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Google to buy Fossil's smartwatch IP, which Fossil developed following its acquisition of Misfit in 2015, for $40M — New smartwatch innovation is promised from the big deal — The Fossil Group and Google have exclusively revealed to Wareable that Google will pay Fossil $40 million …
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Facebook says it will ask its employees to take down their reviews of Portal devices on Amazon after three employees were caught leaving 5-star reviews — Whoops — Facebook's Portal smart displays have had an uphill battle, trying to convince people to willingly give …
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| Nathaniel Gleicher / Facebook: |
Facebook takes down 315 Pages, 152 accounts, 4 Groups, and 41 Instagram accounts for “coordinated inauthentic behavior” originating in Russia — Today we removed multiple Pages, groups and accounts that engaged in coordinated inauthentic behavior on Facebook and Instagram.
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Tim Cook, in an op-ed, asks Congress to pass privacy legislation and the FTC to create a data-broker clearinghouse so users can track and control their data — We all deserve control over our digital lives. That's why we must rein in the data brokers — In 2019, it's time to stand …
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| Sara Salinas / CNBC: |
Netflix reports mixed Q4 earnings, with revenue of $4.19B vs. $4.21B est., says it added 8.8M global paid memberships, up from its estimate of 7.6M — - The company beat Wall Street estimates for earnings per share, but fell just below projections for revenue.
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Netflix estimates it accounts for 10% of US TV screen time, shares audience numbers for some movies and TV shows, such as Bird Box's audience of 80M households — The streaming service says it now accounts for 10 percent of TV viewing time. — Netflix has more than 130 million customers watching its TV shows and movies.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter says a bug led to the “Protect your Tweets” setting being disabled for some Android users for almost five years, making their tweets public — Twitter accidentally revealed some users' “protected” (aka, private) tweets, the company disclosed this afternoon.
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| Kate Clark / TechCrunch: |
April Underwood, promoted to the role of chief product officer at Slack 10 months ago, is leaving the company to focus on investing — Slack is losing its chief product officer April Underwood ahead of a direct listing expected in 2019. — Underwood joined Slack, the provider … | Ashley Feinberg / HuffPost: |
A disorienting interview with Jack Dorsey on his Myanmar tweets, right-wing extremism, and what he'd do if Trump called on his followers to murder journalists — A Q&A with Twitter's CEO on right-wing extremism, Candace Owens, and what he'd do if the president called on his followers to murder journalists.
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| Brian Barrett / Wired: |
“Collection #1” database, which claims to contain records of ~773M unique email addresses and 21M passwords, some of them hashed, shows up on the web — THERE ARE BREACHES, and there are megabreaches, and there's Equifax. But a newly revealed trove of leaked data tops …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Jeff Bezos announces re:MARS, a public extension of the invite-only MARS conference focused on forward-looking tech, taking place in Las Vegas on June 4 to 7 — The event is an extension of Amazon's semi-secret MARS conference, but will include plenty of self-promotion
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
In an internal post, Sophie Alpert, a Facebook manager who oversaw React, says she quit after being harassed for criticizing Facebook's lack of diversity — - A Facebook engineering manager who ran an open-source project left earlier this month after being harassed by her colleagues.
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| Kate Rooney / CNBC: |
Square launches Square Card, a debit card for small businesses that gives them immediate access to money from sales made on their Square payments system — - The fintech company is launching a debit card for small businesses that gives them immediate access to sales made on the Square payments system.
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Atlassian beats with Q2 revenue of $299M, up 39% YoY, and subscription revenue of $152.5M vs. $150M estimated by analysts; stock up 9%+ after hours — Atlassian shares rose more than 10 percent in extended trading on Thursday after the provider of collaboration software reported better …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Houseparty says the popular mobile game Heads Up will now be available inside its app with “packs” of words costing $0.99 or more — Building an ad-free social network through shared experiences — Houseparty, the group video chat that has carved out a niche among a segment …
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| Christina Farr / CNBC: |
Vic Gundotra steps down as CEO of AliveCor but will remain on the board, which is expected to announce a replacement from within the company in the coming weeks — - Former Google SVP Vic Gundotra has stepped down from his role as the CEO of AliveCor for personal reasons.| Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg: |
CEO of Palantir France says the company generated almost $1B in revenue last year; sources say half of the revenue was from corporate clients like Airbus — - Peter Thiel's data startup continues to prepare for IPO — Corporate clients are said to account for half of revenueSponsor Posts
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