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Epic Games says it will release Fortnite on Android this summer — Epic Games' battle royale hit is getting a bunch of new mobile features and an Android release later this year — Epic Games' massively popular battle royale game Fortnite is coming to Android phones this summer … | Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Operator of malware-testing service Scan4You, which helped hackers evade antivirus software, convicted by US jury after Trend Micro gave data to the FBI — MOST ANTIVIRUS SCANNERS play a classic cat and mouse game: They work by checking software against a frequently updated list of potential threats.| Meng Jing / South China Morning Post: |
Baidu COO Lu Qi to step down in July, after joining Chinese search giant from Microsoft in January 2017 — Baidu, the operator of China's largest online search service, said on Friday that its chief operating officer, Lu Qi, will step down to take on a new role, in the latest executive reshuffle …
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Apple transferred €1.5B into an escrow account set up by Irish government, the first tranche of the €13B in back taxes Apple may be liable for after EU ruling — DUBLIN (Reuters) - Apple has paid 1.5 billion euros ($1.18 billion) into an escrow account set up by the Irish government … | Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
A bug in the website of LocationSmart, which sells real-time phone location data, let anyone track people's locations across North America without consent — The bug allowed one Carnegie Mellon researcher to track anyone's cell phone in real time. — A company that collects the real …
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Publishers prefer YouTube over platforms like Facebook because of predictable success parameters, longer shelf life of evergreen content, deeper user engagement — Sometimes, being reliable goes a long way — and for smaller publishers looking to grow sustainable video businesses, that means focusing on YouTube.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
PayPal confirms it is acquiring Swedish payments company iZettle for $2.2B in an all-cash deal, making it PayPal's biggest-ever transaction — PayPal is taking its biggest bet yet on point-of-sale transactions, small businesses, and markets outside of the US, as it looks to raise its game against Square …
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ASUS debuts ultra-thin Zenbook Pro 15 Windows laptops with 15.6-inch 1080p or 4K display, up to six-core Intel CPUs, and optional standalone GPU; price TBD — ASUS has introduced a new version of its ultra-thin 15.6-inch ZenBook Po 15 laptop that offers higher performance than predecessors …
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Leaked screenshots show Facebook's influencer search engine for connecting marketers and creators to make branded content; Facebook confirms it is testing it — Facebook's next money-maker could be this tool for connecting marketers to social media creators so they can team up on sponsored content Facebook ad campaigns.
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CEO Jihan Wu of Bitmain, one of the world's largest bitcoin mining equipment makers, says the company had booked $3.5B in revenues in 2017 — Even by the standards of Bitcoin, things are crazy in China. As the boom in cryptocurrencies has become the biggest speculative bubble in recorded history …
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Uber's chief product officer Jeff Holden, who helped to develop Uber Pool and oversaw its flying-taxi initiative, is leaving the company on Thursday — Company had hired Holden from Groupon in 2014 — Uber Technologies Inc.'s chief product officer, Jeff Holden, who helped develop Uber Pool …
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Special purpose acquisition company Landcadia buys food delivery startup Waitr in a $308M deal that will make Waitr a public company when the acquisition closes — - Landcadia Holdings agrees to pay $300 million for Waitr — Tilman Fertitta has been looking for deals since 2016
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