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| Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: this June, Zuckerberg told ~50 execs that Facebook was at war and he'd act more decisively, leading to reorgs, key departures, tension with Sandberg — New approach causes turmoil, driving several key executives from the company and creating tensions with longtime Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg
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| Alex Stamos / Washington Post: |
Ex-CSO Alex Stamos says no one at Facebook ever told him not to examine Russian interference, but company's comms strategy of minimization and denial was wrong — Yup, Sheryl Sandberg yelled at me. — It was the day after I briefed Facebook's Board of Directors on an unprecedented and troubling finding on our platform.
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| Andrew Liptak / The Verge: |
Tumblr says it is working to resolve an issue with iOS app after it disappeared from the App Store amid speculation it was removed due to inappropriate content — The company says that it's working to resolve ‘an issue’ with the app — Tumblr's iOS app is missing from Apple's App Store.
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PiunikaWeb, Help Center, Softpedia News, Digital Trends, 9to5Mac, SlashGear, Geek News Central, Fortune, iPhone Hacks, Gizmodo, Cult of Mac, and Engadget
Tweets: @bluechoochoo, @bluechoochoo, @tumblrsupport, @bluechoochoo, @bradleyf81, and @tumblrsupport
| Aaron van Wirdum / Bitcoin Magazine: |
Bitcoin Cash has forked, with Bitcoin Cash ABC as an apparent early winner, but Bitcoin Cash SV camp is still threatening 51% attacks, spam, and more — Bitcoin Cash, the “big block” project that forked away from the Bitcoin blockchain in August 2017, “hard forked” (split) into two different coins …
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CoinDesk, Coingeek, Coingeek, CCN, NullTX, AMBCrypto, Cointelegraph, Ethereum World News, Coinnounce, Coingape, Virtual Mining Bitcoin News, Axios, NullTX, CCN, NewsBTC, South China Morning Post, Bitcoin Magazine, and CryptoGlobe. Tweets: @el33th4xor
| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Swedish scooter-sharing startup VOI Technology raises $50M Series A led by Balderton Capital with Spencer Rascoff, Justin Mateen, Jeff Wilkes among investors — VOI Technology, an e-scooter startup headquartered in Sweden but with pan-European ambitions, has raised $50 million in Series A funding, confirming our earlier scoop.| Kerry Flynn / Digiday: |
Inside Reddit's brand and agency roadshow to lure more ad dollars — Last month, Reddit sales executives visited OMD's New York office. Armed with a new sales deck that described ad products like sponsored posts with video, examples of how they've driven business results for clients and data … | Jessi Hempel / Wired: |
Profile of former chief AI scientist at Google Cloud Fei-Fei Li, a Stanford professor and co-founder of AI4All nonprofit, which aims to make AI more inclusive — SOMETIME AROUND 1 am on a warm night last June, Fei-Fei Li was sitting in her pajamas in a Washington, DC, hotel room, practicing a speech she would give in a few hours.
Tweets: @stanfordailab, @engineergirlnae, and @went1955
| Jim Waterson / The Guardian: |
Google's VP of News points to 2014 shutdown of Google News in Spain, says “We would not like to see that happen in Europe”, due to the proposed EU “link tax” — Search engine is lobbying hard to stop proposed tax, aimed at compensating news publishers| Ian Sherr / CNET: |
Mojo Vision exits stealth and says it has raised $50M for its “invisible computing” AR platform; sources say Mojo Vision is aiming to develop AR contact lenses — What if instead of a bulky headset or cumbersome glasses to give you the futuristic augmented reality overlay … | Carl Miller / WIRED UK: |
Profile of British Army's 77th Brigade, staffed with experts in graphic design, social media, and data analytics to conduct online influence operations — They are soldiers, but the 77th Brigade edit videos, record podcasts and write viral posts. Welcome to the age of information warfare
Tweets: @carljackmiller
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
San Francisco-based travel marketing platform Sojern raises $120M Series D led by TCV at a valuation of $300M+, says it's been profitable for last 13 quarters — Travel continues to be one of the biggest verticals online, projected to be worth over $1 trillion by 2022 … Thanks:@ingridlunden
| Pew Research Center: |
Survey: majority of US adults say it is unacceptable to use algorithms for criminal risk assessments, resume and job interview analysis, personal finance scores — Real-world examples of the scenarios in this survey — All four of the concepts discussed in the survey are based …
Tweets: @stevesi and @amygesenhues
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