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Twitter finishes its review of proposals for improving the health of discourse on the platform and is working with two academic teams on echo chambers, more — Twitter is partnering with two groups of academic researchers to figure out how to measure the health of conversations happening on the platform.
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| David McCabe / Axios: |
Policy paper from Sen. Warner lays out 20 ways to address issues posed by big tech platforms, from putting a price on users' data to mimicking GDPR rules — In a policy paper obtained by Axios, Sen. Mark Warner's office laid out 20 different paths to address problems posed by Big Tech platforms …
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
Court docs: CA police have arrested a college student who allegedly was a member of OGUSERS and stole $5M+ worth of cryptocurrency by SIM swapping ~40 people — California authorities say a 20-year-old college student *hijacked* more than 40 phone numbers and stole $5 million …
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| Eric Auchard / Reuters: |
T-Mobile US picks Nokia to supply it with $3.5B in next-generation 5G network gear, marking the world's largest 5G deal so far — LONDON (Reuters) - T-Mobile US (TMUS.O) named Nokia (NOKIA.HE) to supply it with $3.5 billion in next-generation 5G network gear, the firms said on Monday …
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| Ian Allison / CoinDesk: |
IBM and CLS debut LedgerConnect, a blockchain platform for financial services firms, nine of which are using the proof of concept, including Barclays and Citi — Even private and permissioned blockchains need to build ecosystems and achieve network effects, just like their permissionless, public counterparts.
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Facebook says it will shut down Partner Categories, an ad tool that allows advertisers to target users based on third-party data, by October 1 around the world — Advertisers warn of impact from closure of Facebook ad tool that integrates personal data from outside brokers
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| Polina Marinova / Fortune: |
Source: Bitmain plans to file for an IPO soon; the company booked $1.1B in net profits in Q1 2018 and is raising new funding that would value it at ~$14B — The co-CEO of Bitmain Technologies, the world's largest cryptocurrency mining company, recently revealed plans to conduct …
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| Jillian D'Onfro / CNBC: |
Google promotes SVP and general counsel Kent Walker to SVP of global affairs to oversee its policy, legal, trust and safety, and corporate philanthropy teams — - Google has promoted its general counsel and long-time employee Kent Walker to senior vice president of global affairs.| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Berlin-based Grover, which wants to be the Netflix for gadgets by offering subscribers rentals of the latest consumer tech, raises €37M Series A — Grover, the Berlin-based startup that offers “pay-as-you-go” subscriptions to the latest consumer tech as an alternative to owning products outright … | Nandita Bose / Reuters: |
Walmart has ended last year's pilot program that paid employees who delivered packages on their way home and is testing a more modest approach in a single store — EAST BRUNSWICK, N.J. (Reuters) - Standing before an audience of 14,000 people last year, Walmart Inc executives described …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Swift, parent company of esports organization Team SoloMid, raises $37M Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners with Stephen Curry and others participating — Swift, the parent company of esports organization Team SoloMid, has raised $37 million in a first round of funding.| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Serverless, Inc. raises $10M Series A led by Lightspeed Ventures to improve its developer platform for managing and deploying serverless code — Serverless, Inc came to the serverless game early, creating an open source framework for developers back in 2015.
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