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Facebook suspends data analytics firm Crimson Hexagon, which boasts repository of 1T social media posts, as it investigates the company's government contracts — Facebook says it was probing whether data-analytics firm Crimson Hexagon's government contracts comply with Facebook policies
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| Louise Matsakis / Wired: |
Facebook plans to launch Athena, likely a constellation of small internet-delivering satellites, starting in 2019, after downgrading a drone project last month — FIBER OPTIC CABLES are the gold standard of a good internet connection, but laying them can be expensive, and in some parts of the world, a physically daunting task.| Marrian Zhou / CNET: |
Venmo says user transaction history is public by default because it's fun to share info with friends and the option to go private is clearly marked in the app — If you haven't noticed, your Venmo transaction history is public by default. Unless you change the settings, people can see when you buy things.| Sean Hollister / CNET: |
Google says it got duck.com after buying video compression startup On2 in 2010; will now redirect domain to a page with links to DuckDuckGo, Wikipedia, and more — Google owns Duck.com, which has been driving rival search engine DuckDuckGo up the wall for over six years.
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UpGuard: sensitive documents from 100+ companies including VW, Toyota, and Tesla were exposed on a publicly accessible server belonging to Level One Robotics — Automakers like Tesla, Toyota and Volkswagen go to great lengths to keep their technical information confidential.| Mark Kleinman / Sky News: |
Sources: Alibaba and Tencent are in early-stage discussions about buying roughly 20% of WPP China, valuing the business between $2B and $2.5B — Alibaba Group and Tencent Holdings, the two biggest names in China's technology industry, are in talks to buy a stake in the $2.5bn (£1.9bn) Chinese operations of WPP Group.
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Inside state-sponsored trolling efforts that combine virtual hate mobs, surveillance, and misinformation to silence critical voices and spread disinformation — Sitting cross-legged on a charpoy, an Indian day bed, Mahaveer Prasad Khileri taps on his laptop, his face lit by the screen … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: event-planning company Eventbrite has filed confidentially for an IPO; the company has raised more than $350M and was valued at more than $1B in 2014 — Event-planning company has filed confidentially for an IPO — Event-planning company Eventbrite Inc. has filed …
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Interview with Roku's CEO about how the company is growing its ad business and software licensing to OEMs, which generated more revenues than device sales in Q1 — Roku wants to build out a ‘big, next-generation’ targeted ad platform — Roku sells more dedicated streaming devices than perhaps any other company in the world.| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Twitter reveal open source Data Transfer Project to let users move the data they want between services while preserving privacy — An open-source collaboration for “the future of portability” — Today, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter joined …
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Tweets: @jeromefb, @muratkarslioglu, @anildash, @marshallk, @googlepubpolicy, @avinash, @caseynewton, @chrismessina, @juliesbrill, @vgcerf, @codingtrain, @policy, and @carnage4life
| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
Facebook executives struggle to describe a coherent strategy to deal with misinformation on the site; it's a hodgepodge of “exceptions to the exceptions” — Facebook was once the most nimble company of its generation. The speed at which it adapted to every challenge was legendary.
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| Jackie Wattles / CNNMoney: |
Coinbase's Federal Election Commission filing says it has formed a political action committee (PAC) to raise money to spend on U.S. elections — Coinbase, the popular cryptocurrency exchange, formed its own political action committee. — It's a sign Coinbase is angling for more sway …
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