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Source: Twitter has been suspending 1M+ accounts per day in recent months, more than double its rate from October, in its fight against disinformation — SAN FRANCISCO - Twitter has sharply escalated its battle against fake and suspicious accounts, suspending more than one million accounts …
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| Timothy McLaughlin / Wired: |
How Facebook became synonymous with the internet in a newly democratic Myanmar and ended up relying on civil society groups for help in policing rumors — The riots wouldn't have happened without Facebook. — ON THE THE evening of July 2, 2014 a swelling mob of hundreds … | Timothy W. Martin / Wall Street Journal: |
Samsung forecasts ~$13.2B operating profit in Q2, up 5% YoY but breaking streak of quarterly records, amid reports of weak Galaxy S9 sales — Company expects operating profit of 14.8 trillion South Korean won; end of record-earnings streak — SEOUL—Samsung Electronics estimates …
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| Liam Tung / ZDNet: |
Chrome and Firefox pull an extension called Stylish that sold to SimilarWeb in 2017, had roughly 2M users, and was found collecting users' web usage histories — The ‘Stylish’ extension has been removed after collecting users web-usage histories for over a year.
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| Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
Sources: Groupon has contacted several public companies in the past few months to gauge interest in acquiring it; Groupon's revenues fell 5.6% in 2017 to $2.84B — The daily-deal pioneer's run as an independent company could be nearing an end. — Groupon's 10-year run as an independent company could be coming to an end.| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Sonos files for an IPO; filing reports 19M+ products sold globally and a net loss of $14.2M on revenue of $992.5M in the year ending September 30, 2017 — The popular speaker company has announced plans for an IPO — Sonos officially filed for an initial public offering today …
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| Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk: |
Switzerland's principal stock exchange, SIX Swiss Exchange, says it's developing a blockchain-based platform to tokenize traditional securities — Switzerland's principal stock exchange has announced that it is developing a blockchain-based platform to tokenize traditional securities.
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SIX, SludgeFeed, CoinSpeaker, Bitcoin Magazine, Bitcoinist.com, and CCN. Tweets: @noelleinmadrid
| Claudia Assis / MarketWatch: |
Netgear's Arlo security camera spinoff files for IPO; S-1: 1.9M users, 40% of US consumer connected camera systems market, ~$101M in previous quarter revenue — Arlo Technologies Inc., the security-camera making unit of Netgear Inc. NTGR, +1.70% has filed for a initial public offering, seeking to sell up to $100 million in shares.
| Liz Moyer / CNBC: |
Winklevoss' Gemini crypto exchange adds Robert Cornish, ex-NYSE CIO, as its first CTO, the latest in a wave of Wall Street executives joining crypto startups — - At NYSE, he was chief information officer, leading the Big Board's technology team as it overhauled electronic trading.
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| Peter Cao / 9to5Mac: |
Hands-on with the iOS 12 Shortcuts beta: the ability to hook into system events is a big upgrade, but it is otherwise similar to the original Workflow app — One of the more exciting things that users are looking forward to in iOS 12 is the new Shortcuts app.
Tweets: @viticci, @viticci, @stroughtonsmith, @stroughtonsmith, @lorenzolade, @livbem, @viticci, @stroughtonsmith, @stroughtonsmith, @viticci, and @viticci
| Bloomberg: |
US Court of Appeals for DC Circuit upholds FAA's ability to police hobbyist drone use, overturning a decision from last year that said FAA's system was illegal — - Craft operator had argued U.S. agency exceeded its authority — Ruling sets stage for government to expand drone commerce
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China Merchants Group, a state-owned conglomerate based in Hong Kong, backs $15B China-focused technology fund that aims to compete with SoftBank's Vision Fund — China Merchants Group has teamed up with a London-based firm to launch a new Rmb100bn ($15bn) technology investment fund with aim … Sponsor Posts
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