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Facebook has removed its Onavo VPN app from the Google Play Store, will stop pulling in data from users for market research, and will eventually shut it down — Facebook will end its unpaid market research programs and proactively take its Onavo VPN app off the Google Play store in the wake …
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Investigation shows how CQ Roll Call, a D.C. media firm, may be responsible for hundreds of thousands of fake anti-net-neutrality comments on FCC's site in 2017 — Millions of records that the FCC's top lawyer once fought to hold back from state law enforcement officials now serve as key evidence …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Samsung says it will extend Bixby button remapping to all Galaxy phones on Android Pie in a future software update, after confirming the feature for the S10 — That includes the S8, S9, and Note line — The Bixby button saga has been an ongoing blemish on an otherwise sterling smartphone record … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
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| Matt Burns / TechCrunch: |
Circle, which makes a screen time management tool, raises $20M Series B from Netgear, T-Mobile, and others, bringing the total raised To $30M — Circle makes a fantastic screen time management tool and today the company announced a round of funding to help fuel its growth.
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Report: Apple and Goldman Sachs plan to start issuing a joint credit card in spring, which will be paired with special money management features in Wallet app — Apple and Goldman Sachs are readying a joint credit card, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Duo Security survey of 120K+ Chrome extensions finds 35.4% ask users for permission to access and read all their data on any site, 84.7% had no privacy policy — Eighty-five percent of all Chrome extensions don't have a privacy policy. — More than a third of all Google Chrome extensions ask users …
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| Aditi Shrivastava / The Economic Times: |
Sources: Uber Eats is in the final stages of negotiations to sell its India business to rival Swiggy, which raised $1B in last December, in return for 10% stake — Stock swap deal may give Uber Eats around 10% in rival, expected to close by March — In what would be one of the most …
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Developers and Intel officials expect Apple to move to ARM-based Macs as soon as next year; Bloomberg report suggests first ARM-based Mac arriving in 2020 — Apple is widely expected to move its Mac line to custom ARM-based chips in the coming years. — What we're hearing …
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Tweets: @aionescu, @kfury, and @benbajarin
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Source: Google plans to announce gaming hardware on March 19 in addition to details about its game streaming service — On Tuesday, Google announced a mysterious keynote at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco on March 19th. The event comes as the Project Stream beta …
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Android Authority, Investor's Business Daily, Phandroid, CNBC, Firstpost, and Thurrott
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AT&T says it is pulling all advertising from YouTube, after reports of pedophiles openly using the platform; Nestle and Epic Games have also pulled ads — - AT&T and Hasbro are pulling ads from YouTube following reports that pedophiles have latched onto videos of young children and lurk in the comments section.
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Tweets: @cowbellytv, @grandayy, @charbax, @zeynep, @jason_kint, and @yoreekoh
| Grace Dobush / Fortune: |
BMW and Daimler merge 14 services into five joint ventures including Reach Now for multimodal services, Free Now for ride-hailing, and Share Now for car-sharing — When Daimler and BMW announced a plan to fuse carsharing services Car2Go and DriveNow in March 2018, it was largely …
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| David McCabe / Axios: |
Google says it will no longer enforce mandatory arbitration for current and future employees starting March 21; change won't apply to many temporary staff — Google will no longer require current and future employees to take disputes with the company to arbitration, it said Thursday.
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Business Insider, End Forced Arbitration, Wired, Recode, The Register, Silicon Valley Business …, Boing Boing, Fortune, TechCrunch, The Hill, The Verge, CNET, Gizmodo, Bloomberg, and CNN
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| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aimé is retiring, and will be replaced by the VP of Sales and Marketing Doug Bowser on April 15 — To be replaced by marketing boss Doug Bowser — One of Nintendo's most public faces is leaving the company.
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Tweets: @nintendoamerica, @tomwarren, @collectorshuki, @tha_rami, @kiey, and @thekostos
| Maureen Farrell / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Pinterest has confidentially filed for an IPO, seeking a valuation of at least $12B — Pinterest has confidentially filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering, joining a parade of highly valued technology startups planning to list their shares in 2019.| Kieren McCarthy / The Register: |
Google launches .dev top-level domain with built-in security; preorders for available domains cost just over $1,000, but drop to $17.50/year on Sunday — Meanwhile, .gay comes out of the commercial closet — Google has launched a new internet extension specifically for developers …
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Benzinga, TechRepublic, Computing, Android Police, CircleID, 9to5Google, Inquirer, Bitcoinist.com, Domain Name Wire, and Search Engine Journal. Tweets: @theregister
| Nicole Nguyen / BuzzFeed News: |
Singapore Airlines and American Airlines confirm that some seat screens have embedded cameras but say they are disabled, after a photo of one goes viral — A viral photo showing a camera in a Singapore Airlines in-flight TV display recently caused an uproar online.
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The Verge, Geek.com, TechSpot, Business Insider, and CNET
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