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Facebook announces plans to launch Libra, a new cryptocurrency, and Calibra, a newly formed Facebook subsidiary to oversee financial services for Libra — A New Digital Wallet for a New Digital Currency — Today we're sharing plans for Calibra, a newly formed Facebook subsidiary whose goal …
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| Alastair Marsh / Bloomberg: |
French Finance Minister calls on the Group of Seven central bank governors to review Facebook's Libra, citing concerns it may become a “sovereign currency” — - French finance chief says it can't be a ‘sovereign currency’ — Germany's Ferber sees Facebook becoming a shadow bank
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The Verge, CoinGeek, TechCrunch, France 24, VICE, The Block, Ethereum World News, PYMNTS.com, Modern Consensus, Marketplace, CoinDesk, CryptoSlate, and CNET
Tweets: @reckless, @thestalwart, @provoost, @alexeheath, @cryptooady, @carolecadwalla, @edbott, and @alistairmilne
| Wired: |
Inside Facebook's ambitious plan to make Libra accepted as a global currency, especially for those underserved by banks, despite Facebook's tarnished reputation — NEAR THE END of 2017, on a Dominican Republic beach with his family, Facebook executive David Marcus wrestled with a question …
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VICE, Financial Times, The Block, Forbes, CNBC, CryptoGlobe, and CoinDesk
Tweets: @gregoryjbarber, @mikeisaac, @laurengoode, @stevenlevy, @nxthompson, and @scottthurm
| CoinDesk: |
Facebook announces an independent consortium, Libra Association, with 28 founding members including Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, Uber, Lyft, Coinbase, and others — You don't have to have a Facebook account to use Libra. — That's the hands-off approach the social media giant is working toward …
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The Verge, The Guardian, The Seattle Times, The Block, Financial Times, Mashable, Business Insider, CNBC, VentureBeat, and Pocket-lint
Tweets: @reckless, @mdudas, @mathewi, @sarahjeong, @mollymckew, and @tracyalloway
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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
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Tweets: @tamasblummer, @bitcoinmagazine, @kellymakena, @mdudas, @alexeheath, @wongmjane, @kellymakena, @kellymakena, and @kellymakena
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Hacker Noon, Financial Times, Data Driven Investor, Spotify, CoinDesk, Quartz, CNN, New World Notes, GeekWire, BitcoinExchangeGuide, Newser, and Deadline
Tweets: @fintechfrank, @matthew_d_green, @bascule, @wongmjane, @mmasnick, @timobrien, @bopinion, @joshconstine, and @joshconstine. Thanks:@joshconstine
| The Keyword: |
Google says it will help build 20,000 homes in the Bay Area over the next ten years by putting $1B toward the goal, repurposing some of its land as residential — As we work to build a more helpful Google, we know our responsibility to help starts at home.
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Tweets: @sundarpichai, @cdibona, @kimmaicutler, @lmoroney, @cagovernor, @samesfandiari, @scott_wiener, @emilymbadger, @adamsinger, @dillonliam, @jeffdean, and @bytimlogan
| Corinne Reichert / CNET: |
In response to claims Google lifted lyrics from Genius, Google has asked its lyrics partner to investigate, will soon include 3rd-party attribution on lyrics — Google has responded to reports that it's stealing lyrics from Genius, explaining how it finds lyrics to show on its search pages.
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The Keyword, TechCrunch, LyricFind, Techdirt, Wired, BGR, The Verge, Hackaday, and SlashGear
Tweets: @ajkohn, @searchliaison, @stshank, and @lyricfind
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Apple adds a feature in iOS 13 beta 2 that tells users about ongoing subscriptions for apps they are about to delete — ‘Do you want to keep your subscription for this app?’ — Apple has added a warning in iOS 13 beta 2 that appears when you try to uninstall an app which still has an active subscription.
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iDownloadBlog.com, Mashable, iPhone in Canada Blog, Ars Technica, and Gizmodo
Tweets: @viticci and @drbarnard
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube unveils AR Beauty Try-On, which lets viewers virtually try on makeup while watching beauty tutorials, currently in testing, coming in summer — Makeup tutorials and reviews are some of the most popular content on YouTube, as they help people learn about new products as well as how to apply them.
