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Amazon signs a deal with Apple, will start selling its latest devices, except the HomePod, in the US, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Japan, and India — Amazon has signed a deal to expand the selection of Apple products on its sites worldwide. — The world's largest e-commerce company …
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As part of its deal with Apple, Amazon will only allow authorized resellers on its site, kicking independent Apple device refurbishers off its platform — Amazon told independent refurbishers that it will now only allow “authorized resellers” to sell Apple products on Amazon Marketplace.
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Apple confirms that some iPhone X screens don't respond or respond intermittently when touched, offers free screen replacements for those affected — Apple Inc. disclosed a pair of issues affecting two of its more popular products: the iPhone X and the 13-inch MacBook Pro.
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SEC fines the owner of decentralized cryptocurrency exchange EtherDelta $388K, prompting fears of further enforcement action against crypto trading platforms — The Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) settlement with the founder of EtherDelta is likely the first of many enforcement actions …
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| Shannon Liao / The Verge: |
Facebook has quietly released an app for iOS and Android called Lasso, designed to compete with TikTok, that lets users create short videos — The aging social media platform wishes to win teens over — Facebook has quietly released an app called Lasso that lets users create fun short videos designed …
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| Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook to end forced arbitration for sexual-harassment claims, require execs at director level or above to disclose if they are dating someone in the company — Social-networking giant also revises policy for senior executives dating employees — Facebook Inc. FB -1.97% is ending …
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US Cyber Command launches its new initiative to publicly share unclassified malware samples it has discovered by uploading multiple files to VirusTotal — USCYBERCOM said it plans to regularly upload “unclassified malware samples” to VirusTotal. — On Monday, the Cyber National Mission Force … | John Cook / GeekWire: |
CoStar buys Cozy, a startup helping landlords screen tenants, market properties, and collect rent, for $68M to improve its rental listings site Apartments.com — Cozy, a Portland startup that helps more than 50,000 landlords screen potential tenants, market properties and easily collect rent … | Shanti S Nair / Reuters: |
Report: BlackBerry is in talks to buy cybersecurity company Cylance for as much as $1.5B — (Reuters) - BlackBerry Ltd is in talks to buy cybersecurity company Cylance Inc for as much as $1.5 billion, Business Insider reported on Friday, citing sources familiar with the matter.| Paresh Dave / Reuters: |
Twitter has quietly locked millions of suspicious followers that the company had purged in July and which had reappeared, according to Twitter, due to a bug — made another attempt to make users' tallies of followers more accurate on Friday, subtracting millions of suspicious followers … | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
A US agency said hackers may have accessed partial SSNs, immigration status, tax information, and more in an October breach of healthcare.gov — Hackers siphoned off thousands of Healthcare.gov applications by breaking into the accounts of brokers and agents tasked with helping customers sign up for healthcare plans.| Nellie Bowles / New York Times: |
Profile of philosopher Yuval Noah Harari, who worries that Silicon Valley is undermining democracy and whose book tour was well-received by its tech elite — The futurist philosopher Yuval Noah Harari thinks Silicon Valley is an engine of dystopian ruin. So why do the digital elite adore him so?| Sidney Fussell / The Atlantic: |
Louisville, KY to hold four-year test of self-guided drones that, given GPS coordinates of shootings, take pictures and videos ahead of first responders — Keith Allen Bledsoe, the sixth teenage homicide victim in Lexington, Kentucky, this year, died as the other five had: by gunshot.
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Harris poll: 22% of Americans say they trust Facebook with their personal information, 48% view Facebook more negatively than they did six months ago — Facebook is the least trustworthy of all major tech companies when it comes to safeguarding user data, according to a new national poll conducted … | Murad Ahmed / Financial Times: |
Turin-based Deltatre acquires IP video software maker Massive Interactive for $127M to challenge Disney and Endeavor in online sports streaming services — UK-based software maker Massive Interactive has been snapped up by Italian company Deltatre for $127m, in a deal designed to create … | Colin Lecher / The Verge: |
PayPal says it will cancel accounts of Proud Boys, Gavin McInnes, Tommy Robinson and a number of anti-fascist groups like Atlanta Antifa and Antifa Sacramento — PayPal said today that it will cancel accounts used by far-right group the Proud Boys as well as multiple accounts from anti-fascist groups.
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