Techmeme: Walmart's Jet.com is shutting its fresh-food delivery business just a year after introducing the service in NYC; source: Jet was losing about $20 on every order (Matthew Boyle/Bloomberg)

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Russia bans sale of gadgets including smartphones, computers, and smart TVs that are not pre-installed with alternative Russian software starting July 2020 — Russia has passed a law banning the sale of certain devices that are not pre-installed with Russian software.

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Debby Wu / Bloomberg:

Sources say Apple AirPods shipments expected to double to 60M in 2019, driven by much higher than expected demand for the AirPods Pro model — - Demand for AirPods Pro ‘much higher’ than original estimate — Wearables drive Apple's growth as smartphone shipments plateau

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Deirdre Bosa / CNBC:

Airbnb's COO Belinda Johnson announced in an email that she is stepping down in March; she will join Airbnb's board of directors as its ninth member — - Airbnb's Belinda Johnson announces she is stepping down as COO in March in an email to staff sent Friday that was viewed by CNBC.

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Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet:

Twitter says users can now enroll in 2FA without a phone number and disable SMS-based 2FA as default, allows other methods such as mobile authenticator apps — And it only took Twitter's CEO getting hacked to happen. — Twitter announced today that users will finally be able to disable SMS-based …

Matthew Boyle / Bloomberg:

Walmart's Jet.com is shutting its fresh-food delivery business just a year after introducing the service in NYC; source: Jet was losing about $20 on every order — - Retailer will close warehouse, eliminating more than 200 jobs — Jet's grocery service has struggled since its debut a year ago

More: CNBC, Engadget, Business Insider, PYMNTS.com, and TechSpot. Tweets: @ekovarski

Jon Fingas / Engadget:

FCC bans carriers from using federal subsidies to buy equipment from Huawei and ZTE, considers ordering subsidy recipients to replace current Chinese equipment — The FCC is acting on its vow to keep Chinese technology out of American wireless networks. Commissioners have unanimously approved …

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Tom Metcalf / Bloomberg:

Travis Kalanick has sold ~$1.5B worth of Uber stock since a post-IPO lockup expired on Nov. 6; a Nov. 11 filing suggests Kalanick could offload his entire stake — - Uber co-founder has sold more than half his stake in November — Stake in ride-hailing company is now a minority of his fortune

More: Coinspeaker and CNBC

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Jan Wolfe / Reuters:

Appeals court says Apple infringed only two of four VirnetX patents, vacates $503M jury award, sends the case back to Texas court to recalculate damages — (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Friday set aside a jury's calculation that Apple Inc should pay $503 million for infringing …

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Nicolas Vega / New York Post:

Sources: at an AWS conference in July, Amazon banned participating companies from mentioning its cloud competitors and using phrases such as “multi-cloud” — Online retailing giant Amazon has a new strategy for dealing with threats to its cash-cow cloud business: Pretend they don't exist.

Tweets: @counternotions and @delrey

Stephen Hall / 9to5Google:

Google says Cloud Print, its cloud-based printing service that has been in beta since 2010, will no longer be supported as of December 31, 2020 — Google has announced that Cloud Print, its cloud-based printing solution, is being retired at the end of next year.

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Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:

A look at Syniverse, the company behind the delayed Valentine's Day texts, and its hardball tactics which have given it power over routing SMS between carriers — On November 7th, tens of thousands of people across the US woke up to strange text messages from friends and loved ones …

Tweets: @waltmossberg, @jake_k, and @reckless

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:

ZecOps, which automates detection, analysis, and response to cyberattacks on endpoints and servers, raises $10.2M seed round — Juniper Research pegs the number of digital records that will be stolen in 2023 at 33 billion, compared with the 12 billion stolen in 2018.

More: PR Newswire and Pulse 2.0

Jane Lanhee Lee / Reuters:

Filing: outside the US and China, Airbnb had $2.42B in revenue in 2018, up 35%+ YoY, and $46.47M in profits, compared to a $97.22M loss in 2017 — (Reuters) - Airbnb's business excluding the United States and China turned a net profit of $46.47 million in 2018 compared with a loss …

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Twitter rolls out its “Hide Replies” feature to all users globally — Twitter's radical “Hide Replies” feature, one of the biggest changes to how Twitter works since the invention of the Retweet, is now available to Twitter's global user base. The company says the feature …

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