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Sports Illustrated publisher Maven raises $24M to help Seattle media tech startup expand

GeekWire

Licensing firm Authentic Brands Group, which bought Sports Illustrated in May 2019 from Meredith Corp., Layoffs at the venerable sports magazine in October 2019 drew criticism from employees and unions; the company did another round of job cuts in March. Maven previously raised $20 million in October 2019.

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IRS Using Facial Scanning

Phil Windley

Summary: The IRS will use ID.me's authentication and identity proofing service exclusively starting sometime this summer. Scott Lemon alerted me to a move by the IRS to use ID.me, and facial scanning, for authentication. is an identity proofing and authentication company that seems to be getting a lot of government contracts.

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T-Mobile investigating report of customer data breach that reportedly involves 100 million people

The Verge

Motherboard reported that it was in contact with the seller of the data, who said they had taken data from T-Mobile’s servers that included Social Security numbers, names, addresses, and driver license information related to more than 100 million people. After reviewing samples of the data, Motherboard reported it appeared authentic. “We

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James Heckman resigns as Maven CEO after tumultuous run leading Sports Illustrated publisher

GeekWire

Licensing firm Authentic Brands Group, which bought SI in May 2019 from Meredith, sold the magazine’s print and digital publishing rights to Maven. It purchased finance media company TheStreet in 2019. Maven is currently being sued by Meredith Corp. , the former owner of Sports Illustrated.

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Facebook verified a fan page posing as Elon Musk

The Verge

The Page Transparency tab — which shows some history of the page, who it is managed by, and whether it runs ads — says the page was created on July 28th, 2019 to represent a “Kizito Gavin,” which is the reversed name of soccer player Gavin Kizito. The page didn’t start as a fan page for Elon Musk.

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Seattle-based Sports Illustrated publisher Maven sued by former magazine owner Meredith Corp

GeekWire

Licensing firm Authentic Brands Group, which bought SI in May 2019 from Meredith, sold the magazine’s print and digital publishing rights to Maven. It purchased finance media company TheStreet in 2019. Maven launched in 2017 and made headlines nationally after purchasing publishing rights to SI last year.

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Digital identity startup Evernym sells to Avast, looks to bring trust to a decentralized internet

GeekWire

Evernym raised an $8 million round of funding in 2019, with backers including Barclays Ventures and Medici Ventures. Evernym director of marketing Alex Andrade-Walz said they are very familiar with Auth0, contrasting Evernym’s approach with Auth0’s focus on authentication and log-ins.

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