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Amazon says it has cancelled plans to build HQ2 in New York City, focusing instead on Northern Virginia and Nashville, following a backlash — Amazon on Thursday canceled its plans to build an expansive corporate campus in New York City after facing an unexpectedly fierce backlash …
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| Hugh Son / CNBC: |
JP Morgan has created the JPM Coin, a digital token that will be used to instantly settle transactions, with trials set to start in a few months — - Engineers at the lender have created the “JPM Coin,” a digital token that will be used to instantly settle transactions between clients of its wholesale payments business.
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| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Apple says it will resume selling banned iPhone 7 and 8 models in Germany using only chips from Qualcomm, after it had “no choice” but to stop using Intel chips — (Reuters) - Apple Inc said Thursday that it will resume selling older iPhone models in its stores in Germany …
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Alibaba's Ant Financial buys London-based payments company WorldFirst in a deal that sources say is valued at around $700M — Ant Financial, the financial services giant affiliated with Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, has made its first big move into Europe.
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| Reuters: |
Illicit software distributors are using iOS enterprise developer certificates to distribute hacked versions of popular apps like Spotify and Minecraft — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Software pirates have hijacked technology designed by Apple Inc to distribute hacked versions of Spotify …
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| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
Apple has signed many publishers to its upcoming news service with a 50% revenue split, sources say, but that split likely won't satisfy major newspapers — Magazine publishers are on board with Apple's new subscription news service. Newspapers aren't. — Apple says it wants to help save journalism.| Niraj Chokshi / New York Times: |
FTC: Americans lost ~$143M to online dating scams in 2018, which was number one in terms of dollar loss when compared to other types of fraud — Love is in the air, but don't let it cloud your judgment — or it might cost you. — Americans looking for love lost at least $143 million …
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| The Daily Beast: |
Sources: two teams of federal officials assembled to secure election infrastructure and fight foreign influence efforts are being dramatically downsized — 'It's very curious why the leadership has not committed resources to prepare for the 2020 election,' one Homeland Security official tells The Daily Beast.
Tweets: @tribelaw and @brianklaas
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple will unveil both its video and news subscription offerings at a March 25 event — - Company also plans to unveil news service at March 25 event — New subscription offerings may boost revenue of key segment — Apple Inc. is planning to unveil video … | Vindu Goel / New York Times: |
Critics say India's proposed internet rules, which could compel companies to remove posts, will stifle free speech; the rules can go into effect from Thursday — NEW DELHI — India's government has proposed giving itself vast new powers to suppress internet content, igniting a heated battle …
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| Nellie Bowles / New York Times: |
Profile of Atlassian founders Scott Farquhar and Mike Cannon-Brookes, Australia's first startup-to-IPO tech billionaires whose company is now worth $20B — SYDNEY, Australia — Atlassian is a very boring software company. It develops products for software engineers and project managers …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
EU negotiations on Copyright Directive overhaul come to a close, with Article 11 and 13 largely intact; legislation now heads to EU Parliament for approval — The hated Articles 11 and 13 remain intact after final efforts to remove them failed — Last-minute negotiations over the wording …
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Canalys: 32% of smartphone shipments in Europe in 2018 were from Chinese vendors; Huawei shipped 13.3M units in Q4 2018, up 55.7% YoY, Xiaomi was up 62% — US antipathy to Chinese brands hasn't crossed the Atlantic — The latest figures from market analysts Canalys have quantified a trend …
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| Andrii Degeler / Tech.eu: |
Paris-based freelance marketplace Malt raises $25M round led by Idinvest, will use the capital injection to expand to Germany and the Netherlands — Paris-based freelance platform Malt has landed $25 million in a funding round led by Idinvest, with participation from existing investors, ISAI and Serena, Maddyness reported.
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| Nikkei: |
Sources say Google plans to unveil a lower-priced smartphone in 2019, and expect it to be cheaper than the iPhone XR, which starts at $749 — Tech giant seeks to exploit Apple woes to drive hardware expansion — TAIPEI — Google plans to unveil its first lower-priced smartphone this year …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Walmart's tech incubator Store No. 8 launches Spatial&, a VR merchandising startup that is partnering with DreamWorks Animation VR at 16 Walmart stores — Walmart's tech incubator Store N°8 today launched its next startup, a VR merchandising company called Spatial&.
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| Jordyn Holman / Bloomberg: |
How some big tech companies, including Palantir and Oracle, are hiding diversity statistics by claiming they are trade secrets — - Diversity stats give rivals road map to raid talent, firms say — Growing trend may let tech firms pay lip service to diversity — Diversity and inclusion.
Tweets: @oliviasolon and @jordynjournals
| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Figma, maker of cloud-based collaborative interface design tools, raises $40M Series C, bringing the total raised to $82.9M at a post-money valuation of $440M — With more industries and organizations recognizing design as a pillar of business, a battle is brewing among makers of design tools.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amazon launches Amazon Moments, a rewards program that lets developers give users physical gifts for specific actions, in 100 countries — App and web developers are always trying to figure out better ways of keeping their users engaged on their platforms for longer.
Tweets: @lcooney
| Kate Rooney / CNBC: |
Automated financial advisor startup Wealthfront launches a high-yield cash account with 2.24% interest rate, which it says is cleared with regulators — - Wealthfront is the latest start-up to offer a cash account with zero fees and an above-average interest rate.
Tweets: @jyarow
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Zoho updates its core office suite products Zoho Writer, Sheet, Show, and Notebooks with Zia Voice, a conversational AI assistant — As far as big tech companies go, Zoho is a bit different. Not only has it never taken any venture funding, it also offers more than 40 products that range … | Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Facebook says it is exploring ways to address anti-vaccine misinformation including reducing or removing it from recommendations and demotion in search results — Facebook Inc., under pressure to reduce harmful, misleading and fake content, said it is exploring removing anti-vaccine information … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Researcher finds what appears to be an unsecured facial recognition database of 2.5M+ Uyghur Muslims in China, with ID card data and near real-time GPS data — Researcher finds one of the databases that the Chinese government has been using to track its Uyghur Muslim population.Thanks:@campuscodi
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