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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Apple restores Google's internal iOS apps after certificate misuse punishment — Apple has blocked Google from distributing its internal-only iOS apps on its corporate network after a TechCrunch investigation found the search giant abusing the certificates.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
A breakdown of Facebook's internal memo detailing distribution and onboarding for its Research app, and defending its data collection methods and disclosures — Early this morning, we received agreement from Apple to issue a new enterprise certificate; this has allowed us to produce new builds …
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Inside Facebook, which was seriously disrupted by its dispute with Apple over enterprise certificates, employee anger flares at the Onavo team responsible — SAN FRANCISCO — When Facebook employees woke up on Wednesday morning, many found they could not perform even the most basic work tasks.
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CNBC, TechCrunch, iDownloadBlog.com, AppleInsider, Business Insider, The Verge, Mashable, VentureBeat, and The Ringer
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| Daniel Funke / Poynter: |
Snopes pulls out of Facebook partnership, says Facebook's closed, manual fact-checking entry system is too labor intensive and fails to benefit the whole web — Snopes is no longer debunking misinformation in partnership with Facebook. In a statement published Friday …
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| Christina Farr / CNBC: |
Sources: Alphabet's Verily is looking for partners to co-develop shoes with embedded sensors to track the wearer's movement, weight, and detect falls — - Alphabet's Verily has been showing off a prototype of shoes that can track weight, movement, and potentially even detect falls.
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SiliconANGLE, Business Insider, Digital Trends, Engadget, 9to5Google, The Verge, SlashGear, iPhone Hacks, PYMNTS.com, and TechSpot. Thanks:@mattrosoff
| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Huawei's Mobile World Congress invite hints that the company will show off a foldable 5G smartphone on February 24 — Whether gimmicky or great, foldable devices will get their time in the spotlight this year — Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is traditionally the year's biggest show …
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Forbes, Gizchina, Tom's Guide, 9to5Google, TechSpot, Telecoms.com, Engadget, Patently Mobile, Pocketnow, BGR, Droid Life, and TechCrunch. Tweets: @huaweimobile
| Todd Haselton / CNBC: |
Apple apologizes for Group FaceTime bug, says it's now fixed and a software update will re-enable the feature next week, promises better bug reporting practices — - Apple apologizes for a massive FaceTime bug that let people eavesdrop on others, even if they never answered a FaceTime call.
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Tweets: @stevekovach and @apollozac
| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Court filing: widow of crypto exchange QuadrigaCX founder says it can't access most of $137M worth of coins in cold wallets to which only founder had the keys — Troubled Canadian crypto exchange QuadrigaCX owes its customers $190 million and cannot access most of the funds, according to a court filing obtained by CoinDesk.| Josh Dzieza / The Verge: |
Days after saying it is reconsidering plans for a Wisconsin plant, Foxconn now says the plan is back on after its Chairman's “personal conversation” with Trump — At some point — Days after Foxconn's Louis Woo told Reuters that the company is no longer planning to build …
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Tweets: @stevekovach, @reckless, @reckless, and @kylegriffin1
| Vindu Goel / New York Times: |
400K+ items, making up about a third of Amazon's ~$6B in annual sales in India, may disappear from Amazon India, while it works to meet new compliance rules — NEW DELHI — On Friday, Indian consumers will wake up to an emptier, more expensive version of Amazon's shopping service.
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Recode, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, PaymentsSource, Reuters, Investor's Business Daily, PYMNTS.com, Financial Times, The Verge, The Next Web, Quartz, MediaNama, BGR India, Tech in Asia, Bloomberg, CNN, Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat, Times of India, and Channel NewsAsia. Tweets: @delrey
| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
Facebook says it was able to uncover the Iranian network thanks to information from Twitter and that the two have been sharing notes sooner than previously — Facebook and Twitter have removed thousands of fake accounts originating from Iran, some dating back as far as 2010, after collaborating to combat disinformation.
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Tweets: @adamjohnsonnyc, @wiczipedia, @vijayshekhar, @justinhendrix, @martyswant, @policy, @policy, @jank0, @jank0, @martyswant, and @martyswant
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Twilio closes acquisition of email marketing platform SendGrid, says the all-stock deal is now valued at $3B, up from the $2B initially announced in October — Twilio's bid to become the go-to platform for all of a business's external communication needs took a big step ahead today.
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Business Wire and socalTECH.com
| Alison Griswold / Quartz: |
Amazon says it got 850k applications for hourly US jobs in Oct. 2018 after announcing its $15 minimum wage, more than doubling its previous monthly record — One of the most important takeaways from Amazon's 2018 fourth-quarter and full-year earnings report, released Jan. 31, had little to do with the usual financial results.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: UK money transfer company WorldFirst, in talks to be bought by China's Ant Financial, will close its US unit to avoid regulations that might block deal — A British money transfer company has abruptly closed its US operation in an attempt to avoid having its planned £700m takeover …
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