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Sources: Shadow, a company affiliated with Democratic digital nonprofit ACRONYM, built the Iowa caucus app that contributed to delays in reporting results — Shadow, a Democratic digital firm, created the app that was supposed to deliver quicker caucus results.
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| Charlie Warzel / New York Times: |
Shadow's Iowa failure was a dangerous combination of techno-utopianism and laziness, which led to slapdash software engineering, procurement, and deployment — Democrats desperately need to win the internet to beat Trump. Their first big test was a massive failure. — Mr. Warzel is an opinion writer at large.
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| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Some users' Google Photos videos in Takeout backups were exported to strangers between November 21-25, 2019; those affected were notified by email — With Google Takeout, you can download your data from Google apps as a backup or for use with another service.
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Android Central, BetaNews, Ars Technica, The Hill, SiliconANGLE, CNBC, Business Insider, BGR, Gizmodo, Wccftech, TalkAndroid.com, XDA Developers, Digital Trends, Neowin, Redmond Pie, Security Boulevard, Engadget, PCWorld, The Hacker News, Thurrott, Digital Photography Review, LaptopMag, Fox Business, iPhone Hacks, SlashGear, KnowTechie, and WinBuzzer
Tweets: @adrs, @tomwarren, @randfish, @iamtherog, @userbasehq, @backlon, @caseynewton, @dtunkelang, and @stillgray
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Nvidia's GeForce Now game streaming service launches from beta with Steam, Epic Games Store, Battle.net, and Uplay support, rivaling Google Stadia at $5/month — The BYOG cloud gaming service with Steam, Epic, Battle.net, and Uplay support — For the past eight years …
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Tweets: @samred, @mr_niris, and @davegershgorn
| David McCabe / New York Times: |
How the big companies like Marriott, Disney, and IBM, are pushing to limit Section 230 of the CDA, challenging Facebook, Google, and the internet as we know it — A motley group of powerful companies have their knives out for Section 230, which shields platforms from lawsuits over content posted by users.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: NYSE owner Intercontinental Exchange has made a takeover offer for eBay that could value the marketplace at more than $30B; eBay stock closes up 8.78% — A deal could value the online marketplace at more than $30 billion — New York Stock Exchange owner Intercontinental Exchange Inc …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Instagram generated ~$20B in advertising revenue in 2019, making up more than a quarter of Facebook's revenue — - Unit brought in about $20 billion in 2019, people familiar say — Photo-sharing app has gained in importance since 2012 purchase
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Tweets: @sarahfrier, @drewaustin, @pkafka, @mgsiegler, @stevekovach, @caseynewton, @ericjackson, @savequokka, and @yoda
| Twitter: |
Twitter says users “may not deceptively share synthetic or manipulated media” likely to cause harm; such tweets will be labeled or removed — It's our responsibility to create rules on Twitter that are fair and set clear expectations for everyone on our service.
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Thurrott, Yahoo Finance, CNBC, New York Times, Mashable, and The Verge
Tweets: @twittersafety, @delbius, @vijaya, @metaviv, @ajreid, @jamespmcleod, @twittersafety, @qjurecic, @yoyoel, and @mantzarlis
| Financial Times: |
Michael Ronen, a US managing partner for SoftBank's Vision Fund, says he is “negotiating” his exit from the fund, amid concern about its direction — A top US executive at SoftBank's $100bn Vision Fund is leaving after expressing concerns about “issues” at the technology conglomerate …
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TechCrunch, PYMNTS.com, and Bloomberg
Tweets: @madhavchanchani, @arashmassoudi, @tbraithwaite, and @arashmassoudi
| Associated Press: |
Irish regulators have launched separate inquiries into Google, over location data, and Tinder, examining how they process user data after a number of complaints — LONDON (AP) — Irish regulators have launched separate inquiries into Google and dating app Tinder over how they process user data … | Emily McCormick / Yahoo Finance: |
Disney beats analyst expectations for Q1, reporting $20.86B in Q1 revenue, up 36% YoY, 26.5M subscribers for Disney+, and 30.4M for Hulu, up 33% YoY — DIS) posted better than expected results in the company's first report since the launch of its eponymous streaming service.| Michael Santoli / CNBC: |
Tesla's stock more than tripled in 3+ months, from $255 on Oct. 23 to $877 today, closing up 13.7%; 12K+ Robinhood users bought TSLA for the first time Monday — Jim Cramer: Tesla is a tech company and must be valued as one — Yes, there's an entrenched short base that's getting torched …
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| Davey Alba / New York Times: |
Alphabet-owned Jigsaw is testing Assembler, a tool to identify doctored photographs, even ones created with the help of AI, with over a dozen news organizations — The company, owned by Google's parent, introduced a free tool it calls Assembler to sort out real images from fake ones.
