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How Definers brought DC-style political trickery to tech: sources say working for Qualcomm, they promoted Tim Cook as a potential 2020 presidential candidate — SAN FRANCISCO — When Tim Miller, a longtime Republican political operative, moved to the Bay Area last year to set up a public relations shop …
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Sources: Apple is offering subsidies to network operators in Japan to shore up sales of iPhone XR, after an underwhelming launch of its least expensive phone — Japanese carriers will use subsidies from Apple to discount the cheapest new iPhone, after an underwhelming launch
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Facebook's outgoing public policy head Elliot Schrage takes responsibility for hiring Definers in a memo, admits company asked Definers to investigate Soros — TechCrunch has attained an internal memo published by Facebook's outgoing head of public policy Elliot Schrage in which he blames himself for hiring PR firm Definers.
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Facebook appeals UK regulator's decision to impose maximum £500K fine for Cambridge Analytica scandal, citing lack of evidence that UK users had suffered harm — Facebook has appealed against a fine imposed on it by the UK's data watchdog after the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
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| Natalia Drozdiak / Bloomberg: |
Google says it will require advertisers to submit documents and receive verification before being able to pay for political ads in the EU, starting in January — - Like Facebook, Google to publish info about EU political ads — Changes come ahead of European Union elections in May 2019
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LinkedIn quietly introduces a new privacy setting that defaults to blocking a user's connections from exporting the user's personal email address — A win for privacy on LinkedIn could be a big loss for businesses, recruiters, and anyone else expecting to be able to export the email addresses of their connections.
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Google Duplex via Assistant now rolling out to a small group of US Pixel owners in “select cities” to book restaurant reservations — Google Duplex-powered calls have finally arrived. Sort of. For some people. — A spokesperson confirmed to VentureBeat that Duplex … | Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed News: |
For a company that can touch every aspect of our daily lives, Amazon is surprisingly bad at its primary job: running a website that sells stuff — So there I am last week, five minutes into my adult community concert band rehearsal, and my bassoon seat strap BREAKS. Ughhhhh.
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| Bloomberg: |
Beijing plans to implement a social rating system to judge all of its 22M citizens by the end of 2020, pooling data from several departments — - China capital plans ‘social credit’ system by end of 2020 — Citizens with poor scores will be ‘unable to move’ a step
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| Dami Lee / The Verge: |
Instagram says it is testing new profile layouts that rearrange core elements, except the grid view, in an apparent attempt to reduce focus on follower counts — Instagram announced on its press site today that the company is testing out new user profile layouts.
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| Liz Alderman / New York Times: |
With only 10% of Swedes using cash this year, down from 40% in 2010, officials are trying to slow its demise as they determine societal costs — Cash is disappearing in the country faster than anyone thought it would. Now, officials are trying to slow its demise as they determine the societal costs.| Iris Deng / South China Morning Post: |
Tencent partners with Singapore-based gaming and e-commerce company Sea, which has 161M quarterly active users, to publish Tencent's games in Southeast Asia — Tencent Holdings, China's biggest social media operator and games publisher, has partnered with Singapore-based gaming …
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