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Ming-Chi Kuo: a MacBook Pro with a 16"-16.5" screen and all-new design, a 31.6" “6k3k” monitor, a new upgradable Mac Pro, and a new iPad mini coming in 2019 — Reliable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is out with a wide-reaching new investor note this evening.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
UK parliament's report on fake news and disinformation says “digital gangster” Facebook deliberately broke laws, calls for antitrust, data abuse investigations — A final report by a British parliamentary committee which spent months last year investigating online political disinformation makes …
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| Sydney Morning Herald: |
Australia's PM says the country's parliament and three largest political parties have been hacked by a “sophisticated state actor” ahead of a federal election — Prime Minister Scott Morrison has revealed Australia's political parties suffered cyber attacks alongside …
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| Tripp Mickle / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: recent leadership changes at Apple have rattled rank-and-file employees and led several projects to be put on hold as new managers reassess priorities — Apple is shaking up leadership across its services, artificial intelligence, hardware and retail divisions as it repositions for slowing iPhone sales.| Kevin Kelly / Wired: |
How AR could spark the next big tech platform, the “Mirrorworld”: a 1-to-1 map of unimaginable scope, merging our physical reality with the digital universe — EVERY DECEMBER, ADAM Savage—star of the TV show MythBusters—releases a video reviewing his “favorite things” from the previous year.
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Study: in 2017, ~17M US content creators, up 16.6% YoY, earned ~$6.8B, up 17% YoY, on nine leading platforms including Instagram, Twitch, Tumblr, and YouTube — A year ago, we wrote about a wonderful study that showed how the internet and its various platforms were (contrary to the stories …
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| Mitchel Broussard / MacRumors: |
Report details Huawei's efforts to steal Apple's IP, including pressing suppliers for Apple Watch details, copying a MacBook Pro component, debriefing new hires — Last month, the United States Justice Department announced a series of criminal charges against Chinese smartphone maker Huawei …
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
London-based GoCardless, which processes recurring direct debit payments, raises $75M Series E co-led by GV and PE firm Adams Street Partners — - CEO Hiroki Takeuchi voiced his frustrations with Brexit, labeling the current situation as a “joke.” — British online payments start …
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| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
On the uncanny similarities between Xerox's failure to commercialize PC GUI and Google's Waymo, as new self-driving startups with minimum viable products emerge — Larry Page drew the wrong lesson from Xerox bungling the PC revolution. — Everyone in Silicon Valley knows the story …
Tweets: @arstechnica
| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
EU negotiators agree on regulations to curb unfair trade practices, requiring more transparency on how internet platforms list and rank products — BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Google, Amazon and other tech firms will have to tell companies how they rank their own or rival products on their platforms under …
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| Manish Singh / VentureBeat: |
How abrupt, disruptive policy changes due to rising nationalism and pressure from local business are making India increasingly hostile to foreign tech companies — In 2014, a year after Amazon launched its shopping site in India, CEO Jeff Bezos made a splash visit to the nation.
Tweets: @campuscodi
| Ananya Bhattacharya / Quartz: |
In the rivalry between Uber and Ola in India, Ola is relying on global expansion and acquisitions while Uber is using innovation to solve local problems — This post has been updated. — Six years into their fierce rivalry in India, call-taxi majors Ola and Uber are still trying … Sponsor Posts
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