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Twitter delays API change that may disable push notifications and auto-refreshing timelines on third-party clients like Tweetbot, promises 90 days change notice — The people behind third-party Twitter clients Tweetbot, Twitterrific, Talon, and Tweetings are warning users that their apps … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook retracted some messages sent by Zuckerberg and other executives from recipients' inboxes without informing those users or the public — You can't remove Facebook messages from the inboxes of people you sent them to, but Facebook did that for Mark Zuckerberg and other executives.
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Facebook says it plans to make an “unsend” feature available to all users in a few months, won't unsend or retract any more of Zuckerberg's messages until then — TechCrunch reported last night that Facebook retracted Facebook messages sent by Mark Zuckerberg and other executives from their recipients' inboxes.
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Facebook will verify identities and locations of advertisers posting political and issues ads and will also verify identities of admins of large Pages — We believe that when you visit a Page or see an ad on Facebook it should be clear who it's coming from.
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Classified ads site Backpage, known for personal adult ads, had its domains seized by the federal government and founder Michael Lacey's home raided by FBI — The classified ads site displays a message “backpage.com and affiliated websites have been seized.”
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Microsoft unveils Skype for Content Creators to record calls via NDI protocol-compatible multi-user streaming software, out this summer for Windows 10 and Mac — Here's a little trade secret: podcasters and radio show hosts use Skype a lot. It's helpful for adding remote guests with minimal fuss.
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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says the Trump admin doesn't understand why Amazon does not collect sales taxes from third party merchant sales on its website — Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin made the comments on CNBC's “Power Lunch” on Friday. — U.S. President Donald Trump announced … | Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
Sources: Postmates and DoorDash CEOs have discussed possible merger at least once to better fight competitors; Postmates has also discussed a sale with GrubHub — Postmates faces a challenge: Profitability seems a long way off, and rival DoorDash has a big investment from SoftBank.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Walmart rolling out Pickup Towers, automated kiosks where customers pick up online orders, to 500 US stores this year after a debut at 200 stores in 2017 — Walmart announced this week it's going to roll out more than 500 additional Pickup Towers to its U.S. stores over the course of the year.
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Sources: Coinbase in talks to acquire Earn.com, a paid inbox service formerly known as 21.co, for $100M, wants Earn's Balaji Srinivasan to become Coinbase's CTO — Digital currency exchange Coinbase is still in talks to acquire Earn.com, a paid inbox service formerly known as 21 inc., Axios has learned from multiple sources.| Joyce Lee / Reuters: |
Samsung's Q1 profit of ~$14.7B, up 57.6% YoY, beat estimates in preliminary results on sales of ~$56.1B, up 18.7% YoY; full earnings expected in late April — SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) tipped a surprise record first-quarter profit on Friday but market reaction … | Joel Spolsky / Joel on Software: |
As Stack Overflow turns 10 and gets ready to launch Stack Overflow Teams, Joel Spolsky reminisces about the beginnings of the website — Hi, everyone! A lot of stuff has happened since I was writing all those blog posts about Aeron chairs 18 years ago. Some of those blog posts are old enough to go to college.
Tweets: @spolsky, @danielcid, and @anildash
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