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Researchers uncover zero-day iOS flaws used to try to remotely steal data from activists, likely sold by malware vendor NSO; Apple releases patch with iOS 9.3.5 — Many people assume their iPhones are secure, but new research sent Apple scrambling to fix vulnerabilities that left users at risk.
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How a government targeted Ahmed Mansoor, an activist in the UAE, with three zero-day exploits meant to infect his iPhone with sophisticated commercial spyware — Ahmed Mansoor is an internationally recognized human rights defender, based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) …
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WhatsApp to share phone numbers and analytics data of users with Facebook, two years after it said it had no plans to collect data — SAN FRANCISCO — When Facebook bought the start-up WhatsApp in 2014, Jan Koum, one of WhatsApp's founders, declared that the deal would not affect …
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Sources: Apple developing a Snapchat-like video sharing and editing app and multiple social features for iOS — Company looks to catch up as video sharing gains popularity — Engineers test deeper social ties across iPhone, iPad software — Apple Inc., seeking to capitalize on the popularity …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple to use Sony's FeliCa chip, a mobile tap-to-pay standard, in new iPhones in Japan to let users pay for transit with their smartphones — Company planning new iPhone model with Sony's FeliCa chip — Apple in talks with financial insitution for mobile payments
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| Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Uber lost $1.2B in first half of 2016, including $520M in Q1 and $750M in Q2; net revenue grew 18% from $960M in Q1 to $1.1B in Q2 — After touting profitability in the U.S. early this year, the ride-hailing company is said to post second-quarter losses exceeding $100 million.
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| Mark Bergen / Recode: |
Report: Google Fiber chief Craig Barratt was told by Larry Page to halve staff to 500; Alphabet CFO Ruth Porat interceded to defend business model — Another bump in the road for Alphabet. — For the past year, Ruth Porat, the CFO of Google and its parent Alphabet, has told Wall Street …
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Tweets: @theinformation and @amir
| Associated Press: |
Autonomous vehicle software startup nuTonomy begins invite-only testing of six self-driving taxis in Singapore; cars will have driver and researcher on board — SINGAPORE (AP) — The world's first self-driving taxis will be picking up passengers in Singapore starting Thursday.
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Thanks:@ravichandrans25| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Dropbox prompting users to reset passwords that haven't been changed since mid-2012, calls it a preventative move, says no evidence accounts improperly accessed — Dropbox is requiring users who have not changed their passwords since mid-2012 to reset their passwords this afternoon.
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| Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily: |
Pure Storage beats Q2 expectations as revenues rise almost 93% YoY to $163.2M — Shares of storage equipment vendor Pure Storage (PSTG) are up $1.67, or 14%, at $13.50, in late trading, after the company beat fiscal Q2 expectations, and forecast this quarter's revenue a little higher as well.
| Jim Weber / LinkedIn Pulse: |
Sports writer says Twitter permanently banned his account with nearly 100K followers after he tweeted three Olympics GIFs — I thought the only people to get permanently banned from Twitter were Leslie Jones' online bully and terrorists. Apparently those who post a GIF …
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See also Mediagazer| Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed: |
Sources: Twitter's Promoted Sticker ad campaigns have a minimum $500K ad spend, while the company has been lowering minimums on other ad products — Advertisers who want to run Promoted Sticker ad campaigns on Twitter will have to fork over at least $500,000 to do it, multiple sources tell BuzzFeed News.| Jan Dawson / Beyond Devices: |
Breaking down Apple's last five years in charts covering R&D spend, regional trends, profit margins, cash on hand, unit sales and revenue by category, more — This week marks the fifth anniversary of Tim Cook's appointment as permanent CEO at Apple—he was appointed CEO on August 24th, 2011.
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