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Facebook begins testing Facebook News with a subset of people in the US across four categories of select publishers: general, topical, diverse, and local news — Testing a dedicated place for news in the US — Journalism plays a critical role in our democracy.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
As Facebook dangles extra traffic via a dedicated news tab, and journalism outlets leap into its cage, a look at 10 years of Facebook abusing publishers — 10 years of abusing publishers — Are we really doing this again? After the pivot to video. After Instant Articles.
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| Peter Kafka / Vox: |
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| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
Google says it's improving 10% of English searches in the US by using NLP techniques to better understand query context and words' relationship with each other — For Google's namesake search engine, delivering the right results is about understanding what people are asking for.
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| Reuters: |
AT&T says HBO Max will be available free to the 10M AT&T customers in the US who are also HBO subscribers when it launches in the spring — (Reuters) - In the bestselling novel “Circe” — optioned by WarnerMedia for its forthcoming HBO Max streaming service — the daughter …
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| Nathan Ingraham / Engadget: |
Google Pixelbook Go review: excellent keyboard, good performance and battery life, with solid and stable OS, but remains pricey, and trackpad could be smoother — By focusing on the basics, Google's latest Chromebook is less ambitious but more successful. — Google has been building …
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| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
ARM says it will keep supplying Huawei with its chip designs after determining that Armv8-A and its next-gen architecture are of non-US origin — ARM will keep supplying Huawei with its chip designs at least through the next generation, the company said. That's a reversal from earlier this year … | Jason D. Rowley / Crunchbase News: |
Sprout Social, a social media monitoring, marketing, and analytics startup, which has raised $115M and was valued at ~$800M in Dec. 2018, files for an IPO — Chicago-based social media management company Sprout Social has filed to go public, according to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Jack Dorsey criticizes Mark Zuckerberg's free speech comments, says there wasn't any talk of reach and amplification and his Iraq War mention was not authentic — Twitter Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey called out his counterpart at Facebook Inc., saying Mark Zuckerberg has a …
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| Sophia Kunthara / Crunchbase News: |
Weave, a customer communication platform for service-based businesses, raises $70M Series D at a valuation of $970M, bringing its total raised to $152.5M — As announced by the company Thursday, Weave—which makes communicating with customers easier for businesses by integrating features like texting …
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Sources: Sony has hired bankers to explore a sale of its Playstation Vue service, which would include the company's tech and a subscriber list of around 500K — Sony Corp. is exploring the sale of its Playstation Vue service, which offers a slimmed-down version of cable TV delivered over the internet …
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The Verge, Engadget, TechSpot, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @tvgrimreaper, @nibellion, @cityofthetown, and @valleyshook
| Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed News: |
TikTok says its content moderation policies are led by a US-based team and it will not remove content, including posts about Hong Kong, at the behest of China — Short-form video app TikTok can't shake an air of suspicion that surrounds it in the United States.
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TikTok, Nikkei Asian Review, Washington Post, Pandaily, Associated Press, Quartz, and The Verge
Tweets: @caseynewton, @terrygtnguyen, and @broderick
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| Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic: |
A moderator for r/relationships, a subreddit with 2.6M members, talks about the rigid moderation policies that have kept the subreddit from devolving into chaos — “I cheated on my ex during our relationship and she found out shortly after we broke up," a Reddit user posting …
Tweets: @jasminewsun, @leahlibresco, @kait_tiffany, @thatandromeda, and @kait_tiffany
| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Modern Animal raises $13.5M seed led by Founders Fund for its $100/year veterinary service with unlimited exams, 24/7 virtual care, and in-app prescriptions — Modern Animal just raised a $13.5 million seed round of funding to fuel its mission of offering pets, humans and veterinarians a better experience.
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| Sean O'Kane / The Verge: |
Sources: Will.i.am's AI startup i.am+ hasn't paid staff in 7 weeks, is late on tax payments, and its smart home platform Wink stopped working with many devices — A stalled deal in Dubai has created problems for i.am+ — Will.i.am's technology company i.am+ is running out of money …
Tweets: @sokane1, @xecretcode, @chrisbhoffman, @johnsheehan, and @felixsalmon
| Megan Graham / CNBC: |
Twitter says some users will start seeing more ads after it changed its historical approach of showing fewer ads to users with high follower counts — - Twitter's third-quarter earnings were marred by issues in a product that advertisers use to market mobile apps.
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OneZero and Social Media Today
Tweets: @willoremus, @willoremus, @ejacqui, @gigastacey, @darth, @chillmage, @kimzetter, @alexeheath, @kadhimshubber, and @byrdinator
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
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