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Six former employees of eBay charged with leading a cyberstalking campaign against a couple they believed was critical of eBay in an online ecommerce newsletter — BOSTON (CBS) - Six former eBay executives and employees are facing federal charges after they allegedly led a cyberstalking campaign …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
T-Mobile has been undergoing a phone and text message outage across the US since around 10am PT — T-Mobile appears to be having problems. — Customers are reporting that they can't make or receive phone calls, although data appears to be unaffected. Some customers say that text messaging is also affected.
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| David McCabe / New York Times: |
A lawyer for Amazon says Jeff Bezos is willing to testify before a House antitrust investigation, after resisting earlier requests — Lawmakers had requested that he testify as part of their antitrust investigation into the big tech companies. — WASHINGTON — Jeff Bezos, Amazon's chief executive …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple says its App Store facilitated $519B in commerce globally in 2019, citing a study from Analysis Group — Amid increasing antitrust scrutiny by U.S. regulators, Apple announced an update on its App Store ecosystem. While the company normally shares some App Store metrics during its WWDC keynote …
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| Ifeoma Ozoma / @ifeomaozoma: |
[Thread] Former Pinterest public policy exec Ifeoma Ozoma shares stories of her time at the company that call into question its declared solidarity with BLM — I shouldn't have to share this story in the year of our Lord, 2020 - but here we are. I'm an alum of Yale, Google, FB, in the WaPo Tech 202 Network, etc...and recently decided to leave @Pinterest, which just declared ‘solidarity with BLM.’ What a joke. 🙃1/ #BelieveBlackWomen
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Epic Games, which owns Fortnite, Unreal Engine, and Houseparty, is close to raising $750M at a ~$17B valuation, with investors including T. Rowe, KKR — - Epic owns Fortnite video game, Unreal Engine and Houseparty — T. Rowe, KKR, Baillie Gifford to participate in round| Matthew Boyle / Bloomberg: |
Walmart partners with Shopify to expand its third-party marketplace, with plans to add 1,200 Shopify sellers this year — - Move is retailer's latest attempt to grow online sales, profit — Walmart will bring 1,200 Shopify sellers to its site this year
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Researchers find a developer running multiple dating services left 845GB of explicit photos, chats, and more exposed in AWS buckets — 3somes, Gay Daddy Bear, and Herpes Dating are among the nine services that leaked the data of hundreds of thousands of users. — It's painfully common for data to be exposed online.| Wall Street Journal: |
Political advocacy and voter-registration groups are targeting phones of protesters and sending them messages about registering to vote or taking other actions — Voting and advocacy groups track cellphones of participants and send messages; the tactics are ‘deeply spooky yet extremely helpful,’ says one user
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WhatsApp says it is rolling out a payments service for its users in Brazil to send and receive money and make purchases from local businesses — WhatsApp said on Monday it has started to roll out a payments service to its users in Brazil in a move that it described was aimed at helping businesses accept digital money.
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Square acquires peer-to-peer payments app Verse, which will keep running as a separate business and focus on growing in Europe — We've acquired Verse, a Spanish P2P payments app that allows customers to send and receive payments from friends and family instantly, safely, and free of charge.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Intel says its upcoming Tiger Lake mobile CPUs will be the first to use its anti-malware Control-flow Enforcement Technology — Intel says CET can protect against ROP/JOP/COP malware. — Intel has announced today that its experimental CET security feature will be first made available … Sponsor Posts
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