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SEC sues Elon Musk, accusing him of misleading investors when he tweeted that he had funding lined up to take Tesla private; stock drops 11%+ after hours — The Securities and Exchange Commission has opened a case against Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk, according to a docket entry …
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SEC seeks to bar Elon Musk from serving as an officer or director of a publicly traded company if found guilty; Musk calls SEC action unjustified — - The SEC complaint alleges that Musk issued “false and misleading” statements and failed to properly notify regulators of material company events.
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AWS rolls out new EC2 high memory instances for in-memory databases like SAP HANA, with 6, 9, and 12 TB memory, plans instances with 18 TB and 24 TB for 2019 — Amazon Web Services Inc. today offered some revved-up cloud computing instances aimed at customers running resource-intensive “in-memory” databases such as SAP SE's HANA.| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Julian Assange steps down as editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks but retains publisher title, appoints Icelandic journalist Kristinn Hrafnsson to replace him — Julian Assange has stepped aside as editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks, with the group saying his departure was “due to the extraordinary circumstances” … | Dan Thorp-Lancaster / Windows Central: |
Microsoft will end support for “classic” Skype 7.0 in November, with desktop support ending November 1, mobile and tablets on November 15 — It looks like Microsoft is ready to take a second stab at moving Skype users to the modernized desktop app.
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| Nour Al Ali / Bloomberg: |
Swiss-based Seba has secured ~$104M in funding, dependent on being granted a banking license from Finma, to create a cryptocurrency-focused regulated bank — - Seba raises $104 million from private, institutional investors — Company in talks with Swiss financial regulator since April| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Coinbase adds Coinbase Bundle, a new offering that lets users buy a market-weighted sampling of its 5 available cryptocurrencies, for as little as $25 — Coinbase is shaking things up quite a bit lately and its latest tools are geared toward cryptocurrency traders just getting their toes wet.
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| John Leyden / The Register: |
Weaknesses in DEP, Apple's free service for remote enterprise device management, may give attackers access to the network by guessing serial numbers of devices — Researchers check bootstrap enrolment tech, suck teeth, whistle — Hackers can blow holes in Apple's managed service technology …
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Sources: media startup Tech In Asia, which runs a blog and events business in Southeast Asia, laid off a third of its staff in July after canceling planned ICO — Earlier this month, media startup Tech In Asia surprised its readers when it announced plans to implement an $18 per month paywall.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Butterfly, maker of ultrasound-on-a-chip device iQ that produces clinical-quality images uploaded to the cloud via iPhone, raises $250M at a $1.25B valuation — In the decades following the deployment of the first clinical ultrasound machine in 1956, the high-frequency scanners have become …
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Didi Chuxing launches a taxi-hailing service in Osaka, Japan that links passengers with drivers from 10 local taxi companies — China's Didi Chuxing is fighting fires at home around passenger safety, but overseas the ride-hailing giant has moved into another new market after its taxi-booking service began operations in Japan.
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Alphabet's Chronicle launches VirusTotal Enterprise, a business version of its free offering that, it says, increases malware search speed by 100x — Alphabet in January unveiled Chronicle as the latest project to graduate from the X moonshot factory. Focusing on cybersecurity … | Monica Nickelsburg / GeekWire: |
Steve Ballmer's USAFacts unveils Voter Center, an online resource showing what positions Congress members take publicly and compares them with government data — Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's nonprofit group USAFacts today debuted a new Voter Center, an online resource that shows … Sponsor Posts
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