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| Sara Salinas / CNBC: |
FTC confirms it has an open non-public probe into Facebook's privacy practices — The FTC confirmed Monday it's investigating Facebook and its data practices in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal. — Shares of Facebook fell following the report. — Here's the full statement from the FTC:
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google unveils $329 Acer Chromebook Tab 10, the first Chrome OS tablet, with a 9.7" 2048x1536 display and Wacom EMR stylus that slides into device, coming April — Ahead of Apple's education-focused event tomorrow, which in itself is a reaction to the dominance of Chromebooks in schools … | Ian Bogost / The Atlantic: |
How every Facebook app in 2010 collected users' personal data, what devs could do with it, and why Facebook can't close the Pandora's box it opened a decade ago — For a spell during 2010 and 2011, I was a virtual rancher of clickable cattle on Facebook. — It feels like a long time ago.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
New complicated privacy and transparency regulations might be a mere speed bump for Facebook but an insurmountable burden for startups — You know what tech startups hate? Complicated legal compliance. The problem is, Facebook isn't a startup any more, but its competitors are.
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| Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note: |
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| Johana Bhuiyan / Recode: |
Uber CEO says they spent $700M in Southeast Asia before deal with Grab; source: Uber feels confident enough in India and Middle East to not retreat from there — As part of the deal, Uber will get a 27.5 percent stake in the company and CEO Dara Khosrowshahi will join the Grab board.
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| Bloomberg: |
Grab to acquire all of Uber's operations in Southeast Asia, including UberEats; Uber gets 27.5% stake in Grab, and Uber CEO will join Grab's board — Grab to buy ride-sharing, food delivery businesses in region — Uber gets 27.5% stake in rival, CEO to join Grab's board
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| David Meyer / Fortune: |
Leader of hacker gang known as Carbanak, who used malware attacks to steal €1B+ from banks and ATMs, caught in Spain — For the past five years, a gang of hackers known as Carbanak has been targeting banks around the world, stealing well over $1 billion in total.| John Koblin / New York Times: |
Since October, Apple has signed 12 TV projects, nine of them “straight-to-series”; sources say the company aims to roll them out between March and summer 2019 — Known for its bold designs and its big marketing campaigns, Apple relishes its status as a dominant force in the corporate world.
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| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
Spotify issues guidance for 2018: 96M subs, up 36% YoY, $6.9B in revenue, up 30% YoY, 25% gross margin, up from 21%, $409M operating loss, down from $500M — Ahead of its IPO, the streaming service is offering its first-ever guidance: Revenue, subs and margins will be up, operating losses will go down.| Lauren Goode / The Verge: |
Fitbit Versa review: 4-day battery in compact design, tracks lots of data, but it has poor notification support, data isn't shared with helpful third-party apps — The Versa is better than Fitbit's earlier smartwatches, but it still has issues — Fitbit needs a win.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: SoftBank is investigating who was behind the smear campaign that called for the ouster of its top execs Nikesh Arora and Alok Sama — Series of letters to board called for removal of Nikesh Arora and Alok Sama; ‘sabotage’ effort also involved media leaks, complaint to SEC| Reuters: |
Twitter says it will ban cryptocurrency advertising on its platform, including ads for ICOs, token sales, and crypto-wallet services — LONDON (Reuters) - Twitter is to ban cryptocurrency advertising, joining Facebook and Google in a clampdown on the industry over the risk of giving publicity …
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| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
FCC chief to propose new rules barring use of federal funds to purchase equipment or services from firms posing a security threat to US communications networks — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai on Monday said he was proposing new rules to bar … Sponsor Posts
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