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European parliament’s NationBuilder contract under investigation by data regulator

Twitter tests new conversation features from twttr prototype, rollout planned for 2020

Twitter to add a way to ‘memorialize’ accounts for deceased users before removing inactive ones

Box looks to balance growth and profitability as it matures

Brexit ad blitz data firm paid by Vote Leave broke privacy laws, watchdogs find

Xerox tells HP it will bring takeover bid directly to shareholders

New Amazon capabilities put machine learning in reach of more developers

Instagram founders join $30M raise for Loom work video messenger

Instagram founders join $30M raise for Loom work video messenger

Coralogix announces $10M Series A to bring more intelligence to logging

Vivun snags $3M seed round to bring order to pre-sales

Inside the Instagram AI that fills Explore with fresh, juicy content

AWS expands its IoT services, brings Alexa to devices with only 1MB of RAM

Save 50% in the Hacking with Swift Black Friday sale

Hulu is down, and nobody’s sure why

Facebook prototypes Favorites for close friends microsharing

Making sense of a multi-cloud, hybrid world at KubeCon

Cloud Foundry’s Kubernetes bet with Project Eirini hits 1.0

Watch Sacha Baron Cohen skewer Zuckerberg’s “twisted logic” on hate speech and fakes

Twitter will finally let you turn on two-factor authentication without giving it a phone number

Linear takes $4.2M led by Sequoia to build a better bug tracker and more

Facebook Dating now integrates with Instagram and Facebook Stories

Twitter rolls out its ‘Hide Replies’ feature to all users worldwide

Celonis, a leader in big data process mining for enterprises, nabs $290M on a $2.5B valuation

Amnesty International latest to slam surveillance giants Facebook and Google as “incompatible” with human rights

Google Cloud launches Bare Metal Solution

Reimagine inside sales to ramp up B2B customer acquisition

Google makes converting VMs to containers easier with the GA of Migrate for Anthos

Nominations open for the 2019 Swift Community Awards

Facebook’s latest experiment is a meme creation app, Whale

Give InKind’s smarter giving platform brings in surprise $1.5 million in pre-seed funding

Clumio raises $135M Series C for its backup as a service platform

Facebook announces dates for its 2020 F8 developers conference

SocialRank sells biz to Trufan, pivots to a mobile LinkedIn

Salesforce, AWS expand partnership to bring Amazon Connect to Service Cloud

SocialRank sells biz to Trufan, pivots to a mobile LinkedIn

Eden office management platform raises $25 million Series B

The Cerebras CS-1 computes deep learning AI problems by being bigger, bigger, and bigger than any other chip

18 months after acquisition, MuleSoft is integrating more deeply into Salesforce

Twitter launches a way to report abusive use of its Lists feature

Gremlin brings Chaos Engineering as a Service to Kubernetes

Google Maps tests a social networking feature with the ability to ‘follow’ Local Guides

Bill McDermott takes reins as ServiceNow CEO sooner than expected with new CFO

Ohi raises $2.75M to power same-day delivery for brands that aren’t Amazon

Salesforce, Apple partnership begins to come to life

Facebook’s Libra code chugs along ignoring regulatory deadlock

Why Salesforce is moving Marketing Cloud to Microsoft Azure

Daily Crunch: TikTok starts experimenting with commerce

Three of Apple and Google’s former star chip designers launch NUVIA with $53M in series A funding

Twitter makes its political ad ban official

Despite bans, Giphy still hosts self-harm, hate speech, and child sex abuse content

TikTok tests social commerce

Homeis adds community tools for Mexican immigrants

This ride-hailing PR pitch shows platforms and digital campaign ‘dark arts’ want democracy to be pay to play

AWS confirms reports it will challenge JEDI contract award to Microsoft

Facebook quietly built “Popular Photos”, an in-app Instagram

Adobe announces GA of customer data platform

Instagram tests hiding Like counts globally

Salesforce announces it’s moving Marketing Cloud to Microsoft Azure

Moveworks snags $75M Series B to resolve help desk tickets with AI

Eigen nabs $37M to help banks and others parse huge documents using natural language and ‘small data’

Social network for motherhood Peanut raises $5M, expands to include women trying to conceive

Messaging app Wire confirms $8.2M raise, responds to privacy concerns after moving holding company to the US

AWS, Salesforce join forces with Linux Foundation on Cloud Information Model

Freshworks raises $150M Series H on $3.5B valuation

Atlassian expands Jira Service Desk beyond IT teams

Facebook says government demands for user data are at a record high

Mirantis acquires Docker Enterprise

The Best Swift and iOS conferences in 2020

Facebook wants you to pay people on Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp with Facebook Pay

A US federal court finds suspicionless searches of phones at the border is illegal

Facebook pilloried over iPhone ‘secret camera access’ bug

Work collaboration startup Notion Labs cozies up to Silicon Valley’s top accelerators

S’More is a new dating app that looks to suspend physical attraction for something more

Loop Returns picks up $10 million in Series A led by FirstMark Capital

Lawyers hate timekeeping. Ping raises $13M to fix it with AI

Dutch court orders Facebook to ban celebrity crypto scam ads after another lawsuit

Instagram Stories launches TikTok clone Reels in Brazil

Snapchat Spectacles 3 review: Pretty, pricey

Facebook finally lets you banish nav bar tabs & red dots

Salesforce Ventures invested $300M in Automattic while Salesforce was building a CMS

Twitter drafts a deepfake policy that would label and warn, but not always remove, manipulated media

Instagram to test hiding Like counts in US, which could hurt influencers

Ex-Facebook CPO Chris Cox now advises on climate & campaign tech

Facebook’s first experimental apps from its ‘NPE Team’ division focus on students, chat & music

Alpaca nabs $6M for stocks API so anyone can build a Robinhood

How Microsoft is trying to become more innovative

Legislators from ten parliaments put the squeeze on Facebook

YouTube’s homepage redesign focuses on usability, giving you control over recommendations

AWS announces new savings plans to reduce complexity of reserved instances

With $6.5M in funding, Aircam offers a fast, easy way to share photos at events

Salesforce announces new content management system

An early look at eFounders’ next batch of enterprise SaaS startups

Saudi Arabia reportedly recruited Twitter employees to steal personal data of activists

WhatsApp says it will let you control if and how you get added to Groups (for real this time)

Tinder’s interactive video series ‘Swipe Night’ is going international next year

Cyber-skills platform Immersive Labs raises $40M in North America expansion

Neo4j introduces new cloud service to simplify building a graph database

Coveo raises $227M at $1B+ valuation for AI-based enterprise search and personalization

Amperity acquires Custora to improve its customer data platform

Valence launches a social network for black professionals

Seismic acquires Percolate to expand its marketing tools