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During record-breaking holiday, Echo Dot and Fire TV Stick with Alexa remote were #1 and #2 top sellers with “tens of millions of Alexa-enabled devices” sold — Echo Dot and Fire TV Stick with Alexa Voice Remote were the #1 and #2 top-selling products across all categories on Amazon
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| Chris Hamby / BuzzFeed: |
Sources: Safran, which sells fingerprint-analysis software used by FBI, 18K+ US law enforcement agencies, didn't disclose some code was from Kremlin-linked firm — In a secret deal, a French company purchased code from a Kremlin-connected firm, incorporated it into its own software …
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| Washington Post: |
Sources: years after FBI began tracking Russian disinformation efforts and US intelligence agencies drew up counter operations, the US still equivocates — The first email arrived in the inbox of CounterPunch, a left-leaning American news and opinion website, at 3:26 a.m. — the middle of the day in Moscow.
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| David Kline / Wired: |
How Xiaomi's investment in 100 startups making cheap connected gadgets like air purifiers and rice cookers, sold in new Mi Home Stores, helped firm's turnaround — A YEAR AGO, Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi (sha-oh-me) had fallen from the world's most valuable unicorn to a “unicorpse.”
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| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Uber to sell US subprime auto-leasing business, Xchange Leasing, to car marketplace Fair.com; net book value of Xchange's 30K+ vehicles was ~$400M — Ride-hailing firm had planned to wind down the business after losses — Uber Technologies Inc. has agreed to sell …
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| Lizzie Plaugic / The Verge: |
US Library of Congress will no longer archive the text of every tweet, will instead archive tweets on a “very selective basis”; the archive has yet to go online — The Library of Congress just announced some changes to its long-running plan to archive all of Twitter.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
WhatsApp will drop BlackBerry OS and Windows Phone support on December 31 — WhatsApp has detailed its plans for older mobile operating systems, with less than a week before the end of the year. The Facebook-owned app will end support for BlackBerry OS (including BlackBerry 10) and Windows Phone 8.0 (and older) on December 31, 2017.
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South Korea allows one of its largest companies, LG Display, to build a new OLED production facility in China, amid improving relations between the countries — The move comes after a summit between South Korean leader Moon Jae-in and Chinese President Xi Jinping partially aimed at restoring economic ties.
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| Michelle Castillo / CNBC: |
Sources: Amazon plans to expand ad offerings in 2018, especially on search and video products, and increase off platform ad sales, with ad tech firms like Kargo — - It also has plans to increase advertising sales off its platform, including partnering with third-party technology companies to sell partnered TV and mobile ads.| Ben Fox Rubin / CNET: |
How Amazon's nascent Alexa economy pays the people building its skills, with opaque reasoning behind unpredictable amounts paid to developers by Amazon — On a lark, Joel Wilson started developing skills for Alexa, Amazon's voice assistant, this past January.| Rick Tetzeli / Fortune: |
History shows Apple's success since 1998 has rarely hinged on initial designs but on innovation and improvement over time — A generation of peerless products made Apple the world's most valuable company. Now some in the i-universe are questioning if the magic—in the post-Steve Jobs era—is still there.| Wall Street Journal: |
A look at the limited powers the SEC and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission have to regulate cryptocurrencies in the US — Futures regulators at the CFTC recently sounded an alarm on leveraged trading on unregulated exchanges, while the SEC cracks down on ICOsSponsor Posts
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