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Facebook will start testing new ad transparency features in Canada in Nov., in US and elsewhere by summer, including an option to see all ads a page is running — When it comes to advertising on Facebook, people should be able to tell who the advertiser is and see the ads they're running, especially for political ads.
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
As pre-orders open, Apple says iPhone X screen replacement will cost $279, compared to $169 for iPhone 8 Plus; other out-of-warranty repairs will cost $549 — The iPhone X went on sale today, and with it, Apple released some information about the phone's repair pricing — and like the phone itself, it gets expensive.
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Google will use location, not country code domains, by default for localizing search results; users can still change the country service in settings — google.whatever — You've long been able to get localized search results by visiting Google at different domains — like google.com for the US … | The Economic Times: |
Canalys and Counterpoint Research say India overtook US to become world's second largest smartphone market in Q3 — NEW DELHI: India has pipped the US to become the world's second-largest smartphone market at the end of the third quarter, according to two research firms … | Michael Zelenko / The Verge: |
Survey of US sentiment toward big tech firms including Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, and others on trust, privacy, news accuracy, more — Illustrations by Garret Beard and William Joel — This year marked a sea change in our attitude toward tech's largest players — and not for the better.
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| Rita El Khoury / Android Police: |
WhatsApp starts rolling-out feature that lets you delete sent messages within 7 minutes — Message recalls have been rumored on WhatsApp for months now and every couple of weeks, we got a glimpse of the functionality in a beta version but it was always a false alert and never properly worked.| Alison Snyder / Axios: |
Researchers at Vicarious AI have developed a new brain-inspired AI technique that can solve CAPTCHAs with less training data than other AI techniques — One of the ways computers distinguish humans from robots is with CAPTCHAs — that little box with a weird letter combination at the bottom of your online ticket or other transaction.
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| Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed: |
Analysis of ad fraud scheme that generated millions of ad views on Myspace and GateHouse Media video subdomains operated under contract by third parties — Myspace — the iconic social network of the early 2000s — seemed to be experiencing a resurgence this summer when millions of visitors flocked …
Tweets: @harrymccracken and @sarahsluis
| Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
How Floyd Mayweather and DJ Khaled's endorsements helped $30M ICO for Centra debit card token which had shady founders, made-up CEO, false Visa approval claims — Celebrity endorsements are helping start-ups raise big money in so-called initial coin offerings. But it is not always clear what they are selling.
Tweets: @modestproposal1
| Hamza Shaban / Washington Post: |
Uber hires PepsiCo's general counsel Tony West as chief legal officer; West served as a third ranking DOJ official between 2012 and 2014 — Uber announced Friday that it has hired Tony West, a former Justice Department official and the current general counsel at PepsiCo, as its chief legal officer … | Idan Rabi / Globes Online: |
Israeli cybersecurity company Skybox raises $150M from CVC Capital Partners' Growth Fund and Pantheon, bringing the total raised to $288M — The company, which has its development center in Herzliya, has raised $288 million to date. — Israeli cybersecurity company Skybox Security announced today …
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| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Walmart testing robots in 50+ stores for repetitive jobs like scanning shelves for out-of-stock products, incorrect pricing, and mislabeling — The world's largest retailer has had a well-documented struggle with empty shelves in its stores. — Walmart is testing the use of aisle-roaming robots … | Shareen Pathak / Digiday: |
Amazon's “other revenue”, mostly composed of ad sales, grew 58% YoY to $1.12B; net sales from physical stores, reported for the first time, was $1.2B in Q3 — Amazon is making good on its promise to eat advertising. — In its third-quarter earnings report today … | Peter Kafka / Recode: |
Google CEO Sundar Pichai says people are watching YouTube on TVs for 100M hours/day, up 70% in the last year — YouTube viewing on actual TV sets is up 70 percent in the last year. — YouTube has been trying to position itself as a TV competitor for years.Sponsor Posts
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