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March 11, 2019, 12:50 AM

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Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Interview with Sen. Warren on her plan to break up big tech, including Apple, which she says shouldn't both run the App Store and distribute its own apps in it  —  Under Warren's plan, Amazon would not be able to sell Amazon Basics products on the Amazon retail store, Google would not be able …
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Facebook sues two Ukrainian developers for enticing 60K+ users to install browser extensions that scraped personal info and injected ads into their News Feeds  —  Facebook has sued two Ukrainian men for allegedly using quiz apps to scrape Facebook users' private data and inject advertisements into their News Feeds.
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Appen, a crowdsourced data annotation startup, is acquiring rival Figure Eight for $175M in cash upfront and up to $125M more based on this year's performance  —  Appen just announced that it's acquiring Figure Eight in an all-cash deal that sees Appen paying $175 million upfront …
NBC News:
Researchers who claim to have discovered the Citrix breach say Iran-linked hackers stole at least 6TB of data, may have first gained access 10 years ago  —  The hackers are believed to have penetrated the software giant Citrix years ago and have remained inside the company's computer network ever since.
Dennis Crowley / Foursquare Intersections:
Dennis Schaal / Skift:
Source: Airbnb is paying a little more than $400M for HotelTonight, with about half in cash and half in stock  —  So how much is Airbnb shelling out to acquire HotelTonight?  The deal price was a little more than $400 million, with about half in cash and half in stock …
Manish Singh / VentureBeat:
Google launches Bolo, an Android app for school children in India to improve reading and vocabulary skills in Hindi and English, using speech recognition  —  Google, which already dominates India's smartphone, search, and online video market, today launched a learning app for primary school children …
Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:
Tesla is dealing with the failure to achieve full self-driving by shifting goalposts, as it continues using its customers as unpaid safety drivers for its tech  —  Tesla just shifted the goalposts for “full self-driving” technology.  —  An overhaul to Tesla's Autopilot webpage might represent …
Crystal Tse / Bloomberg:
China-based online broker Futu closes up 28% on its first day of trading after raising $90M in a US IPO and selling $70M worth of stock via a private placement  —  Futu Holdings Ltd., the online Chinese broker backed by Tencent Holdings Ltd., jumped as much as 46 percent after raising $90 million in its U.S. initial public offering.
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