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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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| Nic Fildes / Financial Times: |
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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Tweets: @mikeisaac, @aridavidpaul, @kevinroose, @gaberivera, @mdudas, @balajis, @jess, @truthcoin, @wtogami, and @melt_dem
| CNBC: |
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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GeekWire, Business Insider, Axios, Seeking Alpha, and Investor's Business Daily
Tweets: @chrissyfarr, @econ_marshall, @m_delamerced, @mattrosoff, and @matthewstoller. Thanks:@mattrosoff
| BBC: |
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.| 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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Tweets: @adeccogroup, @techcrunch, @alexisohanian, @slazar, @jselingo, and @mhbergen
| 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.| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
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 — - On Friday, the social media service announced plans to remove posts containing pornographic cartoons, videos that promote violence … | 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 …
Tweets: @profcarroll, @issielapowsky, @edbott, @issielapowsky, @wired, @campaignlegal, @issielapowsky, @issielapowsky, and @davidfrum
| 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 … | 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.| 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.| 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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| 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 …
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Sony announces Xperia XZ2 Premium with 5.8-inch 4K HDR display and dual cameras focusing on ultra-low-light performance, with photos of up to ISO 51,200 — ISO 51200 sensitivity — Less than two months after unveiling the Xperia XZ2 at Mobile World Congress, Sony is back again with the Xperia XZ2 Premium.Sponsor Posts
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