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| Jacob Brogan / Slate: |
Indictment claims Paul Manafort and Robert Gates exchanged incriminating evidence over email because Manafort wanted Gates to convert PDFs to editable Word docs — There are two types of people in this world: those who know how to convert PDFs into Word documents and those who are indicted money laundering.
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| Antonio García Martínez / Wired: |
How the Trump campaign increased its Facebook ad purchasing power with provocative content and mastered ad tools like Custom Audiences and Lookalike Audiences — Why Russia's Facebook ads were less important to Trump's victory than his own Facebook ads. — IT'S NOT EVERY day that a former …
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| Justin Duino / 9to5Google: |
Three-minute promotional video for Galaxy S9 and S9+ leaks, showing off new DeX Pad and other features, emphasizes S9 as a great business phone — As if the Galaxy S9 hadn't been leaked enough before its official announcement at MWC, Samsung accidentally went and uploaded its launch video.
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| Christian de Looper / Digital Trends: |
HTC announces U.S. layoffs as smartphone and VR divisions merge — It looks like HTC's smartphone business may be shifting away from the U.S. Last week Chailin Chang, HTC's president of smartphone and connected devices, announced his resignation from the company.
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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
At CPAC, the NRA presented FCC Chairman Ajit Pai with a “courage under fire award” and a rifle for his efforts to roll back net neutrality regulations — The Republicans who lead the country's top telecom agency arrived at an annual gathering of influential conservatives Friday hoping …
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| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
KGI's Ming-Chi Kuo says Apple is working on a branded over-the-ear wireless headphone product that could debut in the fourth quarter of 2018 at the earliest — Capitalizing on early success with AirPods, Apple is readying a branded over-the-ear wireless headphone product that could launch … | Zaid Shoorbajee / Cyberscoop: |
SEC updates guidance for disclosures of cybersecurity risks and hacking incidents, warns against employees in the know selling shares before public disclosure — Securities and Exchange Commission Headquarters (Wikimedia Commons) — The Securities and Exchange Commission wants companies …
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| Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: |
US officials say Russian hackers breached several hundred computers during the Winter Olympics opening ceremony and made it look like a North Korean operation — Russian military spies hacked several hundred computers used by authorities at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in South Korea, according to U.S. intelligence.| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
To comply with local laws, Apple will store keys to Chinese users' iCloud accounts in China starting next week, giving authorities easier access to user data — SAN FRANCISCO/BEIJING (Reuters) - When Apple Inc begins hosting Chinese users' iCloud accounts in a new Chinese data center …
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| Kai Sedgwick / Bitcoin News: |
Analysis: out of 902 ICOs listed on Tokendata.io last year, 531 projects that raised a total of $233M in 2017 have either already failed or are dormant online — It has always been assumed that a large number of ICOs will fail, be it at the fundraising stage or when it comes to delivering the actual project.| Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
Dropbox has saved almost $75M since 2015 by moving from AWS to custom-designed infrastructure and software — After making the decision to roll its own infrastructure and reduce its dependence on Amazon Web Services, Dropbox reduced its operating costs by $74.6 million over the next two years …
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Bernstein analysts estimate that Bitmain made between $3B and $4B in operating profit in 2017 by selling bitcoin miners and mining cryptocurrencies — - Based on conservative estimates of gross margin of 75 percent and operating margin of 65 percent, Bernstein analysts calculate …
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| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Twitter's annual report says it has written off $66.4M of its investments in private firms, most likely related to rumored $70M investment in SoundCloud in 2016 — Twitter's lost almost all of the money it had invested in SoundCloud, the company disclosed as part of its 2017 annual report Friday.Sponsor Posts
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