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Senate passes cybersecurity bill CISA by a vote of 74-21, remaining differences still to be resolved between House and Senate — CISA Security Bill Passes Senate With Privacy Flaws Unfixed — For months, privacy advocates have asked Congress to kill or reform the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act … | Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Apple saw 99% YoY revenue growth in China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, hitting $12.51B in Q4 — Apple Revenues In China Shoot Up 99% in Q4 — Despite months of major fluctuations in the Chinese stock market, Apple still managed to have an outstanding quarter in China.| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
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US regulators grant exemptions to DMCA's DRM rules for jailbreaking, remixing DVDs and Blu-rays, preserving video games, researching and modifying car software — Victory for Users: Librarian of Congress Renews and Expands Protections for Fair Uses — The new rules for exemptions … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook's Message Requests will replace Other Inbox for receiving messages from users outside your network of friends — Facebook Messenger Wants To BE Your Phone Number With New Message Requests — Phone numbers are dumb. Once someone has yours, you can't stop them from contacting you.| Mark Bergen / Re/code: |
Google brings podcasting to Play Music's free and paid tiers, to be available to listeners in coming months — Google Brings Podcasting to Play Music, Swinging at Apple's Dominance — From their earliest days, podcasts were linked closely to Apple. Their very name came from an Apple product: iPod.| Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Twitter reports 320M MAUs in Q3, an increase of just 4M, and EPS of $0.10 against $0.05 expected; stock down more than 12% in after-hours trading — Twitter Stock Tanks on Stagnant User Growth, Lowered Expectations — Twitter's user growth has clearly started to slow down, and that continues to hurt the business.| Glyn Moody / Ars Technica UK: |
Net neutrality: EU votes in favour of Internet fast lanes and slow lanes — MEPs confused by false claims, tired of the arguments, keen to conclude the file. — The European Parliament has passed the flawed flawed compromise text on net neutrality without including any of the amendments that would have closed serious loopholes.| Gerry Smith / Bloomberg Business: |
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Twitter turns to TV ads to increase reach; advertisements debut during World Series — This is Twitter's first television ad campaign — This month Twitter unveiled Moments, the simplified way of browsing tweets that the company hopes will return it to rapid growth.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: IBM nears deal to buy digital and data assets of Weather Co., owner of The Weather Channel, as early as Wednesday in $2B+ deal — IBM Nearing Acquisition of Weather Co.'s Digital and Data Assets — Deal could be announced as early as Wednesday — International Business Machines Corp … | Katherine Noyes / PCWorld: |
Oracle pushes into AWS territory with new IaaS services — Pricing and perceived security will be key differentiators, one analyst says — Oracle set its sights on a bigger piece of the cloud pie Tuesday with new IaaS services that put it in more direct competition with Amazon Web Services.| Julie Bort / Business Insider: |
ADP drops its defamation lawsuit against Zenefits after judge asks parties to work it out — ADP drops its strange defamation lawsuit against Zenefits and both companies agree to talk nice — After a judge flat-out told HR software giant ADP that “it seems clear to me that ADP has no claim for defamation … | Dan Graziano / CNET: |
Garmin unveils smart scale and Vivosmart HR activity tracker with heart rate sensor, both available in US November 1, priced at $150 each — Garmin introduces its first dedicated fitness tracker with a built-in heart-rate sensor — The company also announced its first connected smart scale.| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg Business: |
VC investments in bitcoin-related startups slow to $85M in Q3 2015, a 41% drop from Q2 — The Bitcoin Startup Boom Comes Back Down to Earth — Growth in venture capital flowing to bitcoin startups slowed substantially last quarter, and startups are feeling the pinch.
Bringing local models and sandboxed tools to Windows and GitHub Copilot — GitHub Copilot will soon determine when a task is best handled by on-device AI and when it needs cloud-scale models.
The best sales leaders aren't job hunting. Here's how to reach them without months of cold outreach. — Our team came from Box, Square, and Brex, so we already know the GTM leaders worth meeting.
Zoho Books now supports CT600 & Final Accounts Filing as an add-on in the FREE plan — Managing end-of-year filing for limited companies in the UK is often expensive and multi-layered.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
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