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Facebook responds to Chris Hughes, says it is not a monopoly and has robust competition in all areas it operates, reiterates its call for more regulation — Dismantling our company won't fix what's wrong with social media. — Mr. Clegg is Facebook's vice president for global affairs and communications.
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| Andreessen Horowitz: |
Enterprise startups should not rely on data network effects as a defensive moat and should focus on and invest in long-term defensibility from other areas — Data has long been lauded as a competitive moat for companies, and that narrative's been further hyped with the recent wave of AI startups.
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| Campbell Robertson / New York Times: |
A non-profit Mined Minds came into West Virginia promising to teach miners and others coding skills and get them well paid jobs, but left many of them worse off — Mined Minds came into West Virginia espousing a certain dogma, fostered in the world of start-ups and TED Talks. Students found an erratic operation.| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
Amazon's recent pledge of $800M to make next-day delivery the new standard is pressuring rivals to increase their investments in logistics startups to compete — - Flexe and Dolly are lining up backing for national expansions — Several of the upstarts are led by former Amazon executives| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
As it ponders Facebook fines, FTC must seek regulation forcing Facebook to make its social graph truly portable, letting users export friend lists to other apps — FTC must pave the path to competition — Choice for consumers compels fair treatment by corporations.
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Uber's IPO got caught in a perfect storm of negative events on Friday, some of its own making, some, like Trump's China tariffs, outside its control — Uber's IPO stalled out yesterday, stunning both Silicon Valley and Wall Street. — Details: The ride-hail giant priced shares near the bottom of their range on Thursday night.| Bloomberg: |
A Hong Kong tycoon is suing the salesman who persuaded him to let an Austrian supercomputer named K1 manage his investments with AI, whose trades cost him $20M+ — Robots are getting more humanoid every day, but they still can't be sued. — So a Hong Kong tycoon is doing the next best thing.
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| Bryan Menegus / Gizmodo: |
Tech activists are protesting Palantir's work with ICE by mass flagging “issues” with the company's most popular GitHub repositories — Tech activists continue to organize and win across many of the industry's biggest firms—and increasingly the online spaces tech workers gather …
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| Liz Brody / OneZero: |
How AI-powered tools like TellFinder, Spotlight, and Traffic Jam are aiding sex and human trafficking investigations in the US — Machine learning technology is opening up new strategies to find and prosecute the men who profit from the worst of the illegal sex trade — “Hey there. You available?”
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| Elizabeth Ballou / Vice: |
An in-depth look at Ingress, a sci-fi AR/VR MMO game about two factions fighting for global domination, and how far its fans go in real life for a virtual war — She led hundreds of real people on secret missions for a make-believe cause. — At 4:30 PM on February 17th, 2017 …
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| Laura Hautala / CNET: |
A look at the eclectic, global data-hunting community, and the tools its members use to scour the internet for unsecured databases — Justin Paine sits in a pub in Oakland, California, searching the internet for your most sensitive data. It doesn't take him long to find a promising lead.| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
SEC filing shows Jawbone Health CEO Hosain Rahman has managed to raise $65.4M for the company — Not everyone gets a second chance in Silicon Valley. Entrepreneur Hosain Rahman has been given many more than that. Though his last company, Jawbone, which produced wireless speakers and Bluetooth earpieces …
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