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| Nitasha Tiku / Wired: |
Diversity advocates inside Google, including queer and transgender staff, say they are being targeted by a small group of coworkers with doxxing and harassment — FIRED GOOGLE ENGINEER James Damore says he was vilified and harassed for questioning what he calls the company's liberal political orthodoxy …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Dell's board is meeting later this month to discuss strategic options, including an IPO and buying the rest of VMWare it does not already own — Company's board plans to discuss options later this month — After going private in 2013, firm now seeks growth, cash| Will Oremus / Slate: |
Google is testing Bulletin, an app for allowing local users to submit stories about their communities, as a limited pilot in Nashville, TN and Oakland, CA — Google appears to be testing a new tool for people to report and publish local news stories, called Bulletin.
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Google, The Verge, Search Engine Land, TechCrunch, Android Authority, CNET, 9to5Google, Android Police, Android Central, AndroidHeadlines.com, Understanding Google …, Sami Cone, The Next Web, SlashGear, and YouTube
Tweets: @ruralj, @byajperez, @mattfdoyle, @_danielsinclair, @willoremus, and @willoremus
| Huib Modderkolk / De Volkskrant: |
Dutch media: Dutch intelligence penetrated Russian APT29 Cozy Bear's network, office security camera in 2014, provided info on State Department, DNC hacks to US — Hackers from the Dutch intelligence service AIVD have provided the FBI with crucial information about Russian interference with the American elections.
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Reuters, Inquirer, Engadget, Fortune, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, and Bloomberg
Tweets: @natashabertrand, @jamespurefoy, @zackwhittaker, @ericgarland, @trbrtc, and @trbrtc
| Yuji Nakamura / Bloomberg: |
Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck says $400M worth of NEM cryptocurrency tokens have been “illicitly” transferred out of the exchange — Coincheck Inc., one of Japan's biggest digital exchanges, said that about $400 million of the NEM cryptocurrency was lost after it was sent …
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Cointelegraph.com News, Business Insider, https:, Associated Press, Investor's Business Daily, CoinDesk, Fortune, and Seeking Alpha
Tweets: @ynakamura56, @whalepool, @ynakamura56, @coindesk, and @coindesk
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Walmart and Rakuten partner to launch a new online grocery service in Japan, sell Rakuten-owned Kobo's e-readers, audiobooks, and e-books in US — Walmart today announced a major expansion in terms of its global e-commerce presence: the retailer is entering a strategic partnership with Tokyo-based Rakuten … | Ted Greenwald / Wall Street Journal: |
Intel reports Q4 revenue of $17.05B, up 4% YoY, vs. $16.34B analyst expectations, net loss of $687M after $5.4B expense due to recent tax overhaul; stock up ~4% — Books a $5.4 billion charge after recent changes in U.S. tax law — Intel Corp. INTC -.46% said it had record fourth-quarter revenue …
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Intel, Crunchbase News, VentureBeat, bit-tech.net, HPCwire, AnandTech, ZDNet, and VentureBeat
Tweets: @jordannovet, @reuterstech, @lexnfx, and @patrickmoorhead
| Troy Wolverton / Business Insider: |
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PCWorld, TechCrunch, BetaNews, Seeking Alpha, MarketWatch, Engadget, On MSFT, Washington Post, BGR, Softpedia News, MSPoweruser, TechSpot, and SiliconANGLE. Tweets: @ampressman. Thanks:@lexnfx
| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Lyft investigating whether staff abused access to customer data after online post claims workers tracked ex-partners, pulled info of celebs including Zuckerberg — Enter your email to read the full article.
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BBC, Bloomberg, The Daily Caller, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, UKTN, TechSpot, CNET, The Next Web, PYMNTS.com, Gizmodo, New York Magazine, SiliconBeat, The Verge, Engadget, Mashable, and Axios
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
App Annie: Google Play downloads topped 19B in Q4 2017, surpassing Apple's App Store by 145%; App Store had $11.5B consumer spend, surpassing Play by 95% — Smartphone adoption in emerging markets just delivered the highest number of app downloads Google Play has ever seen in a quarter.
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App Annie, Digital Trends, Android Authority, and Android Central
| Bloomberg: |
JD.com founder Richard Liu says the company is in talks to sell 15% of its logistics unit to Tencent, others, as it prepares to launch in Los Angeles in 2018 — Tencent and other investors to buy 15% of JD Logistics — Billionaire CEO preparing for a Los Angeles launch this year| Canalys: |
China's smartphone market suffered first ever annual decline in 2017 as shipments fell 4% YoY to 459M and 14% QoQ in Q4, but Huawei grew shipments 9% QoQ — Palo Alto, Shanghai, Singapore and Reading (UK) - Thursday, 25 January 2018 — The growth story of the world's largest smartphone market …
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Amazon debuts single sign-on for Fire TV with support for Spectrum, DirecTV, Dish, Optimum, Verizon FiOS, and others; Comcast Xfinity not supported — Amazon joins Apple in offering Single Sign-On, but Roku still doesn't have it — Amazon is eliminating the frustration of having …
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AFTVnews, TechCrunch, Engadget, Android Police, Android Central, Digital Trends, and Yahoo! Finance
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