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Facebook Antitrust Inquiry Shows Big Tech’s Freewheeling Era Is Past
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www.nytimes.com - Mr. Zuckerberg did not specifically address the antitrust concerns but said on a conference call with investors, “with the guidance and expectations from regulators, we have a clearer path forward.” …
Opinion | We Need a New Government Agency to Fight Facebook
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www.nytimes.com - Today’s trip to the archives focuses on a 1991 profile of Robert Ellis Smith, who wrote an analog monthly newsletter on privacy, titled “The Privacy Journal.” Some gems include: “Mr. Smith’s timing, …
Makematic's three big takeaways from ISTE 2019
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Leeanne Nuttall-Lowe
makematic.com - With 20,000 delegates, you can only imagine the scale of this event. Since my return, I’ve spent a lot of time reflecting about the event and what were the big takeaways. It’s the theme of empathy an…
Entrepreneurship As A Prepper Skill
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Rob McNealy
www.edthatmatters.com - Entrepreneurship – a person who starts a business and is willing to risk loss in order to make money. Every prepper should have a second stream of income. Let me say that again. Every prepper should …
Author shares his life lessons in latest book - Hispanic Marketing & Public Relations website and podcast
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Guy Kawasaki
hispanicmpr.com - In his newest title Guy Kawasaki, author of 14 books, shares the insights he has learned over his lifetime. Wise Guy Lessons from a Life (Portfolio, Penguin, $28), a 246-page hardcover book, was publ…
Netflix launches Rs 199 ($2.8) mobile-only monthly plan in India – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Netflix has a new plan to win users in India: make the entry point to its service incredibly cheap. The streaming giant today introduced a low-priced mobile tier in the country that costs Rs 199 ($2.…
Google highlights Android TV on JBL Link Bar
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androidcommunity.com - Now that the JBL Link Bar has finally made it to the market after months of secretive delays, Google can officially say that Android TV is now available in soundbars. Or at least this particular bran…
Tesla co-founder and CTO JB Straubel stepping down – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Tesla co-founder and CTO JB Straubel is stepping down from his day-to-day role as an executive at the automaker, CEO Elon Musk announced during a conference call with analysts Wednesday. Drew Baglino…
Hear Hans Vestberg talk about the 5G opportunity at Disrupt SF 2019 – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - The promise of 5G is staggering. With its ultra-high bandwidth and low latency, it has the potential to alter how consumers interact with technology. However, questions remain around its deployment, …
Daily Crunch: Facebook will pay $5B fine – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Faceb…
Following record FTC fine, Facebook stock pops on Q2 earnings beat – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Hours after receiving a record $5 billion FTC fine on privacy violations, Facebook delivered a Q2 earnings beat with revenue of $16.9 billion with $1.99 adjusted EPS compared to the Zacks Consensus E…
Robinhood stored passwords in plaintext, so change yours now – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Investment and stock trading app Robinhood stored some user credentials, including passwords, in plaintext on internal systems, the company revealed today. This particularly dangerous security misste…
Lyft poaches Bird’s head of vehicle product – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Shared electric bike and scooter services are constantly at war with each other — whether it’s battling for an operating permit in a highly-coveted market, raising a massive round of funding or makin…
9 reasons the Facebook FTC settlement is a joke – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - The FTC just announced the details of its settlement agreement with Facebook over years of privacy practices in violation of a previous order. To say the settlement is favorable to Facebook, even wit…
Tesla focuses on service with 25 new service centers in Q2, rate of new openings to ‘increase’ – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Tesla is set to aggressively ramp up the rate at which it opens new service facilities, according to CEO Elon Musk’s guidance on the company’s Q2 2019 earnings call. In total, Tesla opened 25 new ser…
What lower Netflix pricing tells us about competing in India – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - At a conference in New Delhi early last year, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings was confronted with a question that his company has been asked many times over the years. Would he consider lowering the subscr…
GM’s Cruise will miss 2019 target for robotaxi service launch – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Cruise is scrapping an ambitious target to launch a commercial robotaxi service before the end of the year after failing to meet internal milestones on safety and performance that would allow the GM-…
Duo’s Wendy Nather to talk security at TC Sessions: Enterprise – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - When it comes to enterprise security, how do you move fast without breaking things? Enter Duo’s Wendy Nather, who will join us at TC Sessions: Enterprise in San Francisco on September 5, where we wil…
Tile finds another $45M to expand its item-tracking devices and platform – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Tile — the company that makes popular square-shaped tags and other technology to help people keep track of physical belongings like keys and bags — has made more recent moves to link up with chipmake…
Microsoft changes Windows 10’s update model
