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PayPal to acquire Honey, a comparison shopping and rewards platform that has 17M MAUs, for ~$4B — PayPal announced today it has agreed to acquire Honey Science Corporation, the makers of a deal-finding browser add-on and mobile application, for $4 billion, mostly cash.
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| New York Times: |
Google has hired IRI Consultants, an anti-union consulting company, signalling the feud between some activist employees and management has escalated — After nearly two years of unrest, the company appears to be cracking down on employee activism. — Google has hired an anti-union consulting firm …
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| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Sonos has acquired voice assistant startup Snips for $37M, says it has sold 6.1M speakers in 2019, reports fiscal Q4 revenue of $294.2M, up 8% YoY — The company grew its 2019 revenue by 11%, but saw losses rise in Q4 due to increased R&D spending — Smart speaker maker Sonos is getting ready … | Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
On-demand transcription service Rev faces backlash from its contractors after cutting their take to 30 cents for each dollar spent on some jobs, from 45 cents — Rev was just a small start-up offering online transcriptions. Now it's the latest symbol of a gig-economy company whose workers are fed up.| Joel Marcey / Facebook Developers: |
Facebook details how it's moving from Nuclide to Visual Studio Code for its internal default development environment and contributing remote development tools — History — Facebook engineers have written millions of lines of code. There is no mandated development environment. Some developers use vim.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google launches Google Earth tools that let users create and present virtual tours, with attached text, images, and videos, for specific places — It's like a homemade guided tour — Today, Google is adding new tools to Google Earth on the web that let you build your own tour of a place right on top of the Google Earth map.
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The Keyword, Engadget, Android Police, Digital Trends, Ars Technica, Neowin, Yahoo Finance, 9to5Google, Fast Company, MSPoweruser, and Mashable
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers find bugs in Google and Samsung camera apps from before July 2019 that could record video, take pictures, and extract GPS data without permission — A new vulnerability has been found in the Camera apps for millions, if not hundreds of millions, of Android devices that could allow …
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Checkmarx, Ars Technica, Lifehacker, BGR, The Daily Dot, Dark Reading, Gizmodo, Tech Xplore, International Business Times, Computerworld, TalkAndroid.com, Android Central, SamMobile, XDA Developers, Gizchina, CNN, Phandroid, The Hacker News, The Next Web, ZDNet, and CNET
Tweets: @0xmatt, @rvawonk, @arunsub, @scmagazine, and @lukolejnik
| Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says it has begun construction of its $1B Austin, Texas campus, opening in 2022, as Trump tours the nearby Mac Pro production plant — Apple has announced that it has begun construction of its new Austin, Texas, campus, on the day that President Trump is due to tour the Mac Pro production line a short distance away.
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Tweets: @tim_cook, @ivankatrump, @westonloyd45, @pinboard, @stevenportnoy, @johnpaczkowski, and @caseynewton
| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple launches Apple Music for Business, letting businesses play music in retail locations with Apple providing human-curated playlists and recommendations — Apple Music is now partnering with businesses to play music at retail stores. In a partnership with PlayNetwork … | Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Gravitational raises $25M Series A, led by Kleiner Perkins, to help developers with cloud deployment using Kubernetes — As we move into an increasingly multi-cloud world, there is a portability problem moving applications between clouds. Gravitational wants to fix that, and today it announced a $25 million Series A.
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The US says it has begun processing businesses' applications for licenses to sell tech to Huawei, approving those that do not pose national security risks — Commerce Department confirms it's granted “limited” exceptions to the ban on sales to the Chinese tech giant
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| Megan Graham / CNBC: |
Facebook begins rolling out new “brand safety” tools to let advertisers control the content their ads appear around, including white-listing publishers — - Facebook announced a slate of new “brand safety” tools for advertisers Wednesday, a way to let advertisers have more control over the content where their ads appear.| Jake Bright / TechCrunch: |
After converting to a for-profit status, Samasource raises $14.8M Series A for its AI data annotation service used by companies like Google and Walmart — AI training data provider Samasource has raised a $14.8 million Series A funding round led by Ridge Ventures.| Jane Zhang / South China Morning Post: |
A profile of Baidu Bake, an encyclopedia with 16 times more Chinese entries than Wikipedia, written by 6.9M+ users comprising about 340 core contributors — Transition from hard format encyclopaedias to open-source encyclopaedias has raised some quality-of-information issues though … | Bloomberg: |
Alibaba has raised ~$11.2B in its Hong Kong share sale, after pricing 500M new shares at HK$176, in one of the largest equity offerings this year — - Company priced 500 million new shares at HK$176 each — Alibaba's share sale is among the world's largest this year
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Business Wire, Financial Times, Alizila.com, Wall Street Journal, CNN, Axios, CNBC, Financial Times, and Moneycontrol
Tweets: @jonrussell and @lisaabramowicz1
| Angelica Mari / ZDNet: |
WhatsApp says it has banned more than 400,000 accounts between August 15 and October 28, 2018, during Brazil's general election — The information was submitted by the messaging app as part of ongoing investigations into the spread of fake news. — Messaging app WhatsApp reported banning …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple launches $129 Smart Battery Cases for the iPhone 11, 11 Pro, and 11 Pro Max, now with a physical button that launches the camera app — Apple today launched new battery cases for the iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, and iPhone 11 Pro Max, with the new cases available for $129.
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9to5Mac, 9to5Mac, The Verge, Business Insider, iMore, Engadget, CNET, and iDownloadBlog.com
| Dr. Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
Q&A with Intel SVP and Chief Architect Raja Koduri on upcoming chips, the company's Xe architecture, and an all-encompassing SDK for Intel's stack called oneAPI — Ever since Raja Koduri left AMD and joined Intel, I have been continuously asking for a 1-on-1 interview, as I'm sure a number of my peers in the industry have also.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Starburst, which is seeking to modernize data analytics with the open source Presto distributed query engine, raises $22M led by Index Ventures — Starburst, the company that's looking to monetize the open-source Presto distributed query engine, today announced that it has raised … | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Uber says user data requests in 2019 from the US and Canada rose 27% YoY, with 3,825 US requests for 21,913 user accounts; Uber shared data 72% of the time — Uber says the number of legal demands for riders' data made by U.S. and Canadian authorities has risen sharply in the past year.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify says its free tier will now stream across Alexa-powered devices in the US, Australia, and New Zealand, and smart speakers from Sonos and Bose globally — Spotify has worked with Amazon Echo since 2016, but only for premium subscribers. Today, that changes as Spotify says its free tier …
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