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Apple shuts down Facebook's ability to distribute internal iOS apps, blocking staff transportation app and early releases of Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger — Facebook's internal iOS apps simply don't launch anymore — Apple has shut down Facebook's ability to distribute internal iOS apps … | 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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| Casey Newton / The Interface: |
Apple shutting down Facebook's internal iOS apps should serve as a reminder of the power Apple holds over the rest of us — At around 2:30 a.m. ET on Wednesday, Facebook sent me an update about the controversial market research program revealed on Tuesday by TechCrunch.| 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.| 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 11%+ — Facebook, Inc. (Nasdaq: FB) today reported financial results for the quarter and full year ended December 31, 2018.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook says Instagram Stories has 500M daily users, will phase out Facebook-only metrics, focusing on “family” metrics like 2.7B monthly users across apps — Roughly half of Instagram's users 1 billion users now use Instagram Stories every day.| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
| 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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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Google says Google+ for consumers will shut down April 2; all content posted by consumer accounts, including Google+ pages, photos, and videos, will be deleted — In late 2018, Google announced that it would shut down Google+, its beleaguered social network, for consumers due to “low usage” … | 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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| Nick Summers / Engadget: |
Nintendo reports Q3 profit of ~$1.5B, up 36% YoY, on revenue of $5.6B, up 26% YoY, sells 9.41M Switch consoles, but cuts its fiscal year target from 20M to 17M — Nintendo sold 9.41 million Switch consoles in the three months leading up to December 31st, 2018, bringing lifetime sales to 32.27 million.
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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Samsung reports Q4 revenue of $53.3B, down 10% YoY, operating profit of $9.7B, down 29% YoY, says earnings primarily affected by falling demand for memory chips — Samsung Electronics has turned in an earnings report in line with its guidance, as happens every quarter.| Athena Jones / CNN: |
New York AG, in precedent-setting settlement, finds selling fake followers and likes or using stolen IDs on social media is illegal in its case against Devumi — New York (CNN Business)A company that brought in millions of dollars in revenue by creating fake social media posts and comments …
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| TechCrunch: |
Google disables its Screenwise Meter app on iOS, which coaxed users into sharing info in a manner similar 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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| 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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| Mike Robuck / FierceTelecom: |
Within days of Intel announcing it is expanding its chip plant in Israel, sources say it has bid $5.5B to acquire Israeli big data chipmaker Mellanox — U.S. chipmaker Intel has reportedly bid $5.5 billion to $6 billion in cash and stock to buy Israel-based Mellanox.
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| Melia Russell / San Francisco Chronicle: |
DHS announces rule changes to H-1B visa lottery favoring workers with US advanced degrees starting Apr. 1, making it harder for outsourcers to hire from abroad — A subtle change with major implications is coming to the H-1B visa program that could give large tech companies an edge …
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Wall Street Journal, USCIS, Bloomberg Law, NDTV.com, and Times of India. Tweets: @sfchronicle. Thanks:@meliarobin
| 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 …
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