• Pinterest Surpasses 250M MAUs
    More than 250 million people are using Pinterest every month, the company just announced. “Pinterest also has more than 175 billion pins, an increase of 75 percent since early 2017, which underlines the platform's growth,” Engadget notes. “Pinterest has a global community, with less than half of its users in the US, and more than 80 percent of newcomers living outside the country.”
  • European Court To Rule On 'Right To Be 'Forgotten'
    Europe’s top judges are expected to decide the limits of the “right to be forgotten” this week. “In a grand chamber of 15 judges, the European Court of Justice will on Tuesday consider two cases involving Google: one on the type of information that should be delisted from its index after a search for someone’s name, and the other on whether such a delisting, if agreed to, should apply to the entire world,” The Financial Times reports. “The ECJ’s eventual ruling will not only affect Google but all other search engines.”
  • 7-Eleven To Accept Apple Pay, Google Pay In All Stores
    7-Eleven plans to accept Apple Pay and Google Pay at nearly all of its more than 10,000 locations across the United States. “While many 7-Eleven retail locations have already started accepting Apple Pay, the rollout will continue throughout the month of September until ‘most U.S. stores’ support the payments service,” Mac Rumors reports.
  • Can Mark Zuckerberg Save The World From Facebook?
    The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos profiles Mark Zuckerberg at a time when Facebook is believed by some to be facilitating the decline of Western civilization. “Zuckerberg is now at the center of a full-fledged debate about the moral character of Silicon Valley and the conscience of its leaders,” Oznos writes. “And the question Mark Zuckerberg is dealing with is: Should my company be the arbiter of truth and decency for two billion people? Nobody in the history of technology has dealt with that.”
  • Google Incubator Bows Travel-Planning App 'Touring Bird'
    Area 120 -- Google’s internal incubator just debuted a new travel-planning app named Touring Bird. The free app “collates attractions, tours, and more in top destinations around the globe,” Venture Beat notes. What’s more, “Touring Bird takes a curatorial approach to vacation planning, but with a few filters and tweakable settings thrown in for good measure.”
  • Is Tim Armstrong Leaving Oath?
    Tim Armstrong is reportedly soon to be the ex-leader of Oath -- Verizon’s media and advertising business. “Armstrong came to Verizon in 2015 following its takeover of AOL and headed Oath, which was created last year after the No.1 U.S. telecom company acquired the core business of Yahoo and merged it with AOL,” Reuters notes.  
  • Apple Hoping To Boost 'Texture' With Top News Content
    Apple is reportedly trying to bolster its Texture magazine app with content from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. “The discussions are happening as Apple ramps up its interest in content sales and subscription,” Recode writes. “It is putting at least $1 billion into a slate of TV shows it expects to start showing next year, and many people believe Apple would like to market a supersized subscription offering that bundles music, video and news together.”
  • Apple Dumps Popular Mac App For Shady Practices
    Apple just removed a popular Mac app called Adware Doctor, which some researchers say was collecting users’ browsing history without their consent. “The data is then zipped in a file called ‘history.zip’ and sent to a server based in China via ‘adscan.yelabapp.com,’” BuzzFeed reports. “Adware Doctor, which costs $5, was the top paid app in the "Utilities" category, and the fifth top paid app overall.”
  • YouTube TV Letting Subscribers Press 'Pause'
    YouTube TV is letting people “pause” their subscriptions to the service, Android Police reports. “In the (probably pretty rare) instance that you’d like to pause your YouTube TV subscription, but not completely cancel it, that’s now an option,” AP writes. “YouTube TV will allow your subscription to be paused for anywhere from four weeks to six months.”
  • Facebook Quietly Sheds Cambridge Analytica-Connected Researcher
    A Facebook employee connected to the Cambridge Analytica scandal has quietly left the company, Fast Company reports. Joseph Chancellor was a psychology researcher “who previously helped harvest millions of Facebook users’ profiles for the controversial Trump campaign contractor Cambridge Analytica,” FC writes. “A Facebook spokesperson declined to explain when or why Chancellor had left the company.”
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