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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Spammers are emailing businesses, schools, and other locations in the US, Canada, and New Zealand, demanding bitcoin as ransom to not detonate a supposed bomb — Spammers are sending a wave of threats to businesses, schools, and other locations in English-speaking countries across the world …
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Krebs on Security, Kotaku, Wired, GeekWire, Gizmodo, Heavy.com, US-CERT, The Hacker News, NBC News, CoinDesk, SiliconANGLE, ZDNet, BleepingComputer, Threatpost, Bloomberg, CCN, CBS New York, Business Insider, Ars Technica, NullTX, Silicon Republic, CryptoGlobe, The Register, TechSpot, CoinBlock.Asia, Cointelegraph.com News, Geek.com, Waterloo/Cedar Falls Courier, PC Gamer, Reuters, BGR, Latest Ransomware News …, Narcity, TechCrunch, CNET, GamesIndustry.biz, Comic Book, Gothamist, IGN, GameSpot, and Gamasutra
Facebook: Cedar Rapids Police Department. Tweets: @theeryangrant, @nypdnews, @certnz, @briankrebs, @wsbtv, @jasonschreier, @briankrebs, @onenorthavenue, @oneunderscore__, and @emilydreyfuss
| Sam Levin / The Guardian: |
Some current and former fact-checkers say Facebook has ignored their concerns, that they have been used for PR, and that they have lost trust in the company — Journalists paid to help fix Facebook's fake news problem say they have lost trust in the platform
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Facebook, The Verge, The Next Web, and Fast Company
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| Bloomberg: |
In a court filing, Apple argues that China's ban on the sale of some iPhones, which it is appealing, would force it to settle its licensing battle with Qualcomm — Apple Inc. said a Chinese ban on the sale of some models of the iPhone will force it to settle a long and bitter licensing battle …
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Reuters, CNET, South China Morning Post, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Inquirer, The Verge, AppleInsider, BGR, Softpedia News, Mashable, TechNode, Gizchina, iPhone Hacks, SlashGear, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Pandaily, and Engadget
| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple is notifying artists that it is removing their ability to post to Apple Music Connect and is removing previously posted content from Artist Pages — Apple Music Connect appears to slowly be going the way of iTunes Ping. Apple has started notifying Apple Music artists that it is removing …
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| Rani Molla / Recode: |
A visual look at the biggest tech trends of 2018: sentiment toward Amazon's HQ2 search, the plateau of social media use, Facebook's trust betrayals, more — Here's a visual look back at the year. — There's been a lot to keep track of this year. We've endured disasters both natural and manmade … | Peter Kafka / Recode: |
Sources: Facebook is in talks with pay TV channels, including HBO, Showtime, and Starz, about selling their streaming TV services on its platform — The world's biggest social network wants to get into the pay TV business — by taking a page from Amazon. — Facebook is readying …
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| Kent Walker / Google: |
Google says it won't sell general-purpose facial recognition APIs before working through “important technology and policy questions” — More than 400 million people in the world have diabetes. A third of them have diabetic retinopathy, a complication that can cause permanent blindness.
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| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
SEC filing: IMAX will close its remaining three virtual reality centers and write off “certain VR investments”; the three sites are expected to close in Q1 2019 — Imax is making its exit from virtual reality (VR) official: The company notified shareholders with a SEC filing Thursday …
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United States Securities …, Engadget, Road to VR, SiliconANGLE, The Verge, UploadVR, and TechCrunch. Tweets: @tculpan. Thanks:@jank0
| Katie Roof / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Niantic, publisher of Pokémon Go, is in the process of raising a $200M funding round that would value the company at $3.9B — The $200 million funding round is expected to be led by IVP, with participation from strategic investors Samsung Electronics Co. and aXiomatic Gaming LLC.
