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| Nicole Sperling / New York Times: |
As streaming platforms like Netflix have grown, political films they used to seek out, like The Dissident, on the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, are being shunned — Bryan Fogel's examination of the killing of the Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi had trouble finding a home among the companies … | Lorraine Longhi / The Copper Courier: |
Some GoDaddy employees are upset after the company sent a phishing email scam to test its employees, with the email promising a $650 one-time holiday bonus — GoDaddy surpassed 20 million customers this year and laid off or reassigned hundreds of employees during the coronavirus pandemic in Arizona, Iowa, and Texas.
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| Ankit Malhotra / Counterpoint Research: |
With 31% market share, MediaTek becomes the biggest smartphone SoC vendor globally in Q3, surpassing Qualcomm, which remains the largest 5G chipset vendor — - More than 100 million smartphones were sold globally with MediaTek chipsets in Q3 2020. — Qualcomm led the market for 5G chipsets in Q3 2020.
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| Yuan Yang / Financial Times: |
European tech executives and diplomats privately complain US sanctions on Huawei shut them out of the Chinese market while offering exceptions for US companies — Business says EU groups are losing out on licences to sell to blacklisted Chinese companies — European tech executives …
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Thurrott. Tweets: @pastynome, @j_b_c16, @anewman_forward, @thedailymao, @chadbown, @peterkirkegaard, @ftchina, @tc_intlaw, @yuanfenyang, @marchofer, @skellyceo, @anupamchander, and @c_szabla
| Dipayan Ghosh / Wired: |
Facebook's claims that SMBs will suffer from iOS's privacy changes seem exaggerated when examining the technical changes Facebook announced in response — The social media giant would have you believe that Apple's privacy update will hurt the little guys. But Facebook's motives aren't so altruistic.
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Gizmodo, Mobile Dev Memo, International Business Times, Thurrott, The Information, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, and Pocketnow
Tweets: @mattnavarra, @icave_dave, @carnage4life, @ghoshd7, and @hypervisible
| Gene Park / Washington Post: |
Interview with Microsoft's VP of gaming ecosystem Sarah Bond, a former T-Mobile executive, on lowering entry barriers by selling Xbox as a subscription — The launch of the new series of Xbox consoles is actually unlike any other console launch in the industry's history …
Tweets: @htsuka, @genepark, @launcherwp, and @genepark
| Sara Morrison / Vox: |
Privacy laws in the US had momentum at the beginning of 2020, but the pandemic has focused Congress elsewhere and forced everyone to give up more data online — Our lives moved online in 2020. Too bad privacy laws didn't. — SHARE All sharing options — As a digital privacy reporter …
Tweets: @evan_greer, @azza_alt, @forsheit, @hypervisible, and @adam_k_levin
| Sam Biddle / The Intercept: |
In unsealed court docs, Facebook managers appeared to admit to major flaws in ad targeting capabilities in 2016 and wondered if they were misleading advertisers — Facebook is currently waging a PR campaign purporting to show that Apple is seriously injuring American small businesses through its iOS privacy features.
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Social Media Today. Tweets: @samfbiddle, @smenor, @ophirgottlieb, @hypervisible, @robinberjon, @can, @pt, @steveolson, @jasross, @ddayen, and @samfbiddle
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Bloomberg has acquired Second Measure, a data analytics firm offering consumer behavior and company performance insights; Second Measure previously raised ~$25M — Bloomberg today announced that it has acquired data analytics platform Second Measure, a San Mateo-based startup that leverages big data … | Sara Fischer / Axios: |
NewsGuard: 17% of engagement among the top 100 news sources on social media in 2020 was with sources NewsGuard considers unreliable, compared to 8% in 2019 — Unreliable news websites significantly increased their share of engagement among the top performing news sources on social media this year …
Tweets: @rpeddy, @shawnarchen, @jimwarren55, and @justinhendrix
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Citrix confirmed ADC networking equipment is being actively exploited to amplify DDoS attacks against a “small number of customers”; patch expected mid-January — Citrix says it's working on a fix, expected next year. — Threat actors have discovered a way to bounce …
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My little Farm, Citrix, The Hacker News, SiliconANGLE, SC Media, and BleepingComputer
Tweets: @wilkyit and @thorstenrood
| Washington Post: |
A study using 96K searches found that Google News put far more national news outlets than local outlets at the top of search results, even for local queries — Our audit reveals that Google News sends readers — and advertising dollars — away from local news outlets.
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Search Engine Journal and Gizmodo
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