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Facebook's outgoing public policy head Elliot Schrage takes responsibility for hiring Definers in a memo, admits company asked Definers to investigate Soros — TechCrunch has attained an internal memo published by Facebook's outgoing head of public policy Elliot Schrage in which he blames himself for hiring PR firm Definers.
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| Seth Fiegerman / CNN: |
In an interview, Mark Zuckerberg says he will stay on as Facebook's chairman, defends COO Sheryl Sandberg, reiterates Facebook's potential as a force for good — New York (CNN Business)After spending much of this year apologizing for Facebook's many missteps, CEO Mark Zuckerberg was defiant …
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Amazon emails an unknown number of customers disclosing a “technical error” that exposed emails and names, but provides few other details — Amazon's renowned secrecy encompasses its response to a new security issue, withholding info that could help victims protect themselves.
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Leaked memo: Foxconn aims to cut $2.9B from expenses in 2019 and eliminate ~10% of non-technical staff, as it faces “a very difficult and competitive year” — Foxconn Technology Group, the biggest assembler of Apple Inc. iPhones, aims to cut 20 billion yuan ($2.9 billion) …
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Sources: Amazon is working to persuade brick-and-mortar merchants to accept its Amazon Pay digital wallet, starting with gas stations, restaurants, and others — Amazon is looking to start by working with gas stations, restaurants and other merchants that aren't its direct competitors
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| Dami Lee / The Verge: |
Instagram says it is testing new profile layouts that rearrange core elements, except the grid view, in an apparent attempt to reduce focus on follower counts — Instagram announced on its press site today that the company is testing out new user profile layouts.
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Sources detail meeting in India between Twitter's Jack Dorsey, Vijaya Gadde, and others, after photo of Dorsey holding sign criticizing caste system goes viral — At a round table discussion in New Delhi last week, Twitter's top executives seemed unaware of caste-based abuse taking place …
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
USPS patches API flaw that let anyone with a usps.com account view details of 60M users, over a year after a researcher says he disclosed the vulnerability — U.S. Postal Service just fixed a security weakness that allowed anyone who has an account at usps.com to view account details … | Bloomberg: |
Facebook says its ad buying system is still experiencing glitches after an outage on Tuesday, which sources say affected major buyers, ahead of Black Friday — - Ad-buying system was down earlier for some major users — Hiccups come as brands prepare campaigns for holiday shopping| Reuters: |
BMW says it will begin to offer ride-hailing services in China starting in December, becoming the first global automaker to obtain a license — BEIJING (Reuters) - Germany's BMW (BMWG.DE) plans to launch ride-hailing services in China in December, the first global automaker to obtain such a license in the fast-growing market.
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| Kadhim Shubber / Financial Times: |
Facebook poaches Kate Patchen, who led the DOJ's antitrust office in San Francisco, to be an associate general counsel of litigation, according to her LinkedIn — Facebook has poached the US Department of Justice's top antitrust enforcer in Silicon Valley as it faces tougher scrutiny …
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| Karen Weise / New York Times: |
How a group of East African Amazon warehouse workers in Minneapolis became the first known collective to get Amazon management to negotiate better terms — Labor organizers and researchers said they had not heard of Amazon previously coming to the table after worker pressure, even for private discussions.
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Amazon is using “neural text-to-speech” (NTTS) tech to develop new speaking styles for Alexa, will launch a newscaster style to read articles in a few weeks — Amazon is using AI to develop new speaking styles for Alexa, including a newscaster voice for reading articles
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Beijing plans to implement a social rating system to judge all of its 22M citizens by the end of 2020, pooling data from several departments — - China capital plans ‘social credit’ system by end of 2020 — Citizens with poor scores will be ‘unable to move’ a step| Daniel Palmer / CoinDesk: |
Parent of Silvergate Bank files for an IPO, seeking to raise $50M, and says it has 483 crypto clients, up from 114 in September 2017 — The California-based parent of Silvergate Bank has detailed its relationships with the cryptocurrency industry as part of its IPO filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
GameStop says it will sell Spring Mobile, which owns and runs 1,289 AT&T wireless stores, to Prime Communications for $700M — GameStop announced Wednesday it agreed to sell its Spring Mobile business for $700 million. The stock spiked 15 percent on the news.
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