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Apple reports record first quarter results — iPhone, Wearables & Services Drive All-Time Record Revenue and Earnings — Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2020 first quarter ended December 28, 2019. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $91.8 billion …
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| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Apple addresses Wuhan coronavirus concerns, offers wider than usual Q2 revenue estimates, says it closed one retail store in China, slightly delayed production — Apple has suppliers in the Wuhan area of China, and it has taken precautions like closing one store in China and reducing hours at other retail locations.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google says in 2019 its bug bounty program paid 461 security researchers $6.5M, up from $3.4M to 317 researchers in 2018 — Google today announced it has paid out over $21 million since launching its bug bounty program in November 2010. In the past year alone, the company distributed $6.5 million …
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| Kevin McLaughlin / The Information: |
Sources: Google is testing a new communications app for businesses, which brings together functions from Gmail, Drive, Hangouts Meet, Hangouts Chat, and more — Google is working on a mobile application for businesses that brings together the functions of several standalone apps the company already offers … | Bill Budington / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
Ring app on Android covertly sends personally identifiable information of users to third parties including Facebook and MixPanel — Ring isn't just a product that allows users to surveil their neighbors. The company also uses it to surveil its customers.
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| Shoshana Wodinsky / Gizmodo: |
Facebook's Off-Facebook Activity tool won't actually clear the data collected about you from other apps and sites, only its connection to your Facebook account — When we talk about Facebook's myriad foibles and fuckups, we're usually laying the blame on things that happen within the Big Blue App …
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| Kate Fazzini / CNBC: |
In a first, US DOJ is seeking court approval to take enforcement action against several telecom operators for facilitating robocalls — - The U.S. Justice Department announced its first-ever enforcement action against telecommunications companies over robocalls, the agency announced Tuesday.
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| Babu Mohan / Android Central: |
Samsung says the 5G version of its Galaxy Tab S6, which it claims is the world's first 5G tablet, is available now in South Korea for $850 — It will only be sold in South Korea, at least initially. — What you need to know — Samsung today unveiled a variant of the Galaxy Tab S6 with 5G connectivity.
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| Julia Carrie Wong / The Guardian: |
Investigation: in 2019, Trump's marketing campaign spent ~$20M on 218K+ Facebook ads targeting conservatives with marketing ploys designed to harvest user data — A Guardian investigation of 218,100 ads reveals how the campaign's sophisticated social media machine targets conservative voters| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Facebook VP of Engineering Jay Parikh, who was instrumental in building Facebook's data center infrastructure, is leaving the company after more than a decade — - Facebook's Vice President of Engineering Jay Parikh on Tuesday announced his departure from the company, joining a long list …
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| Katy Stech Ferek / Wall Street Journal: |
US Interior Department introduces a no-fly rule for Chinese drones or those made with Chinese parts, with some exceptions, amid espionage concerns — Order reflects concern that data collected ‘could be valuable to foreign entities’ — WASHINGTON—Interior Department officials plan …
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Online fraud bazaar lists 30M+ US customers' card details for sale, which experts say come from breach of convenience store chain Wawa disclosed in December — In late December 2019, fuel and convenience store chain Wawa Inc. said a nine-month-long breach of its payment card processing systems …
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| Matina Stevis-Gridneff / New York Times: |
Despite US pressure, the EU told member states they should limit “high risk” 5G vendors, like Huawei, but did not recommend a total ban — The bloc's experts suggested members limit and monitor the involvement of “high-risk” vendors as they invest in next-generation mobile communications infrastructure.
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