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Sources: Amazon acquired PillPack in a deal valued at just under $1B; PillPack had been in acquisition talks with Walmart, which was outbid by Amazon — A week after appointing a CEO for its healthcare joint venture with Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan, Amazon today announced an acquisition … | CNBC: |
Amazon to acquire online pharmacy PillPack, which organizes and delivers drugs to consumers and is licensed in 50 states; PillPack has raised $117.8M in funding — - PillPack packages, organizes and delivers drugs. It sends consumers packages with the specific number of medications they're supposed to take at specific times.| Chloe Aiello / CNBC: |
Twitter is reorganizing its teams into groups, like engineering, instead of individual products; Kayvon Beykpour, former Periscope CEO, named head of product — - Ed Ho, who has been on leave since May, explained in a series of tweets his decision was based largely on an unexpected family loss.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram adds the ability to add licenced songs as background music for Stories starting today in 7 countries and says it has 400M daily Stories users — The right music can make a boring photo or video epic, so Instagram is equipping users with a way to add popular songs to their Stories.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Niantic Labs, which helped develop Pokémon Go, says it will open the underlying AR platform, called Real World Engine, to third-party developers — Niantic Labs, the San Francisco-based game developer responsible for creating the massively successful augmented reality game Pokémon Go …
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| Colin Lecher / The Verge: |
The California Consumer Privacy Act, one of the toughest data privacy bills in the US, has been signed into law and will go into effect in 2020 — California lawmakers passed one of the toughest data privacy laws in the United States today, as they faced pressure from an even stronger ballot measure in the state.
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| Inti De Ceukelaire: |
Researcher: Facebook quiz maker NameTests exposed personal info of ~120M users for years, in a data leak that was fixed after the Cambridge Analytica scandal — Ever took a personality test on Facebook? For years, anyone could have accessed your private information, friends, posts and photos.
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| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Bird officially announces $300M raise led by Sequoia Capital, its second raise in just a few months — And there we have it: Bird, one of the emerging massively-hyped Scooter startups, has roped in its next pile of funding by picking up another $300 million in a round led by Sequoia Capital.
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Twitter makes its Ad Transparency Center, announced before Congressional hearings in October, available to all users — Twitter is unveiling the Ads Transparency Center that it announced back in October. — This comes as Twitter and other online platforms have faced growing political scrutiny around …
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| Anna Hensel / VentureBeat: |
Facebook rolls out a button to show ads a Page is running, even if not targeted to the user, across Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger — Facebook today released a new tool that will allow users to see what advertisements a Page is running — whether or not all of those advertisements are targeted at that particular users.
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| Aaron Smith / Pew Research Center: |
Survey of 4,594 US adults: 72% say it's likely social media firms censor opposing political views; 43% say firms support liberal views over conservative views — A majority of Republicans say technology firms support the views of liberals over conservatives and that social media platforms censor political viewpoints.
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| Sahil Patel / Digiday: |
Verizon is shutting down go90; sources say it will be discontinued by July 31 and that shows and all content rights will be returned to production partners — Verizon is finally calling it quits on its expensive mobile video bet, Go90. — The wireless communications giant is shutting …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Sling TV raises core package price by $5 to $25/month, introduces free content and a la carte channel subscriptions — Sling TV, the first to deliver an over-the-top TV service aimed at cord cutters, is shaking up its business. The company announced today it's raising the base price … | Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Kroger, the US's largest supermarket chain, teams up with Nuro, a two-year-old self-driving startup, to launch driverless delivery service later this fall — Kroger is teaming up with Nuro, a startup founded by two veterans of Google's self-driving team — Kroger, the nation's largest …
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| Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss / Reuters: |
Report: ICOs raised $13.7B in the first five months of 2018, up from $7B in 2017; only 30% of the 3,470 ICOs since 2013 closed successfully — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Digital currency sales jumped to $13.7 billion in the first five months of the year, nearly double the amount raised for the whole of 2017 … Sponsor Posts
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