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Sources: FTC is considering seeking an injunction against Facebook over antitrust concerns related to how it integrates its apps and their interoperability — Antitrust concerns lead agency to consider taking action against social-media giant as soon as January
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| VICE: |
A recent spate of Ring camera hacks were part of a podcast livestreamed to Discord called “Nulledcast” in which Ring owners were hacked and harassed live on air — A blaring siren suddenly rips through the Ring camera, startling the Florida family inside their own home.
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Google brings its real-time translation mode, interpreter, to the Google Assistant app on iOS and Android globally with support for 44 languages — After rolling out on smart speakers and displays earlier this year, Google's interpreter real-time translation mode finally landing on mobile.
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| Sean O'Kane / The Verge: |
Lyft launches a car rental service with no mileage limit, starting in SF and LA for as low as $35 per day — Starting in SF and LA for as low as $35 per day — Lyft is getting into car rentals. The ride-hailing company announced Thursday that it's launching a rental service available …
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Apple News and Twitter will each co-host separate Democratic presidential debates in 2020, with Facebook absent after co-hosting debates in 2012 and 2016 — The Democratic National Committee announced on Thursday the hosts of the next four presidential debates in the first four primary and caucus states.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Facebook makes an initial commitment of $130M to its upcoming Oversight Board and says it will not announce the first members this year as originally expected — Facebook announced an initial commitment of $130 million to launch its new Oversight Board, which is designed as a way for users …
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| Maya Shwayder / Digital Trends: |
Decentralizing Twitter won't solve its hate speech problems; Mastodon CEO says “it sounds like Twitter is making a Mastodon clone” — Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey floated a compelling possibility on Wednesday: He wants to put together a team to explore decentralizing Twitter.| @jack: |
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| Roma Slyusarchuk / The Keyword: |
Google rolls out Verified SMS, which labels messages from legitimate businesses, on Android in nine countries, expands spam detection in messages to the US — In addition to enhancing messaging on Android with Rich Communication Services (RCS) and bringing you helpful features with Messages …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Police raided the Moscow offices of NGINX and detained employees over a copyright complaint from Rambler claiming full ownership of the NGINX web server code — Russian search engine Rambler.ru claims full ownership of NGINX code. — Russian police have raided today the Moscow offices of NGINX … | Todd Haselton / CNBC: |
iOS 13.3 bug in Communication Limits, which lets parents control who kids interact with, lets kids skirt protections; Apple says it is working on a fix — - iOS 13.3 launched this week and introduced a new feature called Communication Limits that adds new parental controls.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
As it did in 2018, Twitter says it will add labels to 2020 House, Senate, and governor candidates who qualify for the general election ballot — The company will label 2020 candidates for US House, Senate, and gubernatorial races — For the 2018 midterm elections, Twitter introduced labels … | Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Bill.com, which automates payments for SMBs, prices its IPO at an above-range $22 per share to raise around $216M at a valuation of around $1.6B — Business-to-business payments company Bill.com priced its IPO today at an above-range $22 per share. The firm, selling 9.82 million shares in its offering …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Oracle reports Q2 revenue of $9.61B, up 0.5% YoY and short of analyst estimates of $9.65B, with Cloud Services division revenue of $6.81B, up 3% YoY — - Oracle's revenue came in under expectations. — Mark Hurd, Oracle's co-CEO, died during the quarter.
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| Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook says it doesn't need to change its web tracking to comply with CCPA; source: Facebook contends its data collection doesn't count as a “sale” under CCPA — Google plans changes, but Facebook contends sites aren't ‘selling’ user data they collect and share| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources describe how ISPs like AT&T and Cox push the FCC to omit unflattering data, among other tactics, to improve scores on FCC's internet speeds report — AT&T, Cox, Comcast and other broadband companies successfully push the FCC to omit unflattering data on speed tests, among other tactics, to improve their scores
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| Reed Albergotti / Washington Post: |
MeetMe, which combines dating with live streaming, admits it let a “VIP” user keep streaming even after he was outed as a sex offender — MeetMe says it checks users to ensure they aren't convicted sex offenders. But the success of one streamer came within weeks of his release from prison.
Tweets: @nancyjosales and @reedalbergotti
| CNBC: |
Brex CFO says the startup lending firm has raised $200M in debt financing from Credit Suisse; Brex raised a similar $100M credit line from Barclays in April — - The San Francisco-based company raised $200 million in debt from Credit Suisse, following a similar $100 million deal from Barclays in April.
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San Francisco Business Journal, PYMNTS.com, Crowdfund Insider, and FinSMEs
| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Profile of Canva, a graphic design app that CEO Melanie Perkins helped build from a yearbook-design business out of Perth into a profitable $3.2B Adobe rival — On a steamy May morning in 2013, Canva CEO Melanie Perkins found herself adrift on a kiteboard in the channel between billionaire …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
AI Index Report 2019: 300% rise in research papers, US the global leader by most metrics, self-driving cars received more private investment than any AI field — The 2019 AI Index report gives us a glimpse into AI progress — Trying to get a handle on the progress of artificial intelligence …
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