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Inside the community of early cryptocurrency investors, now multimillionaires, and how they manage newfound riches and the explosion of interest in the industry — SAN FRANCISCO — Recently the founder of something called Ripple briefly became richer than Mark Zuckerberg.
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| Bloomberg: |
More Chinese-born tech workers now return home from the US for faster salary growth, no “bamboo ceiling”, and chance to work with high volumes of intimate data — An exodus triggered by abundant capital, growing innovation and flourishing career opportunities
Tweets: @davidramli, @tanayj, and @davidramli
| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
Some Facebook ex-staffers think Twitter-inspired 2013 shift to display more news was a failed experiment, as time spent on FB has declined the past two years — Getty Images / John Paczkowski, BuzzFeed News — When news broke on Thursday evening of Facebook's dramatic overhaul of its News Feed …
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| Ben Bajarin / Tech.pinions: |
The stature of Apple's ecosystem at CES fades as Amazon's Alexa and Google's Assistant emerge as platforms of choice for third-party hardware makers — I want to make an observation, which I feel is an important one. However, I don't want it to be taken the wrong way. For the record, Apple is not doomed.
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Recode, Macworld, MacStories, Daring Fireball, Digital Trends, The Mac Observer, Mashable, The Loop, The Loop, The Information, MacStories, Forbes, and iDownloadBlog.com. Tweets: @jsnell
| Karl Bode / Motherboard: |
Harvard study: community-owned broadband prices are up to 50% cheaper than lowest-cost services offered by private ISPs, are more transparent and less confusing — Community-owned internet service providers are cheaper and better. — A new study out of Harvard once again makes it clear …
Tweets: @greenawakening, @leolaporte, and @jason_kint
| Horace Dediu / Asymco: |
Analysis: iOS users will be spending about $100M/day in 2018 on apps in the App Store, which has been growing at about $5B/year since mid-2011 — In its latest update on the App Store Apple reported that iOS developers earned $26.5 billion in 2017. A year ago the figure was $20 billion.| Tom Simonite / Wired: |
After mislabeling some black people as “gorillas” in 2015, Google Photos says it still blocks similar search terms due to limitations of computer vision tech — IN 2015, A black software developer embarrassed Google by tweeting that the company's Photos service had labeled photos of him with a black friend as “gorillas.”
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| Tobias Buck / Financial Times: |
SoftBank agrees to invest €460M in German online car dealer Auto1 at €2.9B valuation; half of the investment will be made through the issue of new shares — Japanese conglomerate SoftBank has agreed to invest €460m in Auto1, a fast-growing German online car dealer … | Nikkei: |
Source: SoftBank is planning an $18B IPO of its Japanese mobile telecom unit, filing this spring with start of trading this autumn in Tokyo and possibly London — Japanese group looking at offerings in Tokyo and London this year — TOKYO — SoftBank Group aims to list its mobile phone unit SoftBank Corp …
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| Molly Jane Zuckerman / Cointelegraph.com News: |
Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken is back online after 2+ days of downtime during a scheduled infrastructure upgrade, which was supposed to last 2 hours — The Kraken cryptocurrency exchange has come back online today, Jan. 13 at 11:30 UTC, after a more than 48-hour delay.
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Fortune, Kraken Blog, Virtual Mining Bitcoin News, CoinDesk, and Kraken Status
Tweets: @maxekaplan and @krakenfx
| Ryan Knutson / Wall Street Journal: |
Phones can accurately pinpoint user's location via Wi-Fi hotspots, but carriers are slow to adopt the tech for 911 calls due to lack of pressure from regulators — Accurate location data is on smartphones, so why don't more wireless carriers use it to locate emergency callers?| E. Tammy Kim / New Yorker: |
How Scripto, the collaborative writing app for TV production that Stephen Colbert helped build, has become a hit with news-comedy shows — Two months ago, a group of reporters and comedy writers crowded into a conference room in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, to begin work on a new HBO show hosted …
Tweets: @newyorker
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