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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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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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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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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook says user Libra transaction data will not be shared with Facebook and will not be used for ad targeting or ranking users' News Feed — The use cases, technology, and motive behind the new digital money — Facebook has finally revealed the details of its cryptocurrency Libra …
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An in-depth first look at Facebook's new Libra cryptocurrency, due to be rolled out in the next 18 months, and its impact on the broader crypto ecosystem — On June 18th 2019, Facebook released details about Libra, a stable cryptocurrency backed by a basket of financial assets, which runs on its own blockchain.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Facebook's Calibra subsidiary will launch a digital wallet for Libra, as a standalone iOS and Android app and within WhatsApp and Messenger — It's called Calibra, and it's a new subsidiary of Facebook the company is launching to build financial services and software on top of the Libra blockchain.
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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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| 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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Tweets: @viticci and @drbarnard
| 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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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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Tweets: @chriswelch, @taralach, @chriswelch, and @thekenyeung
| 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.| 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.
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| 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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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
GoTenna, a mobile mesh networking platform using long range, low bandwidth radio frequencies, raises $24M Series C led by Founders Fund — GoTenna is best known for its outdoors-oriented consumer products that let you text and share locations between smartphones off the grid.| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon leases 15 more Boeing planes to expand its air cargo network by more than a quarter to 70 planes by 2021 — Amazon has announced plans to expand its air cargo network by more than a quarter to 70 planes by 2021, after signing a deal with GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) to lease 15 Boeing 737-800 aircraft.
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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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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Palm opens preorders for an unlocked version of its tiny $350 3.2-inch smartphone with Snapdragon 435, expected to ship in the next six to eight weeks — As much as Palm's tiny phone has improved over the past several months, there's still been one glaring limitation: you've had to use it on Verizon …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google's Safe Browsing service gets its own Chrome extension, which notifies users of deceptive URLs and lets users report suspicious sites — Google today released the Suspicious Site Reporter Extension. As its name implies, the extension lets users report suspicious sites to Google's Safe Browsing service.Sponsor Posts
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