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MWC bans visitors from China's Hubei province and will require those who have been to China prove they were outside the country for 14 days before the event — A couple of weeks out, Mobile World Congress organizer, the GSMA, has issued some fairly sweeping safeguards over growing concerns around the coronavirus.
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Sources: over 300 Chinese companies, including Xiaomi, Megvii, and Didi Chuxing, are seeking bank loans totaling $8.2B to soften coronavirus' impact — BEIJING (Reuters) - More than 300 Chinese firms including Meituan Dianping (3690.HK), China's largest food delivery company …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Samsung shows off the unannounced Galaxy Z Flip in an Oscars ad, ahead of its Unpacked keynote, with small print that says a crease on the main screen is normal — It's not just leaks that let us know what big tech companies plan to announce at their keynotes, increasingly it's the companies themselves.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Inside Netflix's aggressive Oscars campaign, spending an estimated $100M+ mainly to promote two films, while other studios usually spend $5M-$20M per film — With lavish parties, huge billboards, and screenings around the world, awards campaigning may never be the same| Adam Satariano / New York Times: |
Profile of Ben Nimmo, a founder of Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, who helped pioneer investigations into online disinformation — Ben Nimmo helped pioneer disinformation investigations. His work is now more urgent as misleading internet tactics spread.
Tweets: @stewartmcdonald, @benimmo, @alexstamos, and @satariano
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Corp.com domain put up for sale for $1.7M; testing shows it could give access to proprietary data of companies that adopted default “corp” Active Directory path — As an early domain name investor, Mike O'Connor had by 1994 snatched up several choice online destinations …
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Android Authority, Numlock News, and CircleID
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| Haaretz: |
Homepage source code of an app used by Israel's Likud party exposed admin passwords, letting anyone access info on 6M+ voters in the country's voter registry — Names, identification numbers and addresses of over 6 million voters were leaked through the unsecured Elector app
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| Nic Fildes / Financial Times: |
Vodafone will remove Huawei systems from its EU core network at a cost of €200M over the next five years, following new UK rules and EU guidelines last month — Vodafone is to strip Huawei systems out of the core of its European network at a cost of €200m as the European telecoms sector moves …
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Arm announces Cortex-M55 and Ethos-U55, aimed at bringing edge AI capabilities to IoT devices, arriving in 2021 at the earliest — The smart devices of the future might not need servers to enable AI — Edge AI is one of the biggest trends in chip technology.
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| Charlotte Tucker / EU-Startups: |
UK mobile banking startup Starling Bank raises €70.7M from its existing investors, Merian Global Investors and JTC, bringing its total raised to €380.6M — UK fintech Starling Bank has today announced raising €70.7 million from its existing investors, Merian Global Investors and JTC.
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FinSMEs, TechCrunch, Financial Times, Crowdfund Insider, Business Leader, and Verdict
Tweets: @rahul_j_mathur and @eu_startups
| Asa Fitch / Wall Street Journal: |
How power companies are turning to AI, drones, battery systems, and sensors to shorten outages, save money, and help run an increasingly complex power grid — Power companies are turning to AI, drones and sensors to curtail outages, save money and help operate an increasingly complex electricity grid.
Tweets: @wsj
| Financial Times: |
Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent disclosed 12 investments in US startups totaling less than $560M last year, down from a peak of ~$4.7B in 2015 — China's biggest tech company did not make any publicly disclosed investments in the US last year, as the increasing hostility between Washington … Sponsor Posts
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