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Jigsaw, The Verge, 9to5Google, and VentureBeat
Tweets: @isasun, @gabrielvaldivia, @jaredcohen, @jigsaw, and @nytimes
| Praveen Nagaraj / News Landed: |
Apple updates iCloud.com with mobile web support for Photos, Notes, Reminders, and Find iPhone — iCloud Photo Library on Android! — Apple has silently begun allowing native support for iCloud.com on mobile browsers for both iOS and (most importantly) Android.
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AppleInsider, Phone Scoop, 9to5Mac, SlashGear, Android Central, and iDownloadBlog.com
| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Snap reports Q4 revenue of $561M, vs $563M est, up 44% YoY, net losses rose to $241M from $192M YoY, DAUs of 218M, up 17% YoY; stock drops 12%+ after hours — - Snap reported revenue of $561 million, missing analysts expectations of $563 million. — Snap, maker of Snapchat … | Wall Street Journal: |
The White House says companies, including Dell, Microsoft, and AT&T, are working together to create an open standard for 5G tech to reduce reliance on Huawei — Companies including Dell, Microsoft and AT&T are part of the effort, White House economic advisor Larry Kudlow says
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Tweets: @martijnrasser, @davidrhanke, @mcwm, @kerpen, @ericgeller, and @wsj
| Damien Wilde / 9to5Google: |
Google says it has paid Android developers over $80B since 2012, well below the $100B threshold Apple announced it surpassed back in 2018 — Google has confirmed that it has now paid out over $80 billion to Play Store developers since the launch of the digital marketplace in March 2012.
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The Verge, iPhone in Canada Blog, Daring Fireball, Gamasutra, Android Central, and XDA Developers. Tweets: @flargh
| Sarah Buhr / TechCrunch: |
Real estate startup Homie, which employs realtors who don't take commission, raises $23M Series B and plans to expand to more US cities — Homie has made an impression among younger, first-time home buyers in the Utah and Arizona markets for cutting out the traditional closing costs … | Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Finix, a SaaS startup selling payments tech to other businesses, raises $35M Series B led by Sequoia, bringing its total raised to over $55M — This morning Finix, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) startup selling payments tech to other businesses, announced that it has raised …
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Business Insider, FinSMEs, Crowdfund Insider, Finextra, and Silicon Republic. Tweets: @sydneypaige10
| Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed News: |
As Trump expands his travel ban to Nigeria and five others, Amazon, Apple, and Google have been silent, a break from their impassioned response in 2017 — In January 2017, when the Trump administration first unveiled a travel ban targeting seven majority Muslim countries, the tech industry took up arms.
Tweets: @rmac18 and @slpng_giants
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Researchers detail EKANS ransomware, which is targeting industrial control systems and appears to be the work of cybercriminals rather than nation-state hackers — EKANS appears to be the work of cybercriminals, rather than nation-state hackers—a worrying development, if so.| Paul Mozur / New York Times: |
Amid virus outbreak, authorities in China are using its vast surveillance network to identify potential carriers, ostracizing even those without the symptoms — The authorities hunt for people from Wuhan, the center of the outbreak, encouraging citizens to inform on others.
Tweets: @paulmozur, @ianbremmer, @sugabelly, @jotted, and @amyyqin
| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
Hinge Health, which offers a digital physical therapy platform complete with an app and sensors, raises $90M Series C led by Bessemer Venture Partners — If you have chronic back or joint pain, you know the struggle of schlepping to a physical therapist every week or two to help get better.Thanks:@bayareawriter
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Seattle-based Kaskada raises $8M Series A for its machine learning feature engineering platform — Feature engineering — the process of using domain knowledge to extract features from raw data — is essential to tuning machine learning performance. It's also typically arduous …
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SiliconANGLE, FinSMEs, and GeekWire
| Annie Musgrove / Tech.eu: |
Paris-based Convelio, a logistics startup for fine art, raises €9M Series A led by Acton Capital as it looks to expand to the US and into other market segments — Convelio, a Paris-based logistics tech startup in the fine art industry, has raised a €9 million in Series A round led … | About Facebook: |
Facebook debuts more controls for parents in Messenger Kids like the ability to view recent chat history, a log of chat images, remote device logout, and more — We launched Messenger Kids in 2017 after meeting with thousands of parents, parenting organizations, child safety advocates … | Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Google makes its Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2 AR headset available for direct purchase, nearly a year after its launch — Designed for businesses and developers and still $999 — Google is making its latest augmented reality headset, Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2 …
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