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Sources: as part of its response to FTC inquiries, Facebook unearths emails that appear to show Mark Zuckerberg knew of problematic privacy practices — Internal exchanges uncovered in response to FTC probe could cast doubt on founder's commitment to user privacy, people familiar with the matter say
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Epic Games, maker of Fortnite and the Unreal Engine, says it has acquired video chat social network Houseparty for an undisclosed sum — What does a gaming company do after raising $1.25 billion? Acquisitions seem like a pretty good place to start. Epic Games — of Unreal Engine …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
After leaked images were published, Google tweets a teaser picture of the Pixel 4, expected in October, confirming at least two rear cameras — Google responds to leaks by posting an official image — Google just tweeted an image of the Pixel 4, a smartphone that the company isn't expected to ship until October.
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Google says it will now let iPhone and iPad owners use its Android security key tech to verify sign-ins for Google accounts — Google will now allow iPhone and iPad owners to use their Android security key to verify sign-ins, the company said Wednesday. — Last month, the search … | CNBC: |
French tech giant Dassault to buy Medidata, which provides healthcare software for clinics, in $5.8B deal; Medidata currently has a market value of $5.9B — KEY POINTS — Dassault said it was offering $92.25 per share for Medidata, a slight discount to Medidata Solutions' closing price of $94.75 on June 11.
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| Juro Osawa / The Information: |
Sources: Huawei has indefinitely postponed the announcement of a new Windows laptop, originally scheduled for this week, due to ongoing US trade sanctions — Huawei has indefinitely postponed the announcement of a new laptop computer that was originally scheduled for this week …
| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Bird confirms it is acquiring electric scooter and moped startup Scoot, which was valued at ~$71M, meaning Bird can now operate shared scooters in San Francisco — Bird is acquiring electric scooter and moped startup Scoot, confirming TechCrunch's previous report that the two companies were in acquisition talks.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Google is moving some production of US-bound Nest thermostats and server hardware out of China to Taiwan and Malaysia, avoiding punitive US tariffs — - Trump's tariffs push tech giant to boost Taiwan manufacturing — Google proved keener than other tech companies about shift
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Critics question Alphabet's Jigsaw subsidiary's decision to hire a disinformation vendor to run a campaign during research into state-sponsored disinformation — FOR MORE THAN two years, the notion of social media disinformation campaigns has conjured up images of Russia's Internet Research Agency …
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| Kate Krader / Bloomberg: |
Uber says it plans to start testing fast food deliveries by drone to designated safe landing zones in a trial in San Diego this summer — On an overcast Monday in May, I joined a group in a parking lot behind a San Diego McDonald's to witness the future of food delivery.
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| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Uber unveils a new self-driving car based on the Volvo XC90 SUV, designed to be fully autonomous, rolling out in 2020 — Uber Advanced Technologies Group unveiled Wednesday a new generation of self-driving Volvo XC90 SUVs that are designed and built to be fully driverless …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Helium debuts $495 cryptocurrency-mining Helium Hotspots that offer free p2p networking, promising greater coverage than WiFi, as 100 could cover an entire city — Cellphone plans are expensive. The average person spends about $80 per month on their phone plan, according to price comparison engine Flipsy …
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TechCrunch, Multicoin Capital, CoinDesk, The Helium Blog, Forbes, and PE Hub Blog. Tweets: @joshconstine. Thanks:@ryanthegentry
| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Following successful tests elsewhere, Facebook says it will bring its blood donation sign up feature to select US cities ahead of a wider rollout — Facebook says its blood donation feature in India, Bangladesh, Brazil and Pakistan has been doing so well, over 35 million users have signed up to be donors.
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| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Researchers discover “Fishwrap” disinformation campaign recycling images and reports from past terrorist attacks and presenting them as breaking news — Over 215 social media accounts tied to effort to get followers through disinformation. — Researchers at Recorded Future …
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| Kevin Litman-Navarro / New York Times: |
Analysis plots 150 privacy policies by reading time and complexity, with Craigslist and DuckDuckGo among the best while Airbnb and Indeed are among the worst — In the background here are several privacy policies from major tech and media platforms. Like most privacy policies …
Tweets: @realavivahr, @sarahjeong, @oliviasolon, @robinberjon, @privacyproject, and @rmc031
| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Crowdstrike pops ~80% on Nasdaq as its shares start trading at $63.50, well above its $34 IPO price, valuing the company at $12B — KEY POINTS — CrowdStrike opened its first day of trading on the Nasdaq with a share price of $63.50, surging from its IPO price of $34.| Colin Packham / Reuters: |
Uber chooses Melbourne as its first international site for testing its autonomous flying taxi service, launching in 2023, alongside Dallas and LA — SYDNEY (Reuters) - Uber Technologies said it will use Australia's second-largest city, Melbourne, as the first international test site for the group's planned flying taxi service.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Facebook says Watch has 140M DAUs who spend at least a minute on the site, announces deals with global publishers and Ad Breaks rollout in five new languages — NY Digital Editor @https://twitter.com/xpangler FOLLOW — Facebook says its video strategy — to encourage its 2 billion-plus users to watch … | Sue Halpern / New Yorker: |
A look at proposed US election security legislation, much of it bipartisan, and how Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is stalling its progress — On May 21st, four commissioners who compose the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (E.A.C.) were asked to attest, in Congress …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
SignalFX, which provides real-time cloud monitoring for infrastructure and apps, raises $75M Series E led by Tiger Global, following $45M Series D in May 2018 — Cloud computing's growth shows no sign of plateauing, and that's particularly true of segments like ecommerce, retail, transportation …
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GlobeNewswire News Room, SiliconANGLE, and FinSMEs
| Megha Rajagopalan / BuzzFeed News: |
Study by Equality Labs into Facebook's Indian content moderation finds that 93% of the posts it reported as violating Facebook's own rules have remained online — TUNIS, Tunisia — Facebook failed to delete hundreds of memes, images and posts targeting caste, LGBT and religious minorities … | Sean O'Kane / The Verge: |
DJI announces RoboMaster S1, a programmable remote-controlled toy robot tank aimed at teaching kids how to code, available in the US starting Wednesday for $499 — A robot from the RoboMasters competition shrunk down to fit your living room — Dronemaker DJI has spent the last few years running …
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