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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Apple acquires digital newsstand Texture, which gives its readers access to ~200 magazines for $10/month, as it doubles down on content “from trusted sources” — As the debate continues over fake news and the role that aggregators like Facebook have played in spreading it …
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Apple, Recode, Quartz, Gizmodo, BBC, ZDNet, Associated Press, The Verge, MacStories, Mercury News, Washington Post, iMore, BetaNews, Thurrott.com, Macworld, CNET, Engadget, VentureBeat, Financial Times, and Reuters
| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Eddy Cue Q&A on the line between free speech and open platforms, plans to integrate Texture content into Apple News, why Apple likely won't buy Disney, Netflix — We're on the ground at SXSW 2018 in Austin, Texas where Apple's Eddy Cue is about to take the stage to discuss media curation with CNN's Dylan Byers.
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TechCrunch, VentureBeat, FierceCable, AppAdvice.com, 9to5Toys, and MacDailyNews
Tweets: @apollozac and @mathewi
| Zeynep Tufekci / New York Times: |
YouTube could be one of the most powerful radicalizing tools of this century, given its billion users and algorithms that recommend ever more extreme videos — At one point during the 2016 presidential election campaign, I watched a bunch of videos of Donald Trump rallies on YouTube.
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TechCrunch, The Scholarly Kitchen, Lifehacker, Fortune, and Boing Boing
Facebook: Zeynep Tufekci. Tweets: @zeynep, @nytopinion, @jasonabbruzzese, @jawillick, @mayawiley, @chrisalbon, @sherwoodstrauss, @paulkrugman, @zeynep, @john_sipher, @tdietterich, @dangillmor, @clairlemon, @zeynep, @radleybalko, @malachybrowne, and @carnage4life
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
A year after its launch, Microsoft says Teams is used by 200K organizations and will soon have support for Cortana and inline message translation — Microsoft has never shared how many individuals are using Teams, its chat-based collaboration tool that's part of Office 365 and competes …
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Office Blogs, SiliconANGLE, Engadget, The Register, TECHCOMMUNITY.MICROSOFT.COM, Windows Central, TechCrunch, ZDNet, Neowin, On MSFT, and The Verge
Tweets: @lewis_lin, @officenews, @microsoftteams, @epro, and @msftenable
| Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: |
Dropbox seeks to raise as much as $648M in its IPO, plans to sell 36M shares at $16-$18, which would give it a valuation of ~$7.5B at the midpoint of the range — Dropbox, the online file storage company, said on Monday that it hoped to raise as much as $648 million in its forthcoming stock market debut …
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Lyft says it surpassed $1B in revenue for fiscal '17; Q4 revenue up 168% YoY vs Uber's 61% YoY rise; this quarter likely to be 20th straight of 100%+ YoY growth — Lyft made a lot of progress in 2017, helped by strong market expansion within the U.S., and riding some very bad news from its primary rival Uber.
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Recode, CNET, Axios, and Seeking Alpha
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Twilio launches Flex, a programmable contact center platform with a full graphical user interface — Earlier this year we reported that Twilio was going to launch a full contact center solution called Flex on March 12 — lo and behold, today is March 12 and Twilio today announced the launch …
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The Diversity Blog and Seeking Alpha
| Andrew Marantz / New Yorker: |
Inside Reddit as it rolled out the October 2017 policy update that resulted in the ban of numerous subreddits, including ones for Nazis and bestiality — The trolls are winning. How do we fix life online without limiting free speech? — Which Web sites get the most traffic?
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BGR. Tweets: @newyorker, @brendanbordelon, @max_read, @daveleebbc, @daveleebbc, @andrewmarantz, @saraashleyo, @oliviasolon, and @jackmurphylive
| Jamie Rigg / Engadget: |
UK government's plan to police porn sites by compelling them to verify the age of British visitors has been delayed until the end of the year — Ever since the Digital Economy Act became UK law this time last year, we've known there would come a time when porn sites would be compelled … | Gabriele Boland / NewsWhip: |
Study: reporters driving Facebook engagement come from hyper-partisan sources like Breitbart and the Daily Wire; two in the top 50 write for fake news sites — With social platforms like Facebook putting an emphasis on meaningful engagements, publishers and content creators have to reassess …
Tweets: @mattyglesias, @broderick, @redsteeze, @caseynewton, @mattrosoff, @jason_kint, and @jason_kint
| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
In yet another ICO scam, over 1,000 investors who put $2M+ into a project called Giza have lost their money — Cryptocurrency scammers run off with over $2 million from fake ICO — Scammers appear to have made off with more than $2 million in cryptocurrency after carrying … | Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
US district judge Lucy Koh rejects bid by Verizon to dismiss many claims brought against Yahoo, allowing data breach victims to move ahead in legal battle — (Reuters) - Yahoo has been ordered by a federal judge to face much of a lawsuit in the United States claiming that the personal information …
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Engadget, Silicon Valley Business …, PYMNTS.com, and Axios
| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Decentralized data storage startup Storj appoints former Docker CEO Ben Golub as its new executive chairman and interim chief executive — Decentralized data storage startup Storj is hoping to boost its growth with the hire of a new executive chairman and interim chief executive.Sponsor Posts
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