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Sources: Amazon is working on a domestic robot codenamed Vesta that can navigate inside homes like a driverless car — Prototypes can navigate from room to room like driverless cars — Company hopes to start testing bots in homes later this year — Ten years ago, Amazon introduced …
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| Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed: |
In interview Kogan admits he broke Facebook's ToS but his app was within norms, says he worked on 10+ papers with Pete Fleming, now Instagram's head of research — Aleksandr Kogan, the Cambridge University academic whose app has set off the firestorm about online user data, says he's considering suing Facebook.
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| Aoife White / Bloomberg: |
Apple's acquisition of Shazam faces extended EU probe as antitrust regulators worry that Apple might halt Shazam referrals and use Shazam data to hamper rivals — EU says concerned Apple could use Shazam data to hamper rivals — Probe also looking whether Apple could halt Shazam referrals
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| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Middle East Uber rival Careem says data of 14 million drivers and riders stolen in cyberattack — Careem, the Middle East rival to Uber, had the data of its 14 million customers and drivers stolen in a cyberattack, the company said on Monday. — Careem, the Middle East rival to Uber …
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| Nour Al Ali / Bloomberg: |
Middle Eastern ride-hailing app Careem says 14M users' names, email addresses, phone numbers, and trip data was stolen in cyberattack; it became aware on Jan 14 — Customers' names, email, phone number and trip data stolen — The platform has over 20 million users, according to website
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: as Tencent Music prepares for a potential H2 2018 IPO, recent private deals have valued the firm at $25B+, double the $12.5B valuation of late 2017 — It would be the fourth-biggest U.S.-listed tech IPO on record — Tencent Music Entertainment Group, China's largest music-streaming company … | Reuters: |
Iran's central bank bans the country's banks from dealing in cryptocurrencies over money-laundering concerns, as the country tries to halt a currency crisis — DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's central bank has banned the country's banks from dealing in cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin …
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CoinSpeaker, Silicon Republic, CCN, Beyond Search, Bitsonline, NewsBTC, Engadget, and PiunikaWeb
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Avast outlines how hackers hid a backdoor in its PC cleanup tool CCleaner, which tainted ~2.27M downloads in 2017, as part of a targeted attack on tech firms — IN SEPTEMBER, SECURITY researchers at Cisco Talos and Morphisec made a worst nightmare-type disclosure: the ubiquitous computer …
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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Glowforge finally launches its $2,495 3D laser printer to consumers, after breaking crowdfunding records for the device in October 2015 — Glowforge has raised more investment dollars as the Seattle startup starts selling its 3D laser printer to the general public and continues to fulfill delayed orders from its crowdfunding campaign.
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| Nicholas Megaw / Financial Times: |
TransferWise becomes first non-bank firm to get direct access to Bank of England's interbank payment systems to process payments without intermediary banks — TransferWise has become the first fintech group to gain direct access to the Bank of England's interbank payment systems …
| Mark Mulligan / Music Industry Blog: |
At $7.4B, streaming revenue was 43% of all recorded music revenues in 2017; revenue for artists selling directly via platforms like Bandcamp grew 27.2% YoY — 2017 was a stellar year for the recorded music business. Global recorded music revenues reached $17.4 billion in 2017 in trade values …
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AppleInsider, AppAdvice.com, 9to5Mac, Ubergizmo, Silicon Republic, RAIN News, and hypebot
Tweets: @tommanatos and @mpetricone
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: SoftBank and Alphabet funds are investing in Chinese truck-hailing firm Manbang's latest round, which will likely fetch $1.9B+ and value firm at $6B+ — Deal marks Alphabet fund's first investment in China since 2014 — Japan's SoftBank Group Corp. 9984 -1.17% …
Tweets: @caseynewton
| Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
Gary Gensler, CFTC's head from 2009 to 2014, thinks Ethereum and Ripple's respective currencies may have been issued and traded in violation of securities laws — SAN FRANCISCO — Gary Gensler was one of the top financial regulators in the Obama administration, the finance chief … Sponsor Posts
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