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Kuo: MacBook Pro with 16"-to-16.5" screen and new design, 31.6" “6k3k” monitor, upgradable Mac Pro, iPhones with bilateral charging, new iPad mini out in 2019 — Reliable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is out with a wide-reaching new investor note this evening.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
UK parliament's report on fake news and disinformation says “digital gangster” Facebook deliberately broke laws, calls for antitrust, data abuse investigations — A final report by a British parliamentary committee which spent months last year investigating online political disinformation makes …
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| Tripp Mickle / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: recent leadership changes at Apple have rattled rank-and-file employees and led several projects to be put on hold as new managers reassess priorities — Apple is shaking up leadership across its services, artificial intelligence, hardware and retail divisions as it repositions for slowing iPhone sales.
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Australia's PM says the country's parliament and three largest political parties have been hacked by a “sophisticated state actor” ahead of a federal election — Prime Minister Scott Morrison has revealed Australia's political parties suffered cyber attacks alongside …
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| Mitchel Broussard / MacRumors: |
Report details Huawei's efforts to steal Apple's IP, including pressing suppliers for Apple Watch details, copying a MacBook Pro component, debriefing new hires — Last month, the United States Justice Department announced a series of criminal charges against Chinese smartphone maker Huawei …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Days after Greenpeace dings Amazon's “dirty cloud” in report the company disputes, Amazon debuts initiative to make half of its shipments carbon neutral by 2030 — Perhaps hoping to distract from Greenpeace's latest report on its “dirty cloud, Amazon this morning announced …
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| Reed Stevenson / Bloomberg: |
Profile of Recruit Holdings, once a scandal-plagued Japanese internet pioneer that now has a ~$46B valuation and 350 apps that span many categories — It was one of the most infamous companies in Japan, rocking the nation with a corporate scandal that ousted a prime minister and then nearly collapsing under a mountain of debt.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Voicebot: the number of Google Assistant Actions in the US reached 4,253 in January 2019, up 2.5X YoY, trailing Amazon, which has touted 56,750 US Alexa skills — In addition to competing for smart speaker market share, Google and Amazon are also competing for developer mindshare in the voice app ecosystem.
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| Kevin Kelly / Wired: |
How AR could spark the next big tech platform, the “Mirrorworld”: a 1-to-1 map of unimaginable scope, merging our physical reality with the digital universe — EVERY DECEMBER, ADAM Savage—star of the TV show MythBusters—releases a video reviewing his “favorite things” from the previous year.| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
London-based GoCardless, which processes recurring direct debit payments, raises $75M Series E co-led by GV and PE firm Adams Street Partners — - CEO Hiroki Takeuchi voiced his frustrations with Brexit, labeling the current situation as a “joke.” — British online payments start … | Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Study: in 2017, ~17M US content creators, up 16.6% YoY, earned ~$6.8B, up 17% YoY, on nine leading platforms including Instagram, Twitch, Tumblr, and YouTube — A year ago, we wrote about a wonderful study that showed how the internet and its various platforms were (contrary to the stories … | Reuters: |
Sources: the Chinese Communist Party propaganda app Xuexi Qiangguo, which became the most popular app in Apple's App Store in China, was developed by Alibaba — BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese government propaganda app that recently became a huge hit was developed by Alibaba … Sponsor Posts
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