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Uber loses its license to operate in London after authorities discovered that 14K+ trips were taken with uninsured drivers — Ride-hailing service likely to continue while it appeals against Transport for London — Uber has lost its licence to operate private hire vehicles in London.
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Leaked Chinese government docs reveal the mechanics of running mass detention camps in Xinjiang, predictive policing, mass surveillance, and snooping on expats — A new leak of highly classified Chinese government documents has uncovered the operations manual for running the mass detention camps …
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Sir Tim Berners-Lee launches Contract for the Web, backed by 150+ organizations including Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and EFF to safeguard the web from abuse — Inventor of web calls on governments and firms to safeguard it from abuse and ensure it benefits humanity
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India-based financial services startup Paytm raises $1B led by T. Rowe Price, valuing the company at ~$16B; Paytm has raised more than $3.3B to date — Paytm said on Monday it has raised $1 billion in a new financing round as the Noida-headquartered firm, which once dominated …
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T-Mobile says it suffered a data breach that affected over one million customers, exposing their names, billing addresses, phone numbers, and more — T-Mobile has confirmed a data breach affecting more than a million of its customers, whose personal data (but no financial or password data) was exposed to a malicious actor.
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| Charles Fitzgerald / Platformonomics: |
Red Hat's big sale, disappointing exits of Hadoop-based startups and Pivotal show how public clouds like AWS affect business models of open source-focused firms — TL;DR: If the cloud didn't eat Hadoop Inc., Pivotal and Red Hat, what explains their diminished prospects?
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| Helene Fouquet / Bloomberg: |
Huawei sues for defamation in Paris after a researcher, broadcast journalist, and telco expert say on TV that it spies against the West and is state controlled — - Claim it's controlled by the Chinese state is false, it says — The company is seeking to sell 5G equipment in Europe
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| Chris Stokel-Walker / Increment: |
A look at the team behind VLC, which started as a student-run project in 1996 that is now part of a nonprofit with a for-profit consultancy managed by ~10 staff — How a group of university students transformed a school project into a media-player mainstay. — Teams
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| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Carousell, SE Asia's biggest classifieds site, to merge with Telenor's 701Search; Telenor will invest $20M and have 32% stake in merged company valued at $850M+ — - The equity and cash deal gives Telenor 32% in combined company — Telenor's 701Search has business in Malaysia, Myanmar, Vietnam| Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal: |
A former Facebook employee who was embedded with the 2016 Trump campaign details how he leveraged Facebook's ad-targeting tools and products to help them win — James Barnes is now focused on using digital-ad strategies to try to get Trump out of office — After the 2016 presidential election … | Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Southeast Asian payments startup 2C2P, which works with airlines, travel companies, and online shopping malls, raises $52M — - IFC, Cento Ventures, Arbor Ventures join the funding round — 2C2P is tapping into the region's burgeoning payments market| Julia Carrie Wong / The Guardian: |
White nationalist outlets including VDare and Red Ice TV still operate on Facebook despite its ban on white nationalism; Facebook says it is investigating — Guardian analysis finds VDare and Red Ice TV among several outlets that are still on the platform despite Facebook's promised ban
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