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Sam Altman steps down as president of Y Combinator, will transition into a chairman role — Sam Altman is stepping down as president of influential startup incubator Y Combinator, in order to spend more time on outside interests like the OpenAI research organization.
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Foursquare's Hypertrending app uses Pilgrim, its SDK used by thousands of apps on millions of phones, to show where people congregate in Austin, in real time — Where 10 Years of Foursquare Has Led Us — It's been 10 years since we launched Foursquare at SXSW in 2009.
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| Will Oremus / Slate: |
By shifting focus to private messaging, Facebook is getting closer to emulating WeChat, which has made Apple's control of iOS largely irrelevant in China — The social network's “pivot to privacy” puts iOS in its crosshairs. Welcome to tech's next big rivalry.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman share content plans for Quibi, their streaming service launching in April 2020, including a show on Evan Spiegel and Snapchat — Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman today announced a slate of new series and projects heading to their forthcoming video streaming service, Quibi.| Stan Black / Citrix Blogs: |
Citrix says it was informed by the FBI that Citrix's internal network has been breached, believes some business documents may have been accessed and downloaded — On March 6, 2019, the FBI contacted Citrix to advise they had reason to believe that international cyber criminals gained access to the internal Citrix network.
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Senator Warren's plan to curb the power of big tech, while addressing valid concerns, feels like a grandstanding populism without enough substance behind it — This isn't necessarily a big surprise, given that she's suggested this many times over the past few years, but 2020 Presidential …
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| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
After YouTube recategorized “Brie Larson”, star of Captain Marvel, as news in search, its algorithm surfaced videos from news publishers, pushing down trolls — How a simple ‘news’ tag can change everything — If you searched “Brie Larson” on YouTube a couple of days ago …
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Sources: Amazon teams up with the NY Yankees, Sinclair Broadcasting, and others in a bid to buy the YES sports network from majority owner 21st Century Fox — Amazon is coming to New York — to grab a piece of the Yankees sports network. — Jeff Bezos' tech giant has teamed … | Joe Maring / Android Central: |
Google is rolling out Continued Conversations, Assistant's feature to avoid saying “Hey Google” repeatedly in a conversation, to smart displays in the US — Smart Displays, like the Google Home Hub and Lenovo Smart Display, are great. They're helpful smart home gadgets … | Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Samsung Galaxy Buds review: compact and unobtrusive, with better than expected sound, but are finicky outside of the Samsung ecosystem — Getting as many things right as wrong — When I was in high school, shopping for new earphones with a single £20 note as my budget, I used to dream of earbuds without the wire.| Steven Zheng / The Block: |
US indicts and arrests some key persons allegedly behind the OneCoin cryptocurrency pyramid scheme that generated €3B+ sales revenue between Q4 2014 and Q3 2016 — The Southern District of New York (SDNY) has charged Konstantin Ignatov, Ruja Ignatova, and Mark Scott, for wire fraud, securities fraud, and money laundering.
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| Maddie Stone / Gizmodo: |
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