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arstechnica.com - Microsoft outlined new directions for Windows 10's update model in a pair of blog posts. It looks like the company is shifting its twice-annual major release cycle to a twice-annual major/minor relea…
Red founder blames manufacturing partner for its smartphone failures
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arstechnica.com - The back is carbon fiber and either aluminum or titanium. It had an aggressive industrial design and giant bezels. This is the removed modular camera image from Red's site. You would have the base ph…
Still available via Google Analytics: Data slurped from 4 million browsers
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arstechnica.com - Six days after Ars revealed an online service selling links to tax returns, prescription refills, and reams of other sensitive information collected from more than four million browsers, the data rem…
FTC fines Facebook $5 billion, imposes new privacy oversight
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arstechnica.com - The Federal Trade Commission today announced a long-rumored, record-smashing $5 billion settlement with Facebook over allegations related to user privacy. The fine is high, and the settlement demands…
Apple closes in on $1 billion deal to buy Intel’s modem business: report
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arstechnica.com - Apple is in the final stages of negotiations to buy the bulk of Intel's modem chip business, The Wall Street Journal reports. The Journal says the deal, valued at $1 billion or more, could be finaliz…
Report: Nintendo quietly owns up to “Joy-Con drift,” will repair for free
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arstechnica.com - After months of mounting user complaints and media pressure, Nintendo appears to have finally caved in full to the issue of "Joy-Con drift" on its Nintendo Switch controllers. Tuesday's news comes co…
DOJ to approve T-Mobile/Sprint merger despite 13 states trying to block it
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arstechnica.com - The Justice Department plans to approve the T-Mobile/Sprint merger as part of a settlement involving the sale of spectrum licenses, wholesale access, and a prepaid wireless business to Dish Network, …
Nvidia RTX 2080 Super hands-on: The result when AMD is out of striking distance
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arstechnica.com - It's neither bird nor plane, but rather a new RTX Super GPU from Nvidia. Behold: the RTX 2080 Super, shipping as of today. The Nvidia RTX 2080 Super. Coming July 23 for $699. Earlier this month, Nvid…
Leaks reveal a trio of iPhone 11 releases to come from Apple this fall
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arstechnica.com - Apple often introduces a new wave of hardware at its fall event, and this year the company seems to be preparing a fresh trio of iPhones. The new models will be powered by Apple’s A13 chip and will s…
GM’s Cruise scraps 2019 launch plans but expands San Francisco testing
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arstechnica.com - In early 2018, Cruise, the self-driving startup that is majority owned by General Motors, announced that it planned to launch a driverless commercial taxi service by the end of 2019. The company stuc…
Dropbox irks Mac users with annoying Dock icon, offers clueless support
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arstechnica.com - This is a story I never had any intention of writing. Dropbox updated its file-sync application for Mac last month, and the new version contains an annoyance that I would like to eliminate. I figured…
Blizzard’s bad-news year continues with another co-founder’s departure
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arstechnica.com - Frank Pearce, one of Blizzard Entertainment's three original founding staffers, announced his intention to leave the game-making company on Friday, effective immediately. Pearce's announcement came v…
5 ways to improve the UX on your crypto startup today
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decrypt.co - Building a product is hard enough. You hire a team, design mockups, get funding, build an MVP, get more funding and then, finally, you release it to the world. And then what happens? Nobody uses it. …
How to Build a Vue Front End for a Headless CMS — SitePoint
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www.sitepoint.com - In this guide, we’ll learn how to build a modern blog website using Vue.js and GraphCMS, a headless CMS platform. If you’re looking to start a quick blog today, my recommendation is to go straight to…
Pinterest wants you to take a deep breath, literally
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Reg Saddler
www.theverge.com - Pinterest isn’t your typical social network — for starts, its 250 million users spend their time creating collections of things that make them happy, rather than, say, competing to spread news that m…
Facebook Knows More About You Than the CIA
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Reg Saddler
www.wired.com - The titans of social media are trapped, and we’re all suffering for it. As free services, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube monetize you by keeping you engaged, so they can show you more ads. The servic…
Facebook design flaw let thousands of kids join chats with unauthorized users
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Reg Saddler
www.theverge.com - Facebook’s Messenger Kids app is built around a simple premise: children shouldn’t be able to talk to users who haven’t been approved by their parents. But a design flaw allowed users to sidestep tha…
Samsung Galaxy Watch Active 2 confirmed to have a Touch Bezel
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androidcommunity.com - The Samsung Galaxy Watch Active was updated recently with several enhancements and features. New straps were also made available. Today, we’re hearing new information about the next-gen Galaxy Watch …
OxygenOS 9.0.7 OTA for OnePlus 5T, OnePlus 5T rolls out
