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Sources: Rakuten, which owns a 13% stake in Lyft, made the investment in 2015 after data from its consumer purchase tracker Slice showed Lyft was undervalued — - Rakuten invested $300 million in Lyft in 2015, when the ride-hailing company was trying to avoid being crushed by Uber.| Fast Company: |
A list of 121 data brokers operating in the US, available due to a new Vermont law requiring companies who buy and sell third-party personal data to register — You've probably never heard of many of the data firms registered under a new law, but they've heard a lot about you. A list, and tips for opting out.| Bill Bostock / Business Insider: |
Google rejects calls to remove Absher, an app from the Saudi government to help men in the country track and dictate where women can travel, from the Play store — - Google has rejected calls to remove a Saudi government app which offers a tool for men to control where women travel.
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| Alison Griswold / Oversharing: |
An analysis of data between August and December 2018 from Louisville, KY estimates that the average lifespan of shared scooters in the city was 28 days — CXLIV — Hello and welcome to Oversharing, a newsletter about the proverbial sharing economy. If you're returning from last week, thanks!
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Intel CEO Bob Swan and executives Sandra Rivera and Dan McNamara discuss Intel's strategy around 5G, its investments in modems, memory chips, GPUs, and more — Only the strong assets survive. That's what I said after Bob Swan, the newly appointed CEO of Intel, talked about his view …
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| Shwanika Narayan / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Tristan O'Tierney, a Square co-founder who created the company's first mobile app, dies at age 35 from causes likely related to addiction — Tristan O'Tierney, a co-founder of San Francisco payments company Square, died Feb. 23 in Ocala, Fla., of causes related to addiction, his family said.
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Leaked Facebook memo describes company's lobbying efforts in 2012 and 2013 against a proposed European data directive which later became GDPR, more — Social network targeted legislators around the world, promising or threatening to withhold investment — Facebook has targeted politicians around …
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| Will Oremus / Slate: |
Picking a VPN to trust is a problem, but as demand grows, there's incentive for the industry to outgrow its Wild West phase and develop industry standards — Virtual private networks are now a must-have privacy tool. But good luck figuring out which ones will actually make you safer.
Tweets: @boblord, @henrygrabar, @abenedikt, @lousylinguist, @gadyepstein, @profcarroll, and @willoremus
| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Sources: CEO of AI startup Clarifai says internal ethics officers do not suit small companies and that Clarifai would one day supply autonomous weapons — HALF MOON BAY, Calif. — When a news article revealed that Clarifai was working with the Pentagon and some employees questioned the ethics …
Tweets: @aimeevanrobot, @david_gunkel, @frankpasquale, @nytimes, @techworkersco, and @anabmap
| Jon Victor / The Information: |
Source: Circle, which runs a cryptocurrency exchange Poloniex and which was reportedly valued at ~$3B last year after raising $246M, is raising another $250M — Circle, one of the biggest cryptocurrency startups in the U.S., is seeking to raise about $250 million in a combination of equity and debt …
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| Caroline O'Donovan / BuzzFeed News: |
Amazon removes at least three anti-vaccination documentaries from Prime Video hours after Rep. Schiff sent letter to Bezos regarding anti-vaccine misinformation — Amazon appears to have removed anti-vaccination documentaries from search results on Amazon Prime Video today …
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Critics and parents question the ethics of using edutainment games like Prodigy, which has a freemium business model that relies on in-app purchases, in schools — Kids love “edutainment,” but does the business model exploit them? — erched on a rise overlooking the Hudson River … Sponsor Posts
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