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OpenSignal: AT&T's “5G E” phones get average speeds of 28.8Mbps, compared to T-Mobile's 29.4Mbps and Verizon's 29.9Mbps which use similar 4G LTE-Advanced tech — AT&T's so-called “5G E” lost to Verizon and T-Mobile 4G in new speed tests. — AT&T's “5G E” service …
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| Julia Carrie Wong / The Guardian: |
Court filing by DC AG: Facebook knew about Cambridge Analytica data misuse months before it was first reported; Facebook says it did not mislead about timeline — Company confirms suspicions of separate incident following Washington DC attorney general court filing
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Source: Apple has signed up Vox for its upcoming news subscription service; other Vox Media properties will not participate initially — Apple Inc. signed Vox to be part of an upcoming subscription service for newspaper and magazine readers, according to a person familiar with the matter …
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| Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel confirms it will not develop new Compute Card products — Intel will not develop new Compute Cards, the company has confirmed to Tom's Hardware. Compute Cards were Intel's vision of modular computing that would allow customers to continually update point of sale systems, all-in-one desktops, laptops and other devices.| Oliver Darcy / CNN: |
Twitter is inserting tweets into the feeds of users that do not follow the accounts which posted them, sometimes inadvertently amplifying extremist rhetoric — New York (CNN Business)Imagine opening up the Twitter app on your phone and scrolling through your feed.
Tweets: @oliverdarcy, @alexhern, @oliverdarcy, @chuckrossdc, and @cwarzel
| Ali Breland / Mother Jones: |
Since the Christchurch shootings, Reddit's r/CringeAnarchy and r/The_Donald continue to host anti-Muslim hate speech justifying it and violence against Muslims — And the platform doesn't seem to care. — Days after the tragic shootings at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand …
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| Joe Carlson / Star Tribune: |
DHS warns of two vulnerabilities affecting about 750,000 Medtronic implantable defibrillators worldwide, which could allow hackers to take control of devices — Alert from Medtronic, Homeland Security says 750K defibrillators are at risk. — As many as 750,000 heart devices …
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| Monojoy Bhattacharjee / What's New in Publishing: |
Report: YouTube is now responsible for 37% of all mobile internet traffic, ahead of Facebook's 8.4%; media time spent on mobile in US rose from 21% to 24% YoY — Smartphones are the big gainers in media consumption year-over-year, according to the just-released Nielsen's Q3 2018 Total Audience Report.| Emma Hinchliffe / Fortune: |
Cleo, a parenting support app for working parents offered through employers, raises $27.5M Series B, says its app now reaches 475,000+ families in 50+ countries — When Jeff Immelt was running GE, he noticed that the company, like many, struggled with attrition.
Tweets: @forbeswomen
| Isabel Woodford / The Block: |
Sources: Intercontinental Exchange subsidiary Bakkt is being valued at around $740M following its $182.5M Series A — Bakkt, ICE's yet-to-launch crypto exchange, is being valued at around $740 million following a recent Series A round of funding, sources close to the project tell The Block.| Maureen Farrell / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Pinterest has sped up the timing of its IPO, plans to make its filing public as early as Friday and list its shares on the NYSE in mid-April — Pinterest Inc. has sped up the timing of its initial public offering as the image-search company looks to tap into a red-hot market for new issues … | Jai Vardhan / Entrackr: |
Sources: Tencent has partnered with three Indian banks to enter the country's payments market with WeChat Pay, to be launched by the end of May or June — Ever since its launch in April 2016, Unified Payment Interface (UPI) has been growing quickly and reached a milestone of Rs 1 trillion worth monthly transactions in December 2018.| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Report: Apple acquires Italian startup Stamplay, which specializes in backend automation, for about €5M — Apple has acquired Italian startup Stamplay, which offered an API-based back-end development platform, according to Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore. The report claims Apple paid around five million euros for the company.| Anand Murali / FactorDaily: |
With the global market for AI data preparation expected to reach $1.2B by the end of 2023, India is emerging as a hub for data labelling and annotation work — Kumaramputhur is a tiny village some 45 km northwest of Palakkad in Kerala, home to some 3,500 families and probably not much bigger than an average Bengaluru suburb.
Tweets: @kris_sg and @pankajontech
| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Comcast's Xfinity Flex, a $5/month service for its broadband customers, comes with a 4K set-top box and access to paid and free, ad-supported streaming services — Comcast's latest bundle isn't a cable TV service, exactly, since it's aimed at its subscribers who only have internet service.
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| Kate Clark / TechCrunch: |
A look at some of Y Combinator's Winter 2019 cohort who secured funding before Demo Day due to early interest from those connected to the YC network — Meet the startups that raised venture capital, or got acquired, before Demo Day — Hundreds gathered this week at San Francisco's Pier 48 …
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| Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: |
Source: Uber picks the NYSE for its upcoming IPO; Lyft will start trading next week on Nasdaq — - Listing is likely to be the biggest public offering this year — Company expected to officially file for its IPO in April — Uber Technologies Inc. has selected the New York Stock Exchange … | Alex Heath / Cheddar: |
Q&A with Vishal Shah, Instagram's head of product who previously ran Instagram's business products, on e-commerce as a revenue driver, IGTV, and more — Instagram's new product chief talks about the app's push into e-commerce, life after the departure of Instagram's two cofounders …
Tweets: @mosseri, @ow, @thekenyeung, @ohmdee, @skuranda, @dhof, @alexeheath, and @alexeheath
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| Pedro Canahuati / Facebook: |
Facebook says it will notify hundreds of millions of Facebook users and thousands of Instagram users after it found passwords were stored in a readable format — As part of a routine security review in January, we found that some user passwords were being stored in a readable format within our internal data storage systems.
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