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Report: Facebook seeks ~$1B from financial firms and e-commerce sites to back its stablecoin as it readies its payments network and rewards system for users — - Facebook is planning to launch a full payments network (rather than just remittances) and in discussions with payment networks Visa …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Facebook bans Alex Jones, Milo Yiannopoulos, Laura Loomer, Louis Farrakhan, and others from Facebook and Instagram, citing dangerous individuals and orgs policy — Milo Yiannopoulos and Louis Farrakhan have been banned as well — Facebook today removed Louis Farrakhan, Alex Jones …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft announces Azure SQL Database Edge, which will run on compute-constrained devices, and new AI, mixed reality, and IoT capabilities powered by Azure — A couple days ahead of Build 2019, Microsoft is showcasing some new AI, MR, IoT and blockchain capabilities powered by Azure …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft launches Azure Blockchain Service, a fully managed service meant to help businesses build applications on top of blockchain technology — Microsoft didn't rush to bring blockchain technology to its Azure cloud computing platform, but over the course of the last year …
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Sources: Verizon is seeking a buyer for Tumblr as it tries to steady Verizon Media Group, which has struggled to meet revenue targets — Wireless giant seeks buyer for social-media service that has lost ground to Facebook — Verizon Communications Inc. is seeking a buyer for blogging website Tumblr …
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| Paris Martineau / Wired: |
Online extremism researchers face a similar toll on their mental health as content moderators, but, without anonymity, their work leaves them open to harassment — A COUPLE OF hours after the Christchurch massacre, I was on the phone with Whitney Phillips, a Syracuse professor whose research focuses … | Mijente: |
Document from May 2017 shows ICE used Palantir's software to target and arrest parents and other relatives of unaccompanied minors crossing the US-Mexico border — The data-mining firm Palantir played a key role in federal immigration efforts to target and arrest family members of children crossing …
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| David Singleton / Stripe Blog: |
Stripe says it's fifth engineering hub will be remote, to situate product development closer to customers, and it will hire 100+ remote engineers in 2019 — Stripe has engineering hubs in San Francisco, Seattle, Dublin, and Singapore. We are establishing a fifth hub that is less traditional but no less important: Remote.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify spotted testing “Your Daily Drive,” a personalized playlist featuring short podcast episodes mixed in with curated music, to positive initial reactions — Spotify was recently spotted testing a new personalized playlist — the first one to mix music and podcasts, customized to user's musical tastes.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
The Strong National Museum of Play announces Microsoft's Solitaire, first introduced with Windows 3.0 in 1990, will be inducted into the Video Game Hall of Fame — The games in the 2019 class of The Strong's World Video Game Hall of Fame span the spectrum of gaming, with the brutality …
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Tweets: @majornelson, @jpdysonplay, @venturebeat, and @stevesi
| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Digital payments processing startup Checkout raises $230M Series A co-led by Insight Partners and DST Global at a valuation just shy of $2B — You probably haven't heard of Checkout, a digital payments processing company that was founded in 2012 in London.
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Wall Street Journal, Reuters, FinSMEs, Telegraph, PYMNTS.com, Financial Times, and Crowdfund Insider. Tweets: @dinvesting
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
YouTube says it will make all of its original content free this fall in a strategy that its CBO says is in opposition to what other media companies are doing — - YouTube Renews Kevin Hart Comedy Series, Sets Maluma and Paris Hilton Documentaries, Lollapalooza Live-Streaming Deal
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