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Facebook announces dating feature for its app that will recommend matches and let users create a separate dating profile, with testing to begin later this year — The world's largest social network is adding dating app features — Facebook is adding a dating layer to its main mobile app …
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| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Facebook announces Clear History feature, letting users stop Facebook-collected browsing history from being associated with their account — It's arguably the company's biggest update since the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke. — Facebook users will soon be able to opt …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook announces updates to Messenger: chat translations, slowly rolling out starting with English/Spanish; AR features in closed beta; and a simplified UI — Facebook could use more evidence that it brings the world together rather than tearing it apart.
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Tweets: @chriswelch, @tomwarren, and @joshconstine
| Michelle Castillo / CNBC: |
Sources: Facebook's considering launching its two smart speakers, initially slated to be unveiled at F8, internationally first, given the privacy concerns in US — - Facebook is considering launching its smart speakers internationally first to avoid U.S. public scrutiny of data privacy issues, sources say.
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The Verge, CNET, Engadget, and Seeking Alpha
| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Interview with Mark Zuckerberg on his recent Congressional testimony, goals for F8 keynote, the three-year timeframe for fixing Facebook, and more — Mark Zuckerberg knew his keynote speech at F8 this year would not be like any other. His previous appearances at Facebook's annual developer's conference …
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Facebook announces WhatsApp group calling and stickers, will let users bring 3D objects from News Feed into their Facebook Camera AR experience, and more — Today, our global developer community gathered in San Jose for F8, an annual two-day event where developers come together to explore the future of technology.| Graham Rapier / Business Insider: |
Shares of Tinder-parent Match Group tank ~22% as IAC, which recently spun off Match, falls ~15% on news of Facebook adding dating feature to its app — - Facebook is adding dating features to its platform, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday. — Shares of Match Group, which owns Tinder, tanked after the announcement.
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| Thuy Ong / The Verge: |
Mark Zuckerberg announces new Instagram features, including a redesigned Explore page and video chat — The Explore tab will also feature more topics — Instagram is rolling out a host of new features today, including video chat and a redesigned Explore page.
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Instagram, TechCrunch, MacRumors, TechCrunch, TechCrunch, Android Authority, Digital Trends, The Verge, Engadget, CrackBerry.com, PhoneDog.com, Android and Me, Droid Life, and iPhone Hacks. Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg
| Laura M. Holson / New York Times: |
Instagram says it will expand anti-bullying tools, including hiding comments that attack appearances — Instagram said Tuesday it was expanding its online anti-bullying initiative, adding a new filter to weed out comments meant to harass or bully the 800 million users of the popular social media site.| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Review of Oculus Go, which launches today: works without a phone or computer, solid hardware, $199 price is reasonable, but ecosystem is lacking and looks bulky — Oculus' first portable all-in-one VR headset is good, but not great — For the past few years, consumer virtual reality headsets …
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Tweets: @reckless, @geoffreyfowler, @geoffreyfowler, and @thedextriarchy
| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
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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.
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Ars Technica, Android Police, GeekWire, Fortune, Engadget, Pocket-lint, 9to5Toys, The Verge, The Digital Reader, Lifehacker, BuzzFeed, SlashGear, PYMNTS.com, and CNET. Tweets: @ingridlunden
| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
AWS starts blocking domain-fronting, a technique used by services to evade state-level internet blocks, following a similar move by Google's App Engine — A week after Google shut down a method for app developers to skirt internet censorship, Amazon is doing the same.
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Signal Blog, Amazon Web Services, BleepingComputer.com, ZDNet, and SecurityWeek
Tweets: @micahflee, @colmmacc, and @malcomvetter
| 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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TechCrunch, Wired, The Register, Reuters, Silicon Republic, Search Engine Roundtable, Folio, and Ad Age
Tweets: @rasmus_kleis, @carnage4life, @jason_kint, and @jason_kint
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Hustle, a grassroots mass-texting tool that does not “sell to Republican candidates or committees”, raises $30M Series B with GV and Salesforce participating — Hustle 20X'd its annual revenue run rate in 15 months by denying clients that contradict its political views.
Tweets: @mims and @joshconstine
| 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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| 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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Tweets: @ciscospvideo and @business
| Bloomberg: |
Filings: Jan Koum's remaining Facebook stock options were not due to fully vest until November, and he may be forfeiting up to $1B if he leaves before May 15 — WhatsApp co-founder still has amassed a $10.4 billion fortune — He's said to have clashed with other executives over strategy
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Tweets: @techcrunch, @alexeheath, and @sarahfrier
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google launches Cloud Composer, a workflow automation tool for developers based on Apache Airflow, in public beta — Google Cloud is launching the first public beta of Cloud Composer today, a new workflow automation tool for developers that's based on the Apache Airflow project.
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