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Jack Ma says he plans to step down from Alibaba on Monday to pursue philanthropy in education, will remain on company's board and continue to mentor management — HONG KONG — Alibaba's co-founder and executive chairman, Jack Ma, said he planned to step down from the Chinese e-commerce giant …
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Apple says it has permanently banned Infowars' app from the App Store — A day after being banned from Twitter, Alex Jones and Infowars have been booted from yet another platform: Apple's popular App Store. As of Friday evening, searches on the App Store for Infowars return no results.
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Sources: Apple is in talks with the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal to join Texture, a magazine subscription app it bought in March — Last March, Apple bought Texture, a digital magazine service. Now it wants the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal to join up.
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| Nicole Nguyen / BuzzFeed News: |
Apple removes popular anti-adware app Adware Doctor from the Mac App Store; the app surreptitiously stole and sent users' browsing history to a domain in China — Apple has removed a top Mac app called Adware Doctor, designed to “prevent malware and malicious files from infecting your Mac …
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How mainstream users searching YouTube for info about Germany's far-right protests get pointed toward extremist and conspiracy videos — CHEMNITZ, Germany — The day after far-right demonstrators took over the streets here, Sören Uhle, a city official who oversees municipal marketing and development … | Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
In a letter to US government, Apple publishes a detailed list of its products that it says will be affected by Trump's tariffs on China — A proposed $200 billion tariff on Chinese goods would affect the Apple Watch, AirPods, HomePod, Beats headphones, AirPort routers, Apple Pencil …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Researchers find 24 popular iOS apps that sent sensitive user data like GPS, Bluetooth LE Beacon, and Wi-Fi network identifiers to data monetization firms — A group of security researchers say dozens of popular iPhone apps are quietly sharing the location data of “tens of millions of mobile devices” …
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Google debuts a new web app called Touring Bird from its internal incubator Area 120, which surfaces and helps book fun activities in 20 top travel destinations — Trip planning: love it or hate it, it's a requisite part of the prep work that goes into every successful vacation.| Bloomberg: |
Andrei Tyurin, alleged Russian hacker of JP Morgan and others, has been extradited to the US and charged with stealing data of 100M+ customers from 2012-2015 — - Georgia hands Tyurin to U.S., years after others were charged — Hacker is alleged to have worked for mastermind Gery Shalon
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Microsoft sends out press invites to an event on October 2 where the refresh of current Surface hardware is likely to be announced — Microsoft is planning to hold a fall press event in New York City next month. The software maker has started sending invites to the media today, asking for a “moment of your time.”
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
After getting caught boosting its benchmark scores, Huawei says it will let users access “performance mode” to speed up smartphones at the cost of battery life — Huawei got caught cheating on benchmark tests, and now it's trying to make amends.
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EU regulators greenlight Apple's December 2017 acquisition of Shazam — European regulators have given the green light to Apple's December 2017 acquisition of music and image recognition discovery firm Shazam. — Apple Music is the second largest music streaming service in Europe, after Spotify .| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
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