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Twitter confirms it is testing bright labels beneath lies and misinfo posted by politicians and public figures, and points-based “community badges” for users — A leaked demo features bright red and orange badges for tweets that have been deemed “harmfully misleading.”
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Sources: Apple is weighing an option to set third-party browser and email apps as defaults on iPhones and iPads and third-party music services on the HomePod — - Company considers letting users change web browser, email app — Spotify, Pandora may be allowed to stream directly on HomePod
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| Malathi Nayak / Bloomberg: |
Trump administration urges Supreme Court to reject Alphabet's appeal against Oracle, on the same day Trump attended a re-election fundraiser by Larry Ellison — The Trump administration urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject an appeal by Alphabet Inc.'s Google, boosting Oracle Corp.'s bid … | Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News: |
Google removed ~600 Android apps, which were installed 4.5B+ times, and banned the developers behind them from Play Store for ad fraud and “disruptive” ads — Google has removed close to 600 Android apps and banned their developers from the Play store and its ad networks as part … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces Defender ATP for Linux, will offer the antivirus software for Android and iOS later this year as part of its enterprise security platform — New Defender mobile apps will be available later this year — Microsoft is planning to bring its Defender antivirus software to Android and iOS later this year.
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Morgan Stanley says it will buy online discount brokerage E-Trade for about $13B, in the biggest takeover by an American lender since the 2008 financial crisis — The $13 billion deal will give a powerful Wall Street firm control of a major presence in the world of online brokerages.
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Sony and Facebook say they will not attend Game Developers Conference this year due to coronavirus concerns; Facebook to make Oculus announcements online — Oculus announcements will now take place online — PlayStation and Facebook Gaming/Oculus will not be attending …
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HTC announces new Cosmos VR headset variants: $899 Elite, lower-end Play, and XR with “high-quality XR passthrough cameras”, giving it AR capabilities — One for gamers, one for AR, one for Angry Birds — HTC is expanding its range of virtual reality headsets today with multiple new variants of the Vive Cosmos.
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The Org, which is building a database of organizational charts of companies and claims to have 16K businesses profiled, raises $11M in seed and Series A rounds — LinkedIn has cornered the market when it comes to putting your own professional profile online and using it to network for jobs … | Alex Sherman / CNBC: |
Sprint and T-Mobile have agreed to amend their merger agreement to give Deutsche Telekom a higher ownership stake in the new combined company — - Sprint and T-Mobile have agreed to amend their merger deal agreement to give Deutsche Telekom a higher ownership stake in the new combined company.
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Cloud-based HR software providers Kronos and Ultimate Software to merge, say the combined company will have revenues of ~$3B and an enterprise value of $22B — HR application software providers Kronos Inc and Ultimate Software Group Inc said on Thursday they would merge to form …
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Sources detail the rising clout of Joel Kaplan and other conservatives at Facebook during the Trump administration — Facebook created “Project P” — for propaganda — in the hectic weeks after the 2016 presidential election and quickly found dozens of pages that had peddled false news reports ahead of Donald Trump's surprise victory.| Vincent Woo / New York Magazine: |
Internal documents and interviews with former staff and students detail Lambda coding school's misleading claims about graduate outcomes and curriculum quality — If you visit the website of Lambda School, a “boot camp” for people who want to quickly learn how to code …
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Dropbox Q4: revenue of $446M, up 19% YoY, net loss of $6.6M, down from $9.5M YoY, 14.3M paid users, avg revenue per user of $125; stock up 12%+ after hours — With better-than-expected Q4 2019 results, shares were up in after-hours trading. — Dropbox ended the fiscal year with $1.661 billion … | Jezebel: |
A look at the data sharing practices of therapy apps like Better Help, which notify third parties when an app is opened and if a patient has suicidal thoughts — Starting treatment with Better Help, one of the most prominent “therapy-on-demand” apps to launch over the last few years, is easy, which is more or less the point.
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