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The European Commission launches a formal antitrust investigation into possible anti-competitive conduct by Amazon in its dual role as marketplace and retailer — The European Commission has opened a formal antitrust investigation to assess whether Amazon's use of sensitive data …
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The Irish Times, The Register, CNET, Business Insider, Axios, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, The Verge, Thurrott, Reuters, Bundeskartellamt, Engadget, NBC News, Inquirer, Adweek, CNN, CNBC, MSPoweruser, and CNBC
Tweets: @eu_competition, @lewis_crofts, and @lutherlowe
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans to fund original, exclusive podcasts and has reached out to media companies, in a bid to compete with Spotify — - Tech giant looks to use exclusives to compete with Spotify — Company has recently added new Podcasts Mac app, web interface
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MacRumors, Macworld, TechSpot, The Overspill, The Mac Observer, TechCrunch, Engadget, PYMNTS.com, Nieman Lab, Tubefilter, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, Variety, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, VentureBeat, 9to5Mac, The Verge, CNET, Cult of Mac, Appleosophy, and Insanely Great Mac
| John Markoff / New York Times: |
Neuralink, which has received $158M in funding including $100M from Elon Musk, hopes to begin testing its brain-computer interface on humans by Q2 of 2020 — SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk aspires to make inserting a computer connection into your brain as safe and painless as Lasik eye surgery.
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Bloomberg, The Verge, GeekWire, Android Authority, MIT Technology Review, Inquirer, MIT Technology Review, Business Insider, The Guardian, BBC, Digital Trends, Wall Street Journal, The Next Web, Business Insider, STAT, Mashable, CNBC, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Engadget, VentureBeat, CleanTechnica, CNET, Axios, Firstpost Tech, Financial Times, Slashdot, and Ars Technica
Tweets: @antonioregalado, @backlon, @adammarblestone, @bwjones, @seanmcarroll, and @business
| Michael McWhertor / Polygon: |
Nintendo announces an updated Switch console which, it says, will last up to nine hours on a single charge; FCC filing suggests it has a new SoC and storage — It's the same old Switch, just longer lasting — Nintendo is updating the original version of the Switch to offer better battery life …
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The Verge, The Verge, Engadget, Eurogamer.net, TechCrunch, Kotaku, Liliputing, iMore, USgamer.net, and GameSpot
Tweets: @toadsanime, @tomwarren, and @jake_k
| Reuters: |
Review of 33 high-profile blockchain projects within the financial sector and interviews with execs shows the limitations of blockchain and its weak adoption — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two years ago Nasdaq Inc (NDAQ.O) and Citigroup Inc (C.N) announced a new blockchain system they said would make payments …
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TechRepublic and The Block
Tweets: @annairrera, @davidgerard, @mjasay, @reuters, @pmylund, @_johnwhelan, and @ericvanm
| Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
A look at privacy-focused DuckDuckGo, which has ~1% share of the search engine market but says it handles ~40M searches a day, up 3x over the past two years — PAOLI, Pa. — Gabriel Weinberg is taking aim at Google from a small building 20 miles west of Philadelphia that looks like a fake castle.
Tweets: @eff, @imhassan, and @quatrainman
| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Reflecting on VidCon, it's clear that influencers' command of social media foreshadows future power in politics and elsewhere — As social media expands its cultural dominance, the people who can steer the online conversation will have an upper hand. — ANAHEIM, Calif. …
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BuzzFeed News. Tweets: @davezatz, @nytimesbusiness, @joshspero, @nytimesbusiness, @nytimesbusiness, @buzzfeednews, @hshaban, @kevinroose, @bafeldman, and @backlon
| Nitasha Tiku / Wired: |
Four of the seven Google employees who organized a 20,000-person walkout in November have resigned from the company — FOUR OF THE seven Google employees who organized a 20,000-person walkout in November have resigned from the company, including two women who claimed Google retaliated against them for their internal activism.
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Medium, The Verge, Boing Boing, and Los Angeles Times
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Researchers created an app that could withhold insulin or trigger a lethal overdose after Medtronic and the FDA delayed a replacement plan for flawed pumps — TWO YEARS AGO, researchers Billy Rios and Jonathan Butts discovered disturbing vulnerabilities in Medtronic's popular MiniMed and MiniMed Paradigm insulin pump lines.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Highlights from the Senate hearing with Facebook's David Marcus on the proposed Libra cryptocurrency, and what was left unanswered — Facebook will only build its own Calibra cryptocurrency wallet into Messenger and Whatsapp, and will refuse to embed competing wallets … | Elizabeth Schulze / CNBC: |
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CNBC, BitcoinExchangeGuide, Cointelegraph, Quartz, The Block, NewsBTC, PYMNTS.com, CoinDesk, Business Insider, and TechCrunch
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Google Maps will now show bike-sharing station information on Android and iOS in 23 new cities globally, more than a year after debuting the feature in NYC — Google Maps is bringing bike-sharing station information to global markets from today, more than a year after first debuting the feature in New York City.
