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Facebook's Trending topics will show regional, not personalized, stories moving forward, publisher headline and name under each topic, more — Today we're announcing three updates to Trending, a feature that shows people popular topics being discussed on Facebook that they might not see in their News Feed:
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Tweets: @hannahkuchler, @joshconstine, @stephlauren, @joshconstine, and @craigsilverman
See also Mediagazer| Kif Leswing / Business Insider: |
Report: Apple hires Greg Duffy, the founder of Dropcam who sold it to Nest for $555M, likely to lead a “special project” — Apple has hired Greg Duffy, a well-known entrepreneur who previously founded Dropcam and worked at Alphabet company Nest, an Apple spokesperson confirmed to Business Insider.| Colin Lecher / The Verge: |
Report: Donald Trump is still using his unsecured Android phone to tweet while watching TV in the evenings, despite protests by aides — Donald Trump's long-held Android phone is a security nightmare for a high-level politician, but according to a report from the New York Times …
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| Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Verge: |
Amid Trump's gag orders on US agencies including EPA, anonymous Twitter accounts like @AltNatParkSer keep tweeting and gain traction — Rejecting Trump's science gag order, anonymous NPS Twitter accounts are still going — Government offices (and rogue employees therein) …
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Facebook is testing carousel ads inside Messenger in Australia and Thailand, says the ads aren't targeted based on content of messages — The experiment is just in Australia and Thailand. For now. — Facebook said last summer that it was running out of places to show users ads in News Feed … | Alex Heath / Business Insider: |
Facebook is testing ephemeral Stories that sit at the top of News Feed in its main app in Ireland, mimicking Snapchat and Instagram — After successfully copying Snapchat with Instagram Stories, Facebook is at it again in its big blue app. — The same interface, which Facebook …
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Thanks:@redletterdave| Stephen Hall / 9to5Google: |
Google I/O 2017 to be held May 17-19 at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California — In a somewhat non-traditional manner, Google has today made official the dates and location for Google I/O 2017. This year's developer conference will take place, once again …
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| Agam Shah / Computerworld: |
HP recalls 101K laptop batteries for fire hazard in US, Canada, and Mexico; affected brands include HP, Compaq, ProBook, Envy, Compaq Presario, and Pavilion — The move expands a recall first announced last year — HP is expanding its recall of laptop batteries with overheating issues that can cause computer damage and even fire.| Jane Smith / G Suite Update Alerts: |
Gmail to block JavaScript file attachments on February 13; Google says .js files can still be sent using Google Drive and Google Cloud Storage — Gmail currently restricts certain file attachments (e.g. .exe, .msc, and .bat) for security reasons, and starting on February 13, 2017, we will not allow .js file attachments as well.
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| Erin Griffith / Fortune: |
How the AppDynamics-Cisco deal came together at the last minute during the startup's IPO roadshow, aided by M&A firm Qatalyst, which worked largely on its own — This article first appeared in Term Sheet, Fortune's newsletter about deals and dealmakers. Subscribe here.
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| Michael Kan / PCWorld: |
Cyber criminals create Ripper.cc, a database of known fraudsters to protect themselves from scammers; site has close to 1K profiles already — Ripper.cc has close to 1,000 profiles of known scammers — Sometimes it's not easy being a cyber criminal. In addition to law enforcement …
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Report: Amazon expands into sea freight deliveries, acting as a freight forwarder for 150+ ocean freight deliveries from China to US since October 2016 — Amazon has begun shipping products from Chinese merchant partners to its U.S. warehouses via ocean freighters, the Wall Street Journal reports.| Ginny Marvin / Search Engine Land: |
Google's 2016 “Bad Ads Report”: 1.7B ads removed compared to 780M in 2015, plus nearly 200 publishers banned from AdSense over misleading content like fake news — In its annual “Bad Ads” report, Google says it took down more than double the number of ads in 2016 than it did in 2015 …
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See also Mediagazer| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Lyft says it will expand into 100 more US cities by end of 2017, with 40 more starting on Thursday — Lyft is getting ready for a major expansion in order to remain competitive in the private on-demand ride-hailing sector. The company announced that starting on Thursday …
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| Alexis Sobel Fitts / Backchannel: |
Facebook Live is increasingly being used by conservative media personalities instead of talk radio, where some video broadcasts get millions of views — How the rough-around-the-edges live-streaming tool became the perfect incubator for conservative news in the Trump age.
Tweets: @backchnnl, @mediatwit, @paconner, @fittsofalexis, @stevenlevy, and @dangillmor
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