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Facebook shuts down Partner Categories, says it will stop using data from third-party aggregators like Experian to supplement its own data for ad targeting — Facebook says it's going to stop using data from third-party data providers like Experian and Acxiom.
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| Channel 4 News: |
Despite claims of data being deleted, leaked cache from a Cambridge Analytica source details personality and psychological profiles of 136K people in Colorado — Facebook said it took steps to ensure harvested campaign data had been “destroyed”. But Channel 4 News has now discovered …
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Facebook says it is investigating reports that user archives from the Download Your Information tool contain videos that users did not post — Have you downloaded your Facebook data archive yet? Facebook makes it easy to obtain a ZIP file of all the data it has on you: your status updates … | Facebook: |
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| New York Times: |
A look at how Atlanta is dealing with a ransomware attack, one of the most sustained and consequential cyberattacks ever mounted against a major American city — ATLANTA — The City of Atlanta's 8,000 employees got the word on Tuesday that they had been waiting for: It was O.K. to turn their computers on.
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| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Snap cuts about 100 employees focusing on the advertising side of the business; this downsizing said to be the final step in restructuring process — The reductions this time center on its ad division — Snap Inc. is cutting another set of employees, focusing this time on the advertising side …
| Bernie Woodall / Reuters: |
Uber reaches settlement with family of autonomous vehicle accident victim killed in Tempe, Arizona — TEMPE, Ariz. (Reuters) - The family of the woman killed by an Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] self-driving vehicle in Arizona has reached a settlement with the ride services company …
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| Andrew Gebhart / CNET: |
Google Home devices can now connect to any bluetooth speaker using the Google Home app without the need for a separate Chromecast audio streamer — The Google Home will now let you listen to music on your own Bluetooth speakers — no Chromecast streamer required.| Bradley Chambers / 9to5Mac: |
Apple's education-focused events in 2012 and 2018 show that its vision does not fit with reality because of a lack of understanding of what teachers need — Making The Grade is a weekly series from Bradley Chambers covering Apple in education. Bradley has been managing Apple devices in an education environment since 2009.
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| Washington Post: |
Ecuador has barred Julian Assange from using the internet from its embassy in London, saying he violated an agreement not to interfere in international affairs — LONDON — Julian Assange, the controversial founder of WikiLeaks, has been barred from using the Internet at the Ecuadoran Embassy in London …
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| Jonathan Swan / Axios: |
Sources: Trump is “obsessed” with Amazon, with his antipathy surfacing when discussing tax policy or antitrust cases; he is not concerned about Facebook — Capitol Hill wants Facebook's blood, but President Trump isn't interested. Instead, the tech behemoth Trump wants to go after is Amazon …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / BleepingComputer.com: |
Researcher finds some VPN providers leak IP addresses via WebRTC bug which was discovered in 2015, but says audit is incomplete and other VPN's need testing — Around 20% of today's top VPN solutions are leaking the customer's IP address via a WebRTC bug known since January 2015 … | Robin Kurzer / Marketing Land: |
LinkedIn rolls out native video ads in the news feed that auto-play on mute and lets businesses and publishers add video on their Company Pages — LinkedIn is offering businesses two outlets for using video on the platform. Companies can now run native video ad campaigns and include video within …
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Microsoft's new private audience option in Dev Center will allow developers to publish an app to Microsoft Store that'll be visible only to people they specify — One of the consistent themes that the Dev Center Team hears from the Windows developer community is that first impressions are important.
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Microsoft Docs, On MSFT, The Register, Neowin, MSPoweruser, and MSPoweruser. Tweets: @qmatteoq
| Max A. Cherney / MarketWatch: |
Chinese online animated video streaming company Bilibili raises ~$483M at a valuation of more than $3B in IPO on Nasdaq — Bilibili IPO raises nearly $500 million, stock falls in Wall Street debut on tough day for tech stocks — Bilibili Inc. shares suffered through a rocky first day on Wall Street …
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| Neer Varshney / The Next Web: |
Ripple donates $29M in XRP to US public school charity DonorsChoose․org, the largest donation it's ever received — Ripple has donated $29 million to fund school supplies for students in public schools in the US. This donation was made through DonorsChoose.org …
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Ripple, PYMNTS.com, The DonorsChoose Blog, EdSurge, Mashable, CBS Dallas, CCN, Crowdfund Insider, Bitsonline, and Bitcoinist.com
Tweets: @donorschoose, @marshallk, @bostonschools, @hunterwalk, and @anildash
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Pandora takes on Spotify with dozens of personalized playlists built using its Music Genome to fit users' moods, activities, and genres — Just ahead of Spotify's public debut planned for early April, Pandora is punching its rival where it hurts: personalized playlists.
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International Business Times, Pandora Blog, Engadget, RAIN News, and The Verge. Thanks:@seajayinla
| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
DocuSign files for IPO seeking $100M, reports revenue of $381.5M for fiscal year ending Jan. 31, 2017, up 52% YoY, and net loss of $115.4M over that same period — Fifteen years after it was founded in Seattle, digital signature pioneer DocuSign on Wednesday registered to become a publicly traded company … | Sandra Upson / Wired: |
AR startup Ubiquity6, whose app allows users to create AR environments and invite other users into them, announces $10.5M in Series A funding — AT AGE 25, Anjney Midha has a stronger resume than some people twice his age. Before graduating from Stanford, he joined the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
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