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Marriott International says 500M records from the guest reservation database of Starwood Hotels were stolen in a massive data breach — Starwood Hotels has confirmed its hotel guest database of about 500 million customers has been stolen in a data breach. — The hotel and resorts giant …
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| Day One: The Amazon Blog: |
Apple Music will be available on Amazon Echo devices beginning the week of December 17 — Apple Music is coming to Echo devices in the coming weeks. — Music has always been one of Alexa's most popular features and today we're excited to announce that Apple Music will be available on Echo devices beginning the week of December 17.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram is launching a “Close Friends” list on iOS and Android to let users share Stories with a limited group of friends — They're Finstagram Stories — No one wants to post silly, racy, or vulnerable Stories if they're worried their boss, parents, and distant acquaintances are watching.
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| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
Since Satya Nadella became CEO, Microsoft has almost tripled its stock price to a nearly $850B market cap by betting on cloud and retooling its enterprise apps — Just a few years ago, Microsoft was seen as a lumbering has-been of the technology world. — It was big and still quite profitable …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
AT&T plans another, 3-tiered streaming service for Q4 2019 with a movie-focused entry level, a premium level with original programming, and a WarnerMedia bundle — AT&T may be ready to sell its stake in Hulu, the company revealed in an analyst presentation on Thursday.
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Sources say Sandberg asked Facebook staff to research George Soros's finances, though she denied knowledge of hiring Definers, the firm tasked to research Soros — Sheryl Sandberg asked Facebook's communications staff to research George Soros's financial interests in the wake …
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| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Apple approves Indian telecom regulator's “TRAI DND - Do Not Disturb” app that lets users block unwanted phone calls and text messages, avoiding iPhone ban — Fed up with years of waiting for Apple to implement anti-spam measures for iPhones, India's telecom regulator TRAI threatened …
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Arlo, Netgear's security camera spinoff, announces its first 4K camera, Arlo Ultra, with HDR and a built-in spotlight, available in Q1 2019 for $399.99 — Smart person detection and 911 calling are available at launch — Arlo, the security camera company launched by Netgear …
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Techmeme now publishing paid and free “Leaderboards” showing the most influential reporters around a specific news topic — Today Techmeme has begun publishing Topic Leaderboards, which list the top authors and publications covering 24 topic areas such as cloud computing, autonomous vehicles …
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| Liz Moyer / CNBC: |
SEC settles with Floyd Mayweather and DJ Khaled on charges of promoting ICOs without disclosing payments; Mayweather to pay $600K+ in fees, Khaled to pay $150K+ — Pro boxer Floyd Mayweather and music producer DJ Khaled pumped up initial coin offerings without telling investors …
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| Yogita Khatri / CoinDesk: |
FBI arrests Jared Rice, Sr., CEO of cryptocurrency platform AriseBank, for defrauding investors out of $4M+ and charges him with securities and wire fraud — The FBI has arrested the CEO of cryptocurrency platform AriseBank after he was indicted over an alleged multi-million dollar scam.
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| Liam Tung / ZDNet: |
DOJ charges ex-Autonomy boss Mike Lynch with fraud over $11B sale to HP; Lynch faces up to 20 years in prison if he is convicted — Autonomy founder Mike Lynch faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted of US fraud charges. — The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has filed fraud charges …
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| David Bixenspan / Gizmodo: |
How the risk of costly copyright litigation affects Internet Archive and lets webmasters remove archived sites without DMCA notices simply by using robots.txt — On the internet, there are certain institutions we have come to rely on daily to keep truth from becoming nebulous or elastic.| Davey Alba / BuzzFeed News: |
Eight lawmakers send a third letter questioning Rekognition's accuracy, privacy guards, and police use to Jeff Bezos, who has yet to address mounting criticism — A group of seven House Democrats sent a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Thursday demanding details about Amazon Rekognition …
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| Erika Kinetz / Associated Press: |
Over 200 car manufactures operating in China, including Tesla, BMW, and Ford, are sending position info and other data to government-backed monitoring centers — SHANGHAI (AP) — When Shan Junhua bought his white Tesla Model X, he knew it was a fast, beautiful car.
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| Martin Coulter / Financial Times: |
Venafi, which protects machine identities like cryptographic keys and digital certificates to minimize harm after a network is breached, raises $100M — A start-up specialising in “machine identity protection” has secured $100m in its latest round of financing, led by Silicon Valley-based …
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| David Manners / Electronics Weekly: |
Wave Computing, an AI startup making specialized hardware and software for datacenters and on-premise environments for large datasets, raises $86M Series E — Wave Computing, the edge computing start-up, has taken its VC funding tally to $117.3 million with its latest Series E round of $86 million which was, says Wave, oversubscribed.
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