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| Adrianne Jeffries / The Outline: |
The current Bitcoin economy has mainly replicated core aspects of a centralized finance industry instead of giving rise to a true p2p financial system — The cryptocurrency was supposed to replace the finance industry. Instead, it has replicated it.
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| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Experts estimate that about 1,000 users, known as “whales”, control 40% of bitcoins, raising concerns whales may collude to manipulate cryptocurrency markets — A few massive investors can rock it with a shrug. — On Nov. 12, someone moved almost 25,000 bitcoins … | Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
The ‘pro net neutrality but against Title II regulations’ argument had merit a decade ago, but developments since then make coming FCC rules repeal a mistake — Long time readers of Techdirt may know (as I've noted several times), that in the mid-2000s when the net neutrality debate …
| Max Willens / Digiday: |
With some research saying that permanently baked-in host-read podcast ads are 3.5X more effective, dynamically inserted third party ads have trouble catching on — In November, HowStuffWorks dumped the third-party ads in its podcasts. After spending most of 2017 trying to use ad networks …
Tweets: @digiday, @digiday, @ideafaktory, and @marcoarment
| Madhav Chanchani / The Economic Times: |
Sources: Alibaba to buy 30% of India's online grocer BigBasket for $300M, with $80M of the investment used to buy shares from existing shareholders — BENGALURU: Alibaba is poised to buy over a third of online grocer BigBasket, according to three people directly aware of the impending deal, for about $300 million.| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Kantar: Huawei, Xiaomi, Apple, Vivo, Oppo account for 91% of China's phone market; Apple had 17.4% marketshare in the quarter ending Oct. while Samsung had 2.2% — Xiaomi, Huawei, the Oppo-Vivo duo, and Apple now account for 91 percent of sales — China is the most unique smartphone market in the world … | Ryan Whitwam / Android Police: |
Google brings back play/pause touch controls to Home Mini via long press on sides, after top touch input was disabled due to bug that caused unwanted recording — The Google Home Mini is a super-affordable way to get Google Assistant in your life, but Google was forced to hobble the device shortly …
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CNET, The Verge, Zee News, TechRadar.com, Neowin, MacRumors, Tech Times, SlashGear, 9to5Google, PhoneDog.com, Fone Arena, Engadget, Ubergizmo, and Android Authority
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Modsy, a startup that reconstructs photos of living spaces into 3D and sends users interior design ideas, raises $23M Series B led by Advance Venture Partners — Modsy, a company that allows people to create 3D renderings of their home in order to visualize what it would look like with various kinds … | Theodore Schleifer / Recode: |
Andy Rubin has returned to Essential after taking leave amid questions about an inappropriate relationship with a subordinate when he was at Google — He's back at Essential, his smartphone startup. — Andy Rubin, the founder of smartphone startup Essential, has already returned …
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The Verge, Neowin, CNET, Silicon Valley Business …, Business Insider, Android Authority, Engadget, and TechCrunch
| Bloomberg: |
Mindful of smartphone patent wars, automakers, now among top US patent filers, work together on self-driving IP issues via industry associations to avoid suits — Automakers are learning the mistakes by smartphone companies — Ford, BMW among those looking for licenses without lawsuits
Tweets: @atripper
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
A look at APT 34, a hacking group targeting Middle Eastern critical infrastructure companies; FireEye says APT 34 has hallmarks of Iranian hacking activity — THE INTERNATIONAL INTELLIGENCE agency always has a keen interest in Iran's hacking activity. And new research published … | Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
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