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Instagram launches Threads, a Close Friends-only messaging app with auto-status based on location, accelerometer, and battery level, globally on iOS and Android — What if Instagram could automatically tell you're Close Friends you're 🏠 (home), 🤓 (working), 🚗 …
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US AG and officials from UK and Australia to call on Facebook to stop plans for end-to-end encryption across its messaging apps, citing public safety risks — Attorney General Bill Barr, along with officials from the United Kingdom and Australia, is set to publish an open letter …
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Ming-Chi Kuo: Apple to launch the iPhone SE 2 in Q1 2020 with an iPhone 8-like design and an A13 chip — Apple is set to launch the next version of the iPhone SE 2 in the first quarter of 2020, according to renowned Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. The new phone will be more affordable …
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| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Bird raises $275M Series D led by CDPQ and Sequoia Capital, sources say, at a $2.5B pre-money valuation — Bird has closed a $275 million Series D round led by CDPQ and Sequoia Capital, Bird CEO Travis VanderZanden announced at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco today.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Shopping gets a redesign and new features including price tracking, options to shop from local stores, and style ideas via Google Lens — Google Shopping is getting a redesign with several new features, including options to shop local stores, track prices and even find style inspiration through Google Lens.| Lara O'Reilly / Digiday: |
Content recommendation company Taboola has bought rival Outbrain for $250M in cash and 30% equity; Taboola says it will hit $1B in revenue in 2019 — Outbrain and Taboola — the Ross and Rachel “will they, won't they” online advertising story of our times — could finally have its happy ending.
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| Adam Satariano / New York Times: |
EU's top court rules that an individual country can order Facebook to take down defamatory content and restrict global access to that material — Comments posted on the social network about an Austrian politician became a battle over the reach of European defamation laws on the internet.
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Tweets: @jeffjarvis, @dominiquereynie, @benasmith, @hutko, and @nytimes
| Max Weinbach / XDA Developers: |
Samsung launches a Travelex integration for international money transfers and Samsung Pay Cash virtual debit card for Samsung Pay beta users in the US — Samsung Pay is, in my view, the best mobile payment app out there. It supports making payments through MST on Samsung Galaxy flagships …
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Sources: Fire TV has no deal yet to carry Disney+ because Amazon is pushing for the right to sell a percentage of the ad inventory on other Disney apps — Disney resists Amazon push for some of the ad revenue from entertainment giant's apps — Amazon.com Inc. AMZN .13% and Walt Disney Co. DIS -.64% …
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Tweets: @sizpatel, @ballmatthew, and @asharma
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Judges accepted the rationale that offering DNS and caching makes broadband an information service, allowing the FCC to reclassify it from telecommunications — Judges reluctantly accepted claim that broadband isn't “telecommunications.” — The Federal Communications Commission … | Financial Times: |
Uber to launch Uber Works, a new service that matches temporary workers looking for shift work with businesses looking for staff, in Chicago on Friday — Uber is launching a new app on Friday in Chicago that will match temporary workers looking for shift work with businesses looking …
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Tweets: @guy_levin, @wi_guedd, @ross, @calbucci, @sub8u, @chrissaad, @joshconstine, @sameerpatel, and @financialtimes
| Joshua Brustein / Bloomberg: |
Profile of Palmer Luckey's Anduril, which is now shipping drone interceptors to US and UK military clients and has raised $120M from Founders Fund, a16z, others — Jason Levin stood on a craggy hill on a Southern California ranch in late July and prepared to destroy a drone.
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Tweets: @_danielsinclair, @silviakillings, @luerverte, @conmijente, and @shloky
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Sources say Google contractor Randstad used dubious tactics targeting people of color to gather facial scans for improving the face unlock system on Pixel 4 — Tech giant Google wants your face — especially if you've got “darker skin.” — To get it, the company has funded … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
First look at Surface Duo, Microsoft's foldable Android phone and the first pocketable Surface device — The mythical Surface phone is here — Microsoft surprised us all with the Surface Duo this week. It's the long-awaited Surface phone that has been rumored for years …
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iMore, OnMSFT.com, Android Police, BetaNews, Gizmodo, Daring Fireball, and Gizmodo
Tweets: @mattlynley, @pmaka1991, @jayonaboat, @joshuatopolsky, @abdophoto, @jon_prosser, @gcaughey, @marionpdaly, and @tomwarren
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