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MWC bans visitors from China's Hubei province, will require those who have been to China to prove they were outside the country for 14 days before the event — A couple of weeks out, Mobile World Congress organizer, the GSMA, has issued some fairly sweeping safeguards over growing concerns around the coronavirus.
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| Natt Garun / The Verge: |
A roundup of the coronavirus outbreak's impact on the tech sector, from closures of offices, stores, and factories in China to affecting MWC attendance — The outbreak shows that what impacts China impacts everything — The tech sector is currently feeling the impact of the coronavirus …
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Inside Netflix's aggressive Oscars campaign that's spending an estimated $100M+ mainly to promote two films, while other studios usually spend $5M-$20M per film — With lavish parties, huge billboards, and screenings around the world, awards campaigning may never be the same| Nic Fildes / Financial Times: |
Vodafone will remove Huawei systems from its EU core network at a cost of €200M over the next five years, following new UK rules and EU guidelines last month — Vodafone is to strip Huawei systems out of the core of its European network at a cost of €200m as the European telecoms sector moves …
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Corp.com domain put up for sale for $1.7M; testing shows it could give access to proprietary data of companies that adopted default “corp” Active Directory path — As an early domain name investor, Mike O'Connor had by 1994 snatched up several choice online destinations …
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| Haaretz: |
Homepage source code of an app used by Israel's Likud party exposed admin passwords, letting anyone access info on 6M+ voters in the country's voter registry — Names, identification numbers and addresses of over 6 million voters were leaked through the unsecured Elector app
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| Asa Fitch / Wall Street Journal: |
How power companies are turning to AI, drones, battery systems, and sensors to shorten outages, save money, and help run an increasingly complex power grid — Power companies are turning to AI, drones and sensors to curtail outages, save money and help operate an increasingly complex electricity grid.
Tweets: @wsj
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
As competition for jobs among Amazon Flex delivery drivers grows, many of them turn to bots and devices that autotap Flex app's refresh button to secure shifts — - Amazon Flex drivers are using automated software, third-party apps and other tools to get jobs.
Tweets: @ddayen, @mattrosoff, @annierpalmer, @hypervisible, @turkernational, @alfredwkng, @martinsfp, @annierpalmer, and @annierpalmer
| Laurence Dodds / Telegraph: |
Court docs: Facebook employees discussed security issues with long-lasting access tokens, one of the reasons behind Sept. 2018 breach, at least since Dec. 2017 — Exclusive: Employees described feeling remorse and ‘guilt’ that they ‘could have prevented’ the cyber attack that affected 29m people| Masha Borak / South China Morning Post: |
Ofo, the bike-sharing startup once valued at $2B, gets a makeover to become a shopping app, after over a year of struggles to refund users' deposits — The Alibaba-backed company is pivoting to ecommerce and offering rebates in lieu of returning deposit moneyThe Alibaba-backed company … | Dallas Innovates: |
Dallas-based Tricolor, which uses an AI-powered system to provide auto financing for low-income subprime customers, raises $30M — Tricolor, a Dallas-based community development financial institution, announced that it has received $30 million in preferred equity funding from an unnamed global institutional investor.
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Yahoo Finance, Auto Remarketing, and FinSMEs
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Pew: 30% of US adults say they have used a dating app or website, up from 11% in 2013, with 12% saying they found a long-term relationship via online dating — Dating app usage in the U.S. is on the rise, but so are the issues it brings. According to a new Pew Research Center report on online dating …
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