unexpected mega-deal, Google has paid $1 billion for a huge Mountain View business park, a head-spinning acquisition …
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Business Insider, 9to5Google, Bloomberg, CNBC, and Silicon Valley Business …
Tweets: @jrbinsv, @louisgray, and @rolandlisf
| Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News: |
Investigation: 8 apps with a total of 2B+ downloads from Google Play, including 7 from Cheetah mobile, exploit user permissions in an ongoing ad fraud scheme — Eight apps with a total of more than 2 billion downloads in the Google Play store have been exploiting user permissions as part …
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The Verge and Android Police
Tweets: @craigsilverman, @buzzfeedben, @marypcbuk, and @profcarroll
| Margi Murphy / Telegraph: |
WhatsApp's chief business officer Neeraj Arora announces he is leaving after seven years at the company — WhatsApp's chief business officer is leaving the company, the latest executive to flee since the messaging service was bought by Facebook. — Neeraj Arora, once tipped … | Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Amazon says it's making the same machine learning courses it uses to teach its own engineers available for free to all developers through AWS — It's Cyber Monday and Amazon has a one deal for its customers that's a little unexpected. The company just announced that it has made available … | Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Securitize, which helps companies issue asset-backed security tokens, raises $12.75 Series A from investors including Coinbase Ventures and Ripple's Xpring fund — Coinbase, the $8 billion crypto exchange giant, is one of a bevy of big name crypto investors backing a project aimed …
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CoinDesk, SiliconANGLE, NewsBTC, SludgeFeed, Crowdfund Insider, CryptoNinjas, and The Block
| Deirdre Bosa / CNBC: |
Airbnb says it has hired Dave Stephenson, VP and CFO of Amazon's Worldwide Consumer Organization, as its CFO, ahead of a potential IPO in 2019 — - Stephenson spent 17 years as Amazon, most recently as VP and CFO of Amazon's Worldwide Consumer Organization, responsible for all global website sales.
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Airbnb Press Room, Recode, TechCrunch, Business Insider, GeekWire, Fortune, Bloomberg, and PYMNTS.com. Thanks:@mattrosoff
| Peter Rudegeair / Wall Street Journal: |
Internal docs: Venmo had operating loss of ~$40M in Q1 2018, 40% bigger than expected, largely due to fraud that led the company to reduce website functionality — A spike in fraudulent activity earlier this year led to higher losses than the payments company had expected
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The Verge, Fortune, PaymentsSource, TechSpot, Finextra Research Headlines, and PYMNTS.com
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
PhishLabs report: in Q3 2018, 49% of phishing sites displayed the padlock security icon next to the site's domain name in a browser address bar, up 25% YoY — Maybe you were once advised to “look for the padlock” as a means of telling legitimate e-commerce sites from phishing or malware traps.
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SiliconANGLE, SlashGear, Engadget, and gHacks Technology News
Tweets: @briankrebs, @carnage4life, @profwoodward, and @racheltobac
| Michelle Castillo / CNBC: |
Facebook's YouTube competitor Watch is pivoting to older audiences as teens tune out and the company pares down the number of shows it purchases — - Facebook's Watch, a hub for shows and premium video content, was intended to be its big competitor to YouTube.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Maps rolls out a feature on Android that lets users include hashtags in business reviews — Google Maps has quietly rolled out a new feature aimed at helping users discover places others have recommended: it now supports hashtags in reviews. For example, if you're reviewing …
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Android Police, SlashGear, Engadget, Neowin, and Search Engine Journal
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
The best Cyber Monday 2018 deals on phones, fitness trackers, smart speakers, streaming devices, and more, from Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Amazon, and others — Cyber Monday is here, and so are the deals — Black Friday may be over, but the deals are still going strong.
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Spend Where it Matters, Android Central, Digital Trends, Amazon.com, Inc., iMore, CNET, Android Police, Windows Central, Android Authority, The Verge, CNET, Windows Central, BetaNews, Tubefilter, Kinja Deals, Marketing Land, Windows Central, Digital Trends, Socialnomics, Gotta Be Mobile, PCWorld, ABC News, Polygon, ZDNet, Mercury News, BetaNews, The Verge, Mashable, PCWorld, iMore, Ars Technica, Macworld, 9to5Toys, PCWorld, Business Insider, Windows Central, Macworld, CNET, CNET, 9to5Toys, 9to5Toys, PC Gamer, and CNET
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