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Apple sends out invites for an event on October 30 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City, where updated iPads and MacBooks are expected — Apple today sent out media invites for a second major 2018 event set to be held in New York City on Tuesday, October 30 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Howard Gilman Opera House.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Samsung debuts $1,000+ Galaxy Book 2, a Windows 2-in-1 to compete with Surface, with 12-inch OLED display, LTE, 4GB RAM, Snapdragon 850, on sale from November 2 — A couple weeks after Microsoft announced the Surface Pro 6, Samsung is today unveiling the $1,000 Galaxy Book 2 …
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| Dave Zohrob / Chartable: |
An in-depth analysis of how the Apple Podcasts top charts are being manipulated, and how that affects the podcast ecosystem, which relies on Apple's directory — How did an unknown show about real estate beat out Serial, Dr. Death, and The Daily? — Something weird has been happening on the Apple podcast charts lately.
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| Anton Shilov / AnandTech: |
Samsung says it has started mass production of 7nm chips using an EUVL process that it claims enables 50% power and 20% performance improvements over 10nm chips — Samsung Foundry on Wednesday said that it had started production of chips using its 7LPP manufacturing technology …
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| Rob Copeland / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: data mining giant Palantir is weighing an IPO as soon as H2 2019; some bankers have told the firm it could IPO with a valuation of as much as $41B — Bankers have told the firm it could go public with a valuation as high as $41 billion — Data-mining giant Palantir Technologies Inc. …
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| For The Record: |
Spotify Premium gets streamlined navigation, personalized search, and endless artist radio, rolling out globally on iOS and Android starting today — We're always looking for ways to provide the best possible methods for people to discover and enjoy the music they love.| Valentina Palladino / Ars Technica: |
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| Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab: |
A close look at the suit against Facebook on video metrics and a look back at many statements from publishers pivoting to video as Facebook touted the medium — “It will probably be all video.” — In June 2016, Nicola Mendelsohn, Facebook's VP for Europe, the Middle East and Africa … | Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Charlie Amter / Variety: |
SoundCloud says DJs will be able to mix all songs from its catalogue starting in 2019 as it partners with Serato, Virtual DJ, and others — SoundCloud is on a roll. Hot on the heels of an announcement earlier this month allowing all users of the open audio platform to tap … | Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Google makes Compose actions, a feature for Gmail Add-ons, generally available to all users with integrations from Box, Dropbox, Atlassian, and Egnyte — Lately, Google has been all about shaving time off your everyday activities when sending emails. First they came out with smart responses …
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| Bloomberg: |
Twitter has published data sets of millions of tweets, images, videos, and thousands of accounts linked to Russia and Iran meddling for analysis by researchers — - Data includes images and videos from thousands of accounts — Tech firms remain under fire from lawmakers in EU, U.S.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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| Dami Lee / The Verge: |
Square launches Terminal, an all-in-one device for card and mobile payments from Apple Pay and others, available for $399 — Square is launching a new point-of-sale hardware device called Terminal, which can accept credit card and mobile payments through Apple Pay, Google Pay, Samsung Pay, and NFC.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Atlassian makes its redesigned Jira Software tool, which includes new APIs and more, available to all Jira users, after previewing it earlier this year — Atlassian previewed the next generation of its hosted Jira Software project tracking tool earlier this year. Today, it's available to all Jira users.
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Sources: Facebook tentatively finds that the hack affecting 30M users was perpetrated by spammers posing as a digital marketing company, not by a nation-state — Facebook Inc. FB .40% believes that the hackers who gained access to the private information of 30 million of its users …
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| Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic: |
How one company spent between $1.2M and $4.6M over five months to get 45M+ impressions on Facebook political issue ads, without saying who's paying for the ads — Over just two weeks in September, a limited-liability company calling itself News for Democracy spent almost $400,000 … | Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
A deep look at the emergent Chinese phone market, where the hardware is now on par or better than flagships popular in the West but the software lags behind — 2018 will go down as the year when it became impossible to ignore the increasing advancements of Chinese smartphone hardware … | Financial Times: |
Sources: Uber is developing a short-term staffing business, called Uber Works, that would utilize its database of workers for events and corporate functions — Uber is developing a new short-term staffing business, dubbed Uber Works, that would help to diversify its business ahead of next year's planned initial public offering.| Theodore Schleifer / Recode: |
How Silicon Valley's rich can defer or even avoid capital gains tax, via a provision that Sean Parker helped craft, by investing in low-income Opportunity Zones — Sean Parker crafted a little-known part of the tax code called Opportunity Zones. Now every one-percenter in Silicon Valley wants in.
Tweets: @teddyschleifer and @juliaferraioli
| Lily Katz / Bloomberg: |
BitGo, which makes multi-signature cryptocurrency wallets, raises $58.5M Series B from Goldman, Mike Novogratz, and others, bringing total raised to $70M — - Startup guards digital currencies for institutional investors — Bank calls custody a ‘logical precursor’ to market making| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Vacation rental company Vacasa raises $64M led by Riverwood Capital, bringing its total funding to $207.5M — Investors continue to bet big on Vacasa. — The Portland-based vacation rental management company today raised another $64 million from existing investors.Sponsor Posts
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