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Facebook says that between Sept. 13 and Sept. 25 a photo API bug gave user-approved apps access to photos that were uploaded but never shared by ~6.8M users — Reset the “days since the last Facebook privacy scandal” counter, as a Facebook has just revealed a Photo API bug gave app developers …
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SIPC, which insures funds in brokerage accounts, disputes Robinhood's claims that money in newly launched checking and savings accounts is protected by the SIPC — The Securities Investor Protection Corp. said a new checking account from Robinhood Financial LLC raises red flags … | Reuters: |
Sources: T-Mobile and Sprint expect prompt merger approval from CFIUS after SoftBank, Deutsche Telekom agree to consider curbing the use of Huawei's equipment — WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - T-Mobile US Inc and Sprint Corp expect their merger to be approved by a U.S. national security panel …
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Report: Facebook renamed Building 8, its hardware skunkworks lab, to Portal after the device launched, moved more experimental projects to Facebook Reality Labs — The hardware group is now focused on Portal and other projects, while far-off ideas are part of Reality Labs
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Discord says its PC game store will offer a 90/10 revenue split when it opens for all game developers in 2019 — The video game industry is witnessing the death of the standard revenue split for distribution platforms. For years, stores like Steam have taken 30 percent of every sale.
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| Rhett Jones / Gizmodo: |
Report: Cloudflare has foreign terrorist organizations as customers, possibly violating US laws; Cloudflare says it works with US to meet legal obligations — At a moment when free speech online and moderation policies are more controversial than ever, Cloudflare is facing accusations …
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GE to spin out its industrial IoT software business into a separate company with $1.2B in revenue, sell 90% of ServiceMax to Silver Lake for an undisclosed sum — By Nigel Fenwick, Vice President, Principal Analyst; Frank Gillett, Vice President, Principal Analyst; Michele Pelino, Principal Analyst; Paul Miller, Senior Analyst
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The Cydia Store, an app store for jailbroken iOS devices, is shutting down; its creator says it was losing money and he doesn't want to maintain it — After many years of being available to users as a way to fully customize the operating system, the Cydia Store (which was only available to jailbroken devices) is today shutting down.| Bernadette Tansey / Xconomy: |
Udacity, which has 10M+ registered users from 160+ countries, says 50,000 students have graduated from its nanodegree programs that cost between $1K and $2.4K — Bernadette Tansey — Udacity, a pioneer in the online teaching of IT skills, is celebrating a milestone today … | Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
How Huawei is pushing China's grand tech ambitions forward with a secretive enterprise unit that is estimated to net $10B+ in revenue this year — - Secretive enterprise unit carries on undistracted by U.S. rift — Services for internet, cloud to net $10 billion this year| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Propel raises $12.8M Series A from a16z, Kleiner Perkins, Omidyar, others for its Fresh EBT app to check food stamp/SNAP balances and find stores to use them — Propel, maker of the Fresh EBT app for managing food stamps and other benefits, announced today that it has raised $12.8 million in Series A funding.
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How LA-based Brud is working to turn CGI-based characters into social media celebrities, like its Miquela, which has 1.5M Instagram followers — ‘Lil Miquela’ tests power of fabricated social-media celebrity, and investor interest in fake characters — Miquela Sousa, who recently graced billboards …
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