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Sources: Facebook is testing Threads, a messaging app for Instagram that lets users automatically share status, location, battery life, more with Close Friends — The app promotes sharing your status, location, and more with your closest friends — Facebook is developing …
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| Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post: |
Deep dive on the byzantine tracking and analytics industry around credit card purchases and steps that consumers can take to improve their privacy — In a privacy experiment, we bought one banana with the new Apple Card — and another with the Amazon Prime Rewards Visa from Chase.
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| Nathan Ingraham / Engadget: |
Yelp adds personalized search results based on users' diet, lifestyle, accessibility, and other preferences, to its iOS app — For good or ill, it's common for internet services to track what you do and offer “personalized” suggestions. But Yelp, that stalwart of internet reviews …
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Fairphone debuts Fairphone 3, its ethical, repairable smartphone made of responsibly sourced, recyclable materials, available from September 3 for €450 — Featuring a repairable design made of fairly sourced, recyclable materials — Three years after the release of its last handset …
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| Jim Waterson / The Guardian: |
BBC says it will launch a voice assistant called Beeb next year, that will understand British accents and be built into its website and iPlayer app on smart TVs — Corporation recording voices of staff across UK to help Beeb software understand accents — The BBC is preparing to launch …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Platform9, which offers a SaaS-based, fully managed, hybrid cloud platform raises $25M Series D led by NGP Capital, says its revenue grew 130% in the last year — Platform9, the startup best known for its SaaS-based, fully managed hybrid cloud platform, today announced that it has raised …
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| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Swiss financial regulator FINMA issues banking licenses to SEBA Crypto and Sygnum, the first time it's done so for “pure-play blockchain service providers” — Switzerland's Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) has issued banking and securities dealers' licenses …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Sensor Tower: daily US downloads required to reach No. 1 on the App Store Top Charts for non-game apps is 94K, down ~30% since 2016, but 174K for games, up ~47% — With the App Store's big makeover in fall 2017, Apple attempted to shift consumers' attention away from the Top Charts and more toward editorial content.
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
Apple releases iOS 12.4.1 to patch a bug, inadvertently reintroduced in iOS 12.4, which allowed up-to-date iPhones to be jailbroken for the first time in years — The company released a patch to fix a dangerous bug on Monday, a week after hackers had released a jailbreak for fully patched iPhones.| Bernie Sanders / Columbia Journalism Review: |
Bernie Sanders pledges to protect news orgs from tech monopolies if elected, including stronger antitrust enforcement, taxing targeted ads to fund public media — Walter Cronkite once said that “journalism is what we need to make democracy work.” He was absolutely right … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
E-commerce startup Enjoy, led by ex-Apple VP of retail operations Ron Johnson, raises $150M Series C to fuel its UK expansion, has now raised $350M to date — Enjoy, the e-commerce startup led by former Apple VP of retail operations, Ron Johnson, has raised an additional $150 million … | Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Source: judge rules Craig Wright must turn over half of his bitcoin holdings and IP from before 2014 to the estate of Dave Kleiman in $10B lawsuit filed in 2018 — Craig Wright must turn over half of his bitcoin holdings and intellectual property to the estate of Dave Kleiman, a judge ruled Monday.| Financial Times: |
Despite Japan's reputation as a tech powerhouse, it only has three unicorns, compared to 192 in the US, 96 in China, and 20 in the UK, according to CB Insights — Four years ago, a Tokyo-based start-up called Seven Dreamers stole the show at Japan's biggest technology trade fair with Laundroid …
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