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US Department of Housing and Urban Development files charges against Facebook, saying the company's ad targeting tools enable violations of Fair Housing Act — 'Facebook is discriminating against people based upon who they are and where they live,' says HUD secretary
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| Washington Post: |
Sources: HUD alerted Twitter and Google last year that it is scrutinizing their ad targeting practices for possible housing discrimination — The Trump administration delivered its first sanction of a tech giant Thursday, charging Facebook with housing discrimination in a move that could threaten …
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Lyft prices IPO at $72 per share, which would value the company at over $20B and hit the top of its expected range — - Ride-hailing platform Lyft was funded early on by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, Mayfield, K9 Ventures, Floodgate and others. — Lyft is one of several aging start-ups expected …
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| Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: |
Twitter expands dark mode options for iOS users with a pure black Lights Out mode and an Automatic Dark Mode — Twitter has announced today that it is expanding its dark mode options for iOS users. Adding to the blue/gray dark mode theme that the platform has offered for a while …
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| Stefan Etienne / The Verge: |
LG says G8 ThinQ, its latest flagship, will be available on April 11 from all major US carriers starting at $820; pre-orders available on March 29 — You'll get the best deal from T-Mobile — LG's latest flagship, the G8 ThinQ, will be released in the US beginning on April 11th.
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| Adam Satariano / New York Times: |
UK's review of Huawei's telecommunications equipment finds “significant” security problems but does not call for an outright ban — LONDON — A British review of Huawei found “significant” security problems with the Chinese company's telecommunications equipment …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Verizon rolls out a free version of Call Filter, its $3/month spam and robocall protection service — Now you don't have to pay extra money to battle against spam and robocalls — Verizon is taking new steps to combat the unrelenting nuisance of spam calls.
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Verizon Fios & Custom TV, App Store, CNET, USA Today, Business Insider, Phandroid, XDA Developers, iPhone Hacks, Droid Life, TechSpot, and MacRumors. Tweets: @db
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook launches new Ad Library that now makes all active ads and inactive political ads searchable, opens Ad Library API to all Facebook-verified developers — Now you can search Facebook for how much Trump has spent on ads in the past year, which Pages' ads reference immigration, or what a Page's previous names were.
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| Jason Koebler / Motherboard: |
Leaked Apple documents outline a support program for third-party repairs that seems to comply with requirements of right-to-repair bills proposed in 20 states — A leaked internal document obtained by Motherboard outlines a program that looks almost exactly like the requirements of right …
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iFixit, ExtremeTech, Fast Company, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, CNET, and Cult of Mac. Tweets: @nproctor
| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
More Apple Card details, including that a user can generate virtual card numbers for online non-Apple Pay purchases at any time by tapping a button — One of the most buzzy announcements on Apple's stage this week was Apple Card, its in-house credit card powered by Goldman Sachs and Mastercard.
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MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Forbes, iPhone Hacks, Cult of Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Pocket-lint
Tweets: @panzer, @panzer, @panzer, @markgurman, @zackwhittaker, and @chris_ciaccia
| Sarah Krouse / Wall Street Journal: |
FTC has secured $1.5B worth of fines from robocallers through court judgments since 2004 and has collected $121M or 8% of that amount — America's telecommunications watchdogs have levied hefty financial penalties against illegal robocallers and demanded that bad actors repay millions to their victims.
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| Jake Kanter / Business Insider: |
Leaked Facebook emails reveal intense discussion over an anti-Semitic Instagram post by Alex Jones before it was taken down — - Business Insider has seen a lengthy Facebook email chain in which executives discuss Alex Jones' future on Instagram and removing an inflammatory post.
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| Faiz Siddiqui / Washington Post: |
Twitter's policy head Vijaya Gadde says it is experimenting with adding a “label” to notable tweets that break its standards explaining why they weren't removed — Vijaya Gadde, Twitter's head of legal, policy and trust & safety, made the revelation on stage at a Washington Post-sponsored event in San Francisco.| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Spotify is testing Premium Duo, a discounted subscription for two for €12.49 a month, that includes a playlist based on both users' listening habits — Includes a new playlist based on both your listening habits — Spotify is testing a new subscription called Premium Duo that offers … | Ryan Gallagher / The Intercept: |
Sources: Google is secretly assessing work completed on Dragonfly, its censored search engine for China, leaving some staff concerned that work on it continues — Google executives are carrying out a secret internal assessment of work on a censored search engine for China, The Intercept has learned.
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PYMNTS.com and Axios
| Joel Spolsky / Stack Overflow Blog: |
Joel Spolsky announces he will step down as CEO of Stack Overflow and become chairman of the board, says the company booked $70M in revenue last year — Big news! We're looking for a new CEO for Stack Overflow. I'm stepping out of the day-to-day and up to the role of Chairman of the Board.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Sensor Tower: worldwide App Store spending will reach $96B by 2023, up 104% from $47B in 2018; Google Play will reach $60B, up 140% from $27B in 2018 — Consumer spending in mobile apps across both Apple's App Store and Google Play will grow by 120 percent to reach $156 billion worldwide by 2023 …
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9to5Mac and Sensor Tower Blog
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon launches Alexa for Business Blueprints, a set of templates for employees to create and publish private Alexa skills for their organization, in the US — Use Alexa in your place of work? There's cause for minor celebration: today marks the launch of Alexa for Business Blueprints …
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Amazon Developer Services, Engadget, PYMNTS.com, and Voicebot
| Bloomberg: |
Filing: Apple's Tim Cook, Qualcomm CEO Steven Mollenkopf, and execs and engineers from both companies to testify in the Apple vs Qualcomm trial starting Apr. 15 — The Apple vs. Qualcomm trial kicking off in San Diego next month will feature a star-studded cast in the dispute over chips used in iPhones … | Zoë Bernard / The Information: |
Source: Carta, formerly eShares, is close to completing a $300M funding round led by a16z at a ~$1.8B valuation; Carta raised $80M in December — Carta, a startup that helps investors manage their equity stakes in private companies, is close to having a new set of investors of its own.
Tweets: @teddyschleifer
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft expands its Azure IP Advantage program to include IoT devices and donates 500 patents to the LOT Network, to protect against patent trolls — Microsoft today announced a major expansion of its Azure IP Advantage program, which provides its Azure users with protection against patent trolls.
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Microsoft on the Issues, The Official Microsoft Blog, SiliconANGLE, ZDNet, PYMNTS.com, Dark Reading, OnMSFT.com, and Microsoft. Tweets: @patentprofiler
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