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Report: Mashable has agreed to sell itself to Ziff Davis for around $50M, a fraction of the site's $250M valuation less than two years ago — Digital-media firm Mashable has clinched a sale for the company — and it's not for a price that founder Pete Cashmore or investors including Turner were looking for.
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Airbnb acquired adtech startup AdBasis on Nov. 13; AdBasis will be available to customers until Feb. 2018 and team will be brought into Airbnb — It looks like accessibility isn't the only thing that Airbnb wants to upgrade on its platform. On the same day that Airbnb announced that it acquired Accomable …
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Researchers find flaw in Amazon Key that lets any computer in WiFi range freeze and disable Cloud Cam; Amazon says a fix is coming later this week — WHEN AMAZON LAUNCHED its Amazon Key service last month, it also offered a remedy for anyone—realistically, most people …
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Facebook debuts Creator app, giving influencers a Facebook and Instagram comments inbox, expansive analytics, ability to add intros and outros to broadcasts — Facebook wants to turn mindless, passive video consumption into “time well spent,” and now it's giving social media stars a powerful tool …
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Apple VP of diversity and inclusion Denise Young Smith is leaving; Christie Smith, who spent 17 years as a principal at Deloitte, will be taking over — Apple's first-ever vice president of diversity and inclusion, Denise Young Smith, is leaving Apple at the end of this year, TechCrunch has learned.
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| Stan Higgins / CoinDesk: |
Coinbase announces Custody, a storage service for institutions with a minimum of $10M in deposits; early access product launching in 2018 — Cryptocurrency wallet and exchange startup Coinbase is launching a new storage service aimed specifically at institutional investors.
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Google says it will require close content parity between AMP and original pages beginning February 2018 to discourage publishers from using AMP pages as teasers — Google is cracking down on link baiting — Google today announced a forthcoming update to its Accelerated Mobile Pages … | Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple Releases iOS 11.1.2 With Fix for Unresponsive iPhone X Display in Cold Temperatures — Apple today released iOS 11.1.2, the seventh official update to the iOS 11 operating system. iOS 11.1.2 comes just one week after Apple released iOS 11.1.1, an update that addressed a pesky and widespread autocorrect bug.| Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab: |
Facebook, Google, Bing, Twitter to start incorporating “Trust Indicators” into their products as some news outlets begin displaying tags from The Trust Project — “The hope is that, if news organizations are more clear and transparent about what they're doing, then users can make their own decisions."| Andrew Nusca / Fortune: |
Profile of Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, who cofounded the firm and has maintained its 70% share of the GPU market as competition and demand explode, driven by AI — The cofounder and CEO of semiconductor and software maker Nvidia saw the future of computing more than a decade ago … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Kaspersky Labs releases a more detailed report on how it obtained NSA-linked Equation Group source code in 2014 — Moscow-based AV provider challenges claims it helped Russian spies. — For almost two months in 2014, servers belonging to Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab received confidential …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Vimeo adds support for HDR videos for all users, a year after YouTube added the same feature — Video-streaming company Vimeo has announced that it now supports high dynamic range (HDR) content. — HDR, for the uninitiated, is a technique used to enhance the contrast of colors …
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