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| Nancy Scola / Politico: |
Source: FTC and Facebook are negotiating a settlement where Facebook must appoint a federally approved privacy official and create a privacy oversight committee — Facebook and the Federal Trade Commission are negotiating a possible settlement that would require the company …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Google says it will roll out a new tool that lets users limit how long it keeps location, search, and browsing data to either three or 18 months — Last August, the Associated Press reported that various Google apps store the timestamped locations of the devices on which they're installed.
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| Axios: |
In its Q2 earnings release, Qualcomm says its settlement with Apple will yield $4.5B-$4.7B in revenue for the next quarter — In its quarterly earnings released today, Qualcomm said it would record $4.5-$4.7 billion revenue in the coming quarter as part of its settlement of a long-running intellectual-property quarrel with Apple.
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| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Qualcomm reports Q2 revenue of $4.98B, down 4.6% YoY, profit of $663M, up from $330M YoY, but lackluster Q3 guidance due to weak demand for smartphones in China — - CEO points to ongoing soft demand in biggest market for phones — Apple licensing terms will be ‘consistent’ with program
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| Max Seddon / Financial Times: |
Putin signs bill that intends to give Russia a “sovereign internet” the Kremlin could disconnect from the global web; the bill goes into effect on November 1 — Russian president Vladimir Putin signed a law on Wednesday that intends to give the country a “sovereign internet” …
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| Bloomberg: |
How Satya Nadella led Microsoft to have more subscribers than Netflix, more cloud computing revenue than Google, and a near-trillion-dollar market cap — The congratulatory texts and tweets started the last week of November. Microsoft had overtaken Apple to become the world's most valuable company …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
At F8, Facebook emphasized products and features it aspires to become dominant tomorrow, but despite much talk, didn't actually launch any new privacy features — Zuckerberg gets aspirational — In Facebook's dreams, it's a clean and private place. People spend their time having … | Richard Nieva / CNET: |
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| Human Rights Watch: |
Researchers reverse engineer an app used by Chinese authorities in Xinjiang which connects to a mass surveillance system for tracking Muslim minorities — ‘Reverse Engineering’ Police App Reveals Profiling and Monitoring Strategies — Languages — Chinese authorities are using …
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
LG's mobile division continues its slide into irrelevance with Q1 loss of $181M on sales of just $1.34B, down 30% YoY and its lowest in at least eight years — LG was once a stalwart of the smartphone industry — remember its collaboration with Facebook back in the day? — but today the company is swiftly descending into irrelevance.
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| OurPact: |
OurPact says Apple's MDM comments are misleading, compares Apple's claims in defense of removing apps that use MDM with quotes from Apple's documentation — Apple Removed OurPact From the App Store. Here's What You Need to Know. — On Saturday, April 27th, The New York Times exposed …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer and others on AI techniques and progress in identifying image, video, and multi-lingual text content violating Facebook's rules — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg often asserts that AI will substantially cut down on the amount of abuse perpetrated by millions of ill-meaning Facebook users.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
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| Tara Seals / Threatpost: |
Flashpoint says April Wipro attack was done by hackers who may have been operating under the radar since '15, have the hallmarks of an advanced, organized group — New details are emerging in the April attack on systems consulting behemoth Wipro, which saw its network hacked and used for mounting attacks on a dozen of its customers.
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| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
FreightHub, which offers transport services for sea, air, and rail freight built on digitized processes, raises $30M Series B led by Rider Global, Maersk Growth — FreightHub, the European digital freight forwarder, has raised $30 million in Series B financing.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
CirrusMD, a “chat-first” virtual care provider that connects patients with doctors, raises $15M Series B led by Drive Capital — The global telemedical market, which encompasses tech that facilitates remote medical diagnosis and treatment, is expected to climb …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Kaspersky Lab profiles Volodya, one of the most prolific Windows exploit developers, who has sold zero-days to criminal gangs and state-backed APTs — Hacker has sold Windows zero-days to the likes of Fancy Bear, FruityArmor, and SandCat. — For the past three years … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Sean Parker-backed Brigade says civic issues service Countable has acquired its IP, deletes “non-essential” user data, open sources voter file matching software — Causes grew to a jaw-dropping 200 million users as one of the first 10 Facebook platform apps.| Matt Perez / Forbes: |
Behind the fiasco of Star Citizen, a primarily crowdfunded video game that has raised ~$300M and isn't close to full launch after seven years of development — It's October 2018 and 2,000 video game fanatics are jammed into Austin's Long Center for the Performing Arts to get a glimpse of Star Citizen …
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PC Games Insider. Tweets: @killyourfm, @kezamacdonald, @mtrc, @spaceshipsporn, @forbes, @tha_rami, @mattryanperez, and @forbes. Thanks:@helenaspopkin
| Nikkei: |
Sources: Huawei plans to enter TV market, launching a 5G-enabled 8K TV as early as this year — Telecom giant deepens push into consumer electronics taking on Samsung and Apple — TAIPEI — Huawei Technologies plans to introduce the world's first 5G television as early as this year … | Nat Levy / GeekWire: |
Analysis: in Q1, for the first time, Amazon's first-party online retail sales of $29.5B were less than half of its overall net sales, which were $59.7B — For the first time in Amazon's history, the company's first-party online retail sales represented less than half of its overall net sales last quarter … | Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Fitbit reports Q1 revenue of $271.9M, up 9.7% YoY and beating analyst expectations of $259.7M, as smartwatch device sales were up 117% YoY — Fitbit's financial rebound continued in the first quarter, as the company generated $271.9 million in revenue, beating Wall Street expectations of $259.7 million.
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