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Dept of Commerce blocks sales from US firms to ZTE for seven years, after alleged false statements to officials that followed guilty plea on sanctions violation — LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Commerce has banned American companies from selling components …
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| Reinhardt Krause / Investor's Business Daily: |
Shares in US-based optical device manufacturers plunge following ban on US firms selling to ZTE, with Acacia down 34%+, Oclaro down 14%+, Lumentum down 9%+ — Shares in optical device makers plunged Monday after the U.S. Commerce Department banned domestic firms from selling components …
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UK's NCSC warns telecoms sector not to use network equipment or services from Chinese supplier ZTE as it would have a “long term negative effect” on UK security — The UK's cyber security watchdog has warned the UK telecoms sector not to use network equipment or services …
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| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
Coinbase confirms acquisition of Earn.com, which lets users earn bitcoin by replying to emails and completing tasks, with CEO Balaji Srinivasan joining as CTO — Coinbase is acquiring Earn.com, a paid inbox service formerly known as 21 inc., with CEO Balaji Srinivasan joining as chief technology officer …
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
GrayKey, the tool law enforcement's been buying to unlock iPhones, appears to work by brute forcing passcodes, another reason to use a strong alphanumeric code — Now that police agents can allegedly crack iPhones protected with passcodes made of six numbers, it's time to use longer, harder to guess and crack alphanumeric passphrases.
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| Issie Lapowsky / Wired: |
Study: of 228 groups found running divisive Facebook ads during 2016 election, 122 were “suspicious” and ran 4x more ads than others, ~20 had known links to IRA — WHEN YOUNG MIE Kim began studying political ads on Facebook in August of 2016—while Hillary Clinton was still leading the polls …
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China's Weibo backs down from censoring gay content following backlash from users, after saying it would ban it along with other content to comply with new law — BEIJING — With hashtags like #Iamgaynotapervert and images of hearts and rainbows, tens of thousands of Chinese residents took …
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Swiss staffing and workforce development company Adecco acquires New York-based coding school General Assembly for $412.5M; General Assembly had raised ~$120M — Coding school General Assembly has agreed to be acquired for $412.5 million in cash by Swiss staffing and workforce development company Adecco.
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Sources: Amazon Business has shelved its plan to sell and distribute pharmaceutical products after considering it last year; CVS stock up 5%+ — - Amazon has shelved plans to sell and distribute pharmaceutical products through Amazon Business, its marketplace for business customers.
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| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
T-Mobile fined $40M by FCC for failing to fix rural calling problems and playing ringing sounds to mislead “hundreds of millions” into thinking calls connected — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - T-Mobile USA Inc (TMUS.O) agreed on Monday to pay $40 million to resolve a government investigation …
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TechCrunch, The Verge, CNET, Engadget, Gizmodo, MacRumors, Bloomberg, Financial Times, and Fast Company. Tweets: @ali
| Robert Draper / New York Times: |
Profile of Dan Scavino, The White House's social media director and the only man that Trump trusts with his Twitter account — Unraveling the mystery of the inscrutable White House social media director, whose job is to help @realDonaldTrump stay unpresidential.| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Mixcloud, an audio streaming platform for long-form content, raises $11.5M led by WndrCo in its first-ever round; ex-DreamWorks President Ann Daly joins board — Mixcloud, the London startup that offers an audio streaming platform designed for long-form content, has closed its first-ever funding round, TechCrunch has learned.| Wall Street Journal: |
Goldman Sachs buys personal-finance app Clarity Money, sources say for a “high eight-figure sum”, expected to serve as a mobile storefront for its consumer bank — Goldman acquires Clarity Money, Adam Dell's personal-finance and budgeting app — Goldman Sachs GS -1.41% Group … | Laharee Chatterjee / Reuters: |
Netflix reports revenue of $3.7B in Q1, up 40.4% YoY, and 7.41M global net adds, up 50% YoY, ahead of its 6.35M forecast, shares jump 6%+ in after hours trading — (Reuters) - Netflix Inc (NFLX.O) added more international subscribers than expected in the first quarter as a slate of original shows including … | Paresh Dave / Reuters: |
Google to resume accepting ads from US addiction treatment centers in July, nearly a year after suspending the category following reports of deceptive ads — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google told Reuters Monday it would resume accepting ads from U.S. addiction treatment centers in July …
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
PullRequest, which offers code review as a service, raises $8M Series A led by Google's Gradient Ventures, which also led its $2.3M seed round in December — PullRequest has been on a whirlwind lately, but it's the kind that any startup would likely welcome.
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FBI, DHS, and UK's National Cyber Security Centre issue joint alert warning of a Russian-led global campaign to attack and infiltrate internet infrastructure — State-sponsored Russian hackers are actively seeking to hijack essential internet hardware, US and UK intelligence agencies say.| Bloomberg: |
Russia starts implementing a ban on Telegram messenger, which has an estimated ~9.5M users in Russia, after it refused to hand over encryption keys — Russia began implementing a ban on the Telegram messenger service for refusing to hand over encryption keys to security services …
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