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Source: Twitter has been suspending 1M+ accounts per day in recent months, more than double its rate from October, in its fight against disinformation — SAN FRANCISCO - Twitter has sharply escalated its battle against fake and suspicious accounts, suspending more than one million accounts …
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Samsung forecasts ~$13.2B operating profit in Q2, up 5% YoY but breaking streak of quarterly records, amid reports of weak Galaxy S9 sales — Company expects operating profit of 14.8 trillion South Korean won; end of record-earnings streak — SEOUL—Samsung Electronics estimates …
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The Verge, Samsung Global Newsroom, Bloomberg, Financial Times, PCWorld, VentureBeat, Engadget, The Register, Reuters, CNBC, PhonesReviews UK, Digital Trends, TechSpot, Neowin, 9to5Google, Android Authority, New York Times, CRN, SlashGear, Cult of Mac, BGR, TalkAndroid.com, Inquirer, XDA Developers, PhonesReviews UK, Silicon Republic, SamMobile, Android Central, and CNET. Tweets: @mwjgary
| Liam Tung / ZDNet: |
Chrome and Firefox pull an extension called Stylish that sold to SimilarWeb in 2017, had roughly 2M users, and was found collecting users' web usage histories — The ‘Stylish’ extension has been removed after collecting users web-usage histories for over a year.
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Robert Heaton, Daily Mail, Naked Security, BleepingComputer, Ars Technica, SlashGear, and WebProNews
Tweets: @waxpancake and @robjheaton
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Sonos files for an IPO; filing reports 19M+ products sold globally and a net loss of $14.2M on revenue of $992.5M in the year ending September 30, 2017 — The popular speaker company has announced plans for an IPO — Sonos officially filed for an initial public offering today …
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CNET, TechCrunch, Engadget, MarketWatch, Reuters, Ars Technica, GeekWire, SiliconANGLE, Bloomberg, Business Insider, VentureBeat, Variety, PE Hub Blog, U.S. Securities …, Android Police, Fox News, 9to5Mac, iMore, Fortune, iPhone in Canada Blog, CNBC, Business Insider, and StreetInsider.com
Tweets: @tonytassell, @shiraovide, @business, @bandrew, @joshuabrustein, @sethpjohnson, @erikschatzker, @laurengoode, @jgfarb, @shiraovide, @shiraovide, and @bakermachado
| Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk: |
Switzerland's principal stock exchange, SIX Swiss Exchange, says it's developing a blockchain-based platform to tokenize traditional securities — Switzerland's principal stock exchange has announced that it is developing a blockchain-based platform to tokenize traditional securities.
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SIX, Bitcoinist.com, CCN, Bitcoin Magazine, SludgeFeed, and CoinSpeaker. Tweets: @noelleinmadrid
| Kaitlin Benz / CNET: |
Netflix to end users' ability to post new reviews July 30 and remove existing written reviews mid-August, will keep thumbs up and down system — Soon, it'll be a little harder for you to tell everyone what you thought of Marvel's The Avengers. — Netflix is removing a desktop-only feature …
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TechSpot, Silicon Republic, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, Engadget, Polygon, KnowTechie, IGN, Mashable, Neowin, Gizmodo, SlashGear, Socialnomics, Firstpost, iPhone in Canada Blog, Fortune, and reddit.com
Tweets: @satorical, @netrovert, @codejake, @storyneedle, @thetrueaiekan, @vanrexit, and @splatterh0use
| Peter Cao / 9to5Mac: |
Hands-on with the iOS 12 Shortcuts beta: the ability to hook into system events is a big upgrade, but it is otherwise similar to the original Workflow app — One of the more exciting things that users are looking forward to in iOS 12 is the new Shortcuts app.
Tweets: @viticci, @viticci, @stroughtonsmith, @stroughtonsmith, @lorenzolade, @livbem, @viticci, @stroughtonsmith, @stroughtonsmith, @viticci, and @viticci
| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Israeli publication CTech retracts claim of Apple notifying Intel about not using its 5G chips, and Intel says the “5G modem part of the story is inaccurate” — Following yesterday's report from Israeli publication CTech that Apple has decided not to use an Intel 5G modem called …
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CRN, Petri, The Register, Tom's Guide, AppleInsider, CTECH, Mashable, iPhone in Canada Blog, Inquirer, ExtremeTech, and MacDailyNews. Tweets: @calcalistech
| Penny Crosman / American Banker: |
CipherTrace: the amount of cryptocurrencies stolen from exchanges tripled to $761M in the first half of 2018 compared to all of 2017, may reach $1.5B this year — Three times more cryptocurrency was stolen from exchanges in the first half of 2018 than all of 2017, with a corresponding boost …
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Bloomberg, PaymentsSource, Reuters, Cryptovest, CCN, NullTX, eWeek, Fast Company, CCN, and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check. Tweets: @agoracom
| Peter Cao / 9to5Mac: |
Twitterrific says it's removing notifications and live streaming for new customers of iOS and macOS apps ahead of Twitter API changes starting around August 16 — Twitterrific is today announcing an update to both its iOS and macOS clients that will be removing certain functionality … | Claudia Assis / MarketWatch: |
Netgear's Arlo security camera spinoff files for IPO; S-1: 1.9M users, 40% of US consumer connected camera systems market, ~$101M in previous quarter revenue — Arlo Technologies Inc., the security-camera making unit of Netgear Inc. NTGR, +1.70% has filed for a initial public offering, seeking to sell up to $100 million in shares.
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft will now deliver two major Dynamics 365 feature updates a year; IT pros can validate updates in sandbox environment starting with April 2019 update — Microsoft is bringing Dynamics 365 Online in line with Windows 10 and Office 365 by releasing feature updates twice annually in April and October.
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