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Facebook announces plans to launch Libra, a new cryptocurrency, and Calibra, a newly formed Facebook subsidiary to oversee financial services for Libra — A New Digital Wallet for a New Digital Currency — Today we're sharing plans for Calibra, a newly formed Facebook subsidiary whose goal …
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Facebook says user Libra transaction data will not be shared with Facebook and will not be used for ad targeting or ranking users' News Feed — The use cases, technology, and motive behind the new digital money — Facebook has finally revealed the details of its cryptocurrency Libra …
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Financial Times, Spotify, Andreessen Horowitz, Bloomberg, Business Insider, Fortune, Quartz, CoinDesk, Android Authority, The Block, CryptoGlobe, Newser, Deadline, Fortune, and TheDomains.com
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| CoinDesk: |
Facebook announces an independent consortium, Libra Association, with 28 founding members including Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, Uber, Lyft, Coinbase, and others — You don't have to have a Facebook account to use Libra. — That's the hands-off approach the social media giant is working toward …
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Tweets: @reckless, @tracyalloway, @mdudas, @mathewi, and @sarahjeong
| Alastair Marsh / Bloomberg: |
French Finance Minister calls on the Group of Seven central bank governors to review Facebook's Libra, citing concerns it may become a “sovereign currency” — - French finance chief says it can't be a ‘sovereign currency’ — Germany's Ferber sees Facebook becoming a shadow bank
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Facebook's Calibra subsidiary will launch a digital wallet for Libra, as a standalone iOS and Android app and within WhatsApp and Messenger — It's called Calibra, and it's a new subsidiary of Facebook the company is launching to build financial services and software on top of the Libra blockchain.
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The Next Web, Financial Times, CoinDesk, CNBC, The Information, and ZDNet
Tweets: @colinlecher and @uarrr
| Binance Info: |
An in-depth first look at Facebook's new Libra cryptocurrency, due to be rolled out in the next 18 months, and its impact on the broader crypto ecosystem — On June 18th 2019, Facebook released details about Libra, a stable cryptocurrency backed by a basket of financial assets, which runs on its own blockchain.
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New York Magazine, Cointelegraph, Coinspeaker, Ethereum World News, CryptoGlobe, and ALTCOIN MAGAZINE. Tweets: @eringriffith
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Apple adds a feature in iOS 13 beta 2 that tells users about ongoing subscriptions for apps they are about to delete — ‘Do you want to keep your subscription for this app?’ — Apple has added a warning in iOS 13 beta 2 that appears when you try to uninstall an app which still has an active subscription.
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Gizmodo, TechCrunch, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Mac, Engadget, AppleInsider, iPhone Hacks, Pocketnow, Cult of Mac, The Mac Observer, ZDNet, and BGR
Tweets: @viticci and @drbarnard
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Google says it will help build 20,000 homes in the Bay Area over the next ten years by putting $1B toward the goal, repurposing some of its land as residential — As we work to build a more helpful Google, we know our responsibility to help starts at home.
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Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Engadget, and 9to5Google
Tweets: @sundarpichai, @kimmaicutler, @lmoroney, @cdibona, @samesfandiari, @scott_wiener, @adamsinger, and @dillonliam
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amazon's Twitch has acquired social networking platform Bebo, source says for $25M, to bolster its esports business — While Facebook makes a bold move into cryptocurrency to capitalise on its multi-billion user base, a social network that was once a credible competitor to it has quietly been snapped up by a subsidiary of Amazon.| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Palm opens preorders for an unlocked version of its tiny $350 3.2-inch smartphone with Snapdragon 435, expected to ship in the next six to eight weeks — As much as Palm's tiny phone has improved over the past several months, there's still been one glaring limitation: you've had to use it on Verizon …
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The Verge, TechCrunch, XDA Developers, VentureBeat, Digital Trends, 9to5Google, Android Authority, Android Police, and CNET. Tweets: @lanceulanoff
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
MongoDB announces Atlas Data Lake, which lets users query data of any format, and gives its newly-acquired mobile database, Realm, Atlas cloud sync integration — MongoDB is hosting its developer conference today and unsurprisingly, the company has quite a few announcements to make.
