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Facebook's General Counsel Colin Stretch, who led the company's investigation into Russian election interference, is leaving at the end of the year — Colin Stretch's announced exit marks the second high-level departure in recent weeks — Facebook Inc.'s FB 1.78% top lawyer …
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Facebook CSO Alex Stamos told peers in memo about his departure to “intentionally not collect data where possible” and be willing to pick sides on moral issues — In March, days after confirming his plans to leave the company, Facebook's highest-ranking security official implored …
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| Paul Mozur / New York Times: |
Source: Chinese government has withdrawn its approval for Facebook's new subsidiary in the country — SHANGHAI — For Facebook, success in China was brief. Very brief. — For several hours, a Chinese government database showed that Facebook had gained approval to open a subsidiary in the eastern province of Zhejiang.| Cate Cadell / Reuters: |
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| Phil LeBeau / CNBC: |
Waymo partners with Walmart, AutoNation, Avis, and others to ferry their customers to various locations in Phoenix, Arizona — Waymo, the Alphabet company that spun out of Google's former self-driving car division, is partnering with some of the country's largest companies to expand how many people ride in its self-driving vehicles.
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| Edgar Alvarez / Engadget: |
Facebook rolls out Watch Party, a feature that lets users simultaneously watch, comment, and react to Facebook videos together, to all users — Facebook has made it clear that it wants to make video a crucial part of its business, as it looks to compete with the likes of YouTube, Amazon and Netflix.
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| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
Google unveils Titan Security Key, a phishing resistant 2FA device that has USB and Bluetooth versions for ~$20 and ~$25 each, coming to all within a few months — When Google boasted that none of its 85,000-plus employees had their accounts hacked since early 2017, it was all thanks …
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Grubhub to acquire Boston-based LevelUp, which offers a platform to manage digital ordering, payments and loyalty, for $390M in cash — Grubhub announced this morning that it's agreed to acquire LevelUp for $390 million cash. — Founder and CEO Matt Maloney told me that while previous Grubhub acquisitions … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google now offers businesses a stand-alone version of Google Drive, apart from G Suite, that costs $8 per month per active user and $0.04 per GB — If you are a business and want to use Google Drive, then your only option until now was to buy a full G Suite subscription … | Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Gym membership startup ClassPass raises $85M Series D led by Temasek, bringing the total funding raised to $255M — ClassPass today announced the close of an $85 million Series D financing round led by Temasek, the same firm that led the startup's Series C financing.
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| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Equidate, a San Francisco-based marketplace that makes privately held shares available to accredited investors wanting to buy them, raises $50M Series B — Equidate, a 4.5-year-old, San Francisco-based marketplace that makes privately held shares available to accredited investors wanting to buy them …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
2018 MacBook Pro review: great chip performance after latest software update, keyboard slightly nicer to type on, better security and “Hey Siri” with T2 chip — They have a lot to live up to — Additional reporting and photography by Vjeran Pavic. Video by Felicia Shivakumar and Vjeran Pavic.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Steam is rolling out Steam Chat, with new text and voice features to compete with gaming chat app Discord, to all users — In a bid to keep Discord from dominating the social space around PC gaming — Steam has begun rolling out its new text and voice features, as well as its updated friends list, to all users beginning today.| Colin Lecher / The Verge: |
Q&A with Sen. Ron Wyden, who co-wrote Section 230 of Communications Decency Act, on privacy, content moderation, First Amendment, and tech giants like Facebook — There may not be a lawmaker in Congress who has done more to shape the internet than Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR).| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google updates Cloud Search, which until now only indexed G Suite data, to index data from several third-party services that can run on-premises or in the cloud — One of Google's first hardware products was its search appliance, a custom-built server that allowed businesses …
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| Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
Google announces its Cloud IoT Edge software and Edge TPU chip, which will be released as a reference design in October, to bring machine learning to IoT — Now that the internet of things is really a thing, Google plans to release a version of its machine-learning chips designed …
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| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
BitTorrent confirms it has been acquired by blockchain startup Tron; filings suggest about $126M in cash was paid for the company — File sharing veteran BitTorrent has finally confirmed that it has a new owner: “We are excited to announce that Tron has officially closed its acquisition of BitTorrent … | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Line Corp. acquires a majority stake in Korean game developer NextFloor and sets up Line Games as new publisher of mobile games — Japanese mobile messaging firm Line Corp. has acquired a majority stake in game developer NextFloor and it has set up Line Games as a new publisher of mobile games.
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
DARPA sets aside $75M for partners under the Electronics Resurgence Initiative, which is expected to receive $1.5B over the years to fund new ideas in chip tech — The Defense Department's research arm, DARPA, is throwing a event around its “Electronics Resurgence Initiative,” …
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