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The Keyword, Android Police, Engadget, Wccftech, Mashable, 9to5Google, Search Engine Journal, Digital Trends, and Adweek
Tweets: @claybavor and @glenngabe
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Mozilla patches a Firefox zero-day exploit that was discovered by Google's Project Zero and Coinbase's security teams, and it says was being abused in the wild — Mozilla releases Firefox 67.0.3 to fix actively exploited zero-day. — The Mozilla team has released earlier today version 67..3 …
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Mozilla, The Verge, The Register, The Hacker News, BleepingComputer, Lifehacker, and Engadget
Tweets: @campuscodi, @techjournalist, @circl_lu, and @campuscodi
| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Sources: Samsung will launch the Galaxy Note 10 on August 7 at an Unpacked event in New York City — Samsung will show off its Galaxy Note 10 during a flashy Unpacked event on Aug. 7 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, according to people familiar with the company's plans.
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Android Police, Digital Trends, The Verge, Engadget, SlashGear, TmoNews, and Phandroid. Tweets: @sharatibken
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Dish may make a $6B+ deal this week for T-Mobile and Sprint assets including spectrum and Sprint's Boost Mobile as the carriers try to get DOJ approval — - Deal for Boost brand, wireless spectrum could come this week — Justice Department wants T-Mobile and Sprint to unload assets
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Android Police, Digital Trends, CNET, Android Authority, Stop the Cap!, TmoNews, GeekWire, The Verge, and MacRumors
Tweets: @thekenyeung, @chriswelch, @taralach, and @chriswelch
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
GitHub acquires code review company Pull Panda, makes subscriptions free for Pull Reminders and two other services but will discontinue enterprise subscriptions — Microsoft is buying Pull Panda and immediately making all subscriptions to its tools available for free in the GitHub Marketplace.
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Windows Central, Packt Hub, Phoneweek, NDTV Gadgets 360, and The Register
Tweets: @andreasklinger, @gpeal8, and @jszmajda
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
MongoDB announces Atlas Data Lake, which lets users query data of any format, and gives its newly-acquired mobile database, Realm, Atlas cloud sync integration — MongoDB is hosting its developer conference today and unsurprisingly, the company has quite a few announcements to make.
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| Biz Carson / Forbes: |
CEO of parenting support app Cleo, which raised its $27.5M Series B in May, has resigned after it came to light that her resume contained falsehoods — On a Monday in April, Shannon Spanhake stood at the front of Cleo's office as her executive team lined up beside her.
Tweets: @bizcarson, @bizcarson, @bizcarson, @jillianiles, @bizcarson, @bizcarson, @kateclarktweets, @lhockenson, @sm, and @mayalau. Thanks:@kerrydolan
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amazon's Twitch has acquired social networking platform Bebo, source says for $25M, to bolster its esports business — While Facebook makes a bold move into cryptocurrency to capitalise on its multi-billion user base, a social network that was once a credible competitor to it has quietly been snapped up by a subsidiary of Amazon.
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SiliconANGLE, PYMNTS.com, GeekWire, Telegraph, and Fortune
Tweets: @sirslaw_, @ingridlunden, and @mathewi
| Anna Baydakova / CoinDesk: |
Microsoft and Salesforce have joined the Hyperledger blockchain consortium, an umbrella project for various business blockchains run by the Linux Foundation — Two of the world's largest top-10 enterprise software companies by revenue have joined the Hyperledger blockchain consortium.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
In watchOS 6, many built-in apps will have their own App Store listings, letting Apple Watch users delete and redownload some currently unremovable apps — Good news for Apple Watch owners who don't want to clutter up their Watch with unused apps. With the release of the new watchOS 6 …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Food ordering app EatStreet discloses breach; hacker Gnosticplayers, who has stolen 1B+ user records from 45 companies this year, claims 6M+ were from EatStreet — Hacker “Gnosticplayers” took credit for the hack in a private conversation with ZDNet last month.Sponsor Posts
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