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androidcommunity.com - OnePlus has recently announced that the OxygenOS 9.0.7 OTA for the OnePlus 5 and OnePlus 5T is ready. The 9.0.6 version was released last month and the company has been quick in making a follow-up. A…
Google now going around collecting facial recognition data
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androidcommunity.com - Do you wonder how Google sometimes trains its facial recognition software to recognize faces and such? Well we can probably assume that they use their employees’ or researchers’ faces. But apparently…
Honor 9X, Honor 9X Pro out with 7nm Kirin 810, 48MP main camera
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androidcommunity.com - Huawei may be slowing down these days due to the recent challenges but there’s no stopping its sub-brand Honor. The name may be almost synonymous to the top Chinese OEM but yes, it’s only a sub-brand…
Pandora’s Voice Mode now available for all users
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androidcommunity.com - If Pandora is your streaming music service of choice, you will now be able to command it at will to play your favorite or the appropriate music without lifting your hands. They are now bringing Voice…
Xiaomi may put an end to the Pocophone line
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androidcommunity.com - Xiaomi is no longer the top Chinese OEM. Huawei has taken over the brand’s place but Xiaomi continues to thrive by introducing more products. It also has several sub-brands with the Pocophone as one …
We're Living in the Age of the Sub-$300 AR-15 Rifle - The Truth About Guns
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www.thetruthaboutguns.com - Reader Steve S. emailed last night to let us know that now virtually anyone can afford to buy an AR-15 platform rifle. Palmetto State Armory is offing their PSA Freedom carbine length upper and “clas…
CrowdTwist Advises on Loyalty in the Retail Industry
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loyalty360.org - Differentiation is pretty important for brands these days. In a challenging environment full of competitors, successful companies will be those that figure out ways to gain an edge and to appear uniq…
DOJ to Investigate Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google - Thurrott.com
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Paul Thurrott
www.thurrott.com - The U.S Department of Justice said Tuesday that it was opening an antitrust review of some of the biggest tech companies. “Without the discipline of meaningful market-based competition, digital platf…
The Ultimate Guide to SEO Meta Tags
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moz.com - Editor's note: This post first appeared in April of 2017, but because SEO (and Google) changes so quickly, we figured it was time for a refresh! Meta tags represent the beginning of most SEO training…
Small-budget guide to testing ad copy, landing pages, and more
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searchenginewatch.com - When you have a smaller digital marketing budget, you might think that testing should take a backseat to efficiency and driving conversions – but that would be short-sighted. In order to stay competi…
DOJ Starts Antitrust Review Of Major Tech Companies Including Google, Facebook, Apple
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Glen Woodfin
www.dailywire.com - After much criticism of the biggest technology firms, such as Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon for alleged prevention of competition in their fields, the Justice Department has commenced a huge ant…
Man Who Built The Retweet: “We Handed A Loaded Weapon To 4-Year-Olds”
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Susan Cooper
www.buzzfeednews.com - Developer Chris Wetherell built Twitter’s retweet button. And he regrets what he did to this day. “We might have just handed a 4-year-old a loaded weapon,” Wetherell recalled thinking as he watched t…
Equifax Settlement Payouts Range from $125 to $20K. Here's How to Find Out if You're Eligible in Just 10 Seconds
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Susan Cooper
www.inc.com - Equifax's massive $700 million settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) this week means that you could be eligible for a cash payment if you spent time on protecting or cleaning up your cre…
Do You Need Marketing Via Email Assitance? Keep Reading
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Rolf Joho
marketingpromotion.biz - Have you ever thought of marketing via email yet you aren’t sure where you want to start? If you want to know how you can build a winning strategy, then this is the article for you! This article is f…
Tips For Using Search Engine Optimization Techniques
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iim.internetinfomedia.com - Search engine optimization represents a lot of people talking about. This article has the first step in learning more about it. SEO is a great way to bring people to your website viewings with little…
Reimagining the Smart Home in a Battery-Free World
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www.embedded-computing.com - The age of the smart home is here. Recently, Bluetooth released its Market Update announcing that a whopping 1.15 billion annual shipments of Bluetooth smart home devices are expected by 2023. Gone a…
Not Happy With Your Internet Marketing? Get Inspired With These Great Tips!
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Rolf Joho
duracmarketing.com - Although people sometimes have trouble setting up affiliate programs, the truth is that it is far easier than it first appears. The purpose of this article will help you launch your affiliate promoti…
Facebook, Twitter, Google, Amazon face Justice Department review
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www.usatoday.com - The Justice Department said Tuesday that it would review online platforms – supposedly including social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, and likely tech giants Google and Amazon – for potential…
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