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Line names founder Shin Jungho as co-CEO to drive the Asian chat app's expansion from ads into payments, banking, and other fintech businesses (Kana Inagaki/Financial Times)

Kana Inagaki / Financial Times: Line names founder Shin Jungho as co-CEO to drive the Asian chat app’s expansion from ads into payments, banking, and other fintech businesses  —  Mark Zuckerberg recently outlined a strategy that would see the future of Facebook in private messaging.  Shin Jungho, the reclusive founder … Line names founder Shin

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Mark Zuckerberg calls for global regulations in four areas: policing harmful content, election integrity, a GDPR-like privacy framework, and data portability (Mark Zuckerberg/Washington Post)

Mark Zuckerberg / Washington Post: Mark Zuckerberg calls for global regulations in four areas: policing harmful content, election integrity, a GDPR-like privacy framework, and data portability  —  Mark Zuckerberg is founder and chief executive of Facebook.  —  Technology is a major part of our lives, and companies such as Facebook have immense responsibilities. Mark Zuckerberg

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How a 119-word local crime brief amassed more than 800K Facebook shares, nearly twice as many as any other piece of English-language content this year so far (Will Oremus/Slate)

Will Oremus / Slate: How a 119-word local crime brief amassed more than 800K Facebook shares, nearly twice as many as any other piece of English-language content this year so far  —  A tale of accidental virality in the age of algorithms.  —  On an otherwise ordinary Sunday in late January … How a 119-word

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Sheryl Sandberg says Facebook is exploring restrictions on who can go Live depending on factors such as prior Community Standard violations after Christchurch (Andrew Liptak/The Verge)

Andrew Liptak / The Verge: Sheryl Sandberg says Facebook is exploring restrictions on who can go Live depending on factors such as prior Community Standard violations after Christchurch  —  Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg outlined three steps that the company is taking Sheryl Sandberg says Facebook is exploring restrictions on who can go Live

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South Korean crypto exchange Bithumb says around $13M in the EOS cryptocurrency has been stolen in a hack it suspects was an insider job (Wolfie Zhao/CoinDesk)

Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk: South Korean crypto exchange Bithumb says around $13M in the EOS cryptocurrency has been stolen in a hack it suspects was an insider job  —  South Korean crypto exchange Bithumb has had around $13 million in the EOS cryptocurrency stolen in a hack it suspects was an insider job. South Korean

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Printed Perching Pals Proliferate

Anansi in African folktale is a trickster and god of stories, usually taking physical form of a spider. Anansi’s adventures through oral tradition have adapted to the situation of people telling those stories, everything ranging from unseasonable weather to living a life in slavery. How might Anansi adapt to the twenty-first century? [odd_jayy] imagined the

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Counterpoint: global wireless "hearables" market hit 12.5M units in Q4 2018, with AirPods at 60% market share, but low and mid-tier brands gaining (Liz Lee/Counterpoint Research)

Liz Lee / Counterpoint Research: Counterpoint: global wireless “hearables” market hit 12.5M units in Q4 2018, with AirPods at 60% market share, but low and mid-tier brands gaining  —  Apple was the market leader with its AirPods as premium models continued to dominate the market.  However, mid-tier brands started to gain market share. Counterpoint: global

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