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DOJ announces a 16-count superseding indictment against Huawei and its CFO Meng Wanzhou that includes charges of racketeering and conspiracy to steal IP — Ratcheting up its pressure campaign against Huawei and its affiliates, the Department of Justice and the FBI announced today … | Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Judge orders a temporary block on Microsoft's JEDI cloud contract with Pentagon, in response to a suit filed by Amazon — - A judge ordered Thursday a temporary block on the JEDI cloud contract in response to a lawsuit filed by Amazon. — Last month, Amazon filed a motion asking the court …
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Researchers: Voatz, the voting app used in W. Virginia and four other states, has elementary security flaws that could let an attacker intercept and alter votes — A mobile voting app being used in West Virginia and other states has elementary security flaws that would allow someone …
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| Theodore Schleifer / Vox: |
Larry Ellison is hosting a fundraiser for Donald Trump next week; while Ellison has consistently backed Republicans, he wasn't a major Trump donor until now — Larry Ellison risks blowback from his employees at Oracle. Phillip Faraone/Getty Images — It's the most significant endorsement …
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The Bloomberg campaign is working with Meme 2020, whose lead strategist is the CEO of Jerry Media, to create sponsored posts on influential Instagram accounts — A campaign of sponsored content for the candidate flourished suddenly on Instagram. A new outfit, called Meme 2020, is behind it.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
YouTube TV to end support for subscriptions through Apple in-app purchases on March 13 — YouTube today sent out emails to customers who are subscribed to its YouTube TV service through Apple's App Store, letting them know that App Store subscriptions are going to be discontinued in March.| SOCIAL SCIENCE ONE: |
Social Science One and Facebook say they are now making a dataset with ~38M URLs available to academic researchers, two years after announcing the initiative — We are excited to announce that Social Science One and Facebook have completed, and are now making available to academic researchers …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Walmart is shutting down Jet black, its personal shopping service in NYC, on February 21, after struggling to find adoption or additional investment — Walmart is shutting down its personal shopping service, Jet black, on February 21, after struggling to find adoption or additional investment.
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Google's Area 120 launches GameSnacks, which offers casual games for low memory devices on 2G and 3G, launching initially in Indonesia on Gojek's GoGames — A new project called GameSnacks is launching today from Google's in-house incubator, Area 120, with the goal of bringing fast-loading …
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The CEO of Clinc, an AI chatbot maker that has raised $59M and whose clients include Walmart, resigned following an investigation into sexual misconduct — At an AI startup with deep ties to the University of Michigan, employees allege a pattern of sexual harassment by the CEO| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Broadcom unveils Wi-Fi 6E chip designed to deliver 2 Gbps+ speeds with better battery life, says it will also improve Bluetooth audio performance and range — With a Wi-Fi 6E processor called BCM4389, Broadcom is aiming to take advantage of new 6 GHz spectrum coming online through multiple devices.
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| Mia Sato / Input: |
How teens are using Instagram to create eBay-like thrift shops, with the Story highlight area as a FAQ page, and comments for bidding — Carly Shipman, who hails from the suburbs of Chicago, lives the typical life of a high schooler. She goes to class every day, then to track practice in the afternoon.
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| Eileen Yu / ZDNet: |
Alibaba Q3: total revenue of $23.1B, up 38% YoY; net income $7.49B, up 58% YoY; cloud revenue grows 62% YoY to hit $1.53B — Alibaba's cloud revenue exceeds 10 billion yuan for the first time in a single quarter, growing 62% to hit 10.72 billion yuan for its third quarter … | Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Senator Gillibrand proposes creating a government agency to protect internet privacy, similar to a bill proposed by a pair of California House Democrats — - New York Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand just became the latest lawmaker to propose digital privacy legislation.
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Intuition Robotics, which makes companion robots for elderly people, raises $36M Series B co-led by Sparx Group and OurCrowd — Israeli robotics startup Intuition Robotics has raised $36 million in a series B round of funding co-led by Sparx Group and OurCrowd, with participation from Samsung Next …
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CloudCath, a cloud-based platform for remote monitoring of patients undergoing catheter-based treatments, raises $12M Series A led by Capital Integral — CloudCath, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of remote complication monitoring solutions for patients undergoing catheter-based treatments, completed a $12m Series A financing.| Dade Hayes / Deadline: |
Roku reports Q4 revenue of $411M, up 49% YoY, net loss of $15.7M down from a profit of $6.8M YoY; active accounts up 4.6M QoQ to 36.9M; stock up 5%+ after hours — Roku beat Wall Street estimates for the fourth quarter, hitting new highs in active accounts and revenue per user … | Associated Press: |
Moscow court fines Twitter and Facebook ~$63K for refusing to store data on Russian citizens inside Russia, the largest such fine issued under internet use laws — MOSCOW (AP) — A court in Moscow fined Twitter and Facebook 4 million rubles each Thursday for refusing to store the personal data … | Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Snapchat is testing a redesign with a navigation bar, a top news section, and a more accessible Snap Map, three years after its last, widely panned redesign — A new home for the Snap Map and its original shows — plus a new test of news briefs — Snap is working on two significant tests …
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