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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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Tweets: @sonos, @kantrowitz, @ron_miller, @wsj, @jolingkent, @theromit, and @buzzfeed. Thanks:@kantrowitz
| 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| 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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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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Tweets: @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @serdarsprofile, @caitlin__kelly, @daveleebbc, @alexia, @recode, @whatthebit, and @llchanana
| 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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| 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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| 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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Help Center, Tumblr Staff, Wired, Ars Technica, Axios, CNET, Fortune, Engadget, Mashable, and Gizmodo
Tweets: @kevincollier, @cjcmichel, @drewharwell, @attackerman, @billweircnn, and @craigsilverman
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Craigslist pulls all personal ads after passage of sex-trafficking bill FOSTA, says any tool or service can be misused and that it can't take such risk — Online classified site Craigslist has pulled its entire personal ad section after Congress passed a new sex-trafficking bill that puts more liability on Web sites.
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Tweets: @mccarron, @albertwenger, @xxxescortamber, @mikeisaac, @causalinf, and @johnteti. Thanks:@inafried
| 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: |
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 … | Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
About 2M Spotify users, or 2.3% of users of its free service, are avoiding ads via modified apps or accounts, according to Spotify's IPO filing — Over 2 percent of free users — Earlier this month, news broke that Spotify was cracking down on users running modded versions of the Spotify app …
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