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| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
WhatsApp cofounder and CEO Jan Koum leaving Facebook; sources say over attempts to weaken WhatsApp's encryption and use its data, that he plans to leave board — SAN FRANCISCO — The billionaire chief executive of WhatsApp, Jan Koum, is planning to leave the company after clashing with its parent …
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| Barry Levine / MarTech Today: |
Trade groups representing 4,000 publishers criticize Google's GDPR policies, say proposal to get consent from EU visitors if Google ads are served “falls short” — The organizations point to Google's requirements that publishers collect consent and assume liability as some of the many issues.
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| Dan Frommer / Recode: |
T-Mobile and Sprint merger may help them to stop wasting resources on stealing customers from each other and take on the industry goliaths AT&T and Verizon — Should T-Mobile be allowed to join forces with rival Sprint? — T-Mobile is trying to make a huge move: Yesterday …
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| Bob Egelko / San Francisco Chronicle: |
California Supreme Court adopts much stricter standard for classifying workers as contractors and not employees, a ruling that may affect many gig economy firms — Companies that want to classify their workers as contractors and avoid paying them wages and benefits that state law requires …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Twitter announces 30 new or renewed video content deals, details live programming from ESPN, NBCUniversal, Live Nation, Vice News, MLB, and more — Twitter is ready to pump even more premium video into your tweet-stream from a range of new and existing partners — with an emphasis on live-streamed content.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Tehran court orders Iranian telecoms to block Telegram saying the app gave Islamic State “safe ground” and also citing the app's role in recent protests — Tehran court ruling prohibits the messaging platform used to organize protesters — Iran moved to shut down the messaging app Telegram …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amazon launches Prime Book Box, an invite-only subscription service for kids' hardcover books for $23/box sold as part of Prime membership — Along with the higher price that Amazon is introducing to Prime this month, the company is also bringing another first to its membership service: physical books.| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Suki announces it has raised $20M, led by Venrock, to build an AI-enabled voice assistant for doctors — When trying to figure out what to do after an extensive career at Google, Motorola, and Flipkart, Punit Soni decided to spend a lot of time sitting in doctors' offices to figure out what to do next.
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| Evan Hill / BuzzFeed: |
Tech firms and governments can't be trusted to preserve digital history, which adds import to the role of new archives like the Egyptian 858 and Syrian Archive — We create almost everything on the internet, but we control almost none of it. — Recently, a 7-year-old photo of mine appeared at the top of my Facebook feed.
Tweets: @davewiner, @tomgara, @digiphile, @dangillmor, and @neerajka
| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Facebook is investigating a report that one of its security engineers may have used privileged access to stalk women online — On Monday, a member of the information security community said they passed Facebook details concerning a security engineer allegedly using their work position to stalk women.
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Tweets: @grady_booch, @natashenka, @errorinn, @lojikil, @tedonprivacy, and @find_evil
| Stephen Chen / South China Morning Post: |
Chinese govt-backed surveillance projects deploy headgear units across industries that detect swings in emotional states of employees by monitoring brainwaves — Government-backed surveillance projects are deploying brain-reading technology to detect changes in emotional states in employees …
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| Bloomberg: |
Private equity firm Permira is buying Cisco's video software business, known as the NDS Group, sources say for ~$1B; Cisco had bought it from Permira for $5B — Cisco bought NDS Group from Permira in 2012 for $5 billion — Cisco is shifting away from tech such as satellite boxes
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| Shabana Arif / IGN: |
PUBG game developer Bluehole says Chinese police arrested and fined 15 people a total of $5.1M for making and selling cheating programs, some containing trojans — Hackers have put themselves at risk for the sake of a chicken dinner. — In an update on its latest anti-cheat efforts … | Pew Research Center: |
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