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Jack Ma says he plans to step down from Alibaba on Monday to pursue philanthropy in education, will remain on company's board and continue to mentor management — HONG KONG — Alibaba's co-founder and executive chairman, Jack Ma, said he planned to step down from the Chinese e-commerce giant …
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| Nicole Nguyen / BuzzFeed News: |
Apple removes popular anti-adware app Adware Doctor from the Mac App Store; the app surreptitiously stole and sent users' browsing history to a domain in China — Apple has removed a top Mac app called Adware Doctor, designed to “prevent malware and malicious files from infecting your Mac …
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| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
Sources: Apple is in talks with the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal to join Texture, a magazine subscription app it bought in March — Last March, Apple bought Texture, a digital magazine service. Now it wants the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal to join up.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
In a letter to US government, Apple publishes a detailed list of its products that it says will be affected by Trump's tariffs on China — A proposed $200 billion tariff on Chinese goods would affect the Apple Watch, AirPods, HomePod, Beats headphones, AirPort routers, Apple Pencil …
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| Sarah Krouse / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: as Verizon execs remain wary about sharing user data with Oath and ad growth fails to take off, Tim Armstrong weighs leaving as early as October — Tim Armstrong combined Yahoo and AOL but struggled to marry Verizon's wireless customer data with online advertising
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Google debuts a new web app called Touring Bird from its internal incubator Area 120, which surfaces and helps book fun activities in 20 top travel destinations — Trip planning: love it or hate it, it's a requisite part of the prep work that goes into every successful vacation.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft sends out press invites to an event on October 2 where the refresh of current Surface hardware is likely to be announced — Microsoft is planning to hold a fall press event in New York City next month. The software maker has started sending invites to the media today, asking for a “moment of your time.”
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Huawei includes benchmark detection tool in smartphones so scores don't reflect real performance; in response it says its competitors mislead consumers too — Does anyone remember our articles regarding unscrupulous benchmark behavior back in 2013? At the time we called the industry …
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| Kate Clark / TechCrunch: |
Branch, a deep-linking startup backed by Andy Rubin's Playground Ventures, is raising $129M Series D at about a $1B valuation — Branch, the deep-linking startup backed by Andy Rubin's Playground Ventures, will enter the unicorn club with an upcoming funding round.| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Tor launches a mobile Tor browser, now available on Android through the Play store or as a direct download — The Tor Project, the not-for-profit body behind the anonymizing Tor browser that lets you access the internet without being tracked, has launched the first official Tor mobile browser app.
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| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
Epic says that 15M users installed Fortnite for Android in the first 21 days after launch — Epic details technical, security hurdles of “indie” mobile launch — In bringing Fortnite to Android this summer, Epic gambled that the biggest video game phenomenon in the world …
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Andrei Tyurin, alleged Russian hacker of JP Morgan and others, has been extradited to the US and charged with stealing data of 100M+ customers from 2012-2015 — - Georgia hands Tyurin to U.S., years after others were charged — Hacker is alleged to have worked for mastermind Gery Shalon| Martin Giles / MIT Technology Review: |
Rigetti says its new Quantum Cloud Services will let users run a hybrid of quantum and normal algorithms in the cloud, increase speed of current offering 20-50X — A startup called Rigetti Comouting is linking quantum computers with classical ones in a new cloud service
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Inside the implosion of Social Capital as key partners and execs keep leaving and, sources believe, Chamath Palihapitiya is no longer putting the firm first — Social Capital arrived in Silicon Valley seven years ago with a charismatic co-founder, former Facebook executive Chamath Palihapitiya … | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Researchers find 24 popular iOS apps that sent sensitive user data like GPS, Bluetooth LE Beacon, and Wi-Fi network identifiers to data monetization firms — A group of security researchers say dozens of popular iPhone apps are quietly sharing the location data of “tens of millions of mobile devices” …
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| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
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