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| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Equifax chairman and CEO Richard Smith steps down effective immediately after massive data breach, having spent more than a decade at the company — The company's shares were halted pending the news. — Equifax chairman and chief executive Richard Smith has stepped down from the embattled …
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| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Chinese regulator: iPhone X has 3GB of RAM, a 2,716mAh battery, and an A11 Bionic chip clocked at 2.4GHz, compared to the iPhone 8's 1,821mAh battery — Previously unconfirmed details about the internal specifications of Apple's iPhone X appear to have been revealed on China's official …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
IHS: base 64GB iPhone 8 includes material costs of $247.51, up from $237.94 for 32GB base model iPhone 7, equaling about 35% of sale price, same as last year — Apple margins stay high as company raises price of new models — Bigger changes to Apple's business formula seen with iPhone X
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Firefox 57 beta, called Firefox Quantum, arrives with major visual overhaul and faster next-generation engine — Mozilla today updated the beta version and developer version of its browser to Firefox Quantum. “Since the version number — 57 — can't really convey the magnitude of the changes we've made … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Plex adds personalized, ad-supported news hub to its media player after its acquisition of news video startup Watchup — Media player software maker Plex is today making good on its acquisition of streaming news startup Watchup from earlier this year with the integration of a dedicated news hub within its app.
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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Amazon adds Alexa voice control to Music app, available for iOS and Android in the US, UK, Germany, and Austria — Amazon is bringing Alexa to its Music app as it tries to challenge Spotify and Apple, leaders in the streaming music industry. — The Seattle tech giant announced Tuesday that Alexa … | Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Twitter says it will update public policies to include the newsworthiness of tweets that potentially violate rules after Trump threatens North Korea — Twitter didn't act to remove President Donald Trump's tweet threatening North Korea in part because it is newsworthy, the company said today.
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Instagram introduces new safety features, including tool to limit who can comment on posts — Instagram is launching a handful of new tools today to combat harassment and help its community members. — The first of those is much requested: the ability to limit who can comment on your photos.| Aoife White / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Google to create a standalone unit for its shopping unit and require it to bid against rivals for ads, to satisfy EU antitrust concerns — Google Shopping must rely on own revenues to bid for ad slots — EU gave Thursday deadline for Google to comply with order
| Seth Stevenson / Wall Street Journal: |
Interview with Satya Nadella and Bill Gates on political climate, how AI, quantum computing, and mixed reality will shape the future as Nadella debuts memoir — On the occasion of the publication of Nadella's first book, out this fall, Nadella and his predecessor talk shop| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Vimeo is acquiring live video streaming platform Livestream and launching its own live streaming service, Vimeo Live — After abandoning its plans to launch a subscription video-on-demand business earlier this year, IAC-owned streaming video site Vimeo announced today that it's acquiring …
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber announces various improvements for drivers, including a flat fee, between $0.50-$1, for each new UberPool passenger and improved rating system — Behavior modification therapy, via a company that has its share of bad habits — Uber is announcing a few notable changes today …
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
SEC announces Cyber Unit to police violations involving distributed ledger tech and ICOs, dark web misconduct, cyber threats to critical market infrastructure — It's forming a Cyber Unit dedicated to online financial crimes — The US' Securities and Exchange Commission has to deal …
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| Ben Fritz / Wall Street Journal: |
AMC leads $20M Series B for Spielberg-backed Dreamscape Immersive to bring VR to cinemas, with plans to install Dreamscape at six locations in US and UK — AMC is putting $20 million behind Dreamscape Immersive, a location-based virtual reality company backed by Steven Spielberg
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Walmart, the world's largest private employer, says it has joined Facebook's Workplace platform and plans to roll out the software across its whole business — Workplace — Facebook's bid to take on the Slack, Microsoft and the rest of the players in the market of business chat and collaboration …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook signs multiyear deal with NFL to distribute game highlights, other content; NFL Films will produce content packages for Facebook Watch — Facebook and the NFL this morning announced a new multi-year programming deal that will see the sports organization distributing official NFL video … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
ProsperWorks raises $53M Series C led by Norwest Venture Partners for its Google-centric CRM tools — ProsperWorks, a service that offers a set of Google-centric CRM tools, today announced that it has raised a $53 million Series C round led by Norwest Venture Partners, with participation from GV …
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| Alayna Treene / Axios: |
Internet Association says Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Salesforce each contributed $50M to Trump's education initiative focused on STEM and coding — The Internet Association announced Tuesday that its member companies, including Google, Facebook and Amazon …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft says that Office 2019 will ship in the second half of 2018 and will include improved features for businesses that aren't using Office 365 — Yes, Virginia, there will be another version of the Microsoft Office perpetual client, as well as SharePoint, Exchange and Skype for Business Servers …
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| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Apple starts collecting Safari browsing data in macOS High Sierra using differential privacy tech that will help it identify problematic websites — Today's public release ofmacOS High Sierra brings with it some key updates to Safari — including the ability to disable cross-site cookie tracking and turn off autoplaying ads.
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