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Germany orders Facebook to stop combining data from WhatsApp, Instagram, and third-party sites with data in user's main Facebook account, without user's consent — Germany's competition authority has told Facebook it can only continue gathering so much data about users from beyond its app and website if it gets individuals' consent.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Twitter reports Q4 revenue of $909M, up 24% YoY, ad revenue of $791M, up 23% YoY, net income of $244M, and MAUs of 321M, down by 9M YoY; stock is down 9%+ — After strong results from Facebook and Snap this quarter, all eyes were on Twitter to see if the other big, publicly listed social network could deliver a hat trick of growth.
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| Manish Singh / VentureBeat: |
News aggregator Nuzzel sold to Scroll, which is building a news subscription service; Nuzzel founder Jonathan Abrams and COO Kent Lindstrom to leave the company — News aggregator Nuzzel has found a new home and leadership and is undergoing some product changes.
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| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Sources: Apple has moved its modem engineering unit to its in-house hardware technology group led by Johny Srouji, Apple's SVP of hardware technologies — Apple Inc has moved its modem chip engineering effort into its in-house hardware technology group from its supply chain unit …
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| Jason Hiner / CNET: |
Google Fiber to shut down in Louisville on April 15 after an experimental “nanotrenching” technique to deploy fiber in trenches only two inches deep, failed — Google's trick to more rapidly and cheaply deploy its super-speedy Google Fiber project has hit a wall … | Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Leaked documents show around 250 bounty hunters and related businesses had access to AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint customer location data for at least five years — In January, Motherboard revealed that AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint were selling their customers' real-time location data …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Google unveils Adiantum, a new form of encryption for data on lower-end smartphones and other devices with insufficient processing power — Google officially unveiled a new form of encryption today, designed to secure data stored on lower-end smartphones and other devices with insufficient processing power.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft makes Healthcare Bot Service generally available, letting users including hospitals create own bots, adds health-record integration to Azure and Teams — Microsoft is continuing to focus heavily on the healthcare vertical with new healthcare-related bot service … | Victoria Song / Gizmodo: |
Microsoft introduces background blur feature to Skype, which uses AI to detect the user's hair, hands, and arms, and blur distracting objects in the background — Slobs of the world, don't work too hard KonMari-ing your apartment or office ahead of your next important Skype call.| New York Times: |
Facebook's revenue from China-based advertisers reached an estimated $5B in 2018, or about 10% of its total sales, helped by its local advertising resellers — SHENZHEN — Facebook's apps and websites have been blocked in China for years. The company has no office in the country that supports its social networking services.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Apple releases iOS 12.1.4 to fix Group FaceTime security flaw — Update your devices right now — Apple is releasing iOS 12.1.4 today to fix a security flaw in the company's Group FaceTime feature. Discovered last week, the bug allowed anyone to call a phone or Mac and listen in before the other person picked up.| The Keyword: |
Google's experiment finds 45% traffic decline to news sites when displaying search results with no snippets as EU Copyright Directive's Article 11 may require — In the next few days, European legislators meet to decide on a final text of the European Copyright Directive.
| Dana Hull / Bloomberg: |
Self-driving car startup Aurora raises $530M, led by Sequoia with Amazon, T. Rowe Price, and others participating, valuing the company at more than $2.5B — The self-driving startup Aurora Innovation Inc. has raised $530 million from a group of investors led by Sequoia Capital …
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| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Microsoft joins Google, Facebook, and Arm as a member of the OpenChain Project, which aims to standardize open-source software licensing — Microsoft Corp. wants to support more standardization of open-source software licensing, so today it's putting its weight behind the OpenChain Project as its latest platinum member.
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
For Spotify to succeed as a podcast app, it needs to clearly separate podcasts from music, help users discover podcasts better, and allow creators to monetize — Some suggestions for improvement — Spotify announced today that the company plans to spend up to $500 million on podcast-related acquisitions.| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
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| Guise Bule / Secjuice.com: |
Atrient, a vendor of player reward kiosks for casinos, allegedly ignored serious security flaws, and a researcher who uncovered flaws was assaulted by its COO — Following a serious vulnerability disclosure affecting casinos globally, an executive of casino technology vendor Atrient … | Olivia Zaleski / Bloomberg: |
Sources: on-demand delivery startup Postmates has confidentially filed an IPO and could be valued at more than $1.85B — - Company could be valued at more than $1.85 billion in IPO — Postmates working with JPMorgan and Bank of America on listing — Postmates Inc. has filed …
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| Kate Clark / TechCrunch: |
Airbnb hires Fred Reid, formerly the president of Delta Airlines, as its first-ever global head of transportation — Airbnb made it easier for travelers to find a place to crash. Now it wants to make it easier for them to get around. — The $31 billion home-sharing giant has hired Fred Reid …
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Gong.io raises $40M Series B led by Battery Ventures, to enhance CRM tools with its natural language processing tech — With traditional CRM tools, sales people add basic details about the companies to the database, then a few notes about their interactions.| Jeff Buchanan / Xconomy: |
Seattle-based KenSci, which helps hospitals predict mortality risk using AI, raises $22M Series B led by Polaris Partners — Transitioning an elderly patient to palliative care can be a difficult decision for caregivers, but it's one that families and clinicians across the globe make every day.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Match Group acquires dating app Hinge, in which it bought a controlling stake last year; plans international expansion of Hinge, which grew 4x YoY in Q4 2018 — Last year, Match Group acquired a 51 percent stake in the relationship-focused dating app Hinge, in order to diversify its portfolio of dating apps led by Tinder.
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| Olivia Carville / Bloomberg: |
| Ernesto Falcon / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
Study comparing 30 European nations on net neutrality enforcement finds that zero rating business practices by wireless carriers increases cost of wireless data — When an ISP decides to exempt certain applications or services from cutting into a user's data cap, that's zero rating.| Dustin Walsh / Crain's Detroit Business: |
PE firm KKR to take a majority stake in OneStream, valuing the corporate performance management software maker at more than $1B; KKR reportedly invested $500M+ — Rochester-based OneStream Software LLC signed an agreement that gives private-equity firm KKR a majority stake in the company …
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Starting Feb. 28, Facebook's “Why am I seeing this?” button on ads will show when a user's info was uploaded for ad targeting and if it was by a brand or agency — Facebook's crack down on non-consensual ad targeting last year will finally produce results.
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