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Equifax chairman and CEO Richard Smith steps down effective immediately after massive data breach, having spent more than a decade at the company — The company's shares were halted pending the news. — Equifax chairman and chief executive Richard Smith has stepped down from the embattled …
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Twitter says it will update public policies to include the newsworthiness of tweets that potentially violate rules after Trump threatens North Korea — Twitter didn't act to remove President Donald Trump's tweet threatening North Korea in part because it is newsworthy, the company said today.
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Plex adds personalized, ad-supported news hub to its media player after its acquisition of news video startup Watchup — Media player software maker Plex is today making good on its acquisition of streaming news startup Watchup from earlier this year with the integration of a dedicated news hub within its app.
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Apple starts collecting Safari browsing data in macOS High Sierra using differential privacy tech that will help it identify problematic websites — Today's public release ofmacOS High Sierra brings with it some key updates to Safari — including the ability to disable cross-site cookie tracking and turn off autoplaying ads.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
IHS: base 64GB iPhone 8 includes material costs of $247.51, up from $237.94 for 32GB base model iPhone 7, equaling about 35% of sale price, same as last year — Apple margins stay high as company raises price of new models — Bigger changes to Apple's business formula seen with iPhone X
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| Aoife White / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Google to create a standalone unit for its shopping unit and require it to bid against rivals for ads, to satisfy EU antitrust concerns — Google Shopping must rely on own revenues to bid for ad slots — EU gave Thursday deadline for Google to comply with order
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| Seth Stevenson / Wall Street Journal: |
Interview with Satya Nadella and Bill Gates on political climate, how AI, quantum computing, and mixed reality will shape the future as Nadella debuts memoir — On the occasion of the publication of Nadella's first book, out this fall, Nadella and his predecessor talk shop| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
SEC announces Cyber Unit to police violations involving distributed ledger tech and ICOs, dark web misconduct, cyber threats to critical market infrastructure — It's forming a Cyber Unit dedicated to online financial crimes — The US' Securities and Exchange Commission has to deal … | Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft plans to release a quantum computing programming language, with full Visual Studio integration, along with a quantum computing simulator this year — Microsoft wants to be ready for a quantum computing world. — At its Ignite conference today, Microsoft announced its moves …
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Amazon adds Alexa voice control to Music app, available for iOS and Android in the US, UK, Germany, and Austria — Amazon is bringing Alexa to its Music app as it tries to challenge Spotify and Apple, leaders in the streaming music industry. — The Seattle tech giant announced Tuesday that Alexa … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Vimeo is acquiring live video streaming platform Livestream and launching its own live streaming service, Vimeo Live — After abandoning its plans to launch a subscription video-on-demand business earlier this year, IAC-owned streaming video site Vimeo announced today that it's acquiring … | iFixit: |
Apple Watch Series 3 shows little change from Series 2 Watch, with some redesigning to house LTE, and 1.07 watt-hour battery, up from 1.03 in Series 2 Watch — Tools Featured in this Teardown — Introduction — The Apple Watch is one step closer to a super spy accessory with its Series 3 capable of making phone calls.| Keith Bradsher / New York Times: |
China has broadly blocked WhatsApp, including basic text messages on the service, following its mid-July crackdown on WhatsApp video chats, multimedia messages — SHANGHAI — China has largely blocked the WhatsApp messaging app, the latest move by Beijing to step up surveillance ahead of a big Communist Party gathering next month.
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ProsperWorks raises $53M Series C led by Norwest Venture Partners for its Google-centric CRM tools — ProsperWorks, a service that offers a set of Google-centric CRM tools, today announced that it has raised a $53 million Series C round led by Norwest Venture Partners, with participation from GV …
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Seed and early stage VC fund Village launches backed by Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Reid Hoffman, Jeff Bezos, Marissa Mayer, Eric Schmidt, and others — We're excited to publicly announce Village, a new early stage venture capital firm. This is Day 1 for us. There is much to do, and much to learn.
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IVP announces $1.5B venture fund, its sixteenth and largest yet, bringing the group's total committed capital to $7B — IVP,one of the original late-stage venture capital firms, is announcing its sixteenth fund. And at $1.5 billion, it's the largest yet. This brings the group's total committed capital to $7 billion.
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