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Sources: as it weighs constraints for Facebook, the FTC has discussed stronger monitoring of Facebook's privacy practices and direct punishment of Zuckerberg — Regulators on four continents are preparing for a long-awaited showdown with Facebook, after years of disinterest and half-steps.
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| Data Protection Commission: |
Irish DPC launches inquiry into Facebook after the company reported millions of Facebook Lite and Instagram user passwords were stored in plain text internally — The Data Protection Commission was notified by Facebook that it had discovered that hundreds of millions of user passwords …
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
New York State Attorney General announces investigation into Facebook's unauthorized collection of more than 1.5M users' email address books — SAN FRANCISCO — The New York State attorney general's office plans to open an investigation into Facebook's unauthorized collection …
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NY State Attorney General, Bloomberg, The Verge, PYMNTS.com, BetaNews, CNBC, Sramana Mitra, Slate, Financial Times, and CNN
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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
iFixit says it has removed its Samsung Galaxy Fold teardown at Samsung's request through a “trusted partner” who supplied iFixit with the phone — The drama is unfolding with increasing strangeness — What in the world is going on over at Samsung in the wake of the Galaxy Fold delay?
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Tweets: @backlon, @ifixit, @dcseifert, @charlesarthur, @markgurman, @chillmage, @starfire2258, @reneritchie, @geerlingguy, @tomwarren, and @detroitborg
| Frank Chaparro / The Block: |
NY State AG sues Bitfinex for allegedly using Tether reserve funds to cover withdrawals, after the loss or theft of ~$851M from Bitfinex's payments processor — The New York State Attorney General (NYSAG) is suing Bitfinex, the cryptocurrency exchange, and affiliated firm Tether, the company behind the stablecoin of the same name.
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Slack files for an IPO via direct listing, reports loss of $138M on $400M revenue for FY 2019 ending Jan. 31, compared to $140M loss and $220M revenue for 2018 — - Slack follows several tech companies that have already debuted on the public market in 2019, including Lyft, PagerDuty, Pinterest and Zoom.
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| Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: |
Magic Leap raises $280M from NTT DoCoMo, Japan's biggest cellphone service provider, and says it will reopen its most recent round for more funding — Magic Leap, the maker of augmented-reality goggles, has already raised $2.3 billion, an extraordinary amount for a start-up.
Tweets: @nytimes
| Shannon Liao / The Verge: |
Amazon says it's working to offer free one-day shipping as the default for Prime customers but that it will take “a significant amount of time to achieve” — Amazon revealed today that it's working to offer free one-day shipping as the default for Amazon Prime customers …
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Business Insider, CNET, MarketWatch, KnowTechie, Android Central, BuzzFeed News, Android Police, PYMNTS.com, TechSpot, Gizmodo, Digital Trends, 9to5Toys, Quartz, and SlashGear
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Uber sets IPO price range of $44 to $50 per share, plans to raise up to $10.35B at a valuation of up to ~$84B — Uber on Friday morning disclosed that it plans to raise upwards of $10.35 billion in its IPO, at a market cap that could approach $84 billion. — The ride-hail giant …
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Tweets: @ericnewcomer, @stevekovach, @ingridlunden, @danprimack, @danprimack, @ingridlunden, @ericnewcomer, and @scottmaustin
| Tripp Mickle / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Three veteran designers from Apple's industrial design team are leaving as the famously close knit team under Jony Ive undergoes a series of changes — Three designers will have recently left the prestigious, two-dozen member team responsible for the iPhone's design
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Redmond Pie, Fortune, iPhone in Canada Blog, Silicon Valley Business …, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, Cult of Mac, MacRumors, and iPhone Hacks. Tweets: @natisho
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Report: Intel CEO Bob Swan says the chip company decided to exit the mobile 5G business after Apple and Qualcomm announced their settlement — Which came first, the chicken or the egg? — Intel has clarified that it bowed out of the mobile 5G marketplace earlier this month, and now we know why …
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MacRumors, FierceWireless, 9to5Mac, WinBuzzer, MSPoweruser, AppleInsider, Telecoms.com, Android Authority, Silicon Republic, and CNET. Tweets: @donal888
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
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| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Sources: Google bars NGOs from providing Titan Security keys or promoting the availability of any of its products to activists in Iran, Syria, Cuba, or N. Korea — Sources and a document show how Google bars nonprofits from telling activists in certain countries about their products.
Tweets: @josephfcox and @josephfcox
| Aamir Siddiqui / XDA Developers: |
AT&T's controversial 5G E icon has been added to the Android Open Source Project, and will now be officially recognized as a valid option on Android — AT&T's misleading “5GE” campaign became part of Android when Samsung phones that were updated to Android Pie and One UI began showing the 5GE icon in the status bar.
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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Seattle-based AppSheet, a no-code app development platform used by nearly 6,000 enterprise customers, raises $15M Series A led by Shasta Ventures — Seattle startup AppSheet has raised $15 million to fuel growth of its platform that helps businesses develop their own data-based apps without requiring a team of developers.
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| Mark Wilson / Fast Company: |
A free Chrome extension from Gmail's former lead designer cuts out the visual noise and extraneous UI elements for a simple and clean interface — Michael Leggett is even more annoyed with Gmail than you are. — “It's like Lucky Charms got spewed all over the screen,” he says to me, as he scrolls through his inbox.| Tim Ingham / Music Business Worldwide: |
Sources: Amazon is readying a high fidelity music streaming service that's expected to launch before the end of 2019, will likely cost $15 per month — Here comes Amazon. — Less than a week after the online giant launched its first fully free music streaming service …
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TechCrunch, Engadget, 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, MacRumors, Cult of Mac, The Next Web, AppleInsider, iPhone Hacks, Pocket-lint, and Seeking Alpha. Tweets: @tierrapartners
| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Sources: Rep. Ilhan Omar asked Jack Dorsey in a call why Twitter didn't pull Trump tweet with a video prompting death threats; Dorsey said it didn't break rules — Twitter did not take down the tweet, despite Omar's request, a source said. — Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey phoned Democratic …
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