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In opening statements for congressional testimonies, Sandberg says Facebook was slow to spot election interference, Dorsey emphasizes trust and transparency — WASHINGTON — For months, Facebook, Twitter and Google have grappled with criticism over the misuse of their services by foreign operatives …
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Sen. Warner says Google can still “step up” after it posts written testimony it will submit instead of having Page or Pichai testify at congressional hearing — - Committee spurned lawyer Walker as not high-ranking enough — Facebook's Sandberg and Twitter's Dorsey preview their remarks
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Sources detail Sheryl Sandberg's expanding role at Facebook following its delayed response to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which she saw as a disaster — Amid questions about her influence at the social network, the high-profile executive has been asked to tackle safety and security issues| Issie Lapowsky / Wired: |
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Chrome 69 arrives with revamped design, more powerful omnibox that shows Google-sourced answers without having to open a new tab, and improved password manager — Google today launched Chrome 69 for Windows, Mac, and Linux, Android, and iOS, just a few days after the browser's 10-year anniversary.
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Google is considering big changes to how URLs are displayed in Chrome so that web identity can be better understandable, plans to share ideas by next spring — GOOGLE'S CHROME BROWSER turns 10 today, and in its short life it has introduced a lot of radical changes to the web.
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Sources: Instagram is building a standalone app for shopping which may be called IG Shopping — Facebook is planning a major new move into e-commerce, sources tell The Verge — Instagram is working on a new standalone app dedicated to shopping, The Verge has learned.| John Carreyrou / Wall Street Journal: |
Theranos says it will formally dissolve, in an email to shareholders, and says it will seek to pay unsecured creditors its remaining cash in coming months — Firm, tarred by scandal, will pay creditors its remaining cash — Theranos Inc., the blood-testing company accused … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Evernote has lost its CTO, CFO, CPO, and HR head in the last month; source says the company is currently fundraising, potentially in a down round — Evernote, the productivity app with 225 million users that lets people take notes and organise other files from their working and non-work life … | Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed News: |
Researchers from Oracle-backed watchdog posed as Russian trolls, using name and other info of Russia's IRA, and were easily able to run political ads on Google — In the summer of 2018, after months of public and legislator outcry over election interference, you might think it would be difficult …
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Microsoft launches call recording feature for Skype on most platforms except Windows 10, which will get the feature in the coming weeks — When we added video to Skype calls over ten years ago, the ability to share important moments with loved ones took a big step forward.| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Microsoft is making available publicly its redesigned Outlook app, which was first unveiled last fall, on the web and for Windows users in the Targeted program — Microsoft first unveiled a redesign of its Outlook email app last fall, and now that visual overhaul for the software is available publicly starting today.| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
CBS announces it will stream Super Bowl LIII on its sports website, its app for connected TV devices, and mobile apps without requiring a sign-in — CBS is determined to make the most of the NFL's loosened streaming rules. The broadcaster has revealed its streaming plans for Super Bowl LIII … | Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
For second time in three years, shady mobile spyware company mSpy leaks millions of sensitive records including passwords, call logs, texts, contacts, and notes — mSpy, the makers of a software-as-a-service product that claims to help more than a million paying customers spy on the mobile devices … | Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
FCC's Pai says transparency law may be needed for Twitter, Facebook, Google, citing privacy issues, even though he supported ending ISP privacy rules in 2017 — The leader of the Federal Communications Commission says that major web companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Google …
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| Sara Salinas / CNBC: |
Amazon shares rose to $2,050.50 in intraday trading, valuing the company at $1T, a month after Apple reached the milestone — Amazon stock briefly hit a $1 trillion market cap Tuesday before falling off and leaving Apple as the only publicly traded U.S. company above the benchmark.
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| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Study with data from 100,000 phones shows US telcos are throttling services like YouTube and Netflix, led by Verizon, while Sprint throttles the least — - Wehe app shows videos streaming at fraction of available speed — As FCC backs off, researcher becomes net-neutrality watchdog
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| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Intel's CEO search looks to outsiders in a break with tradition as ex-CFO Stacy Smith is uninterested; interviews with board have not yet started — - Process yet to start formal interviews with board members — Former CFO Smith is said not to be interested in returning
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| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Samsung says it will let third-party developers build apps for its Bixby assistant later this year — - Samsung will launch a software developers kit (SDK) and an application programming interface (API) for Bixby. — Samsung will allow third-party developers to build apps for Bixby … | Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
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| Nick Vivarelli / Variety: |
Streaming services like Netflix that operate in the EU will need to dedicate 30%+ of their catalogs to local content after new law comes into effect in December — Quotas obligating Netflix, Amazon and other streaming services operating in the European Union to dedicate at least 30% … | Davey Alba / BuzzFeed News: |
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