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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
GSMA says it has canceled Mobile World Congress after the coronavirus made it “impossible” to hold the event — MWC 2020 is no more — The world's biggest phone show, Mobile World Congress, is no longer taking place this year. After coronavirus threatened to throw MWC into chaos …
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| New York Times: |
Andy Rubin's Essential Products, which raised $330M to build smartphones and was valued at $1B, says it is ceasing operations — The smartphone company founded by Mr. Rubin, a former Google executive, struggled to win over customers. — SAN FRANCISCO — Essential Products …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Snapchat is testing new redesign with navigation bar, more accessible Snap Map, and a new top news section; comes 3 years after last redesign was widely panned — A new home for the Snap Map and its original shows — plus a new test of news briefs — Snap is working on two significant tests …
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| Financial Times: |
Facebook says it has banned a network of two dozen fake pages and accounts linked to two Southeast Asian telecoms for using disinformation against rivals — South-east Asian providers said to have used fake accounts to discredit rivals — Facebook has alleged that one of south-east Asia's …
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| Edward Ongweso Jr / VICE: |
Consumer advocacy group DoNotPay launches Robo Revenge, an app that fights robocallers by giving them burner credit card info and then helping users sue them — DoNotPay, the family of consumer advocacy services meant to protect people from corporate exploitation, is launching a new app aimed …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp says it now has 2B users worldwide, up from the 1.5B it announced two years ago — WhatsApp, the most popular messaging service, revealed today just how big it has become. The Facebook-owned app said it has amassed two billion users, up from 1.5 billion it revealed two years ago.
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| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Democratic senators propose the Ethical Use of Artificial Intelligence Act that would place a moratorium on facial recognition use by federal agencies, police — Two Democratic U.S. Senators today proposed legislation that requires a moratorium on facial recognition use by federal agencies …
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Ireland's Data Protection Commission: Facebook has postponed launching Dating on Valentine's Day in Europe after DPC resorted to an inspection to procure docs — Facebook Ireland first contacted the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) in relation to its intention to roll-out a new Dating feature in the EU on Monday 3 February.
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Cisco meets Q2 expectations with revenue of $12B, non-GAAP net income of $3.3B, flat YoY, stock down 4%+ after hours — - Cisco beat expectations on the top and bottom lines for last quarter. — The stock fell 4% after hours as investors digested the company's lackluster growth.
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Tweets: @oddballstocks, @danielnewmanuv, and @cnbctech
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
SEC filing: Spotify bought The Ringer for ~$141M to $196M in cash, some of it deferred and subject to closing adjustments — Spotify disclosed that it will pay upwards of $196 million for The Ringer, the podcast and media company founded by Bill Simmons. — The streaming music and audio company … | Christina Farr / CNBC: |
Sources: Google's scattered health care projects unify under Google Health, which now has over 500 employees and is led by former Geisinger CEO David Feinberg — - More than 500 people now work at Google Health, mostly out of the Palo Alto offices formerly occupied by smart home group Nest.
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Becker's Hospital Review, Seeking Alpha, and WebProNews
Tweets: @attilacsordas, @mattrosoff, @chrissyfarr, @berci, and @derrickharris
| Sarah Holder / CityLab: |
Nextdoor launches new app for public agencies like police, fire departments, and city halls, allowing them to post updates and push out geotargeted alerts — The neighborhood social network's new app is aimed at public agencies, and it lets local law enforcement more easily tap into the online community.
Tweets: @sarahsholder, @nextdoor, @citylab, @sarahsholder, @hypervisible, @citylab, @math_rachel, @rickpaulas, and @derektmead
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Shopify beats with Q4 revenue of $505.2M, up 47% YoY; sales on Shopify's platform from Black Friday through Cyber Monday rose 61% YoY to $2.9B+; stock up ~8% — - Shopify shares climbed more than 11.4% on Wednesday, hitting a new 52-week high, after the company beat expectations for the fourth quarter.
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Google rolls out Emoji Kitchen, which mashes up two emojis into a sticker, for Gboard on Android — Compatible with WhatsApp, Messenger, Telegram, and more — There are already hundreds of emoji available to cover every emotion from yawning to being a straight-up drunk weirdo.
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The Keyword, Social Media Today, BGR India, Android Beat, SlashGear, Lifehacker, Pocket-lint, Droid Life, Memeburn, Wccftech, and XDA Developers
Tweets: @monicagescalant, @android, @jenniferdaniel, @advil, and @lilnasx
| Kyle Wilson / VICE: |
A bot called Lsjbot is responsible for 24M out of 29.5M edits and 99.2% of articles for Wikipedia Cebuano edition; all but 5 of the top 35 editors are also bots — Kyle Wilson is an administrator on the English Wikipedia and a global user renamer . He does not receive payment …
Tweets: @motherboard and @motherboard
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
GitHub launches a subsidiary in India, saying it's home to its third-largest community of developers and it saw 22% growth there over the past year — GitHub has launched an Indian subsidiary as it looks to capitalize on recent growth in the country. — The code-hosting platform … | Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Regulators should be wary of unintended consequences as they look closer at acquisitions by big tech, because the current system usually works well for everyone — While primum non nocere — Latin for “First, do no harm” — is commonly associated with the Hippocratic Oath taken by physicians …
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Q&A with McAfee CTO Steve Grobman on unusual types of ransomware, the state of AI in orchestrating and defending against cyberattacks, and deepfake detection — Artificial intelligence is sweeping through almost every industry, layering a new level of intelligence on the software used … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Nominet survey of CISOs at large US and UK companies finds 88% are “moderately or tremendously stressed”, resulting in an average tenure of 26 months — Report: The vast majority of interviewed CISO executives (88%) report high levels of stress, a third report stress-caused … | Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Habu, which offers analysis and management tools for marketing data, emerges from stealth with $15M Series A — Marketing startup Habu is emerging from stealth today and announcing that it has already raised $15 million in Series A funding. — The company comes out of super{set} … Thanks:@alexandrapaulv
| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Coinbase launches margin trading for Coinbase Pro investors, working with up to 3x leverage, available now in select markets in the US and elsewhere — Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is launching margin trading today. Margin trading lets you trade on leverage.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Reuters launches a new Reuters Fact Check business unit and blog and partners with Facebook to review news headlines, deepfakes, and user generated content — Eye-witness photos and videos distributed by news wire Reuters already go through an exhaustive media verification process.
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Reuters, CNET, Social Media Today, Digital Trends, TechSpot, Adweek, Yahoo Finance, and Cointelegraph
Tweets: @shellypalmer, @nikkisunstrum, and @joshconstine
| Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
UK expands broadcast regulator Ofcom's role to include online content, giving it the ability to enforce content standards on social media — Ministers unveil plans to block harmful content, while guaranteeing free speech — Ofcom will be put in charge of regulating the internet …
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GOV.UK, New York Times, GOV.UK, BBC, and Ofcom
Tweets: @nspcc, @ineqegroup, @bbc5live, @markscott82, @iconews, @labourpress, @bbcr4today, @annelongfield, and @hadas_gold
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Judge in the Sprint merger trial decided T-Mobile would stay aggressive due to its public image, despite execs speaking of the merger in terms of raising prices — Judge Victor Marrero thinks John Legere is just the coolest — After a lengthy trial, a federal court ruled in favor …
Tweets: @reckless, @shiraovide, @sokane1, @b_fung, @proffionasm, @backlon, @karlbode, @reckless, and @karlbode
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