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Microsoft is making a big push to entice Zoom users to Teams with a new free all-day video calling feature with up to 300 people on the web — Microsoft Teams is now free to use for 24-hour video calls all in a browser — Microsoft is making a big push to entice fans of Zoom …
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| Scott Stein / CNET: |
Apple's AR execs on how iPhones and iPads are becoming world-mapping, object-scanning tools that are laying the groundwork for the arrival of AR headsets — Sometime in the not-too-distant future, Apple will reportedly unveil an augmented- or mixed-reality headset. Apple hasn't discussed any headgear yet.
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Facebook responds to Apple's defense of IDFA, saying Apple is using its “dominant market position to self-preference their own data collection” — Apple Inc. on Thursday slammed Facebook Inc. and other internet giants for their ad-targeting practices in response to a letter questioning …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple defends its delayed IDFA changes in iOS 14 and slams Facebook, saying “its intent is to collect as much data as possible” on its users — Last month, a coalition of eight civil and human rights organizations penned an open letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook regarding …
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| Michal Lev-Ram / Fortune: |
Apple announces Barbara Whye as its new head of inclusion and diversity starting in early 2021; Whye will arrive from a similar role at Intel — Apple has announced a new vice president of inclusion and diversity. Barbara Whye, who has made a name for herself as Intel's head of D&I, will join the iPhone-maker in early 2021.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Snap has reportedly acquired Voisey, a UK startup that lets users create short music tracks and videos using their own voice overlayed on custom instrumentals — Snapchat helped pioneer the use of lenses on faces in photos and videos to turn ordinary picture messages into fantastical creations … | Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
ContextLogic, owner of mobile commerce app Wish, files for an IPO, says Wish had 108M MAUs and revenue of $1.75B for the first nine months of 2020, up 32% YoY — This morning Wish, a well-known mobile ecommerce startup, filed to go public. It joins Affirm, Airbnb, and Roblox in filing …
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Roblox files S-1 for its IPO, reports losses of $206M on $589M in revenue, 31.1M DAU, and 22.2B engaged hours, up 122% YoY, for the first nine months of 2020 — Roblox, a Silicon Valley-based based social gaming platform for tweens and teens, on Thursday filed for a $1 billion initial public offering.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Filing: Facebook files a lawsuit against a Turkish national who operated a network of Instagram clone sites that allegedly scraped 100K accounts — Facebook has today filed another lawsuit against a company acting in violations of its terms of service. In this case, the company …
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| Zoë Bernard / The Information: |
Sources: tech jobs site Hired, which was once valued at $500M, is considering winding down its operations after its unsuccessful efforts to sell itself — Hired, a recruitment service for tech jobs, has started a process to sell assets, pay off creditors and wind down the company …
Tweets: @humairawins, @jessicalessin, and @zachtratar
| James Pearson / Reuters: |
Source: Vietnam has threatened to shut down Facebook inside the country if it does not censor more “anti-state” posts on the platform — HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam has threatened to shut down Facebook in the country if it does not bow to government pressure to censor …
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Tweets: @sivavaid, @malinka1102, @rafiqcopeland, @evelyndouek, and @carlquintanilla
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Go SMS Pro, an Android messaging app with 100M+ installs, is exposing photos, videos, and other files sent privately by its users — Go SMS Pro, one of the most popular messaging apps for Android, is exposing photos, videos and other files sent privately by its users. Worse, the app maker has done nothing to fix the bug.
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Tweets: @charlesarthur, @adamsenft, @zackwhittaker, @zackwhittaker, and @zackwhittaker
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Facebook's Q3 transparency report: 0.1%-0.11% of what users see violates hate speech rules; 95% of hate speech takedowns are proactive, up from 24% in 2017 — Lawmakers and moderators criticized its policies this week — Facebook says it is proactively detecting more hate speech using artificial intelligence.
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Tweets: @congressmanraja, @kkeneally, @margiedemocracy, @know_more_news, @janelytv, @natijomartinez, @guyro, @rmac18, @hypervisible, and @evelyndouek
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
FireEye acquires cybersecurity investigation company Respond Software for $186M, while announcing it received a $400M investment from Blackstone and ClearSky — The security sector is ever frothy and acquisitive. Just last week Palo Alto Networks grabbed Expanse for $800 million.
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| Heather Kelly / Washington Post: |
A look at Facebook Groups, used by two thirds of Facebook's MAUs and a company focus since 2017, which make leaving the platform especially difficult — Facebook invested heavily in the one feature it knew people couldn't leave behind: Their groups — Before the pandemic, Andrea Norrington barely checked Facebook.
Tweets: @geoffreyfowler, @kcpike, @venkatananth, @olivier_amar, and @heatherkelly
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says it has completed a global rollout of RCS and will start testing end-to-end encryption in Android Messages — In mid-2019, Google decided to take over and speed up the launch of RCS. A little over 17 months later, Google announced today that it has completed a global rollout of RCS …
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Tweets: @matthew_d_green, @richardjnieva, @hallstephenj, @backlon, @backlon, @tingftw, @wcathcart, @derekmross, @maxwinebach, @ohmdee, and @backlon
| Jennifer Smith / Wall Street Journal: |
Loadsmart, which uses AI to boost efficiency in logistics operations, raises $90M Series C led by BlackRock's Innovation Capital, at a $400M+ valuation — Backers include a BlackRock investment arm and maritime container line Maersk, which participated in earlier funding rounds
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| Tom Simonite / Wired: |
Research renews concerns about gender bias in image recognition services offered by Google, Microsoft, and Amazon — A new paper renews concerns about bias in image recognition services offered by Google, Microsoft, and Amazon. — MEN OFTEN JUDGE women by their appearance. Turns out, computers do too.
Tweets: @womenreadwomen, @jessicamalonso, @schemaly, and @amydiehl
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