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Golden, a Wikipedia-like "knowledge base" built by artificial and human intelligence focused on emerging tech and startups, raises $5M seed from a16z and others (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: Golden, a Wikipedia-like “knowledge base” built by artificial and human intelligence focused on emerging tech and startups, raises $5M seed from a16z and others  —  Jude Gomila, who previously sold his mobile advertising company Heyzap to RNTS Media, is taking on a new challenge … Golden, a Wikipedia-like "knowledge base" built

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Source: FTC and Facebook are negotiating a settlement where Facebook must appoint a federally approved privacy official and create a privacy oversight committee (Nancy Scola/Politico)

Nancy Scola / Politico: Source: FTC and Facebook are negotiating a settlement where Facebook must appoint a federally approved privacy official and create a privacy oversight committee  —  Facebook and the Federal Trade Commission are negotiating a possible settlement that would require the company … Source: FTC and Facebook are negotiating a settlement where Facebook

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OurPact says Apple's MDM comments are misleading, compares Apple's claims in defense of removing apps that use MDM with quotes from Apple's documentation (OurPact)

OurPact: OurPact says Apple’s MDM comments are misleading, compares Apple’s claims in defense of removing apps that use MDM with quotes from Apple’s documentation  —  Apple Removed OurPact From the App Store.  Here’s What You Need to Know.  —  On Saturday, April 27th, The New York Times exposed … OurPact says Apple's MDM comments are

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Sean Parker-backed Brigade says civic issues service Countable has acquired its IP, deletes "non-essential" user data, open sources voter file matching software (Josh Constine/TechCrunch)

Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Sean Parker-backed Brigade says civic issues service Countable has acquired its IP, deletes “non-essential” user data, open sources voter file matching software  —  Causes grew to a jaw-dropping 200 million users as one of the first 10 Facebook platform apps. Sean Parker-backed Brigade says civic issues service Countable has acquired its

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Fitbit reports Q1 revenue of $271.9M, up 9.7% YoY and beating analyst expectations of $259.7M, as smartwatch device sales were up 117% YoY (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)

Brian Heater / TechCrunch: Fitbit reports Q1 revenue of $271.9M, up 9.7% YoY and beating analyst expectations of $259.7M, as smartwatch device sales were up 117% YoY  —  Fitbit’s financial rebound continued in the first quarter, as the company generated $271.9 million in revenue, beating Wall Street expectations of $259.7 million. Fitbit reports Q1 revenue

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FCC fixes an error in its broadband deployment data, now says 21.3M Americans were without broadband at the end of 2017, up from the originally reported 19.4M (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: FCC fixes an error in its broadband deployment data, now says 21.3M Americans were without broadband at the end of 2017, up from the originally reported 19.4M  —  1.9M fewer people have access, not a big enough error to change Pai’s conclusion.  —  The Federal Communications Commission … FCC fixes

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Kaspersky Lab profiles Volodya, one of the most prolific Windows exploit developers, who has sold zero-days to criminal gangs and state-backed APTs (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)

Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Kaspersky Lab profiles Volodya, one of the most prolific Windows exploit developers, who has sold zero-days to criminal gangs and state-backed APTs  —  Hacker has sold Windows zero-days to the likes of Fancy Bear, FruityArmor, and SandCat.  —  For the past three years … Kaspersky Lab profiles Volodya, one of the

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