Twitter bans political ads globally, will allow some “cause-based” ads with limited targeting and promotion of issue-related fact-based reporting from news orgs
- Twitter laid out the framework for its new policy on political ads, which bans certain advertisers and has stricter rules for issue ads.
Microsoft to end support for Cortana apps on iOS and Android in the UK, Canada, and Australia from Jan. 31; Cortana content like reminders will stop working
Recently there were rumours that Microsoft might be discontinuing Cortana on Android and iOS. Now, a new support article published …
Microsoft hires former AG Eric Holder to determine if AnyVision complies with the ethical principles stipulated during the facial recognition company's Series A
According to five sources, AnyVision's technology has powered a secret military surveillance project that has monitored Palestinians in the West Bank.
The Supreme Court says it will hear Google's appeal in the copyright lawsuit brought by Oracle over Java APIs
- The Supreme Court said on Friday that it will hear a dispute between tech giants Oracle and Google in a blockbuster case that could lead to billions of dollars in fines and shape copyright law in th...
Jimmy Wales' WikiTribune, which launched as a crowdfunded news site in 2017, relaunches as WT:Social, a donor-funded social networking and “news sharing” site
Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a rival to Facebook and Twitter that he hopes will combat “clickbait” and misleading headlines.
Guild Education, which helps companies connect their employees to online higher-ed programs offered by universities, raises $157M Series D at a $1B+ valuation
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Twitter acknowledges that its new guidance on political and cause-based ads is essentially a rough policy outline with lots of details still to be worked out
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Spotify confirms it is testing real-time lyrics synced to music in its mobile app for some users; the feature appears below the playback controls during testing
With the launch of iOS 13, Apple added perfectly timed live lyrics to its Apple Music app. Now Spotify may do the same.
Creators say YouTube's new labeling policy for kids' content that holds creators solely accountable are murky, as some video categories fall in a gray area
The government could sue them for thousands of dollars — On Tuesday afternoon, YouTube formally announced its plan to have creators label … Tweets: @stopskeletons , @nickonripple , @kellymakena , @w...
Sources: John Legere has no plans to leave T-Mobile and take the CEO job at WeWork
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Hulu to raise its Hulu + Live TV price by 22%, from $44.99/month to $54.99/month, for all subscribers starting on December 18
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PillPack adds “Amazon Pharmacy” to its logo and says it has filed paperwork that adds “Amazon Pharmacy” to the licensed name of its pharmacy fulfillment centers
- PillPack, the Internet pharmacy it acquired last year, has updated its logo to “PillPack by Amazon Pharmacy.”
Facebook's AI team details XLM-R, a natural language model which translates between 100 languages, but struggles with the limits of existing computing power
Facebook AI research's latest breakthrough in natural language understanding, called XLM-R, performs cross-language tasks …
Verizon releases a Stream TV device running Android TV, heavily featuring YouTube TV, with none of Verizon Media's properties promoted and Netflix app blocked
Verizon has an answer to Roku, but it's not talking much about it: The mobile carrier quietly released a new streaming device …
NUVIA, founded by three former Apple chip execs, raises $53M Series A from Dell and others to develop a new CPU for data center servers
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Let's Do This, a platform that lists ~30K races and provides personalized recommendations for participants in events like marathons, raises $15M Series A
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Mexico's first online-only supermarket Justo raises $10M seed round led by Foundation Capital, with 500 Startups, others participating
Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News : Tweets: @bayareawriter , @foundationcap , and @fifaifofo Tweets: Mary Ann Azevedo / @bayareawriter : My latest for @crunchbasenews: “Jüsto, #Mexico's First Online...
Cybrary, a crowdsourced freemium cybersecurity training platform for enterprises that says it has 3M individual users, raises $15M Series B
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Sources: SoftBank Group completed the first close of $2B for the Vision Fund 2 so it can start backing startups; SoftBank initially targeted $108B for this fund
Bloomberg : Tweets: @lisaabramowicz1 Tweets: Lisa Abramowicz / @lisaabramowicz1 : Softbank's second fund, which has a targeted size of $108 billion, is ready to start taking stakes in startups after ...
Sources: after exploring partnerships with banks in 2018 to offer an Amazon-branded checking account, Amazon scrapped those plans in their early stages
Someday, At Least Brandy Betz / Seeking Alpha : Amazon dropped plan for checking accounts - report
Filing: Bill.com, which makes payments software, aims to raise $100M in its IPO, says Q3 revenue was ~$35.2M, up 57% YoY, and losses were ~$5.7M, up 544% YoY
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