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Cisco to pay $8.6M to settle government claims for selling video surveillance tech with a security flaw, reported in 2008, to government agencies until 2013 — WASHINGTON — Cisco Systems agreed on Wednesday to pay $8.6 million to settle claims that it sold video surveillance technology …
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| The Guardian: |
Facebook says it was “not our role” to remove fake news during Australian election; it only demotes fake news, removes content that violates community standards — Exclusive: Facebook executive Simon Milner says company ‘only removes content that violates our community standards’| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Bird unveils new electric scooter with 50% more battery life, anti-vandalism sensors, anti-tipping kickstands, and anti-puncture tires — Bird Two also has anti-tipping kickstands and anti-puncture tires — It's been less than three months since Bird unveiled Bird One …
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| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
With an estimated 420K CCTV cameras operating in the city, London has become a test bed for visual surveillance tech, including live facial recognition — On the last day of January, few of the shoppers and office workers who hurried through Romford town centre in east London …
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| Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez / The San Francisco Examiner: |
Lyft has made its 1,000 e-bikes in San Francisco “unavailable to riders” following two reports of bikes catching fire — The flames appear to have originated from the battery — The battery of an electric Lyft bicycle appeared to catch fire Wednesday in the Lower Haight.
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Fitbit beat analyst estimates with Q2 revenue of $314M, up 5% YoY, but lowered Q3 guidance; stock down 14%+ after hours — KEY POINTS — The Fitbit Ionic has a few apps, with more to come — Shares of Fitbit cratered as much as 21% after hours on Wednesday after the company cut guidance …
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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Intel unveils eleven 10th-gen Ice Lake laptop CPUs, built on its new 10-nm Sunny Cove architecture, claims they run 18% more instructions per clock than before — Intel gave us the broad strokes of its 10th-generation “Ice Lake” notebook CPUs at Computex a few months ago, but now the company is finally ready to give us more details.
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| Alex Wilhelm / Crunchbase News: |
Report: Cloudflare plans to pursue an IPO in September and has filed a confidential S-1 with the SEC; it was valued at ~$3.2B in its $150M March Series E — Morning Markets: Cloudflare is reportedly going public this year, meaning that we have at least two big-name IPOs left in the tank.| Olivia Carville / Bloomberg: |
Court filing: former IBM HR VP Alan Wild says the company has fired 50,000 to 100,000 staff in recent years; ongoing litigation argues older staff were targeted — - Moves were to make IBM appear as ‘cool’ as Google and Amazon — Big Blue is facing several age-discrimination lawsuits
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| Varun Mishra / Counterpoint Research: |
Analysis: in Q2 2019, global smartphone shipments declined 1% YoY, making it the 7th consecutive quarter of declining shipments; Samsung shipments grew 7.1% YoY — Overall smartphone shipment declined 1% in Q2 2019, making it the seventh consecutive quarter of declining shipments.
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
UK-based fintech startup Revolut launches commission-free US stock trading service, including the ability to buy fractions of shares — KEY POINTS — Revolut users will be able to buy a fraction of shares in U.S. companies through its trading platform. — British fintech firm Revolut …
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| Ryan Christoffel / MacStories: |
An in-depth look at Apple Maps in iOS 13, the biggest update to the service so far, and how it compares to Google Maps — Apple's path to a home-brewed mapping solution has been long and perilous, but it's almost arrived. — 12 years ago the iPhone launched with Google powering … | Liam Tung / ZDNet: |
Google to let G Suite admins select users for the Advanced Protection Program, designed to prevent cyberattacks against high-profile users, in the coming days — You might never need to change your password again if you're part of the G Suite Advanced Protection Program.
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| Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab: |
After 6 months of fact-checking for Facebook, Full Fact published 96 fact-checks, was paid ~$171k, wants Facebook to share more data with fact-checkers — In December 2016, Facebook enlisted a handful of U.S.-based news organizations (ABC News, Snopes, PolitiFact, FactCheck.org, and the AP) …
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| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
Qualcomm misses with Q3 revenue of $4.9B, down 13% YoY, and licensing revenue of $1.29B, down 10% YoY; stock down 4%+ after hours — Qualcomm says it is well positioned for the 5G ramp to come in early 2020. — Qualcomm published its third quarter financial fiscal 2019 results on Wednesday …
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| Christine Fisher / Engadget: |
Report: more than 32M patient records were stolen between January and June 2019, more than double the 15M records stolen in all of 2018 — More than 32 million patient records were breached between January and June 2019. That's more than double the 15 million medical records breached in all of 2018 … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Armory, which commercializes the open source continuous delivery platform Spinnaker, raises $28M Series B led by Insight Partners — Armory, a member of the Continuous Delivery (CD) Foundation and the software developer commercializing the multi-cloud CD suite Spinnaker …
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FinSMEs, GlobeNewswire News Room, and PE Hub Blog
| Tim Ingham / Music Business Worldwide: |
Spotify reports 108M paying subscribers in Q2, up 31% YoY, revenue of €1.67B, up 31% YoY, and an operating loss of €3M — Spotify closed its second calendar quarter this year with 108m paying subscribers and 232m total Monthly Active Users (MAUs).| Sean O'Kane / The Verge: |
DJI unveils new goggles for its drones, offering a 720p streaming first-person view, and a new controller, both geared toward racing and available now from $819 — The Chinese giant's first serious move into a growing niche market — DJI is making a fairly bold move into the world of first-person view …
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| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
A look at the potential benefits of 5G in a variety of applications and services, including AR/VR, healthcare, emergency response, connected cars, and broadband — Take a five-minute walk behind Qualcomm's main office in San Diego and you'll find an unlikely kind of lab.
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