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| Nitasha Tiku / Wired: |
Diversity advocates inside Google, including queer and transgender staff, say they are being targeted by a small group of coworkers with doxxing and harassment — FIRED GOOGLE ENGINEER James Damore says he was vilified and harassed for questioning what he calls the company's liberal political orthodoxy …
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| Evan Blass / VentureBeat: |
Renders of upcoming Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ leak — EXCLUSIVE: — Having opted against what would have been an uncharacteristic debut at the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas — in teaser capacity or otherwise — Samsung is now gearing up to launch the 2018 versions …
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Android Police, CNET, International Business Times, Android Authority, The Next Web, 9to5Google, BGR, Ars Technica, Thurrott.com, The Verge, Engadget, Windows Central, Tom's Guide, PhoneDog.com, TalkAndroid.com, TmoNews, MSPoweruser, 91mobiles.com, Android and Me, SlashGear, Phandroid, Droid Life, ValueWalk, Softpedia News, Mashable, and Android Beat
| Yuji Nakamura / Bloomberg: |
Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck says $400M worth of NEM cryptocurrency tokens have been “illicitly” transferred out of the exchange — Coincheck Inc., one of Japan's biggest digital exchanges, said that about $400 million of the NEM cryptocurrency was lost after it was sent …
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CoinDesk, Cointelegraph.com News, Gizmodo, Business Insider, https:, The New York Observer, CNBC, Motherboard, PYMNTS.com, Fortune, Associated Press, Investor's Business Daily, Fortune, and Seeking Alpha
Tweets: @coincheck_en, @coincheck_en, @ynakamura56, @ofnumbers, @whalepool, @ynakamura56, @coindesk, and @coindesk
| Will Oremus / Slate: |
Google is testing Bulletin, an app for allowing local users to submit stories about their communities, as a limited pilot in Nashville, TN and Oakland, CA — Google appears to be testing a new tool for people to report and publish local news stories, called Bulletin.
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Google, Search Engine Land, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Hoodline Insider, The Verge, 9to5Google, CNET, Android Authority, TalkAndroid.com, TechSpot, Android Police, Android Central, AndroidHeadlines.com, Understanding Google …, Sami Cone, The Next Web, SlashGear, and YouTube
Tweets: @byajperez, @ruralj, @mattfdoyle, @_danielsinclair, @willoremus, and @willoremus
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Dell's board is meeting later this month to discuss strategic options, including an IPO and buying the rest of VMWare it does not already own — Company's board plans to discuss options later this month — After going private in 2013, firm now seeks growth, cash| Huib Modderkolk / De Volkskrant: |
Dutch media: Dutch intelligence penetrated Russian APT29 Cozy Bear's network, office security camera in 2014, provided info on State Department, DNC hacks to US — Hackers from the Dutch intelligence service AIVD have provided the FBI with crucial information about Russian interference with the American elections.
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Reuters, Engadget, Fortune, Inquirer, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, and Bloomberg
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Walmart and Rakuten partner to launch a new online grocery service in Japan, sell Rakuten-owned Kobo's e-readers, audiobooks, and e-books in US — Walmart today announced a major expansion in terms of its global e-commerce presence: the retailer is entering a strategic partnership with Tokyo-based Rakuten … | Canalys: |
China's smartphone market suffered first ever annual decline in 2017 as shipments fell 4% YoY to 459M and 14% QoQ in Q4, but Huawei grew shipments 9% QoQ — Palo Alto, Shanghai, Singapore and Reading (UK) - Thursday, 25 January 2018 — The growth story of the world's largest smartphone market …
| Troy Wolverton / Business Insider: |
CEO says Intel plans to release chips that have built-in Meltdown and Spectre protections later this year — - Intel plans to release chips that have built-in protections against the Spectre and Meltdown attacks later this year, company CEO Brian Krzanich said Wednesday.
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Engadget, PCWorld, TechCrunch, BetaNews, Seeking Alpha, MarketWatch, Washington Post, Softpedia News, MSPoweruser, BGR, TechSpot, On MSFT, and SiliconANGLE. Tweets: @ampressman. Thanks:@lexnfx
| Ted Greenwald / Wall Street Journal: |
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Tweets: @jordannovet, @reuterstech, @lexnfx, and @patrickmoorhead
| Lucinda Southern / Digiday: |
Bloomberg says its Twitter video channel, TicToc, now has 750K daily viewers, 1M daily views, and 119K followers, with half of the audience outside the US — Bloomberg is seeing early signs of success one month after launching TicToc, the business publisher's 24/7 news network exclusive to Twitter.| Bloomberg: |
JD.com founder Richard Liu says the company is in talks to sell 15% of its logistics unit to Tencent, others, as it prepares to launch in Los Angeles in 2018 — Tencent and other investors to buy 15% of JD Logistics — Billionaire CEO preparing for a Los Angeles launch this year| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Lyft investigating whether staff abused access to customer data after online post claims workers tracked ex-partners, pulled info of celebs including Zuckerberg — Enter your email to read the full article.
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BBC, The Daily Caller, Bloomberg, UKTN, TechSpot, TechCrunch, CNET, 9to5Mac, The Next Web, PYMNTS.com, New York Magazine, Gizmodo, SiliconBeat, The Verge, Engadget, Mashable, and Axios
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
App Annie: Google Play downloads topped 19B in Q4 2017, surpassing Apple's App Store by 145%; App Store had $11.5B consumer spend, surpassing Play by 95% — Smartphone adoption in emerging markets just delivered the highest number of app downloads Google Play has ever seen in a quarter.
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App Annie, TechSpot, Android Authority, Digital Trends, and Android Central
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