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Qualcomm lowers revenue and profit forecasts for the current quarter as Apple withholds royalty payments until the legal dispute between companies is resolved — Qualcomm Inc slashed its current-quarter profit and revenue forecasts on Friday, amid an escalating legal battle between the chipmaker and Apple Inc.
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| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Google and Facebook were victims of a $100M phishing scam by a Lithuanian man arrested in March 2017; both companies say they have recouped the funds — When the Justice Department announced the arrest last month of a man who allegedly swindled more than $100 million from two U.S. tech giants, the news came wrapped in a mystery.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft's Surface revenues lower than expected due to both lack of product refresh and competition from its OEM partners — Microsoft's Surface revenues came in lower than expected in the company's third fiscal 2017 quarter due to both lack of product refresh and competition from the company's PC-maker partners.
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Uber now lets users delete accounts without contacting support, adds new privacy features for notifications, location sharing — Uber announced today that it will make it easier for users to delete their accounts and access their privacy settings. Now, the company will let users delete …
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| Bloomberg: |
Apple's self-driving Lexus seen in Silicon Valley with 64-channel lidar, at least two radars and a series of cameras — Almost two weeks after Apple Inc. secured permission to test its autonomous-car technology in California, the first images of the vehicle have emerged from Silicon Valley roads.
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| Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: |
Didi Chuxing raises $5.5B to expand beyond China; the round is the largest ever for a tech company and makes Didi the world's most valuable startup after Uber — Didi said to raise money from SoftBank, Silver Lake and others — Didi is said to have become most valuable startup in Asia
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Google's non-advertising business, categorized as “Other Revenue”, posted a 49.4% jump to $3.1B, representing 13% of total revenue — Alphabet Inc's non-advertising business, which houses its cloud unit, Pixel smartphones and the Play store, has long been sandwiched between … | Charlie Savage / New York Times: |
Sources: NSA is stopping warrantless surveillance program in which it collects Americans' emails and texts to and from people overseas — WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency is stopping one of the most disputed forms of its warrantless surveillance program in which it collects Americans' emails …
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Cloudflare announces Orbit, a security solution for IoT devices — The Internet of Things security crisis continues apace. New botnets crop up to conscript routers and security cameras, hackers exploit medical devices to compromise entire hospital networks, and smart toys still creep on kids.
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Airbnb signs agreement with California to allow regulators to audit hosts for racial discrimination — San Francisco-based company reached an agreement with California's housing agency amid complaints of guests being rejected for their race — Airbnb will allow the government to test … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Government requests for Facebook user account data up 9% in second half of 2016, but content restrictions declined — Facebook today released its latest report on global government requests for the second half of 2016, noting there has been a 9 percent increase in requests for user account data compared …
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Creator of Google News describes traits of story clusters and their sharing patterns that can be used by algorithms and humans to flag them as fake — Fast enough to empower humans to take action — Last November, a friend told me about his extended family of Filipino-Americans in the Fresno area.| Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
AWS reports 42% YoY jump in revenue to $3.66B, up from $2.57B a year ago, as growth slows slightly — The crown jewel of Amazon's business, Amazon Web Services, posted a 42 percent jump in revenue during the first fiscal quarter of 2017, as it continues to set the standard for cloud computing.
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