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Facebook Has Acquired Mobile Analytics Startup Onavo For Up To $200 Million
Three years ago, we started Onavo with the goal of helping today's technology consumers and compani…
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Mark Zuckerberg as a boss terrifies me after seeing an email he sent: 'You should figure out how to do this.'
There's nothing scarier than your boss emailing you with a seemingly impossible task. Especially if…
Katie Notopoulos
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Disney proxy battle is about a lot more than just two board seats
Disney is all about imagination — dubbing some employees "Imagineers" — but some investors are imag…
Dan DeFrancesco
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Google reportedly scraped data on how competitors' apps are used on Android — and the revelation could complicate looming antitrust investigations into the company
Google is facing an ongoing antitrust investigation into whether the company used its hardware and …
Aaron Holmes
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Google reportedly spying on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok users on Android
"When YouTube was planning the rollout of its rival to TikTok in India earlier this month, emp…
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Facebook is suing an Israeli spyware company for allegedly hacking WhatsApp. Now, that company says Facebook tried to buy its spyware in 2017.
In 2017, Facebook was developing an app called Onavo Protect that touted VPN services for users, bu…
Aaron Holmes
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Apple banned the Facebook security app that also reports back on which apps people are using
Critics have long held that Facebook doesn't do enough to advertise its ownership of Onavo - you ha…
Rob Price
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Facebook got caught paying people $20 a month to let them spy on their phones
"Like many companies, we invite people to participate in research that helps us identify thin…
Rob Price
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This is why people are upset about this Facebook-owned network privacy app
"As part of this process, Onavo collects your mobile data traffic. This helps us improve and operat…
Rachel Sandler
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Facebook just removed a new Android security app that critics said unfairly collects private data
The Wall Street Journal has reported that Facebook used Onavo's VPN data to gain a competitive edge…
Rachel Sandler
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The real lesson of Facebook's Apple dust-up shows why Zuckerberg's 'hacker way' is even more dangerous than we thought
That's something the Federal Trade Commission, Congress, the European Union, and other regulators s…
Troy Wolverton
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Facebook just pulled a screeching handbrake turn, shutting down an intrusive data gathering app it vigorously defended hours earlier
Facebook has rubbed Apple up the wrong way over intrusive apps before. It previously banned Faceboo…
Isobel Asher Hamilton,Isobel …
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Lawmakers are calling out Facebook for paying people, including teenagers, to let it spy on them
The app, called Facebook Research, is similar to Facebook's controversial virtual-private-network a…
Meira Gebel
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Facebook will compensate Android users for running an app that constantly reports which other apps you're using
The app, known as "Study by Facebook," was announced by the company on Tuesday to help the social m…
Nick Bastone
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10 things in tech you need to know today
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Isobel Asher Hamilton,Isobel …
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Facebook will now pay you if you give access to your phone’s data
In case of Facebook Research and Onavo Protect, teenagers were paid $20 per month alon…
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Mark Zuckerberg will tell Congress that Facebook's acquisitions are good for competition, according to a copy of his prepared remarks
Zuckerberg is set to testify before the House Antitrust Subcommittee, which is investigating whethe…
Aaron Holmes
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The Facebook papers are a timely reminder that Mark Zuckerberg is totally ruthless about making money
And the $19 billion deal to buy WhatsApp? Well, that came after Facebook carefully tracked the app …
Jake Kanter,Jake Kanter
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10 things in tech you need to know today
10. It sounds like Jack Dorsey wants to massively change how you follow people on Twitter. In an in…
Isobel Asher Hamilton,Isobel …
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The CEOs of Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon are about to testify before Congress in a historic antitrust hearing. Here's what's at stake for each company.
Here's what to expect when the CEOs of Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon testify to Congress duri…