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London transport authority says Uber not “fit and proper” to hold license, cites “Greyball” software, will not renew on Sept. 30; Uber can operate during appeal — Uber has lost its licence to operate in London, the capital's transport regulator has said.
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Facebook says it will hand over information on Russia-linked ads bought during 2016 election campaign to Congressional investigators — Two weeks ago, we announced we had found more than 3,000 ads addressing social and political issues that ran in the US between 2015 and 2017 and that appear …
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Facebook will make Pages disclose who paid for political ads and let users see all current ads from that advertiser, rolling out over the coming months — I just went live a minute ago. Here's what I said: — Today is my first day back in the office after taking parental leave.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Analysis of Zuckerberg's nine-point plan to combat election interference on Facebook — Election meddling is Facebook's next adversary, and it's got a plan to attack it just like it did with fake news. Solutions to both these scourges come too late to prevent tampering … | Reuters: |
Sources: T-Mobile, Sprint reach “major breakthrough” in merger talks, could sign deal by end of October; Deutsche Telekom will own majority stake — (Reuters) - T-Mobile US Inc (TMUS.O) is close to agreeing tentative terms on a deal to merge with peer Sprint Corp (S.N) …
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| David Cardinal / DxOMark: |
DxOMark gives the iPhone 8 Plus camera a score of 94, the highest ever, 4 points above above the Google Pixel and HTC U11; video score of 89 is below Pixel's 91 — The Apple iPhone 8 Plus has a main camera system truly worthy of a flagship phone. Similar to the iPhone 7 Plus …
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| Brian Womack / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Hewlett Packard Enterprise plans to start cutting 5,000 jobs, or about 10% of its staff, by the end of this year — Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is planning to cut about 10 percent of its staff, or at least 5,000 workers, according to people familiar with the matter … | Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple says 4K iTunes content cannot be downloaded, only streamed, and that the VP9 codec, which is used by 4K YouTube videos, is not supported on Apple TV 4K — Apple has updated its iTunes Store on iOS devices and the Apple TV with plenty of 4K movies ahead of the launch of the Apple TV 4K …
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| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
SEC: MongoDB files for IPO, reports loss of $45.8M on revenue of ~$68M in 6 months ending July 31 — MongoDB, a database software company based in New York, has filed to go public with the Securities and Exchange Commission as it continues to burn a ton of cash despite its revenue almost doubling year-over-year.
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Inside Amazon's Indian operation: 124% YoY revenue growth, rapid storage growth to 41 fulfillment centers, and intense rivalry with Flipkart ahead of Diwali — Festival of Diwali is India's biggest shopping season — Amazon and rival Flipkart have competing sales this week| Cate Cadell / Reuters: |
Chinese search giant Baidu announces $1.52B autonomous driving fund to invest in 100 projects over three years — BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese search engine Baidu Inc (BIDU.O) announced a 10 billion yuan ($1.52 billion) autonomous driving fund on Thursday as part of a wider plan to speed … | Deborah Bach / Microsoft: |
Microsoft, Facebook, and Telxius complete Marea, the highest-capacity 160Tbps subsea cable across the Atlantic — People and organizations rely on global networks every day to provide access to internet and cloud technology. Those systems enable tasks both simple and complex …
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