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April 5, 2018, 11:55 AM

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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.
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
Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
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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Catalin Cimpanu / BleepingComputer.com:
Microsoft patches critical remote code execution flaw in Malware Protection Engine, the component used in MS apps like Windows Defender and Security Essentials  —  Yesterday, April 3, Microsoft released an emergency security update via Windows Update that fixes CVE-2018-0986 …

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