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Investigation finds that Facebook has been paying people to install a “Facebook Research” VPN to gather data on phone use habits, which may violate Apple policy — Desperate for data on its competitors, Facebook has been secretly paying people to install a “Facebook Research” …
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| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Apple says Facebook's research app is a “clear breach of their agreement with Apple” and has revoked their enterprise certificate — Facebook will stop its “market research” program that was paying users in exchange for their mobile data. — Facebook is at the center …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Facebook says it will shut down its controversial market research app on iOS, but it will apparently continue to be available for Android users — Facebook Research paid users $20 gift cards for near total access to data on their phones — Facebook will end a controversial market research program …
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| Apple: |
Apple Q1: revenue from iPhone declined 15% YoY, but total revenue from all other products and services grew 19%; services revenue hit an all-time high of $10.9B — Services, Mac and Wearables Set New All-Time Revenue Records EPS Reaches All-Time High at $4.18 Cupertino, California …
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| 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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| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp hires EFF counsel Nate Cardozo and Facebook hires Open Technology Institute counsel Robyn Green, both as privacy policy managers — In an effort to bolster its public credibility in the wake of a very rough year, Facebook is bringing a fierce former critic into the fold.
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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.
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| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
Report: Apple told studios and networks to be ready for a launch of Apple's streaming service by mid-April, the same month investors see a Disney+ preview — Studios were reportedly told to be ready by mid-April — Little is known about Apple's standalone streaming service, aside from the mountain of original content that's coming.
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| 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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| Nicole Perlroth / New York Times: |
A mother reported FaceTime bug to Apple over a week ago after her 14-year-old son discovered the flaw; Apple asked her to send report via developer account — SAN FRANCISCO — On Jan. 19, Grant Thompson, a 14-year-old in Arizona, made an unexpected discovery: Using FaceTime …
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| 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 … | Business Wire: |
Alibaba Q3: revenue up 41% YoY, its weakest pace in three years, to ~$17B, driven by cloud computing revenue, up 84% YoY at $962M; net income up 33% to $4.5B — HANGZHOU, China—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE: BABA) today announced its financial results for the quarter ended December 31, 2018.
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| 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.| Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss / Reuters: |
CipherTrace: the amount of cryptocurrencies stolen from exchanges and scammed from investors surged 400%+ in 2018 to $1.7B — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cryptocurrencies stolen from exchanges and scammed from investors surged more than 400 percent in 2018 to around $1.7 billion …
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| Tal Shahaf / Globes Online: |
Israeli startup Pliops, which develops cloud storage processors, raises $30M Series B led by Softbank Ventures Asia — Pliops will use the funds to accelerate development of its storage processor technology for cloud storage and database applications. — Israeli cloud storage solutions …
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Foxconn is reconsidering plans for its $10B Wisconsin plant, says it plans to hire engineers and researchers instead of manufacturing workforce promised earlier — (Reuters) - Foxconn Technology Group is reconsidering plans to make advanced liquid crystal display panels at a $10 billion Wisconsin campus …
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| The Information: |
Source: Stripe has raised an additional $100M from Tiger Global, bringing its valuation to $22B+, up from its $20B valuation in September 2018 — Payments startup Stripe has raised an additional $100 million from Tiger Global Management, boosting the firm's valuation to $22.5 billion, according to a person close to the company.| Rob Marvin / PCMag: |
Interview with Alphabet's Jigsaw product manager CJ Adams on how its AI-assisted Perspective tool, used by some publishers to weed out abusive comments, works — The Perspective API from Jigsaw, part of Google parent company Alphabet, gives online comment mods an evolving set of tools to combat abuse and harassment.Sponsor Posts
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