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Apple shuts down Facebook's ability to distribute internal iOS apps, blocking staff transportation app and early releases of Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger — Facebook's internal iOS apps simply don't launch anymore — Apple has shut down Facebook's ability to distribute internal iOS apps …
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| Rob Price / Business Insider: |
Memo: Facebook confirms Apple disabled access to internal iOS apps and says it's “working closely” to reinstate “our most critical internal apps immediately” — - Facebook employees are furious after Apple temporarily crippled the company by revoking its developer certificate.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Apple says it revoked Facebook's Enterprise Certificate yesterday used to distribute the Research app outside of App Store, before Facebook could shut it down — In the wake of TechCrunch's investigation yesterday, Apple blocked Facebook's Research VPN app before the social network could voluntarily shut it down.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple tests USB-C iPhones and iOS dark mode for 2019, plans updated 10" iPad this spring, laser-based 3D cameras to aid AR on iPhones as soon as 2020 — - Company is testing a triple camera system for 2019 phones — New low-end iPads and an updated iPhone XR also in the works
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| Facebook: |
Facebook reports Q4 net income of $6.9B, up 61% YoY, revenue of $16.9B, up 30% YoY, DAUs of 1.52B, up 9% YoY, and headcount of 35,587, up 42% YoY; stock up 11%+ — Facebook, Inc. (Nasdaq: FB) today reported financial results for the quarter and full year ended December 31, 2018.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook says Instagram Stories has 500M daily users, will phase out Facebook-only metrics, focusing on “family” metrics like 2.7B monthly users across apps — Roughly half of Instagram's users 1 billion users now use Instagram Stories every day.| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
| Microsoft: |
Microsoft Q2: revenue of $32.5B, up 12% YoY; Productivity and Business Processes revenue of $10.1B, up 13% YoY; Intelligent Cloud revenue of $9.4B, up 20% YoY — Microsoft Cloud Strength Fuels Second Quarter Results — REDMOND, Wash. — January 30, 2019 — Microsoft Corp. today announced …
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| Reuters: |
Sources detail UAE's Project Raven, a group of 12+ ex-US intel operatives that help surveil governments, militants, and critics, sometimes using NSA tactics — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two weeks after leaving her position as an intelligence analyst for the U.S. National Security Agency in 2014 …
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| Reuters: |
Sources: UAE hacked iPhones of activists, diplomats, and rival foreign leaders using a spying tool called Karma, which exploited an iMessage vulnerability — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A team of former U.S. government intelligence operatives working for the United Arab Emirates hacked … | TechCrunch: |
Google disables its Screenwise Meter app on iOS, which coaxed users into sharing info in a manner similar to Facebook's Research app but with better disclosure — It looks like Facebook is not the only one abusing Apple's system for distributing employee-only apps to sidestep the App Store and collect extensive data on users.
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| Michael Bott / NBC Bay Area: |
Unsealed court documents: FBI arrests second Chinese Apple employee for allegedly trying to steal trade secrets related to Apple's autonomous vehicles — For the second time in six months, an Apple engineer is accused of stealing intellectual property in order to benefit a China-based competitor
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Google says Google+ for consumers will shut down April 2; all content posted by consumer accounts, including Google+ pages, photos, and videos, will be deleted — In late 2018, Google announced that it would shut down Google+, its beleaguered social network, for consumers due to “low usage” … | Mike Robuck / FierceTelecom: |
Within days of Intel announcing it is expanding its chip plant in Israel, sources say it has bid $5.5B to acquire Israeli big data chipmaker Mellanox — U.S. chipmaker Intel has reportedly bid $5.5 billion to $6 billion in cash and stock to buy Israel-based Mellanox.| C. Scott Brown / Android Authority: |
Tim Baxter, Samsung North America's president and CEO, says he will retire on June 1, will be replaced by YH Eom, deputy head of Samsung North America — Tim Baxter is currently President and CEO of Samsung Electronics North America in New York City. However, come this June …
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| Brian Fung / Washington Post: |
Spam monitoring service Hiya: Americans received 26.3B robocalls in 2018, up 46% from '17; FCC said it got 52,000 complaints regarding Caller ID spoofing in '18 — Americans are now getting so many robo-calls on a regular basis that many are simply choosing not to answer the phone altogether.| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Argo AI, a self-driving car startup that received $1B from Ford in 2017, has obtained a permit to test its autonomous vehicles in California — Argo AI, the self-driving car startup that burst onto the scene in 2017 with $1 billion in backing from Ford, has obtained a permit to test its autonomous vehicles in California.
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
IBM releases its Diversity in Faces (DiF) image set, comprised of 1M faces taken from a 100M image data set, to help reduce bias in AI — Encoding biases into machine learning models, and in general into the constructs we refer to as AI, is nearly inescapable — but we can sure do better than we have in past years.| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
PayPal misses with Q4 revenue of $4.23B, but saw $164B in total payment volume and 2.9M net new active accounts thanks to Hyperwallet and iZettle acquisitions — PayPal revenues miss but strong growth from its recent iZettle and Hyperwallet acquisitions and booming business at Venmo point to a strong outlook for the payments giant.
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Fortanix, which provides security by encrypting applications and data at runtime, raises $23M Series B led by Intel Capital — Fortanix, Inc., a Mountain View, CA-based runtime encryption technology company, closed a $23m Series B round of funding. — The round, which brings total funding to $31m …
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| Jack Nicas / New York Times: |
Analysis: Facebook's estimates for active fake accounts it reported in filings each quarter was significantly smaller than the number it said it had taken down — The social network has disclosed an estimate for years, but a closer look raises lots of questions.
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| Tom Bissell / New York Times: |
Zucked, a book by early Facebook investor Roger McNamee, depicts Facebook's damage to society, the dystopia it created, and advocates breaking up its monopoly — ZUCKED — Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe — The dystopia George Orwell conjured up in “1984” wasn't a prediction.
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