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Uber, Lyft remove the driver that secretly live-streamed hundreds of rides on Twitch, after initially saying he did not violate Missouri law and keeping him on — EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published Friday night. It was updated 9:30 p.m. Saturday with a statement from Uber saying …
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Sources: in August 2017, Google sent a letter suggesting changes to Android OEM contracts and apps distribution; offer was rebuffed by EU as too little too late — - Company offered to tweak Android contracts to placate EU — Vestager says the peace offering didn't come quickly enough| David Floyd / CoinDesk: |
The amount of ether staked on Augur, a peer-to-peer protocol to create prediction markets from user-posed questions, grew to ~$1M and first bets paid out $20K — Augur, a decentralized platform for creating predictions markets, just hit a major milestone. — “The first markets …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat to discontinue Snapcash, its peer-to-peer payment feature, on August 30; the feature was created in partnership with Square in 2014 — Snapcash ended up a way to pay adult performers for private content over Snapchat, not just a way to pay your friends.
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| Alyza Sebenius / Bloomberg: |
Paul Nakasone, head of US Cyber Command and NSA, confirms he created Russia Small Group, a special task force to address Russian cyber threats — - Confirms ‘Russia Small Group’ to combat cyberspace attacks — Persistent incursions by adversies not rising to level of war| Wall Street Journal: |
French IT infrastructure services company Atos has agreed to acquire US-based rival Syntel for around $3.4B in cash — France's Atos nears $4 billion deal for Syntel, part of strategy to expand geographic footprint — France's Atos SE is nearing a deal that could be worth up to $4 billion … | Jon Christian / Motherboard: |
As Google translates nonsensical messages into garbled religious prophecies, researchers blame AI algorithm trained on religious texts as some users see demons — Google Translate is moonlighting as a deranged oracle—and experts say it's likely because of the spooky nature of neural networks.| Marrian Zhou / CNET: |
Venmo says user transaction history is public by default because it's fun to share info with friends and the option to go private is clearly marked in the app — If you haven't noticed, your Venmo transaction history is public by default. Unless you change the settings, people can see when you buy things.
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| Li Tao / South China Morning Post: |
Huawei executive says the company shipped 100M smartphones this year as of July 18 and is now aiming for shipments of 200M units by the end of 2018 — Huawei has maintained fast growth momentum despite headwinds for broader industry shipments this year — Huawei Technologies … | Reuters: |
CEO of Chinese commerce giant JD.com says they aim to finalize the strategy to enter European market and open an office in Germany by the end of the year — BERLIN (Reuters) - Chinese e-commerce company JD.com plans to expand in Europe and aims to have finalised its strategy for entering …
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Egypt's new law allows state to block social media accounts and blogs with 5K+ followers on sites like Facebook and Twitter, requires licenses for new websites — CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's parliament has passed a law giving the state powers to block social media accounts and penalize journalists held to be publishing fake news.
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| Abdi Latif Dahir / Quartz: |
After a nine-day strike, drivers sign a deal with five taxi-hailing services in Kenya, including Uber and Taxify, to improve compensation and working conditions — Ride-hailing car drivers in Kenya have signed a deal with their service providers and the government in the latest tussle over poor pay and growing local competition.Sponsor Posts
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