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| Kate Clark / TechCrunch: |
Amsterdam-based e-scooter startup Dott, founded by former Ofo exec Maxim Romain, raises €20M led by EQT Ventures and Naspers — The funding extravaganza may be approaching its end for scooter “unicorns” Lime and Bird, but smaller startups in the micro-mobility space have continued …
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| Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek: |
Italian energy company Saipem was hit by a new variant of the notorious Shamoon disk-wiping malware, which attacked Saudi Arabian oil giant Aramco in 2012 — Italian oil and gas services company Saipem has confirmed that its systems were hit recently by a new variant of the notorious Shamoon malware.
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Saipem, ZDNet, Forbes, SiliconANGLE, Reuters, Palo Alto Networks Blog, BleepingComputer, Axios, and BleepingComputer. Tweets: @eduardkovacs
| Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
Instacart says it will end its partnership with Whole Foods starting in February; source: move is expected to reduce Instacart's revenue by less than 5 percent — Instacart will begin pulling the first group of workers out of Whole Foods locations in February.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Medium CEO Ev Williams had preliminary talks about buying New York Media, parent of New York Magazine; source said talks are “unlikely to progress” — - The Twitter co-founder says he wants to invest in media in '19 — Magazine publisher has been exploring its options this year| Amy Gesenhues / Marketing Land: |
Facebook says it is rolling out Watch globally on desktop and Facebook Lite and expands availability of Ad Breaks, 15-second in-stream ads, to 14 more markets — Says more than 75 million daily Watch visitors spend, on average, more than 20 minutes on the video platform.
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Twitter says global government demands for data about users or takedowns of posts increased by 80% in the first half of 2018, with ~87% from Turkey and Russia — Twitter says the number of government demands for data on its users has shot up in the past year.| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Apple announces a $1B Austin campus initially for 5,000 workers, new offices in Seattle, San Diego, and Culver City, and expansions in several other US cities — Apple plans to build a new $1 billion campus in Austin, Texas, adding thousands of jobs, while also setting up new large offices in Seattle …
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Tweets: @tim_cook, @shiraovide, @dhh, @rolfpendall, @dhh, @tony_the_murse, @carnage4life, @bryfitz, @bostonchaahhts, @carletonenglish, @ivanthek, @rrhoover, @mikeisaac, @_danielsinclair, and @prdonahue. Thanks:@inafried
| Arielle Pardes / Wired: |
Postmates announces Serve, an autonomous rover launching soon in LA, and says it now averages 4M deliveries per month in 550+ cities — HANGING ON THE wall of Postmates' stealth R&D laboratory, there's a framed photo of an iconic scene from Star Wars, Luke Skywalker bent down beside R2D2.
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Tweets: @wired, @joshconstine, @pardesoteric, @mollywood, @nattgarun, @laurengoode, and @wired
| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Adobe reports mixed Q4 results, with revenue of $2.46B, up 23% YoY, vs. $2.43B analyst est., but misses on profit of $678M — This is Adobe's first financial report since acquiring marketing automation firm Marketo for $4.75 billion back in October. — Adobe released fourth quarter …
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| Nivedita Balu / Reuters: |
Starbucks partners with UberEats to deliver food and coffee from a quarter of its US stores starting in 2019, following a pilot program in Miami in September — (Reuters) - Starbucks Corp (SBUX.O) said on Thursday it is partnering with UberEats to deliver food and coffee from nearly a quarter …
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Starbucks Newsroom, Fortune, Business Insider, GeekWire, and The Verge
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Robinhood launches checking and savings accounts in the US with a 3% interest rate and no minimum balance or fees for overdrafts or foreign transactions — Robinhood is undercutting the big banks by forgoing brick-and-mortar branches with its new zero-fee checking and savings account features.| Marrian Zhou / CNET: |
Amazon rolls out preview of Alexa Guard and announces Alexa security panel that lets users control home security systems from ADT, Ring, Abode, and Scout Alarm — Amazon says Alexa wants to keep your home safe. — On Thursday the company rolled out a preview of Alexa Guard …
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Amazon Developer Services, Digital Trends, KnowTechie, ZDNet, and VentureBeat. Tweets: @paulmarks12
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