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MongoDB, ZDNet, SiliconANGLE, and diginomica
| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Ripple to take a 8-10% stake in the money transfer service MoneyGram, which will use the digital currency XRP as part of its day-to-day operations — Cryptocurrency company Ripple on Monday announced a major partnership with MoneyGram, which will see the money transfer service use …
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Ripple, Axios, NullTX, Trustnodes, The Block, BitcoinExchangeGuide, InsideBitcoins.com, Blockonomi, Crypto Briefing, CryptoGlobe, Coinspeaker, NewsBTC, CoinGeek, Bitcoinist.com, and Modern Consensus
Tweets: @seldo, @tr401, @wsj, @jenwieczner, @exarpee, @xrp_canada, @rhhackett, @timicoin, @jeffjohnroberts, and @kenwattana
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Top500: China has 219 of the world's fastest supercomputers, with the US still lagging behind at 116; Lenovo edged out IBM and Cray as the top vendor — To kick off the festivities at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) in Frankfurt, Germany this morning, the Top500 …
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TOP500 Supercomputer Sites, The Register, MIT Technology Review, Beyond Search, and KrASIA
Tweets: @hpc_guru, @profmatsuoka, and @hpc_guru
| Danny Crichton / TechCrunch: |
NewtonX, which connects companies with subject matter experts, raises $12M Series A led by Two Sigma Ventures — Knowledge is the fuel of business. Every decision requires a full understanding of the data underlying it, and that means reaching out not only to an organization's own staff for insight … | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon leases 15 more Boeing planes to expand its air cargo network by more than a quarter to 70 planes by 2021 — Amazon has announced plans to expand its air cargo network by more than a quarter to 70 planes by 2021, after signing a deal with GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) to lease 15 Boeing 737-800 aircraft.
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Amazon.com, Inc., GeekWire, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, and CNET
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple adds support for Picture in Picture to tvOS 13 beta 2, letting Apple TV users watch two shows at once for content provided by Apple in the Apple TV app — Apple TV is getting a Picture-in-Picture mode that will allow users to stream two shows at the same time, TechCrunch has confirmed.| Bloomberg: |
YouTube Kids, intended as a haven from the dangers of the main YouTube site, is used by just 20M+ people a week, compared to the main site's 2B+ monthly users — There's a safer version of YouTube, but the company knows most children don't watch it — In late May, the advocacy group …
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The Next Web, TechSpot, and Fortune
Tweets: @benpershing, @sohmer, @panzer, @martinsfp, @sarahintampa, @timcast, @mikaelthalen, @evanmpeck, and @mollymckew
| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
London-based Zego, which offers flexible insurance policies with pricing based on usage data from vehicles, raises $42M Series B led by Target Global — A couple of years ago London-based startup Zego realised gig-economy workers would need insurance, and went on to raise a very healthy £6 million … | Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
A look at the state of diversity and inclusion in the US tech industry, and why new startups and VCs with inclusive-minded CEOs are critical for change — Where the industry needs to go from here — Silicon Valley is entering a new phase in its quest for diversity and inclusion in the technology industry.
Tweets: @amydiehl, @steven_aquino, @arlanwashere, and @triketora
| Hiroshi Murayama / Nikkei Asian Review: |
After a rush of openings, the unmanned convenience store boom across China has cooled since the start of 2018 due to falling sales after the novelty wore off — Companies that learn from closures could still win the future of retail — TOKYO — When Chinese tech companies started rushing … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Optimizely, which offers tools for A/B testing and personalization on the web and in mobile apps, raises $50M Series D led by Goldman Sachs Private Capital — Optimizely, a platform that offers tools for A/B testing and personalization on the web and in mobile apps, today announced that it has raised a total of $105 million.
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