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Google rejects calls to remove Absher, an app from the Saudi government to help men in the country track and dictate where women can travel, from the Play store — - Google has rejected calls to remove a Saudi government app which offers a tool for men to control where women travel.
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Leaked Facebook memo describes company's lobbying efforts in 2012 and 2013 against a proposed European data directive which later became GDPR, more — Social network targeted legislators around the world, promising or threatening to withhold investment — Facebook has targeted politicians around …
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Chinese government report: travelers in China were blocked 23M times from buying plane or train tickets in 2018 due to their poor “social credit” — BEIJING (AP) — Skipped paying a fine in China? Then forget about buying an airline ticket. — Would-be air travelers … | Caroline O'Donovan / BuzzFeed News: |
Amazon removes at least three anti-vaccination documentaries from Prime Video hours after Rep. Schiff sent letter to Bezos regarding anti-vaccine misinformation — Amazon appears to have removed anti-vaccination documentaries from search results on Amazon Prime Video today …
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Source: Circle, which runs a cryptocurrency exchange Poloniex and which was reportedly valued at ~$3B last year after raising $246M, is raising another $250M — Circle, one of the biggest cryptocurrency startups in the U.S., is seeking to raise about $250 million in a combination of equity and debt …
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Cities across the US are using legacy software from the '80s built with obsolete programming languages and unfriendly user interfaces — The only place in San Francisco still pricing real estate like it's the 1980s is the city assessor's office. Its property tax system dates back to the dawn of the floppy disk.
Tweets: @adamzea and @robertmclaws
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Microsoft now lets Microsoft 365 users on Android take a picture of a printed data table and automatically convert it into an editable Excel spreadsheet — Microsoft uses AI to boost Excel features — Microsoft is adding a very useful feature to its Excel mobile apps for iOS and Android.| Paul Grewal / Facebook: |
Facebook and Instagram file lawsuit in US federal court against 4 companies and 3 people in China for promoting the sale of fake accounts, likes, and followers — Today, Facebook and Instagram filed a lawsuit in US federal court against four companies and three people based in the People's Republic …
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Developers in Moldova say they reported misinformation and fake news in Moldova to Facebook for three years before the company took action in February — Earlier this month Facebook proudly announced its latest victory over fake news. Ahead of an upcoming parliamentary vote in Moldova …
Tweets: @janelytv and @johnpaczkowski
| Chad Bray / South China Morning Post: |
Accenture: global fintech funding more than doubled YoY to $55.3B in 2018, with China accounting for $25.5B, boosted by $14B raised by Ant Financial — Despite escalating tensions between the US and China over trade and technology, Chinese companies accounted for nearly half …
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Ordr, a network-level cybersecurity platform which uses AI to flag suspicious events in real time, comes out of stealth and says it has raised $16.5M Series A — In this day and age, enterprises can't take a traditional IT approach to security — or so claims Ordr, a Santa Clara …
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