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A pullback in spending by Chinese consumers is taking a toll on electronics makers like Apple, e-commerce companies like Alibaba, and other sectors — Buyers are deferring major or discretionary purchases, their confidence dented by a shaky economy and trade fight with U.S.
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Marriott says a total of 383M records were stolen in its hack, less than the initial estimate of 500M, but 5M+ unencrypted passport numbers were accessed — Hotel chain says fewer total customers were affected than initially feared but analysts warn data could be intelligence trove
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Hackers dump private info of Angela Merkel and hundreds of other German politicians including email addresses, phone numbers, and personal chat transcripts — - Leak includes emails, chat transcripts, photos, phone numbers — Hack is ‘elaborate’ social-engineering attack, IT expert says
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Amazon SVP Dave Limp talks about company's strategy for Alexa, says 100M+ devices with Alexa on board have been sold to date — More than 100 million devices with Alexa on board have been sold. That's the all-too-rare actual number that Amazon's SVP of devices and services, Dave Limp, revealed to me earlier this week.| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
PepsiCo says it will roll out a fleet of snack-carrying robots called “snackbots” to deliver snacks and beverages on University of the Pacific's campus in CA — Order on the app, pick up around campus — Today, PepsiCo announced that it will be rolling out a fleet …
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Amazon debuts Showroom, a visual design tool that allows users to place furniture into a virtual living room, customize the décor, and then shop the look — Amazon just over a year ago launched its first in-home furniture brands, with private labels Rivet and Stone & Beam.| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Sophia Genetics, developer of an AI-based SaaS platform for genomic diagnostics, raises $77M Series E, bringing its total raised to $140M — Another sizeable cash injection for big data biotech: Sophia Genetics has announced a $77 million Series E funding round, bringing its total raised …
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Los Angeles sues the company behind the Weather Channel app, which is owned by IBM, for slyly using location data for commercial purposes — The Weather Channel app deceptively collected, shared and profited from the location information of millions of American consumers …
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Internal memo shows that Huawei demoted two employees and cut their monthly pay for using an iPhone to send New Year greetings from its official Twitter account — HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's Huawei Technologies [HWT.UL] has punished two employees for New Year greetings sent …
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The share of US adults who say they have used a ride-hailing service grew to 36% in 2018 vs 15% in 2015, but only 4% use ride-hailing apps on a weekly basis — The share of Americans who use ride-hailing services has increased dramatically. Today, 36% of U.S. adults say they have ever used … | Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
Google has acquired Superpod, a mobile Q&A app startup; source says Google paid less than $60M to acquihire the founders and purchase some assets — Google has quietly acquired Superpod, a startup that had built a question-and-answer mobile app, Axios has learned.
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