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Amazon signs a deal with Apple, will start selling its latest devices, except the HomePod, in the US, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Japan, and India — Amazon has signed a deal to expand the selection of Apple products on its sites worldwide. — The world's largest e-commerce company …
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As part of its deal with Apple, Amazon will only allow authorized resellers on its site, kicking independent Apple device refurbishers off its platform — Amazon told independent refurbishers that it will now only allow “authorized resellers” to sell Apple products on Amazon Marketplace.| CoinDesk: |
SEC fines the owner of decentralized cryptocurrency exchange EtherDelta $388K, prompting fears of further enforcement action against crypto trading platforms — The Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) settlement with the founder of EtherDelta is likely the first of many enforcement actions …
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Apple confirms that some iPhone X screens don't respond or respond intermittently when touched, offers free screen replacements for those affected — Apple Inc. disclosed a pair of issues affecting two of its more popular products: the iPhone X and the 13-inch MacBook Pro.
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Facebook to end forced arbitration for sexual-harassment claims, require execs at director level or above to disclose if they are dating someone in the company — Social-networking giant also revises policy for senior executives dating employees — Facebook Inc. FB -1.97% is ending …
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Facebook has quietly released an app for iOS and Android called Lasso, designed to compete with TikTok, that lets users create short videos — The aging social media platform wishes to win teens over — Facebook has quietly released an app called Lasso that lets users create fun short videos designed …
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US Cyber Command launches its new initiative to publicly share unclassified malware samples it has discovered by uploading multiple files to VirusTotal — USCYBERCOM said it plans to regularly upload “unclassified malware samples” to VirusTotal. — On Monday, the Cyber National Mission Force … | Shanti S Nair / Reuters: |
Report: BlackBerry is in talks to buy cybersecurity company Cylance for as much as $1.5B — (Reuters) - BlackBerry Ltd is in talks to buy cybersecurity company Cylance Inc for as much as $1.5 billion, Business Insider reported on Friday, citing sources familiar with the matter.| John Cook / GeekWire: |
CoStar buys Cozy, a startup helping landlords screen tenants, market properties, and collect rent, for $68M to improve its rental listings site Apartments.com — Cozy, a Portland startup that helps more than 50,000 landlords screen potential tenants, market properties and easily collect rent …
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A US agency said hackers may have accessed partial SSNs, immigration status, tax information, and more in an October breach of healthcare.gov — Hackers siphoned off thousands of Healthcare.gov applications by breaking into the accounts of brokers and agents tasked with helping customers sign up for healthcare plans.| Paresh Dave / Reuters: |
Twitter has quietly locked millions of suspicious followers that the company had purged in July and which had reappeared, according to Twitter, due to a bug — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) made another attempt to make users' tallies of followers more accurate on Friday … | Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
The New York Times is digitizing its 5M-7M photo archive using Google AI to recognize text describing the photos and will use Google's storage services — Google's computer brains are helping The New York Times turn a historic archive of more than 5 million photos into digital data that'll appear … | Colin Lecher / The Verge: |
PayPal says it will cancel accounts of Proud Boys, Gavin McInnes, Tommy Robinson and a number of anti-fascist groups like Atlanta Antifa and Antifa Sacramento — PayPal said today that it will cancel accounts used by far-right group the Proud Boys as well as multiple accounts from anti-fascist groups.
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Turin-based Deltatre acquires IP video software maker Massive Interactive for $127M to challenge Disney and Endeavor in online sports streaming services — UK-based software maker Massive Interactive has been snapped up by Italian company Deltatre for $127m, in a deal designed to create … | Jonathan Vanian / Fortune: |
Harris poll: 22% of Americans say they trust Facebook with their personal information, 48% view Facebook more negatively than they did six months ago — Facebook is the least trustworthy of all major tech companies when it comes to safeguarding user data, according to a new national poll conducted … | Sidney Fussell / The Atlantic: |
Louisville, KY to hold four-year test of self-guided drones that, given GPS coordinates of shootings, take pictures and videos ahead of first responders — Keith Allen Bledsoe, the sixth teenage homicide victim in Lexington, Kentucky, this year, died as the other five had: by gunshot.
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Romania threatens to fine investigative non-profit RISE Project €650/day and up to €20M unless it reveals corruption investigation sources, citing GDPR — The Romanian Data Protection Authority (ANSPDCP) Thursday ordered investigative outlet RISE Project to reveal its sources … | Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Secret Service warns via internal alert that Informed Delivery, USPS's service to view scans of incoming mail, is being used to commit identity theft and fraud — A year ago, KrebsOnSecurity warned that “Informed Delivery,” a new offering from the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) … | Camilla Hodgson / Financial Times: |
Apple supplier Finisar, a laser chip maker that received $390M from Apple's Advanced Manufacturing Fund, acquired by optical product company II-VI in $3.2B deal — Optical products company II-VI Incorporated announced on Friday it planned to acquire Finisar, a maker of specialised laser scanners …
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Medium CEO Ev Williams says he will be raising more money; Medium has raised $132M, has 90M MAUs, and publishes 20K articles per day — - Ev Williams needs more money for Medium, which he says is still not profitable. — Medium has received $132 million from investors so far.| Anna Hensel / VentureBeat: |
LinkedIn says it is testing a new events tool with a select group of users in SF and NYC with plans to roll out the feature globally in the next few months — LinkedIn is getting into the event business. The professional networking site announced today that it's starting to test … Sponsor Posts
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