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Apple shuts down Facebook's ability to distribute internal iOS apps, blocking staff transportation apps and early releases of Facebook, Instagram, Messenger — Facebook's internal iOS apps simply don't launch anymore — Apple has shut down Facebook's ability to distribute internal iOS apps …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Investigation finds that Facebook has been paying people to install a “Facebook Research” VPN to gather data on phone use habits on Android and iOS — Desperate for data on its competitors, Facebook has been secretly paying people to install a “Facebook Research” …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Apple says it revoked Facebook's Enterprise Certificate yesterday used to distribute the Research app outside of App Store, before Facebook could shut it down — In the wake of TechCrunch's investigation yesterday, Apple blocked Facebook's Research VPN app before the social network could voluntarily shut it down.
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| Rob Price / Business Insider: |
Memo: Facebook confirms Apple disabled access to internal iOS apps and says it's “working closely” to reinstate “our most critical internal apps immediately” — - Facebook employees are furious after Apple temporarily crippled the company by revoking its developer certificate.
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| Reuters: |
Sources detail UAE's Project Raven, a group of 12+ ex-US intel operatives that help surveil governments, militants, and critics, sometimes using NSA tactics — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two weeks after leaving her position as an intelligence analyst for the U.S. National Security Agency in 2014 … | Reuters: |
Sources: UAE hacked iPhones of activists, diplomats, and rival foreign leaders using a spying tool called Karma, which exploited an iMessage vulnerability — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A team of former U.S. government intelligence operatives working for the United Arab Emirates hacked …
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| TechCrunch: |
Google's Screenwise Meter app has coaxed users with rewards into sharing info since 2012, in a similar way to Facebook's Research app but with better disclosure — It looks like Facebook is not the only one abusing Apple's system for distributing employee-only apps to sidestep the App Store and collect extensive data on users.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple tests USB-C iPhones and iOS dark mode for 2019, plans updated 10" iPad this spring, laser-based 3D cameras to aid AR on iPhones as soon as 2020 — - Company is testing a triple camera system for 2019 phones — New low-end iPads and an updated iPhone XR also in the works
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| Facebook: |
Facebook reports Q4 net income of $6.9B, up 61% YoY, revenue of $16.9B, up 30% YoY, DAUs of 1.52B, up 9% YoY, and headcount of 35,587, up 42% YoY; stock up 4%+ — Facebook, Inc. (Nasdaq: FB) today reported financial results for the quarter and full year ended December 31, 2018.
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| Michael Bott / NBC Bay Area: |
Unsealed court documents: FBI arrests second Chinese Apple employee for allegedly trying to steal trade secrets related to Apple's autonomous vehicles — For the second time in six months, an Apple engineer is accused of stealing intellectual property in order to benefit a China-based competitor
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| Microsoft: |
Microsoft Q2: revenue of $32.5B, up 12% YoY; Productivity and Business Processes revenue of $10.1B, up 13% YoY; Intelligent Cloud revenue of $9.4B, up 20% YoY — Microsoft Cloud Strength Fuels Second Quarter Results — REDMOND, Wash. — January 30, 2019 — Microsoft Corp. today announced …
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| Tom Bissell / New York Times: |
Zucked, a book by early Facebook investor Roger McNamee, details Facebook's damage to society, the dystopia it created, and advocates breaking up its monopoly — ZUCKED — Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe — The dystopia George Orwell conjured up in “1984” wasn't a prediction.
Tweets: @nytimes and @robinwauters
| Brian Fung / Washington Post: |
Spam monitoring service Hiya: Americans received 26.3B robocalls in 2018, up 46% from '17; FCC said it got 52,000 complaints regarding Caller ID spoofing in '18 — Americans are now getting so many robo-calls on a regular basis that many are simply choosing not to answer the phone altogether.| Apple: |
Apple Music subscribers can stream music without paying for Wi-Fi on domestic American Airlines flights in the US starting February 1 — Apple Music Subscribers can Stream Over 50 Million Songs, Playlists and Music Videos on US Flights — Starting Friday, Apple Music subscribers can enjoy … | Emily Badger / New York Times: |
A lot of tech startups have promising ideas to fix the housing crisis, but the fundamental problem of affordability seems beyond their reach — A lot of start-ups have promising ideas, but the fundamental problem of affordability seems beyond their reach. — Billions have been flowing …
Tweets: @emilymbadger, @byrosenberg, and @annehelen
| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
IBM releases its Diversity in Faces (DiF) image set, comprised of 1M faces taken from a 100M image data set, to help reduce bias in AI — Encoding biases into machine learning models, and in general into the constructs we refer to as AI, is nearly inescapable — but we can sure do better than we have in past years.| FinSMEs: |
Fortanix, which provides security by encrypting applications and data at runtime, raises $23M Series B led by Intel Capital — Fortanix, Inc., a Mountain View, CA-based runtime encryption technology company, closed a $23m Series B round of funding. — The round, which brings total funding to $31m …
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| David Cohen / Adweek: |
Reddit launches cost-per-click ads following a months-long beta with 50+ advertisers, saying it's Reddit's first foray into performance-driven ad bidding — They announced their new initiative on Wednesday — Reddit is making what it calls its first foray into performance-driven ad bidding … | Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Apple says revenue from services reached $10.8B, in line with estimates, and that it now has 360M subscribers to both its own and to third-party services — (Reuters) - Apple Inc on Tuesday reported sharp growth in its services business and Chief Executive Tim Cook said trade tensions between …
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