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Sources: analysis shows a message from Saudi Crown Prince MbS' WhatsApp account to Jeff Bezos in 2018 included file “highly” likely to have hacked Bezos' phone — Exclusive: investigation suggests Washington Post owner was targeted five months before murder of Jamal Khashoggi
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| Stephanie Kirchgaessner / The Guardian: |
UN special rapporteurs say they are “gravely concerned” about the alleged hacking of Jeff Bezos' phone by Saudi's MbS, calling for further investigations — Special rapporteurs ‘gravely concerned’ about possible involvement of crown prince in surveillance of Amazon boss
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| Bloomberg: |
Source: the new low-cost iPhone, which looks like iPhone 8 and has a 4.7" screen, will enter production in February and may be announced as early as March — - New model will look similar to 2017's iPhone 8 with Touch ID — Apple expected to launch the 4.7-inch phone as early as March
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
GM's Cruise unveils Origin, its first driverless vehicle with no steering wheel or pedals, says it will share more info about its production plans in the future — The Origin is the GM subsidiary's first attempt to build an fully autonomous car from the ground up
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Netflix Q4 revenue grew 31% YoY to $5.467B and net income rose to $587M, surpassing 100M paid memberships outside the US; global paid net additions totaled 8.8M — Fellow shareholders, We had a strong finish to 2019, with Q4 revenue growing 31% year over year, bringing full year 2019 revenue …
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French SaaS startup LumApps, which provides a cloud-based enterprise communication platform, raises €63.1M Series C led by Goldman Sachs — French SaaS startup LumApps, a provider of cloud-based enterprise communication solutions, has today announced a €63.1 million Series C funding round …
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| Simon Van Zuylen Wood / Wired: |
Behind the scenes at Rotten Tomatoes, whose Tomatometer is run by 12 “curators” who read just about every review from a pool of about 4,500 approved critics — Humans, not algorithms, determine those ubiquitous scores. Good ingredients, imperfect recipe.
Tweets: @heilemann and @wiredculture
| Yuan Yang / Financial Times: |
Uncertainty grows for Chinese workers in Silicon Valley after trade war tensions, the Huawei controversy, and cases of Chinese accused of stealing trade secrets — The first time that 35-year-old Zhang Lelin, a software engineer from China, felt uncomfortable in Silicon Valley was last year …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Analysis of 11,430 Play Store apps in 2019 found that 14.2% used a privacy policy with contradicting statements about user data collection practices — An analysis of 11,430 Play Store apps found that 14.2% used a privacy policy with contradicting statements about user data collection practices.| The Information: |
Sources: Quibi's CEO Meg Whitman, in an internal meeting, compared reporters' friendly rapport with their sources to how sexual predators groom their targets — Quibi CEO Meg Whitman lashed out against the media at an “all-hands” staff meeting last Thursday, drawing an analogy between reporters … | Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times: |
Amazon says Amazon Music has 55M users across six different price tiers, including a free tier, “nearly all” of which are paying subscribers — Amazon's music streaming service has eclipsed 55m users, making the ecommerce group a serious contender in the market that has been historically dominated by Spotify and Apple.| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Motorola says its foldable Razr will be available for pre-order on January 26, one month after originally planned, arriving on February 6 — After a slight delay last month, Motorola's highly anticipated foldable Razr now has a release date: it'll be out on February 6th for $1,499, with preorders starting on January 26th.
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