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Facebook takes down 471 Facebook pages and accounts, as well as 41 Instagram accounts, for coordinated inauthentic behavior originating in Russia — Today we removed multiple Pages, groups and accounts that engaged in coordinated inauthentic behavior on Facebook and Instagram.
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| The Seattle Times: |
Microsoft pledges $500M to tackle housing crisis in Seattle: $475M for loans to housing developers over three years and $25M for resident services — The pledge is the largest in the company's 44-year history, and comes as Microsoft and other tech giants that have driven … | Tim Cook / TIME: |
Tim Cook calls on Congress to pass privacy legislation and on the FTC to create a “data-broker clearinghouse”, enabling users to track and control their data — We all deserve control over our digital lives. That's why we must rein in the data brokers
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| Brian Barrett / Wired: |
“Collection #1” database, which claims to contain records of ~773M unique email addresses and 21M passwords, some of them hashed, shows up on the web — THERE ARE BREACHES, and there are megabreaches, and there's Equifax. But a newly revealed trove of leaked data tops …
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| Stefan Etienne / The Verge: |
Mastercard updates policy to end automatic billing after free trials, will require merchants to request user authorization for recurring subscriptions — Plus, merchants will be required to send you monthly updates — Mastercard announced a new policy today for merchants who retain …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: DOJ is pursuing a criminal case against Huawei for alleged trade secret theft from US business partners including T-Mobile; indictment is expected soon — Probe involves allegations that Huawei stole robot phone-testing technology from T-Mobile — Federal prosecutors are pursuing …
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| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Snap CFO Tim Stone resigned after a dispute with management over pay, going around CEO Evan Spiegel to ask Snap's board for a significant raise — - Stone went around Spiegel to seek pay bump, people say — Executive also sought promotion to Khan's former strategy job
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Google to raise prices globally for G Suite on April 2; G Suite Basic will go from $5 to $6, G Suite Business will go from $10 per user per month to $12 — The G Suite price increases are the first in a decade. Google argues that the price increases reflect more value. G Suite Enterprise prices unchanged.
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Amazon Web Services announces AWS Backup, a fully-managed, centralized service for customers to back up their data across AWS services and on-premises — Centralized backup service makes it easier and more cost-effective for customers to automate backups of their data and meet business and regulatory requirements
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft is planning to decouple Windows search and Cortana in the next major Windows 10 update, expected in April, so typed queries will be handled separately — Windows search is now free to get more powerful — Microsoft is making some big changes to Cortana in Windows 10.
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Tweets: @maryjofoley, @johnkoetsier, @dcseifert, and @bdsams
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Alation, which indexes a company's databases to build a data search catalog, raises $50M Series C led by Sapphire Ventures — Alation, a startup that helps crawl a company's databases in order to build a data search catalogue, announced a $50 million Series C investment today.
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Facebook hires former Google AR/VR engineering lead Ryan Cairns to head Portal, as current Portal head Rafa Camargo shifts to leading hardware for AR/VR — Facebook is bringing on the engineering lead for Google's entire AR/VR team to tackle Portal hardware.Sponsor Posts
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