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The Keyword, Android Police, USA Today, CNET, Android Central, MSPoweruser, Firstpost Tech, SlashGear, 9to5Google, and Engadget
| Patrick Howell O'Neill / MIT Technology Review: |
Researchers shed light on how WeChat censors images in private chats automatically in real time by using a massive and growing index of MD5 cryptographic hashes — The super app instantly blocks even the images for over 1 billion users and growing. — WeChat is a window into the future of the internet in many different ways.| William J. Broad / New York Times: |
Unwarranted health fears about wireless tech can be traced to a scientist's flawed report in 2000 that failed to account for the shielding effect of human skin — How one scientist and his inaccurate chart led to unwarranted fears of wireless technology. — In 2000, the Broward County Public Schools … | Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News: |
Google has banned Chinese app developer CooTek from its ad platforms and Play Store, removing 60+ CooTek Android apps for bombarding users with disruptive ads — Google is banning CooTek, a publicly traded Chinese app developer, from its Play store and ad platforms after BuzzFeed News …
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9to5Google, ZDNet, TechNode, KrASIA, Pandaily, SlashGear, and The Verge
Tweets: @craigsilverman and @craigsilverman
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Apple says it is sending out another silent update for macOS to fix a webcam vulnerability affecting apps using Zoom's tech including RingCentral and Zhumu — RingCentral and Zhumu are now patched — Apple informed us that it has sent out a silent security update to Macs to remove software …
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9to5Mac, O'Grady's PowerPage, MacRumors, SlashGear, Engadget, Insanely Great Mac, iPhone Hacks, DISPLAYBLOG, iDownloadBlog.com, and Appleosophy. Tweets: @karanlyons
| Alnoor Peermohamed / The Economic Times: |
Icertis, an enterprise contract management SaaS, raises $115M led by Greycroft and PremjiInvest at a $1B+ valuation, bringing its total raised to $211M — Indo-US enterprise contract management software provider Icertis has become the latest software-as-a-service (SaaS) … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
AlphaSense, an enterprise search engine for market analysis and business intelligence, raises $50M Series B led by Innovation Endeavors — Google and its flagship search portal opened the door to the possibilities of how to build a business empire on the back of organising and navigating …
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FinSMEs, AlphaSense, PR Newswire, Crowdfund Insider, and Institutional Investor. Thanks:@ingridlunden
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Atlanta-based software company Ebix to acquire Indian online travel booking company Yatra through a merger deal valued at $337.8M — Atlanta-based software firm Ebix said today it is acquiring online travel booking company Yatra through a merger deal at an enterprise value of $337.8 million … | Jessica Conditt / Engadget: |
Indies making single-play games focused on story worry about the rise of subscription models, which better suit longer, replayable games — Subscription services change everything. — The Netflix model doesn't work for video games. Neither does the Spotify plan, the HBO Go ecosystem or the Amazon Prime Video marketplace.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Sprint says hackers had access to customers' names, billing, device details, and more via Samsung's website, fails to disclose the number affected — Hackers had access to customer info such as names, billing, device details, and more. — US mobile network operator Sprint said hackers broke …
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CNET, Gizmodo, The Verge, BGR, SecurityWeek, Android Central, Engadget, SiliconANGLE, Silicon Republic, PhoneArena, The Register, Digital Trends, and TechSpot. Tweets: @metacert
| CNBC: |
Microsoft and AT&T announce a partnership wherein AT&T will use Azure and Microsoft's 365 suite for its 250,000 staff; source says multi-year deal is worth $2B+ — KEY POINTS — All AT&T Communications employees will use Microsoft 365, which includes Windows 10 and Office 365.
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Reuters, ZDNet, Business Insider, Light Reading, OnMSFT.com, IBM, and SiliconANGLE
Tweets: @alex and @satyanadella
| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
London-based ContractPodAi, which develops AI-powered contract lifecycle management software, raises $55M Series B led by Insight Partners — ContractPodAi, a London-based startup that has developed what it describes as AI-powered contract lifecycle management software, is disclosing $55 million in Series B funding.| BBC: |
Pearson, the world's largest education publisher, says all future releases of its 1,500 active US titles will be “digital first” and updated on an ongoing basis — The world's largest education publisher has taken the first step towards phasing out print books by making all its learning resources “digital first”.
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Bloomberg, Inside Higher Ed, Financial Times, Forbes, The Times & The Sunday Times, Sky News, CBS News, US News, Publishers Weekly, The Guardian, The Guardian, CNBC, Reuters, NBC News, and EdSurge
Tweets: @bluprintuk, @nicolebarbaro, @ibd_ecarson, @janiswong_, @tombennett71, @rkelchen, @bergmayer, @billmickey, @barlowjk, and @trengriffin
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