Techmeme: Inside Netflix's government lobbying efforts, which have shifted in recent months to align more with Hollywood studios and less with Silicon Valley (Rebecca Keegan/Hollywood Reporter)

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Megan Eckstein / USNI News:

US Navy to replace touchscreen throttle and helm controls on destroyers with mechanical ones, after finding that touchscreens contributed to a deadly collision — SAN DIEGO - The Navy will begin reverting destroyers back to a physical throttle and traditional helm control system in the next 18 to 24 months …

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Andy Greenberg / Wired:

Teen hacker Bill Demirkapi on finding bugs, that exposed 5M student records across 5,000 schools, in educational software from providers Blackboard and Follett — A FEW SHORT decades ago, the archetypal hacker was a bored teenager breaking into his school's network to change grades, à la Ferris Bueller.

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Rebecca Keegan / Hollywood Reporter:

Inside Netflix's government lobbying efforts, which have shifted in recent months to align more with Hollywood studios and less with Silicon Valley — Rather than align itself with the tech giants under increasing Washington pressure, the streamer has joined forces with the studios …

Tweets: @loudmouthjulia, @thrmattbelloni, @thr, and @markbroatch

Reuters:

In the face of the US ban, Huawei's smartphone sales are surging in China, boosted by rising grassroots patriotism and heavy promotions by the company — SHANGHAI/HONG KONG (Reuters) - When 23-year-old Chinese student Aaron Huang started his hunt for an Android replacement for his Apple …

Tweets: @mattk

Telegram:

Telegram releases new features including sending messages without notification sound, a “slow mode” that restricts group members from messaging too often, more — The previous update brought more movement to Telegram - this one brings more peace of mind.

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Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE:

Cisco to acquire Voicea, the maker of a voice assistant called Eva for business meetings; Voicea had raised $20M from investors including GV and Salesforce — Cisco Systems Inc. today announced that it's bolstering its family of collaboration products with the acquisition of Voicea …

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Tweets: @chuckrobbins, @johnrobjohnson, and @cisco

Lucas Matney / TechCrunch:

Nike buys Celect, an AI startup focused on predicting what customers want, allowing better inventory management; Celect had raised over $30M from investors — Nike's market cap has swollen past $100 billion, but the shoe company still sees potential to learn more about what customers …

More: Business Wire, Fashion news …, Z6 Mag, Marketing Dive, Footwear News, CFO, CNBC, Bloomberg, ZDNet, and AdExchanger

Masha Borak / Abacus:

QR code payments, which require opening an app, are causing holdups for public transit commuters in China, where 100M+ WeChat users regularly pay with QR codes — NFC availability is growing, but 100 million WeChat users are now paying for public transit with QR codes

Lauren Debter / Forbes:

Profile of WWT, which helps clients including the US federal government procure and install IT equipment; the company reported revenue of $11.2B last year — Jim Kavanaugh climbs into a sleek, black-leather-interior Mercedes bus that whisks him away from his company's new headquarters in St. Louis to a squat, one-story outpost nearby.

Tweets: @forbes and @brentbeshore

Lynne Marek / Chicago Business:

The fintech company TastyTrade invests $20M in its new subsidiary Dough, a Robinhood-like no fee stock trading service with a $1 per month subscription — The new Chicago fintech firm, which will be a TastyTrade subsidiary, aims to take on Robinhood in wielding the smartphone to trade stocks.

More: Benzinga, FXTimes.com, and Finance Magnates

Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News:

Backbone, which provides product lifecycle management SaaS for consumer goods companies, raises $10M Series A extension, closing the round with a total of $18M — Boulder, Colo.-based Backbone, a SaaS company that helps direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands get products to market, has raised $10 million as part of an ongoing Series A round.

More: FinSMEs and VentureBeat

Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:

Swiss startup DeepCode raises $4M seed to expand its AI-powered system for code reviews that is mostly trained using data from open source GitHub repositories — We're fast approaching a point where every company is effectively a software company, a notion proffered by some of tech's top people such as Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.

More: FinSMEs and btov Partners

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