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A week after Cambridge Analytica and despite #deletefacebook, Facebook app installs did not drop, no big advertisers quit, and analysts recommend buying the dip — As Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal spiraled into chaos this week, a frantic hail of notes from Wall Street analysts …
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| Hannah Summers / The Guardian: |
Eighteen investigators, including some from the UK's Information Commissioner's Office, raid Cambridge Analytica London offices after search warrant granted — Records held by the London-based company to be secured amid allegations it may have illegally acquired data
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Four lawsuits against Facebook by its users and shareholders have been filed in federal courts so far after Cambridge Analytica revelations — The lawsuits are piling up against Facebook in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data misuse and political ad targeting scandal.
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| Loren Grush / The Verge: |
Elon Musk removes Tesla and SpaceX Facebook pages after tweetstorm, but leaves their Instagram accounts, saying Instagram is “probably ok” — During a mid-afternoon tweetstorm, Elon Musk deleted both of his companies' Facebook pages after being challenged to do so by a few of his followers.
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| Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times: |
Sources: Uber's autonomous cars struggled with goal of 13 miles before driver intervention; Waymo says its cars had average of ~5.6K miles between interventions — SAN FRANCISCO — Uber's robotic vehicle project was not living up to expectations months before a self-driving car operated … | Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Samsung says it is investigating user reports about Galaxy S9 and S9+ touchscreen responsiveness issues — Tonight Samsung has responded to growing reports of Galaxy S9/S9+ phones with touchscreen problems. Android Police points to a few threads on Reddit and Samsung's own support forums …
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| Katie Roof / TechCrunch: |
Dropbox closes up 36% on first day of trading after raising $756M in its IPO and is now valued at $11B+ — Dropbox was off to the races on its first day as a public company. — After pricing above the range at $21 per share, raising $756 million, Dropbox kicked off its first day soaring to $31.60, and closing the day at $28.48.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple to introduce new low-cost iPads and software for the education market at its event in Chicago next week — Company holding rare education-focused event next week — Lower-cost and Pro models have recently reignited iPad sales — Apple Inc. is preparing to introduce …
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| Matt Weinberger / Business Insider: |
Pivotal, a cloud computing software and consulting services provider that has raised $1.7B since its spin out from EMC and VMware in 2012, files for an IPO — - Pivotal, last valued at $2.8 billion, has filed to go public. — Dell, the largest shareholder in Pivotal …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Tumblr confirms 84 accounts linked to Internet Research Agency and has begun emailing users who interacted with them; accounts were ID'd and deleted last fall — Tumblr has confirmed that Kremlin trolls were active on its platform during the 2016 US presidential elections.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Telegram announces it has surpassed 200M MAUs, after passing 100M MAUs in February 2016 — Another usage milestone for messaging platform Telegram: It's announced passing 200M monthly active users “within the last 30 days”. — The platform passed 100M MAUs back in February 2016 … | Ryan Whitwam / Android Police: |
Reports: Google is warning developers to include prominent crash reporting disclosures in apps or face removal — There's been an uptick among Android developers receiving warnings from the Google Play team. The issue appears to be crash reporting, which is a common feature developers build into apps.Sponsor Posts
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