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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Facebook says Apple has restored its access to enterprise certificates, bringing internal apps back online — Update: In a leaked memo obtained by Business Insider, Facebook continues to defend its Research app, as well as its decision to distribute it via enterprise certificates. Read the details below.
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| Casey Newton / The Interface: |
Apple shutting down Facebook's internal iOS apps should serve as a reminder of the power Apple holds over the rest of us — At around 2:30 a.m. ET on Wednesday, Facebook sent me an update about the controversial market research program revealed on Tuesday by TechCrunch.
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| Facebook: |
Facebook says it removed 262 Pages, 356 accounts, three groups, and 162 Instagram accounts tied to Iran for engaging in coordinated inauthentic behavior — Today we removed multiple Pages, groups and accounts that engaged in coordinated inauthentic behavior on Facebook and Instagram.
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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Twitter says it removed thousands of malicious accounts that originated in Iran, Russia, and Venezuela for spreading disinformation about the 2018 midterms — Twitter revealed Thursday that it had removed thousands of malicious accounts thought to have originated in Iran … | Amazon.com, Inc.: |
Amazon reports Q4 revenue of $72.4B, up 20% YoY, AWS revenue of $7.43B, up 45% YoY, and net income of $3.0B, up 58% YoY — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its fourth quarter ended December 31, 2018. — Operating cash flow increased 67% to $30.7 billion …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
AWS's Q4 revenue of $7.43B beat analyst estimates of $7.29B; AWS accounted for 58% of Amazon's overall operating income in Q4 — Amazon's cloud-computing division said revenue jumped 45 percent in the fourth quarter, as the company continued to cement its lead over Microsoft and Google.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Kleiner Perkins says it has raised a $600M fund, its first since the departure of Mary Meeker, focusing on seed, Series A, and Series B financings — “KP used to be a small team doing hands-on company building. We're moving away from being this institution with multiple products …
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Intel promotes Robert Swan from interim to permanent CEO, its seventh in 50 years, following the ouster of Brian Krzanich in June 2018 — - Analysts and media outlets speculated early on about several possible candidates, including two female executives who had left Intel in the relatively recent past.
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Starting in Denver, Uber adds a public transportation option, including real-time bus and rail info, with plans to expand elsewhere over the coming months — Starting with Denver, Uber aims to become a one-stop shop for all modes of transportation — Uber customers who live in Denver …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
IDC: 375.4M smartphones shipped in Q4 2018, down 4.9% YoY; Apple shipped an estimated 68.4M iPhones, down 11.5% YoY; Samsung was top vendor with 70.4M shipments — The smartphone market isn't looking too hot. In a report published today, research firm International Data Corporation (IDC) …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Sources: on-demand storage service Clutter is raising between $200M and $250M in a round led by SoftBank — Marie Kondo's rise as a cultural icon shows there's big business to be had in sorting out a mess. And startups are also hoping to get in on the action.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
The Saudi startup behind anonymous commenting app Sarahah, banned by Apple and Google over bullying, launches Enoff, a workplace anonymous feedback app for iOS — Sarahah, the anonymous messaging app founded in Saudi Arabia that became an unexpected viral sensation with teens … | Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Ultraviolet, the cloud movie locker that launched in 2011 with support from major Hollywood studios, is shutting down on July 31 — Ultraviolet, a cloud movie locker once hailed as Hollywood's best bet to get consumers hooked on digital movies, is shuttering.
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| Axel Bugge / Reuters: |
Uber and Cabify to suspend services in Barcelona after local taxi protests and government ruling that they can pick up passengers only after a 15-minute delay — MADRID (Reuters) - Ride-hailing companies Uber and Cabify are to suspend their services in Barcelona in response … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Twitter says it has suspended three notification spammer apps for repeatedly violating its API rules related to aggressive following and follow churn — Notification spam ruins social networks, diluting the real human interaction. Desperate to gain an audience, users pay services … | Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: following Thiel-related controversy and declining private valuations, Palantir is giving employees larger bonuses and improved stock options — Palantir Technologies Inc. pitches itself to new recruits as a place where they can build data-mining software that will help thwart terrorism … | Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
UK's Metro Bank confirms it has faced an SS7 attack intercepting 2FA codes; a telecom lobbying group previously told Congress such an attack is “theoretical” — Motherboard has identified a specific UK bank that has fallen victim to so-called SS7 attacks, and sources say the issue is wider than previously reported.
Tweets: @mshelton, @josephfcox, @mattbraga, @josephfcox, @jason_koebler, and @josephfcox
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Hackers are distributing Collections #2-5, containing 2.2B unique usernames and associated passwords likely cobbled together from old breaches — WHEN HACKERS BREACHED companies like Dropbox and LinkedIn in recent years—stealing 71 and 117 million passwords, respectively …
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