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| Nick Wingfield / New York Times: |
Despite Trump's tirades, available evidence and analysts suggest Amazon has helped mitigate USPS decline, with parcel shipments reaching 5.7B in 2017 — SEATTLE — Five times in the last week, President Trump has pointed his Twitter arrows at Amazon over what he insists is a bad deal for the United States Postal Service.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
While Trump attacks Amazon, the company's deals with the government to shift computing services to the cloud are predicted to grow to $2B+ in 2018 — The company has won billions of dollars in business to help the government shift computing services from legacy mainframes onto the cloud
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Highlights and audio from Mark Zuckerberg's conference call with reporters on Cambridge Analytica scandal, Boz memo, GDPR, and more — “This is going to be a never-ending battle,” said Mark Zuckerberg . He just gave the most candid look yet into his thoughts about Cambridge Analytica …
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| Mike Schroepfer / Facebook: |
Facebook limits data available from Pages API, Events API, Groups API, and Facebook Login, will now need to approve every app that uses them — Two weeks ago we promised to take a hard look at the information apps can use when you connect them to Facebook as well as other data practices.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft brings Files Restore to all OneDrive customers, letting users restore their entire OneDrive to a point in last 30 days, and adds ransomware detection — Microsoft is bringing more of the OneDrive and Outlook security protection tools it offers its Office 365 business customers to consumers.
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| Susan Decker / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft pledges to let joint venture partners and customers keep any patents or design rights from their work with the company — Microsoft said its tech customers would own patent rights — Policy designed to clarify ownership rights in new ventures — Microsoft Corp. President Brad Smith …
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| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Twitter says it suspended 274K accounts for promoting terrorism in last six months of 2017, bringing total to 1.2M since August 2015 — It suspended more than 274,000 accounts just in the last six months of 2017. — Twitter suspended more than 1.2 million accounts that were promoting terrorism …
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| Alex Barinka / Bloomberg: |
Sources: fewer than expected Spotify shareholders sold stock during listing, potentially driving price up; 5% of potentially available shares traded at open — Initial share supply shortage seen as driving up price briefly — Music-streaming company's trading volume below big tech IPOs| Ben Fox Rubin / CNET: |
Amazon Key rolls out keyless entry, remote lock and unlock, and guest access to all US users and adds five new compatible smart locks, bringing total to eight — A handful of Amazon Key's main features are being rolled out across the US. — That means you can now use the service anywhere …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
MoviePass parent company acquires Moviefone from Oath for $15M; Oath will continue selling Moviefone's digital ad inventory — MoviePass is saying “Hello — and welcome to Moviefone!" — Helios and Matheson Analytics, the majority owner of MoviePass, announced the acquisition of Moviefone from Verizon's Oath subsidiary.| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Sirin Labs chooses Foxconn subsidiary FIH Mobile to manufacture its blockchain smartphone, called Finney, will ship first units in October to Turkey and Vietnam — The device will make it easier for people to use digital coins — Sirin is competing with a slew of blockchain phone rivals
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| Blair Hanley Frank / VentureBeat: |
AWS' Amazon SageMaker service now allows developers to experiment with machine learning models locally on personal computers before moving them to the cloud — Amazon Web Services announced today a new way for machine learning developers to build and deploy models through its cloud.
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| Jeff Engel / Xconomy: |
Massachusetts-based 6 River Systems, which makes automated warehouse robots, announces $25M Series B led by Menlo Ventures, bringing total raised to $46.6M — The land grab in the warehouse automation market is intensifying. — After Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) paid $775 million for Kiva Systems in 2012 …
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