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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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The Verge, CNET, TechCrunch, Engadget, San Francisco Chronicle, Mashable, and Axios
Tweets: @lizzadwoskin, @empiricalerror, and @riegerreport
| Timothy W. Martin / Wall Street Journal: |
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, The Register, VentureBeat, Engadget, Digital Trends, Reuters, Cult of Mac, CNBC, New York Times, PhonesReviews UK, BGR, TechSpot, Neowin, 9to5Google, Android Authority, CRN, SlashGear, 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, Ars Technica, Naked Security, SlashGear, BleepingComputer, and WebProNews
Tweets: @waxpancake and @robjheaton
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
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, Ars Technica, MarketWatch, Reuters, Bloomberg, GeekWire, SiliconANGLE, U.S. Securities …, Business Insider, VentureBeat, Variety, PE Hub Blog, Android Police, Fox News, 9to5Mac, Fortune, iPhone in Canada Blog, iMore, CNBC, Business Insider, and StreetInsider.com
Tweets: @tonytassell, @shiraovide, @jgfarb, @joshuabrustein, @business, @bandrew, @sethpjohnson, @erikschatzker, @laurengoode, @shiraovide, @shiraovide, and @bakermachado
| 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, Ars Technica, Engadget, TechCrunch, IGN, Polygon, KnowTechie, Mashable, Neowin, Gizmodo, SlashGear, Socialnomics, Firstpost, iPhone in Canada Blog, Fortune, and reddit.com
Tweets: @satorical, @netrovert, @codejake, @storyneedle, @thetrueaiekan, @vanrexit, and @splatterh0use
| 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, SludgeFeed, Bitcoinist.com, CCN, Bitcoin Magazine, and CoinSpeaker. Tweets: @noelleinmadrid
| 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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The Register, CTECH, CRN, Petri, Tom's Guide, AppleInsider, 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 … | Tim Cushing / Techdirt: |
The Malaysian government, now led by a new prime minister, says it plans to repeal the Anti-Fake News Act 2018 — Malaysia's government seized upon the term “fake news” as a way to silence coverage of internal corruption. The new law gave the government a way to steer narratives …
| 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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cloudblogs.microsoft.com and Microsoft Business …
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