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Amazon suspends Roy Price, VP of Amazon Studios and global head of Prime Video content, following harassment claim from a company producer — The news follows a harassment claim from one of the retail giant/streamer's top TV producers. — Roy Price, vp Amazon Studios and global head …
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Samsung Electronics forecasts record quarterly profit of about $12.8B in Q3, up 179% year-over-year — - The South Korean tech giant said it expects an operating profit of 14.5 trillion Korean won and consolidated sales of about 62 trillion won — One analyst told CNBC that Samsung … | Joyce Lee / Reuters: |
Samsung Electronics CEO and Vice Chairman Kwon Oh-hyun to step down in March 2018 — SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) said on Friday its CEO and Vice Chairman Kwon Oh-hyun had decided to step down from management. — “I believe the time has come for the company … | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey says Twitter needs to be a “lot more transparent in our actions” around suspending users, after it broke its silence on Rose McGowan — Twitter has abruptly broken its own policy of not commenting on individual accounts to explain why it temporarily suspended …
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Sources: Rose McGowan's Twitter account was restricted because Twitter's Trust and Safety Team doesn't have the ability to remove or block individual tweets — BuzzFeed News has learned that Twitter's Trust and Safety Team doesn't have the ability to remove or block individual tweets; it can only take action on accounts.| Hamza Shaban / Washington Post: |
Equifax has taken down a webpage after it directed users to install a fake Adobe Flash update containing adware; company blames third-party analytics vendor — Equifax said Thursday that its systems were not compromised, after they looked into a report by an independent researcher …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
KGI's Ming-Chi Kuo predicts all 2018 iPhones will abandon Touch ID in favor of Face ID — KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is out tonight with a new investor note. Kuo explains that, despite initially believing Apple might readopt fingerprint technology, it's now likely that all 2018 iPhone models … | Ina Fried / Axios: |
Google announces new education initiatives: $1B in global grants to nonprofits, US-based Grow with Google for training and resources, Goodwill partnership — Google CEO Sundar Pichai was in Pittsburgh Wednesday to announce a new five-year, $1 billion program to help close the global education gap.
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| Dustin Volz / Reuters: |
In an interview, Sheryl Sandberg says Facebook is committed to helping Congressional investigators publicly release Russia-linked ads and info on user targeting — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Facebook Inc Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said on Thursday the company was fully committed …
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| Leslie Hook / Financial Times: |
Airbnb partners with property developer Newgard on 300-unit rental complex near Orlando, to be built, owned by Newgard but branded “Niido powered by Airbnb” — Airbnb is stepping up its challenge to traditional hotel operators, launching branded, purpose-built apartments in Florida …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google, IBM, and others announce Grafeas, an open-source API that gives users a standardized way for auditing and governing their software supply chain — Thanks to containers and microservices, the way we are building software is quickly changing. But as with all change, these new models also introduce new problems.
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| Thuy Ong / The Verge: |
Samsung says $300 Gear Sport watch and $200 IconX headphones will be available October 27 — They'll be available nationwide October 27th — Samsung has announced that the Gear Sport and its second-generation Gear IconX earbuds (also known as Gear IconX 2018) will be available for preorder starting October 13th.Sponsor Posts
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