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Twitter has suspended several accounts, some with millions of followers, that allegedly engaged in tweet stealing and “tweetdecking”, mass-retweeting each other — Continuing their battle against the “tweetdeckers,” Twitter suspended on Friday several popular accounts known …
Tweets: @viviornitler, @hautepop, @buzzfeednews, and @yashar
| Richard Gao / Android Police: |
Source: Motorola Mobility laying off 190 from its Chicago team; Motorola says less than half of Chicago workforce impacted and denies Moto Z cancellation rumors — Motorola has confirmed that it is laying people in its Chicago office off, though it also says “our Moto Z family will continue.”
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Snapchat and Instagram have temporarily removed their integrations with Giphy after users saw a racist GIF as an option to add to images — Snapchat and Instagram have temporarily removed their Giphy GIF sticker features after users saw an extremely racist GIF as an option to add to their images.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Intel is working with advisors to consider options in response to Broadcom's pursuit of Qualcomm, including an acquisition offer for Broadcom — Tech giant working with advisers on evaluating deal and other possible acquisitions — Intel Corp. INTC 2.86% is considering a range …
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| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
FBI arrests CEO of Phantom Secure, which customized BlackBerrys for criminals by removing mic and camera, routing encrypted messages via overseas servers, more — Phantom Secure is one of the most infamous companies in the secure phone industry. Sources and court documents detail …
Tweets: @josephfcox, @tinkersec, @evacide, @josephfcox, @josephfcox, and @josephfcox
| Catalin Cimpanu / BleepingComputer.com: |
Report: China is altering its critical vulnerability disclosure database, backdating disclosure times of vulnerabilities that government hackers may want to use — Chinese intelligence agencies are doctoring the Chinese National Vulnerabilities Database (CNNVD) to hide security flaws …
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Inside Operation Bayonet, the Dutch police sting and takeover of Hansa, once the largest dark web market in Europe, that netted data on ~420K users — FOR ANYONE WHO has watched the last few years of cat-and-mouse games on the dark web's black markets, the pattern is familiar … | David Carnoy / CNET: |
Bose shows off glasses with audio-based AR tech and sets up a $50M fund to back a new audio AR platform for wearables — OK, so this is weird, and not what we were expecting when Bose told us it was making a new product announcement at this year's SXSW: It's creating an augmented-reality platform.
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Bose Global Press Room, Yourstory.com, Engadget, Gizmodo, The Verge, Pocket-lint, SlashGear, TechCrunch, Digital Trends, and TechSpot. Thanks:@dkatzmaier
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Santa Monica-based Bird, Travis VanderZanden's controversial electric scooter rental startup, raises $100M Series B at $300M valuation; Bird raised $15M in Feb. — Update: Bird confirmed our reporting with an announcement of the close of the round. Index Ventures and Valor Ventures led the funding.| Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
UK-based Netsparker, a developer of web application security scanning software used by customers including Microsoft, Samsung, and NASA, raises $40M Series A — Web application security scanner maker Netsparker Ltd. has raised $40 million in funding in a round led by enterprise software venture capital firm Turn/River Capital.
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Behind The Great Slate, a Twitter-driven fundraising campaign by Bay Area tech workers for progressive Congressional candidates in poorer, rural districts — Paul Spencer, a Congressional candidate in Little Rock, Arkansas, has never worked at a tech company. He doesn't represent tech industry issues.| Max Greenwood / Techvibes: |
Toronto-based financial services firm Purpose Financial to acquire Montreal-based online lender Thinking Capital; sources say price was $200M+ — Purpose Financial have announced they acquired Thinking Capital. This move brings the Montreal-based Thinking Capital's leading lending platform to Purpose Financial.
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